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Is that really true though? It kinda just feels like a way to force people to have to pay $100 per year, own Apple hardware, etc.
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How else are you going to have the ability to revoke malware’s signing keys to get it to stop running on every machine immediately?
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At a certain point you have to let adults be adults and make adult mistakes.
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I think a time-lock feature to enable “I know what I’m doing mode” for a year, after a 48h delay would be ok.

Or something like that

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I like Chrome OS's approach where you essentially choose your security level at initial setup, and need to wipe your machine if you wish to change it.
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But what if a scammer walks grandma through backing everything up, unlocking the machine, installing a rootkit, and then restoring from backup? /s

(Joke is on you. You thought you'd be given access to app data to back it up? That's against the security model.)

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No, that would still suck.
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Any inmutable distro with Flatpak will solve this forever. No need to restrict anything.
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We should have never tried to let grandma on computers. Wait until the genAI revolution is complete (2027) and she can entirely use her voice and an AI agent in natural language to do things. This but unironically. Gate keeping is very good and keeps enshittification at bay. We see what happens when Apple tried to let in too many normies and wouldn't let them get darwin awards.

Answer to Skeltoac: Isaiah 57:1

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I helped my mother out with a computer, gave her a mac after she called twic a wee about a windows popup. Eventually she became a grandmother, and later in old age, with dementia she stlll using the mac more or less successfully to google and e-mail. Intentionality, coordination are important for keeping cognitive faculty. It all sounds so easy, but letting her send e-mail through voice could create confusing situations.
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We are all creeping toward old age. Let’s be kind to our future selves.
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Who's to say the criminals won't use a genAI agent to call grandma and social-engineer her so they can drain her bank account?
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They pretty much already are.
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This attitude is worse than Apple’s.
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No thanks.
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Apple is the personified Enshitification among Microsoft.
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