youtube.com/watch?v=FFINynRc… Now I probably have to worry about the future of the Age of Empires: The Rise of Rome, which still has a scene in Vietnam and mainland China. There are even tournaments in both countries. In Vietnam, this title is hosted on services such as GameTV.

Windows 11 at 640x480 with 500% DPI Good luck

This should be illegal they should not be able to force people into creating accounts in order for their computer to work at its basic functions. I know you can get another OS but theyre stopping win10 support and windows is standard we shouldnt need a microsoft acct to use a PC

Just a PSA: Digital art is art, but AI art isn’t. The latter is bad, it’s evil. Support human artists!

dumbing down and infantilization. just gonna leave this classic here

This has been a problem for over a decade. When something breaks you only get a big button saying “oops something went wrong press here to send the error code, fail log, and all your user data to Adobe/Microsoft/Apple/US Government”

Why are SW companies so afraid of giving any sort of debug information to end users

Windows 7 was peak Windows.

Why is the good old mstsc still miles better than any modern RDP app

Microsoft is NOT killing off the hack that lets you bypass Microsoft account requirement during Windows 11 setup, but it's making it slightly more complicated because you now need to create a Registry entry: windowslatest.com/2025/03/29… Earlier, people used simple tricks to skip signing in with a Microsoft account while setting up Windows 11. One popular way was typing a fake email like no@thankyou.com, which would fail and let you create a local account instead. Another easy method was using the command oobe\bypassnro in Command Prompt. But now, in the newer Windows 11 preview builds, these tricks no longer work because Microsoft removed the bypass script to improve security. Even though the shortcut script is gone, you can still manually bypass the Microsoft account requirement by editing the registry. When you reach the network connection screen during setup, press Shift F10 to open Command Prompt. Type regedit to open Registry Editor, go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE, and create a new DWORD (32-bit) Value named BypassNRO. Set its value to 1. Then close everything and restart your PC. After restarting, the setup screen will now show the option “I don’t have internet.” Selecting this will allow you to continue without signing in online and create a local account. So even though the easy tricks are gone, the registry method still works and is currently the best way to bypass Microsoft account login in the latest Windows 11 versions.

Improved bypass for Windows 11 OOBE: 1. Shift-F10 2. start ms-cxh:localonly Only required on Home and Pro editions.

i miss the times without AI slop everywhere. it's weird to think that such world changes are permament

Wait wait wait. This is the new bugcheck introduced in the Dev channel? They removed the smiley face first introduced in Windows 8

It'll take some getting used to the new BSOD. But it fits in with the "trend" of MS updating it every ~12 years (Stable builds) Windows 2000's style was from 1999 to 2012 Windows 8's style from 2012 to 2025 Windows 11 new style from 2025 to 20xx

Thankfully they kept the additional info that you can enable in the top left

Here's the rejuvenated bugcheck/BSOD in the latest Insider builds (feature ID 50070238) in both colors. The QR code and frown say bye bye, and the screen is going back to black for production PCs just as it was in the early 22000 days.

If you think C is outdated, enjoy your bloated Electron apps running on 8GB RAM.

Imagine this wasn't Chagee, but Microsoft using the 9 dash line map GLOBALLY. Would Microsoft get away with it? Will tech bros defend it? amp.scmp.com/week-asia/econo…

This Aero Peek bug has been present since Windows 10 Build 17063 and it has never been fixed. 😭