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Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account

Here's your bypass:

In OOBE, go through MS account creation. Tell it you were born today. It'll let you set a password for the MS account before rejecting you due to COPA requirements. At this point, you can make an offline account without having even created an MS account, let alone having to use one.

This will not go away - it's a legal thing. MS doesn't want to deal with COPA stuff for very young kids, so this flow exists. Enjoy.

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Thunderbird goes from DEB to snap in Ubuntu 24.04

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the ppa for 24.04 is live and you can still deb version of the app on it. by type: cat <<EOF | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref

To prevent repository packages from triggering the installation of Snap,

this file forbids snapd from being installed by APT.

For more information: https://linuxmint-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/snap.html

Package: snapd Pin: release a=* Pin-Priority: -10 EOF Change the /etc/apt/preferences.d/mozilla Package: * Pin: origin packages.mozilla.org Pin-Priority: 1000

Package: Thunderbird* Pin: release o=Ubuntu Pin-Priority: -1

you can grab the ppa and no more snap