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I set up new laptops all the time in my position as an IT Manager. I always use the "Limited Experience" (offline account) option and have never had to use an email account, not even once. I set up a new one as recently as 3 weeks ago. One other hack to avoid setting up the secret questions and answers to your computer user accounts - initially create them without a password, then go back and create a password later after your initial startup configuration. We only use Windows Pro editions (Win 10, but starting to transition to Win 11). Works great for me and I've never had to do anything with an email account at all.
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Yeah, it's Windows Home only.
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I use my Microsoft account predominantly for Skype. Have about 15 hours of Skype calls per week, and Skype also offers the facility to record calls, all for free, with this Microsoft account. Very convenient. Have been using Skype since 2019 for these calls.
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Good UI design shouldn't be verbose, but it also shouldn't be ambiguous. I don't think it's just you btw. I seems to be the quality of a lot of things are dropping these days. We're all (as humanity) focused on the wrong things - most of which are artificially created worries.
Jeremy Falcon
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There's a reason I tell people to avoid Windows Home editions and spend the extra money on Windows Professional. Not only do you get BitLocker to help in protecting your financial data, which I guarantee is on your computer but you also get the ability to use a completely local account.
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Just short from asking for your blood group, grandmothers favorite food, dog's name and the neighbor's address. Maybe in the future ChatGPT will analyze your DNA to check what ads can be added to your account. 
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Yeah, it's really annoying Microsoft is forcing you to create account with them that you practically will use only once! Some days I'm amused Microsoft is still in the business (not complaining, I'm doing my living with their products, just mildly amused.)
Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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I've had my MS account for a while (made it back in the live.com era), and it's mostly used for my Minecraft account. I also have a GMail account I use for various sites to avoid spam. Anything I end up needing gets forwarded to my live.com email.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
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Hi All,
I posted earlier about the ping ching on one of my PC's. I think somethings up, the PC's Device mangler resets it's view of the extended tabs. It seems that something is causing a change. In the past it was a faulty USB port cauisng the device to power up when it negoatiated for more power the port would 'fall off' the system. I can't think I have damaged any USB ports (was caused by a collapsing shelf), plus if I open the USB tab all there all good. No camera Megadamm! Could it be caused by the network dropping!.. I'll have a look, Well I'll be there was a USB Wi-Fi adaptor. Issues with the phone line... Well thats stopped!
Glenn
modified 13-Jun-23 17:26pm.
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#Worldle #508 2/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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I'm in the process of moving some code in between Javascript, .NET Core 5, .NET 7 with detours around Razor and Blazor. The code changes between them are doing my head in. Just reading a file from the browser seems to have 6 different ways, all subtly different, all similarly named.
I understand that changes in underlying architecture means that one method won't necessarily translate to another, but surely there are some core things that we, as an industry, could standardise. For example:
You have an object, for instance a file. Or a tensor. Or a string.
- any time you get data from a source (uploaded file, network stream, from database) you call it "Get"
- any time you save data to storage you call it "Save"
- any time you need to append data, you call Append, and also override the + operator.
The thing that's getting me is I just want to save an uploaded file. A quick check shows I can
- Call file.SaveAs to save the file
- Open a filestream, call file.CopyToAsync to the stream and close the stream
- Read the file's InputStream into a buffer and call File.WriteAllBytes to save the buffer
- Same as 2, but using CopyTo instead of CopyToAsync
I'm sure there are more. I just want to save the file to disk.
So I'm wondering, since I've not actually taken the time to read up on this, if this happens because
- We're scared to break backwards compatibility so we create new methods to avoid breaking old methods, and overloading functions doesn't always work is or possible
- There are too many ways to do a given task so we present you a bag of parts (eg streams and buffers) and let you mix and match because there's no single "default" way that's practical to provide
- Program flow has changed sufficiently (eg async and promises) that there truly needs to be different methods to cater for this
- We just like making up new paths for writing the same old code because they suited our headspace at the time
It seems a massive waste of cycles. I think we as an industry need a big refactoring.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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From my perspective:
There is no other profession, that I personally know of, where there is a pool of vastly differing opinions on how to do things and how things should be, than software development and developers. We have standardized music, medical, and most science fields, but software engineering/development is lacking big time.
So, I agree with you that we as an industry should standardize as much as we can (not just APIs), but then who gets to be the king on what the standards are? You? Me? Jeff down the street?
What if I don't like your standards?
back to square one. IMHO, this is an exercise in futility.
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I guess I misread some of that post then. Coming from the web side, we do have standards in naming conventions. We just didn't invite Jeff to the meeting. 
Jeremy Falcon
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That's the beauty of Standards: there are so many to choose from.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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