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Brian Greenberg

🔐 Microsoft Tightens Grip on Windows 11 Account Setup

The latest Windows 11 Insider Dev Channel build has removed bypassnro, a script long used to skip the mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in during setup.

📌 Microsoft now requires internet and account login for all setups.
📌 Change applies to both Home and Pro editions.
📌 The update is framed as a security and user experience enhancement.
📌 Local accounts reduce notifications, ads, and tracking—but you’ll now need new workarounds.

This change is currently in preview but could roll out to all users in Windows 11 25H2 this fall.

👉 arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0

#Windows11 #Microsoft #ITAdmin #Privacy #CyberSecurity #LockedIn #PITA
@MS @microsoft @msftnews @msftsecurity @windowscentral

Ars Technica · New Windows 11 build makes mandatory Microsoft Account sign-in even more mandatoryBy Andrew Cunningham
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cybervegan

@JackTheCat @TheBreadmonkey It depends what you want to do really. In some cases a windows VM will work, but getting data to flow between the VM and your Linux host can be a #PITA. I haven't used VMs on Linux for *quite* a while, but the easiest used to be #VirtualBox. I'd avoid VMWare Workstation, if that's even still a thing.

In my experience, WINE is *usually* the best answer if you can't get a native Linux-based *alternative* program for the thing you want to do. A lot of new Linux users still think in terms of how they used to do things on Windoze, and that will get you a reasonable way, but you'll end up fighting with the fact that Linux simply IS NOT Windoze. It doesn't do much, if anything, like windoze does - particularly at the "binary" level, so native windows programs (.EXEs) simply can't run without something to "pretend" that windoze is really there. That's what WINE does, and although others have tried for DECADES to make a compatability layer, starting with SUN's WABI (Windows Application Binary Interface) back in the 90's. Nobody seems to have managed to get as far as WINE in making it come true, without using a VM.

So before diving into the potential nightmare of "getting $favourite windows program" working on Linux, check out any native alternatives first. If there really *aren't* any native alternatives, and you have a load of windoze apps you absolutely *have* to have, Linux might not be for you.

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Peter Riley

#WCK portable bakery truck enters
wck.org/en-us/news/mobile-brea
#FoodNotBombs #PortableBakery #Bakery #Pita #bread #Saj #flatbread

#gaza #ceasefire hostage/prisoner “swap” next ?
abc.net.au/news/2025-01-16/gaz

World Central KitchenWorld Central Kitchen | WCK’s first mobile bread truck enters Gaza after close collaboration with JordanWorld Central Kitchen’s first-ever mobile bakery is now positioned in Gaza. The high-capacity, automated machine on wheels is capable of producing up to 3,000 pitas an hour—a lifeline for displaced Palestinian families in need of nourishment. The act of sharing bread in many cultures in the region symbolizes hospitality, community, and even life itself. We have served nearly 90 million meals in Gaza and these pitas will accompany the nourishing plates of food prepared by our local chefs.
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IrishMASMS

Here is an interesting and challenging situation - and yes, not #vintage but standby, this will be relevant to multiple conversations/complaints I have heard about locked #Apple devices. At #pacificon I picked up a #M1 13" #macPro (16GB/500GB), no power supply and dead battery. Brought it home, plugged in & powered on - and it was #bootlocked.

Did some research, and you can use #DFU mode on the locked #macPro and #Apple #Configurator to remove the boot lock/whatever Apple business account it was associated with, reinstall the firmware/BIOS/OS X, and it was dam MAGIC booting into #sequoia

Here is a decent URL about the process:
appleinsider.com/inside/apple-
or
youtube.com/watch?v=i5xmA3lDz3 or support.apple.com/en-us/108900.

I will say, the timing of the key presses to get the target device into #DFU mode MUST be exact - and it is a #pita Hope this helps (HTH), and good luck!

Note #ianal - nor proposing bypassing security measures or theft deterrent measures in any way.....

AppleInsiderHow to restore your Apple Silicon Mac using ConfiguratorApple's Configurator is one way to restore or recover a Mac. Here's how to use it to revive an Apple Silicon Mac.
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sgt1372

#DMV #AutoRegistration #Cars

File this under #PITA 🤬

Went to pay the current registration for my #MB at #AAA today & was told that I have to take the car to the MB #Dealer to get a "Recall fixed.

The notice of the recall was on the #Registration statement but I didn't notice it. I only noticed the #Smog requirement which I did took care of last week.

This is the 1st time in the 60 years that I've been driving & have owned a car (or other vehicle) that a recall fix-it notice was on the registration notice.

So, after leaving AAA, I drove directly to the MB dealer in #WalnutCreek & made an appt to get this done at 730 tomorrow morning.

The current registration doesn't expire until the end of the month but I like to take care of 💩 like this right away

So, I won't be wringing my hands about the results of the #Election tomorrow morning. I'll have more important things to do instead. 😉

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