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You know, if you copied those three lines into a text file, then saved it as bypassnro.cmd, you'll have solved that problem.

I put this in another thread: It's not a big deal. They're removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:

@echo off

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

shutdown /r /t 0

You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.

It's not a big deal. They're removing the bypassnro.cmd script, which is just this:

@echo off

reg add HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\OOBE /v BypassNRO /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

shutdown /r /t 0

You can still use shift-F10 at the same point, type those two lines (not the @ECHO OFF), and it will achieve the same result.

Well, if I've got no way to bypass it (when setting up for customers), I'll create an account specifically for this purpose.

And proceed to poison the hell out of any data it sends.

Does it still let you sign in locally if you disable network interfaces in BIOS?

What I like about pihole vs. dedicated ad-blockers, is that a pihole can block telemetry as well. There are lists of Microsoft and other data-gatherers you can import, and even if you can't stop the data collection, it dead-ends the attempts to upload it.

Lord, we don’t any windmills

There are windmills and turbines enough to turn

There are panels and hydros enough to burn, enough to last, ‘til the end of time

What the world needs now, is gas, sweet gas

It’s the only thing that there's just too little of

With deep apologies to Hal David

What, not even an IBM POWER 10 ?

"All I said was 'that piece of halibut was good enough for luigi'"

"BLASPHEMY"

"Luigi, luigi, luigi"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQ5YU_spBw0

The speed of transcoding video using FFMPEG on a non-GUI installation of Debian, on an old small-form-factor PC - 2nd-generation i7, 16GB ram, 240GB SSD.

I've still got the box, CD, and Manual for Aldus Pagemaker, but what I use is InDesign from CS6 - the last non-subscription version.

The Australian Bureau of Meteorology is still up and running

www.bom.gov.au

Ignore the "NOT A HTTPS" website, it's getting there.

Latest forecast track map for Alfred has it making a sharp turn on Tuesday and landfall on Thursday.

http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDQ65002.shtml http://www.bom.gov.au/cgi-bin/wrap_fwo.pl?IDQ20065.txt

Yes, I know it's not https, they're working on it.

Neil Young + Crazy Horse Bob Dylan + Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

You will continue to receive Windows Defender updates. I have a Windows 8.1 tablet that keeps updating Microsoft Defender antivirus. It's only used to connect to RTSP streams for music.

Ah yes, that's a concern - but I have a job in Task Scheduler that re-writes my registry tweaks - mostly changing various tasks back to "disabled". You can trigger it hourly, or on an event. As soon as a selected event - such as a telemetry switch-on - hits the event log, the "disable" script runs.

There's other ways, like taking ownership of the executables and changing permissions to lock out the "SYSTEM" account.

And pihole blocks DNS resolution of the telemetry harvesters as well. Windows update won't touch that. It's not 100% effective, but I couldn't be bothered to take it further.

That's why you build a ringworld instead.

Or the slightly more achievable version - Ringworld.

Conchiglie - kon-kill-ee-a (last letter rhymes with 'hay')

Little shells, each one a cup for sauce.

Colossus (The Forbin Project)

Wasn't Klein the manager defending George Harrison against the plagiarism claim against "My Sweet Lord" (vs. "He's so fine"), then Klein switched sides and was the plaintiff on behalf of the "He's so fine" writers?

Or something like that.