It does ask you to provide a Google account (on Android), but you can just skip that step. You can't use the PlayStore to download apps, but that's about it. Everything else Google works, even updates, you just browse everything as anonymous (well... more or less).
I figured out how to get windows 10 up and running without creating an account after like 10 minutes of googling. It requires actually doing things and not pretending to do them, so it might be beyond his ability.
Yeah, when I need one I buy one from eBay for about $8. Sure it's probably a bulk licence that's been setup on a stolen credit card, but in all my years of doing this I've never had one of these licences revoked.
You can install windows for free. The only difference to the paid version is a reminder in the bottom right corner to activate windows. And that can be disabled with a registry edit
If you disable the Ethernet/WiFI then you can create a local account, but you have to do a small.extra step...
press SHIFT+F10 keys to open Command Prompt.
Run the following: OOBE\BYPASSNRO
After this, setup will reboot the computer and you’ll get a new option I don’t have Internet or Continue with limited setup to skip the Internet requirement and you can create a local account as well.
Or, when it asks for your email address and password enter a@a.com and any random password. It will tell you that account has been deactivated and allow you to set up a local account.
Wow, Elon, you think it's bad to give one company full control over something? You think someone should step in and stop them? You think closed ecosystems are bad for customers? HMMM
I think he's more angry that Microsoft dares to pressure their users to give their ChatGPT thingy data instead of paying him, the big Elon to give them "X: the partisan shitstorm collection, remastered edition"
I mean, SpaceX is still a legitimate success story... I think that has a lot to do with Gwynne Shotwell and the engineers dedicated to pushing forward spaceflight, but as much as I despise him and even kind of want SpaceX to crash and burn just to spite him, if I'm being honest it is still the one thing he's touched that is a legitimate success, both technically and commercially.
Luck has nothing to do with it. Daddy's apartheid emerald mines money and megalomania got him there. He didn't invent anything, he's just a glorified investor. All of 'his' successful companies are other, smarter people's ideas he 'stole' by forcing them to make him 'co-creator' as a requirement to invest his cash.
It's all about pushing a narrative. If he did it the 'normal way', he would probably be seen as a decent VC, known in some business circles but in the shadow from a general audience perspective. By making himself the 'co-creator', he deperately tries to makes us think he's the genius he believes he is, and gain the power and influence that come with it.
There are positions in all these companies where people are working roud the clock to prevent him from fucking everything up. And sometimes, even they can't prevent idiotic bullshit like the Cybertruck. Tesla and SpaceX work because they actively spend a massive amount of energy to work against his moronic ideas. Twitter is the best example of what happens when he's given free rein.
As opposed to an "Apple Laptop" because fascists are weird. And perhaps he's talking about Microsoft copilot being shoved into windows 11. But this is a very generous read. By no means do I like the guy.
Jimmy Carr called him that on the Big Fat Quiz. Last time I wanted to punch that guy was when he was on JRE calling comedians philosophers. Time before that was when he got caught dodging taxes.
Nowadays you have a hard time seeing posts on Twitter without being logged in. Dude tries to create an outrage over something he does himself and that is even easier to avoid.
No thanks. I don't want fake ass engineer Musk doing cringy programmerhumor tweets. He's already a edge lord with video games and I really don't want to see more communities propping him up because he tweets "sudo rm -rf hahahaha I'm sudo man" or whatever his cokebinged brain tells him
