<story><title>Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account</title><text>Has this happened to more people?&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this, and so this happened to a few friends of mine.&lt;p&gt;I am familiar with dark patterns, and read carefully and I though I had dodged all Microsoft attempts at trying to register me into their online system, but somehow they got me.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>This definitely happened to me a while ago.  I&amp;#x27;m not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from &amp;quot;jon&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;jrockway&amp;quot;, and signing in with my email address made my local account &amp;quot;jon&amp;quot;.  Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~&amp;#x2F;.ssh&amp;#x2F;config because this is the only account I have that&amp;#x27;s not named &amp;quot;jrockway&amp;quot;.  All in all, this reduces the enjoyment in my life by 0.0000000000000001% but I&amp;#x27;m not losing too much sleep over it.&lt;p&gt;(My favorite Windows 10 update was the one where you installed it, and instead of getting your desktop on reboot, there was this weird slideshow that said &amp;quot;HELLO&amp;quot; &amp;quot;ALL YOUR FILES ARE EXACTLY WHERE YOU LEFT THEM&amp;quot;.  I thought it was malware, but that&amp;#x27;s apparently something a large team of experts at Microsoft thought would be fun for their users.  Maybe they were really excited about some filesystem bug that they fixed?  I&amp;#x27;ll never understand.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Kwpolska</author><text>You should be able to fix your local user name in lusrmgr.msc (select your account and press F2).&lt;p&gt;I’m using a Microsoft account, but to avoid this nonsense, I created it as a local account (because this laptop shipped with Windows 11 Pro RTM, so I could still do that) and converted it to a Microsoft account. If I didn’t have this option, I would probably create a Microsoft account with the dumb default name, then create a local account, delete the old account, and convert my new local account.</text></comment>
<story><title>Tell HN: Windows 10 might have tricked you into using a online account</title><text>Has this happened to more people?&lt;p&gt;I just noticed this, and so this happened to a few friends of mine.&lt;p&gt;I am familiar with dark patterns, and read carefully and I though I had dodged all Microsoft attempts at trying to register me into their online system, but somehow they got me.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>jrockway</author><text>This definitely happened to me a while ago.  I&amp;#x27;m not that upset about it, except that I spent some time changing all my local accounts from &amp;quot;jon&amp;quot; to &amp;quot;jrockway&amp;quot;, and signing in with my email address made my local account &amp;quot;jon&amp;quot;.  Now when I ssh places, I have to supply -l or properly add an entry to ~&amp;#x2F;.ssh&amp;#x2F;config because this is the only account I have that&amp;#x27;s not named &amp;quot;jrockway&amp;quot;.  All in all, this reduces the enjoyment in my life by 0.0000000000000001% but I&amp;#x27;m not losing too much sleep over it.&lt;p&gt;(My favorite Windows 10 update was the one where you installed it, and instead of getting your desktop on reboot, there was this weird slideshow that said &amp;quot;HELLO&amp;quot; &amp;quot;ALL YOUR FILES ARE EXACTLY WHERE YOU LEFT THEM&amp;quot;.  I thought it was malware, but that&amp;#x27;s apparently something a large team of experts at Microsoft thought would be fun for their users.  Maybe they were really excited about some filesystem bug that they fixed?  I&amp;#x27;ll never understand.)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Barrin92</author><text>I honestly always thought it was some sort of GLaDOS&amp;#x2F;Hal 9000 style joke. &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t worry Dave, we&amp;#x27;re still watching all your files&amp;quot; or something, I actually laughed out loud when I saw it. It&amp;#x27;s even more hilarious to me if that was supposed to be serious.</text></comment>