Simpler times. I just remember making fun of Sarah Palin and telling friends to Google "Santorum". Things were just as serious back then, just earlier in the timeline, but at least we could laugh about it.
some_kind_of_guy
joined 9 months ago
yeah that's not entirely wrong sadly
The only shaming I've seen in this thread so far is of the parents who made that decision, and rightly so. People like the guy you replied to are perpetuating the issue by being so nonchalant about it.
It may have started that way, but nowadays it's normalized to the point where it's something most people just automatically do. Any harm to the person undergoing this is waved away and rationalized as "it will hurt for just a second and they won't remember it anyway".
After my brother-in-law had his boy, he proudly announced they were taking him to be circumcized. Taken aback, I asked him why - he's one of the most non-religious people I've ever known. I was just met by an empty stare, as if I were the weird one for asking. Sadly, at this point it might be more popular than the essential vaccines which are supposed to be administered at birth.
The squinch
S-mode is cancer. An insult to intelligence and digital sovereignty. So is Windows in general, but I still can't believe they got away with S-mode.
I once encountered a user whose laptop had been in s-mode for 2 whole years. I suggested that they should disable S-mode, and that would allow them to do what they were trying to do much more easily, and without installing random 3rd-party malware from the Windows store. They declined, citing safety concerns. This was a person with an advanced degree, and certainly old enough to know better. Some people should just avoid computers altogether.
Fyi you can join a network and go up to the point of Microsoft login, then use start ms-cxh:localonly to force local account creation
This is odd because just yesterday I used it to reluctantly install Win11 as a quarantined VM for my lovely but stubbornly insistent wife. It was a tiny11 iso, though, so maybe it gets added back during image creation?
And if you still get prompted for an MS account, hit shift+F10 again and run start ms-cxh:localonly
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