Microsoft has removed the ability to create an offline account on new Windows 10 installs unless your PC is offline. Disconnect your network / modem before installing Windows 10.
Another option is to keep trying to create the MS account with a fake phone number until it gives up and lets you create a local offline account.
Bonus tip - if you don't want to set security questions when creating an offline account: create one without a password and then set the password via the control panel after logging in.
intrusive thought, microfiction, robo kin
"are you purring?"
[a flustered noise] "w-wha? n-no, i don't have cat organs, i'm designed to be humanoid, you know that"
"but. what's that noise"
"fans."
"i thought you were water cooled?"
"y-yes, but there's fans too, for uh. emergencies."
"what's the emergency, cutie? should i stop?"
"n-no it's just that you're petting me and i like that veryveryveryverymuch"
a lotta dudebros are willing to be woke as long as that means not actually listening or respecting a woman's opinion
@grainloom in todays capitalist society a company making lasting goods like this also has to have a subsidiary making things that /are/ constantly replaced or they go out of business - a good contemporary example is GoldPeak electronics which owns both Celestion Loudspeakers and the GP brands of primary cells/batteries (loudspeakers are often kept for decades, but (non rechargeable) torch batteries are still useful and widely consumed even in 21st century..
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own