FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 4 hours ago:
It’s definitely not for that, actually.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 12 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 13 hours 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 Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 15 hours 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 16 hours 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 day 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 day 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 1 week 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 RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 2 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 4 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 Microsoft Teams is getting a new location tracking feature that lets bosses snoop on staff – research shows it could cause workforce pushback 4 weeks ago:
It’s set at the user level, being able to log on to the computer with a current account means nothing.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 4 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 A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 4 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 Microsoft Teams is getting a new location tracking feature that lets bosses snoop on staff – research shows it could cause workforce pushback 4 weeks ago:
Admins can’t just log in to your Microsoft teams account.
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 5 weeks ago:
Why do you think nobody does it anymore? Because no one cared about it or used it.
- Comment on Digital ID debate: Privacy group warns of 'unprecedented tracking' and 'surveillance' 5 weeks ago:
The government: “That’s the point”
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 5 weeks ago:
Did you not look at the results when the user has a Nvidia GPU? Or when ray tracing is enabled? if you can even enable it on the Linux version, of course. Or when res goes above 1080p up to 4K?
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 5 weeks ago:
free and superior OS
Windows is essentially free too btw. 99% of people don’t need to buy a license, an unactivated copy will do just fine.
Superior? I guess that’s debatable, definitely not an objective fact.
What most people will overlook just to go “yeah suck that windows!” is the GPU market share - Nvidia has 95%! That means that Linux will be significantly worse than Windows for 95% of people.
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts 5 weeks ago:
Just hire the best person for the job, no matter what colour skin they have or what sex they are. Anything other than that will always be racist and/or sexist.