Brett_Riverboat

Second/vacation homes should be taxed at 200% per year with all revenue going toward low income housing.

I don't know about anyone else's reasoning but personally IPV4 works just fine for 100% of my use cases.

I don't have anything against it per-say but I have no reason to use it either.

Nice find.

Those sort of thing always make me nervous however because it's not easy for the average user to tell if its running any sort of malicious scripts in the process. This one seems to be safe and I'm going to give it a try to see what happens.

The article also suggests that

"reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1"

still works as well which would be even better because thats local and easier to verify its integrity. that being said I think these are both valid suggestions if they work and I'm going to give them a try.

Yes this is about a local login, it has nothing to do with hardware.

Hey thanks, I needed a little boost today. You have been my little ray of light in a sea of darkness.

If you practice good operational security and maintain a decent anti virus and fire wall you will probably be fine. I know people who still run Windows 7 to this day with no trouble because they are vigilant of what they are doing.

This isn't to say it's a good idea but that it can be done.

If you plan on running win 10 anyway Ask Leo has a video called "how to keep using windows 10 safely after support ends" with some solid advice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpAIOcYPYgo&list=TLPQMjkxMDI...

defaultUser0 is used by windows for the OOBE if you don't delete it along with the registry keys it will just boot back to the OOBE again. defaultUser0 gets removed by the OOBE after setup leaving your system vulnerable. The administrator account is a built in account that is disabled by default but won't be disabled if you completely bypass the OOBE or don't use the old local account setup which you no longer can do because of microsofts removal of the feature.

Thats always the worst part of linux for me. Everyone is always so hostile, I have to say though I have had a little success finding help on lemmy but not much.

A few typos were brought to my attention in my previous comment and as the time frame to edit it has passed I am replying with the required edits so that if anyone does want to attempt this they don't have to wonder what went wrong

I originally had “ net user Prefferedusername/active:yes” but there should have been no space before "net" and I should have put a space before the "/" after prefferedusername.

so the corrected instructions are below. (hopefully without typos this time)

at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10

CMD will open

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.

Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.

Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.

Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter.

Next type "regedit" and press enter.

This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE"

Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID"

Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1".

Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"

My guess is some of the better videos will post the text in the description and some folks are very visual and need to be able to reference an image or video.

But that aside I appreciate the compliment (or at least I'm going to take it as a compliment).

gets you a local account

For those who care at the first setup screen instead of answering any of the questions press Shift + F10

CMD will open

Type (no quotes) “net user Prefferedusername /add” (replacing Prefferedusername with the user name you wish to use) and press enter.

Next type “net localgroup administrators Prefferedusername /add” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /active:yes” and press enter.

Next type “net user Prefferedusername /expires:never” and press enter.

Next type “net user administrator /active:no” and press enter.

Next type “net user defaultUser0 /delete” (this is case sensitive make sure the "U" is capitalized) and press enter.

Next type "regedit" and press enter.

This opens registry editor, navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE"

Delete "DefaultAccountAction", "DefaultAccountSAMName", and "DefaultAccountSID"

Right click on "LaunchUserOOBE" and rename it to "SkipMachineOOBE" and make sure the value is set to "1".

Close registry editor and type "shutdown /r /t 0"

just another reason among many for why I refuse to own a car with an internet connection.

There are people in here defending ads while I'm over here in the Bill Hicks camp.

Shame on me, Its so easy to assume google did another stupid thing that I just skimmed it and made an assumption. My bad.

Google is nothing but blinded by greed at this point, they are so shortsightedly chasing a dollar that they can't seem to recognize this behavior is exactly what is losing the money. They are inconveniencing paying customers to combat pirates who don't care and will only double down on their efforts and incidentally expose all of this for the brain dead blunder that it is.

Radio shack is at least indirectly responsible for me disassembling ( and sometimes successfully reassembling) most of the electronics in the house growing up. The tools and DIY gear they carried enabled me to learn and build electronics.

I'm still salty about the bafflingly stupid decision to become little more than a cellphone store.

As much as I love giving the middle finger to a company as awful as HP, people need to stop supporting garbage companies like this and then this wouldn't be necessary.

Nothing to see here folks, this definitely is not just another violent gang stealing from the populace with zero repercussions.

It's a state sanctioned violent gang that also happens to be completely immune from any sort of responsibility.

Totally different things.

One of the few tech outlets that I find to be trustworthy, it's sad to see them go.

Just what my car needs, a government mandated attack vector. As if the crap that car companies are already forcing on people isnt enough.

Good luck enforcing it.

Well of course, the big three would hate for you to have access to affordable, reasonably sized cars. Then they would have to compete or innovate, It's much easier to just pay someone off and make the problem go away.

You put it into better words than I could, thank you.

I know they don't thats why its in quotes.

I have always felt that any officer of the law charged with breaking the law should face a mandatory doubling of their sentence. They "know the law" and therefore have no excuse. The fact that only one person is being charged despite several others participating in this is just yet one more miscarriage of justice.

At first I read the title as "40 FPS" and thought "well thats stupid"

Then I realized it's me thats stupid.

I was just here a few weeks ago for the pure storage conference and never saw a single security guard (unless they were plain clothes maybe?). The majority of the building was near empty on the convention floor besides the pure storage conference. My experience was very different and its weird for me to think only a few weeks apart they went from practically no security to police state tactics.

My director mistakenly thinks the more it costs the better it is, he refuses to even consider anything FOSS. Before he came along we ran everything in house and we still had issues of course but down time was nearly nonexistent because we could take action immediately instead of waiting for whatever cloud service messed up today to feel like getting around to it.

And of course we now get to pay monthly for the privilege of being at someone else's mercy as opposed to before when we paid once and went on our merry way.

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