In other news, birds fall from sky, pig spotted flying past PC Gamer window.
    • Octopus1348@lemy.lolEnglish
      5116·
      4 months ago

      I mean, I don’t like that either but it doesn’t affect links to tweets.

      • TheEntity@kbin.social
        611·
        4 months ago

        Single tweets are rarely useful without being able to read some context that isn’t visible without logging in.

      • qupada@kbin.social
        41·
        4 months ago

        It does however affect getting updates from government agencies, and others who insist on only disseminating real-time information to the public via Twitter.

        For instance: https://twitter.com/WakaKotahiWgtn

        This is the account for traffic events (road closures, traffic accidents, etc) in my city. Not signed in, the latest visible post is from February 2023.

        Since I don’t have a twitter account, this is now functionally useless.

        • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          the latest visible post is from February 2023

          If you scroll down far enough, there are posts from March and August, but they were “less popular” tweets. Incredibly annoying move by twitter. Who wants to regularly view tweets sorted by “Top All Time”?

        • FiveMacs@lemmy.caEnglish
          36·
          4 months ago

          Go to the city’s website, they should still have that information accessable via government sites. Buried, but it should still exist.

          • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            4 months ago

            While true, the point is that Twitter does require sign in to view content, regardless of that information is elsewhere.

            • breden@reddthat.comEnglish
              63·
              4 months ago

              Have you tried contacting your government for this issue? From my experience public services are often open about Mastodon once they realize it’s the same thing as Twitter, but accessible to everyone.

              • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
                4·
                4 months ago

                I have not. I personally don’t live in a region where disaster notices are often necessary and I don’t have offspring that I have to care for that may be affected, so I’m not really the demographic for the service. I do hope more and more start branching out to the likes of Mastodon or maybe better yet, hosting their own instances.

    • bigkahuna1986@lemmy.mlEnglish
      231·
      4 months ago

      I for one get all my opinions from Elon Musk. Saves time and energy trying to come up with my own!

  • Adderbox76@lemmy.caEnglish
    18·
    4 months ago

    How about we go a step further and say that I don’t want to have to sign into ANY online account to access my computer.

    If I disconnect my Ethernet cable, I can still log in and get work done. That should be the absolute MINIMUM that is expected of any operating system.

    Linux is sometimes a royal pain in the ass, but it’s for precisely that reason that it’s important that it and Foss options like it are supported.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    4 months ago

    I’m going to log in with a burner Microsoft account on unactivated Windows 11 to spite both assholes.

    • pizza_the_hutt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      4 months ago

      You don’t even need a Microsoft account. You can get around it with by using Rufus to create the Windows 11 installer.

      • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        4 months ago

        I had to figure out the command to bring up the command console to not log in with a Microsoft account. It was super dumb. I had to turn something off in the system as a workaround, which meant a bunch of googling.

        There is zero reason for me to have a Microsoft account associated with my computer just to use it.

        Edit: This was on setup of the pc. Don’t remember the commands, but should be easy to find on google.