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I spent a whole weekend in 2025 with no internet. Optical fibre connector broke Saturday morning, repair person would only come Monday at noon. It wasn't a big deal; my work is mostly offline, and I got a bunch of anime seasons, music, and games in my hard disk.
It wasn't a big deal because I don't use Windows 11. My login is offline. My login was not made by assumptive codemonkeys who bullshit the user is always online, because their boss sees users as cattle and wants to herd them into a new pen called "cloud services".
And it isn't just that. This is an unnecessary security risk; if MS login servers get compromised (and MS is damn sloppy regarding security), then your machine gets compromised too. Then there's chicken-and-egg problems like HakFoo mentioned. And people with shitty connection, like Ms. Armoured Thirteen. And weird issues like this user experienced.