Best way to start with console & Xbox game pass?

ah. sorry :(

With using bing on an edge browser on pc and mobil (or via https://github.com/mikeyaworski/ABS)
you get up to 312 points each day. there are also the small tasks on the reward page (it's mostly just a click).
With this you can get ~400 points each day (some days a bit more, some a bit less)
In germany you need "only" 12k points.

But I only use it for PC so it's 6.8k points so I even have a little buffer.

Not really a bypass, MS offer it again to you as they seem desperate to keep sub numbers up. Maybe they'll stop doing it soon with XSX coming out but people have managed to get a month's sub for 1 euro several times in the past.

i believe that's the same thing i heard from my cousin. he prepaid the xbl gold, and when you activate the game pass ultimate for $1, it converts all your time. can't say for sure if it still currently works. perhaps try asking on one of the xbox/gaming subreddits?

Yeah first you want to go to xbox.com and create your user. Then you can redeem the codes once logged in. Then go to the game pass ultimate which will give you an offer for 1$ for a month. Then it will convert the xbox live time you redeemed from the codes into game pass ultimate. It should give you the time it expires so it should be 2 years out. It will automatically enroll you for reoccurring billing so you will want to go to my account, my subscriptions and turn off automatically billing if you don't want it. Make sure your not canceling, just turning off automatic billing.

not sure about xbox, but i know with ps4 you can hook up mouse and keyboard, at least for some games. it will probably need to be wired, but wireless might(?) work. worth a shot.

A very good point that I liked really much from game pass. I tried many games that I would never had bought to tried otherwise.