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Me In 2050

Me In 2050
The year is 2050. Tech companies have finally achieved their ultimate dream: forcing everyone to authenticate through their cloud services for literally everything. Want to access your own files on your own machine? Sorry buddy, Microsoft/Google/Apple needs to verify your identity first. The UN peacekeepers are here to "help" you migrate to the cloud, but you're having none of it. You've barricaded yourself in your home office, clutching your local user account like it's the last bastion of digital freedom. They can pry your offline credentials from your cold, dead hands. Future historians will call this the Great Local Account Resistance of 2050. Your grandchildren will ask "What was a local user account, grandpa?" and you'll shed a single tear while explaining the ancient times when you could actually own your own computer without needing internet permission to use it.

They Patched The Old One? No Problem

They Patched The Old One? No Problem
Oh look, another Microsoft "feature" to bypass! The classic ms-cxh:localonly command is like that secret handshake that lets you skip the bouncer at the club. After 20 years in tech, nothing brings me more joy than Microsoft thinking they've closed all the backdoors, only for us to find the service entrance. It's the digital equivalent of "I know a guy who knows a guy." The fancy bear in the tux knows what's up - why surrender your email, password, firstborn child, and DNA sample to install an OS you already paid for?