FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
It’s definitely not for that, actually.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
You can still create local accounts just by clicking in some of the other options during initial setup.
- Comment on UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors 1 week ago:
The UK government must be getting scared that the Australian government is going to overtake them in how authoritarian they are, so are going hard to maintain their lead.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
computers can be gotten for free
Computers that don’t already have windows activated, that can’t work with an un-activated windows? Non-activated windows 1
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
It wasn’t a big deal because I don’t use Windows 11. My login is offline.
Wait wait wait…do you think that you can’t log in to windows 11 computers without being online?
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
Depending how the requirement is built it could make it nearly impossible for me to install windows
It’s got nothing to do with installing windows, it’s about activating it through the OS post-install. Windows works without being activated btw. It’s not like the old days where it was unusable without a key - windows 11 is basically completely free these days, only requiring a license if you want to use some of the more “pro” features like Hyper V and RDP.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
Well no, the answer is to stop illegal installs. That’s what online license verification is for.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
You’re talking about something different here. This is about activating windows once you’re using windows.
Windows doesn’t need to be activated at OS install time either.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
Windows doesn’t need to be activated during the OS installation, so that’s not relevant.
Also Windows doesn’t need to be activated at all for 99% of people’s uses of it.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
I don’t think you understand what freedom is. Freedom doesn’t mean you can just do whatever you want with everything you want.
It’s 2026. The internet is a core part of the world and pretty much everyone’s life. It’s not going away. Everyone who is buying a windows 11 computer has internet access almost all of the time, everywhere they go. Complaining about needing internet to activate a software license for digital software is pathetic - especially for Windows that doesn’t even need to be activated for most people.
- Comment on ‘A nation of rich cowards’: Australia needs its dreamers but the arts are underfunded, undervalued and despised 1 week ago:
“The arts” really just…aren’t very important. Definitely not important enough to be supplemented with taxpayer money. If artists can’t make enough money to support themselves, that should be a sign.
- Comment on Meta says it shut down nearly 550K accounts in Australia to comply with its under-16 social media ban, including 330,639 Instagram and 173,497 Facebook accounts 1 week ago:
They must figure that’s enough to get the government off their backs, cause that’s absolutely nowhere near all of them.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
- Why shouldn’t you have to? Because you say so?
- Companies use the internet to manage their devices and communicate, so it’s not an issue.
There are many simple and easy solutions to your problem, you just don’t want it to be solved because you want to complain.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 1 week ago:
drag
lol PCs and laptops don’t need to be “dragged” anywhere. They’re not bookshelves, they’re tiny and light.
So when you buy a new computer you set it up for the first time in your house instead of your shed. You only have to activate it once.
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 1 week ago:
But “phone records”, whatever that means, won’t show telegram/imessage/signal/fb messenger/etc messages.
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 1 week ago:
“Text” is almost always used no matter what actual messaging service was used.
Also how would AI have sent a SMS to his phone from her? It was likely an ai generated screenshot of messages.
- Comment on Elon Musk says UK wants to suppress free speech as X faces possible ban 1 week ago:
No chatbot has ever caused a death.
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 1 week ago:
Most messaging services that people use these days aren’t showing up in “phone records”.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 2 weeks ago:
It’s 2026, when are people going to stop whining about things requiring the internet? Who on earth would this change actually negatively affect? Who is buying Windows 11 but doesn’t have the internet? No one.
- Comment on Google AI Overviews put people at risk of harm with misleading health advice 2 weeks ago:
That goes for ALL medical advice you get on the internet, not just AI, unless the advice is “contact a doctor”.
AI is just summarising the stuff they would have done ordinarily through Google anyway. AI has really shone a light on just how many people will blindly accept whatever someone on the internet tells them.
- Comment on Pebble Round 2 Announced 2 weeks ago:
The price is absurd as well, especially with that warranty.
I’m going to sit and watch how they do for a year before considering buying one. My Apple watch is nearing EOL with the crowns push button only working like 25% of the time, so will be on the lookout for a replacement.
- Comment on oi mates wtf is going on over there 3 weeks ago:
Solar is highly unreliable, requires endless mining of non renewable materials, takes up insane amounts of space to make the same power as any other method, requires endless manufacturing (and disposal) of batteries that are also made with mined non renewable, toxic materials that end up in landfill, and the cost of transmission infrastructure needed are in the trillions.
Nuclear as the backbone, topped up with solar, is the only realistic way to the fabled “net zero”.
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 3 weeks ago:
Nvidia are currently selling 95% of the consumer gpus that are sold, and have been for a long time.
Steam hardware surveys also aren’t good for getting exact numbers either. They’re good for trends and big picture stuff, like “Nvidia gpus are the overwhelming favourite among steam users”, but 80% in there could be 60% or 90% in the full world - and we know from sales numbers it’s not the former.
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 5 weeks ago:
Pulling numbers out of thin air
No, 95% is Nvidia market share.
20%+ difference is massive. 10% is massive to many pc players.
and so are lots of people
Just a drop in the ocean compared to the number of people who are happy gaming on windows, and these differences are making sure that Linux isn’t gaining any significant ground. Nvidia may as well be the only player in the GPU market, and with how poorly their gpus work on Linux, it’s a huge problem for Linux.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure neuralink could be considered a “fuck up”? It’s the closest thing we have to legit magic.
- Comment on Half of people arrested in London may have undiagnosed ADHD, study finds 5 weeks ago:
Those 2 things - people being arrested, and having ADHD - are completely irrelevant to each other. Should they also screen everyone they detain for skin cancer?
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 5 weeks ago:
Missing a bit of context from the article, clickbait headlines tend to do that (not aimed at OP but at the article writer):
The person uploaded a bunch of AI training data to his Google drive account. That training data has CSAM in it.
Like it or not, he uploaded CSAM to his Google drive account, which is why his account was banned. Will they unban him? Maybe, but doing so would give pedos a loophole to let them upload CSAM to Google drive without getting banned - just claim it’s AI training data.
- Comment on Age verification errors see some under-16s retain access to banned social media platforms 5 weeks ago:
That’s actually much better than what they’re currently doing. If all you had to do was verify with your phone that you are >16 it would mean that each social media app and then every other site that the government demands do age verification doesn’t need to verify you. It means you only verify once, on your device.
Unfortunately that’s why they’ll never do it - the government wants to ram through a universal digital ID, and this is how they do it.
- Comment on Leaked plan to limit blocking of abortion on moral grounds 5 weeks ago:
While I agree with the point you’re making, abortions are very rarely “life saving surgery”.
Pro abortion here before people go off, let’s just not distort the truth as all it does is hurt our point.
- Comment on Leaked plan to limit blocking of abortion on moral grounds 5 weeks ago:
How is blocking them on “moral grounds” even allowed in the first place when abortion is legal?