If I had a username and it was a real cat named fluffy I might be able to do it. Thankfully, you made my point about anonymity - it's much harder to track people down when you can have unlinked/anonymizable accounts.

It's not so much privacy as anonymity. Knowing that I can walk away from a profile which is not my "personal brand" and have no impact on my life. Being able to interact with the freedom to not worry about consequences is what the internet provides for me - otherwise I must be restrained in what I say for fear of the impact, now or in the future.

Personally I prefer having separate accounts. It's too easy to track down information with linked accounts. People don't realize how much information is publicly available and what consequences that can have. Heck, even without linked accounts it's far too easy. I once tracked down someone, at their request, starting with only a username on a single forum. On that forum they'd mentioned their cats names in a single post. From that I was able to identify their postings as anonymous users, their real name, address, social media profiles, and so on. The scary part, it took me less than an hour to compile all the information. The only reason it took that long is because there was a lady in Florida with the same cat names which had to be teased out of the data. Another individual I tracked, I was able to identify where they lived, what they drove, how long they'd lived in their home, what they paid for it, what they pay in taxes, what instrument they played in a band, etc... so many details of their life just out in the open. I got all of that starting from a single tweet on an account they'd only sent 8 tweets from and deleted; it just happened to have been cached by Google.

Didn't you know? That's a "feature".

Indeed. Now if we could only get CPU/RAM usage as well!

I've disabled my update service, firewall, and anti-virus for years without issue, so I am to be made to pay for an enterprise version for my home system to keep the status quo? That's bullshit and you know it. If users want to be stupid, let them be stupid. What business is it of Microsoft's? The only reason they need to do this is because they can't create a secure OS and are having to go to extreme measures to make it seem like their systems are secure. As the recent Hacking Team revelations make clear, even with a fully updated system you are not secure. Accept that and reject the fear of "not patching your system somehow equates imminent destruction" and you'll see that Any company, Microsoft/Google/Mozilla/etc making changes without giving you the opportunity to accept/reject them is a bad thing.

I advised mine not to install Win10. I don't want to get the calls "X has changed how do I do Y now?", "I was working on this critical thing and something (ie: patch) happened, how do I get it back?", "We're trying to watch Netflix like you showed us but it keeps shuddering in the middle of it (due to "background" updates screwing with the framerate on their slow system)"

The fact is the current regime works perfectly well, people like yourself can schedule the download/install to automatically occur in the middle of the night and people like me can turn it off until I'm ready to take action.

Don't care. I'm not going to be forced into updating my system. You'll be able to uninstall, until there's one they don't want you to uninstall. You'll be able to delay, until there's one they don't want you to delay. This type of thing is really coming to a head for me, too many times I've spent money on something only to have it changed to something I would never have purchased. Patches should always be optional and always be up to the user when to apply.

The control I have is choice. A choice if or when I want to apply updates, that is more important to me. I run vulnerable/"obsolete" systems all the time and am just fine with that, in fact I'm quite happy and would like to "downgrade" some systems.

Shocking that someone doesn't want to be a sheep, I know it's hard to understand.

So you want me to pay enterprise pricing to keep the ability to have control over my own home system? No thank you.

Probably not much, they'll do anything for a dollar.

All I know for sure, Win10 isn't touching any system I work on until the update issue is backtracked on.

Firefox allows you to control the look of the scrollbar. It appeared to me as this thin strip about 5px wide almost the same colour as the background grey, also without any up/down arrows. I think I was in some A|B testing as it's gone now.

Agreed. I took a JavaScript course and they insisted that the Java reserve words were also reserve words in JS, despite that version of JS being scrapped. They went so far as to include it in the final exam. The course was also 9 years out of date.

And give me my fucking scrollbar back!!! Not everyone uses trackpad scrolling (disable mine as it never behaves as it should due to lousy drivers)

Yes, you are supposed to stay updated with the latest Bing Bar! (buried in the Windows Essentials auto-update with no way not to install it)