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   candycanearter07 to Jan K.   
   Re: Do the non-Apple common consumer ope   
   01 Jul 24 14:10:03   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   XPost: alt.privacy   
   From: candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid   
      
   Jan K.  wrote at 17:14 this Sunday (GMT):   
   > W Sun, 30 Jun 2024 18:43:42 +0200, Steve Hayes napisal:   
   >   
   >>>Do the non-Apple common consumer operating systems (android, linux,   
   >>>win10/win11) work WITHOUT logging into the mothership mainframe servers?   
   >>   
   >> I saw a complaint from a Windows 11 user to the effect that it would   
   >> not allow him to save stuff locally.   
   >>   
   >> I tried to find out more about it for him and it appears that it   
   >> offers a chic, but his machine was set to log in to the MS server, and   
   >> he didn't know how to change it.   
   >>   
   >> Someone else told me that Windows 11 does save files locally, but it   
   >> is so many levels deep that you have to be a hacker to find them.   
   >   
   > I think Windows 11 wants you to create and continually log into a Microsoft   
   > mainframe server account so that they can start to market products to you   
   > and so they can sell your meta data, but I don't think that Microsoft login   
   > account on the net is required for the essential operation of the device.   
      
      
   I'm sure they'll try and find some excuse tho.   
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