This is the rule for any account or mobile game, too - if it asks your age before asking for consent to farm, put any age below 13. It’ll either not farm you because it’s illegal or it’ll kick you out. If the latter, good riddance really
Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account
ardi60@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Here’s your bypass:
In OOBE, go through MS account creation. Tell it you were born today. It’ll let you set a password for the MS account before rejecting you due to COPA requirements. At this point, you can make an offline account without having even created an MS account, let alone having to use one.
This will not go away - it’s a legal thing. MS doesn’t want to deal with COPA stuff for very young kids, so this flow exists. Enjoy.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve always done 1/1/1984 for obvious reasons but this is a good tip
hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve used 1/1/70 since it’s the unix epoc, what’s 1/1/84?
eleijeep@piefed.social 1 month ago
Thank you both for telling me the answers to your security questions.
DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 month ago
If that actually becomes a thing people do, that could prompt MS to start to require either a face scan or showing some government ID just to install Windows, though, if the way Google’s handling KYC on YT if your account gets flagged as underage, and soon Android app dev, as well as KYC going out across other sites, is any indication.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Let them. The entire world is slowly migrating to Mac and Linux. I haven’t even had the option of windows at my last 3 jobs. (To be fair, I’ve never had the option of desktop Linux, but this last one said pick a computer—I’m not positive that they would’ve balked at Linux.) That said, idk what’s so great about Mac over Linux, but I guess it’s not corporate friendly.
I’m trying to think of which MS products we even have in our ecosystem. Office, I guess. Corporate world will never wean themselves off of Excel.
CatsGoMOW@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“The entire world” lol. I applaud your optimism.
WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The entire world is slowly migrating to Mac and Linux.
have a look at the steam hardware survey results or basically any other statistics and see that it’s not the case.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Back in my day, we had to make ourselves looks older online to get things, not younger! hehe
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My go to is to pop open the console and run “ipconfig /release” right before you create an account. Win 11 will have you set up a local account if you don’t have a network connection.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Doesnt work on these newest versions anymore.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world 1 month ago
OOBE\BYPASSNRO has been off and on for me, but so far nuking the network connection has always worked for me. I’m setting up a few new computers tomorrow, it will be interesting to see what tricks still work.
StopSpazzing@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yed pleaseet me know. Wont know till we order another batch of newer computers in a few weeks.
dmtalon@infosec.pub 1 month ago
What if they just ask your age as step 1 of the setup?
TachyonTele@piefed.social 1 month ago
Same thing, that doesn’t change anything.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Also setting up iso through rufus which gives options to disable it.
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
rufus doesn’t help with preloads that you don’t want to or can’t, for whatever reason, overwrite with a ‘clean’ install.
Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
If os can’t be installed off a usb then that means linux can’t either, which makes it a pretty sad machine to spend money on.
So it must be a work or school device then? Which users wouldn’t be installing OS on anyways with it being handled through IT.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are plenty that will boot/install Linux just fine but won’t do a nice clean install of Windows 11.
Modern Thinkpad E16 (AMD) is one of them, a clean USB won’t work, it will always stick at not finding required drivers.
You need to inevitably create a USB install from the MS USB Media Creation tool, running on the machine itself from the included crapware Windows - to get an installer USB that will work.
Different if you’re just pushing a wim over the network from endpoint/scm, but it’s basically broken for local users.