Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/456/

Just an update because I just figured what happened: I booted the iso through Ventoy, and just saw today that by default Ventoy injects register entries to bypass the online account requirement (as well as the hardware checks). Good to know.

Eivør - Trøllabundin

I have listened to it so much that I know the lyrics perfectly, and it’s even possible my pronunciation is close to correct, yet I don’t speak a word of Faroese.

Genuine W11 iso, downloaded directly from MS website a few weeks ago, no modification. It was a Pro version if I remember correctly. I tested it on a 2015 Surface Pro. I was already connected to the network and did not click “Domain join” (I would have if it had asked for a MS account).

Just this week I installed W11 on a laptop (temporarily, I just wanted to see how it ran on this hardware), and despite being connected to the it asked me, by default, for a username for the local account. I don’t know why, but it didn’t ask for a MS account first.

The only use I have for Google Assistant is to call people when I’m in my car, and even then it doesn’t work correctly.

• “Call <wife’s first name>” -> Calls a business in a neighbouring country which happens to have the same (common) name as my wife.
• “Call <wife’s first and last name>” -> Calls my wife.
• “Call <father’s first and last name>” -> Calls another business in the same neighbouring country which name contains my father’s first and last name.
• “Call <father’s first name>” -> Calls my father.

Wtf really. Those two businesses must keep wondering who’s that number that keeps calling them at absurd times from another country and never leaves a message, because I can never remember who I must use the full name of…