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mctreeleth · 2 years

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I just discovered that windows no longer asks you to input a user name for yourself - it instead uses the first 5 characters of your account, which is a big problem if your name is Sara and your surname starts with an H and and you don’t want your user account to be fucking sarah.

#it does not warn you that this is the case at any part of the process of setting up a new computer #I just noticed that my user folder was named sarah and I was like '''the fuck it is''#and so far all I have done is install firefox and put on a nice desktop background and download all my old laptop's files from backblaze #so not is the time to work out how to fix it before I might catastrophically fuck up everything #but I am sure there are some people out there for whom this is very very bad #I thought that we has learned in this the year of our lord 2023 #to not have computers autofill very important core identity markers based on abbreviations from other user data

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