git [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agoWindows 11 locked me out of Notepad via Microsoft Account bugs — is the 'Thin Client' era ruining my 27 blissful years of PCs?www.windowscentral.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up162cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up162external-linkWindows 11 locked me out of Notepad via Microsoft Account bugs — is the 'Thin Client' era ruining my 27 blissful years of PCs?www.windowscentral.comgit [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square27fedilinkcross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squareblottica [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoI forgot they did this. Does it just hard stop if you don’t have any kind of network connection now?
minus-squarePorkrollPosadist [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·3 months agoYes. In the past you could just not connect to a network and run installer offline, but now it requires a network connection unless you search for instructions on how circumvent it.
I forgot they did this. Does it just hard stop if you don’t have any kind of network connection now?
Yes. In the past you could just not connect to a network and run installer offline, but now it requires a network connection unless you search for instructions on how circumvent it.