The parents do, and the teachers within a school context, but noone else should.

If you want to operate a company you need to follow the demands of the current government in the location(s) where you operate. It's the same in every country in the world.
If you're too small for the government to care about you, that just means following the published laws.
If you're large then it means getting in favor with the current regime via whatever methods are available to you.

The "hide my email" function is to hide your email address from random companies that might sell or leak your address to spammers.
It's not to hide your address from law enforcement, and never was.

Can you tell me where Linux does that? I've been using Linux constantly since around 2007, and that has not happened once. And not certain where you get the idea that changing a "bistro" changes everything on the computer.

Did you get your Linux knowledge from the local Windows OS club?

My son who is a gamer, and I built a top end gaming system, and I concur. Reminded me of the "good old days", where just getting the damn computer to work was something to celebrate, and never turn the thing off once you do, at least until the next BSOD. It's a pretty thing, but a definite learning experience

Which mini? I picked up a Mini M4 when I traded in my last generation Intel iMac. Pretty nice little computer, and the Adobe Suite flies on it be comparison. I'd probably have a NUC if the use cases I have for my Windows laptop didn't have to be portable.

But back to the topic, Microsoft has been having a lot of boots on the ground problems, no matter what our personal situations have happening.

You don't like Time Machine? I have hourly backups on one drive, and daily backups on a drive I store in a different location.

I'd never use any cloud backup, that's like asking Jerry Sandusky to babysit a 10 year old boy.

What does that even mean? As a Boomer, and the boomers around me seem to be pretty darn adroit, I'm having issues parsing what you wrote.

Or do just mean you adhere to some concept that boomers are stupid?

Another issue is I've met many, many, people who insist on asking me "What do I do?" when any prompt comes up. Anything. From "Overwrite these files?" to "Installation finished. Do you want to launch NewlyInstalledApp now?"

And? You sound like the IT guy from Saturday Night Live who hates the people he is supposed to help. I do some teaching, and get asked questions like that pretty often. I just explain a little to them. They go away a little more knowledgeable.

I tend to disagree. People bashing around in Terminal (now zsh) tend toward the more adroit end of MacOS users. And just might be more skilled than you think.

And since I occasionally copy and paste, I and others are very interested in having a reality check. In most cases it isn't needed. But we can all fall for something in a weak moment

I spend almost as much time in Terminal as I do in the GUI. Sometimes more. So I am very interested in this. BTW, despite the memes, There are more of us Mac users that do that than you think.

And W11 is getting worse. That is disturbing, because Windows versions generally improved over time, not regressed.

I guess the point is that while These emergency patches may or may not point to a wider issue. That however does not mean there is no wider issue. I'm not involved with anything Oracle, so can't comment knowledgeably on that, but Microsoft and Windows? Oh hell yeah.

Imagine though, if you have a system where you have no idea what is in the software, and the number of actual thinking people is dropping to a negligible number.

There may be a tipping point where the proverbial shit hits the fan, and there is no competent person to look at it, analyze it, or fix it. What now, Saint Peter?

Sounds like Windows 11.

There isn't unlimited time to debate every point while our oligarchy rapes kids and starves the poor.

Itâ(TM)s easy for people to criticize him when they have no skin in the game

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