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It’s rarely a good idea to log in as root, doubly so if it’s a system with sensitive data or services that could easily be disrupted accidentally. And even more important if multiple users log in. How will you know who broke things to teach them if they don’t log in first. The only time I log in to any system as root other than a test system is when I need to sftp to access files or some other system that doesn’t have a way to elevate permissions.

Even if Copilot was suspended, the idea was put into the heads of managers and executives. My work laptop current has three applications constantly locking files as they track everything I do and every file that gets touched and upload it all to the servers. Git now takes a ridiculous amount of time to check in and push files since it creates tons of small changes to the cached files that a the tracking applications block further changes or uploads until they can record the information. It takes about 30 seconds to a minute to check in a single small file. Something that used to take a second or two at most. Worst part is if I’m in a WebEx meeting, the fighting over caches in it and git and any other processes,often causes deadlocks that crash the machine. I’m constantly apologizing for being late for meetings because the laptop crashed and had to reboot. It’s gotten to the point that they finally gave me a much faster laptop rather than just excluding cache and git folders and such from the tracking because the people who want literally everything tracked don’t know what cache or git is, much less how much useless data they’re gathering or how the AI that analyzes it all is going yo get distracted by the garbage and not find any useful data anyway. Microsoft needs to get in the game to push the others back out.

Also, not sure if it’s this database or another leaked database, but I get a lot of targeted phishing messages that know exactly what forms I’ve filed for my wife’s family for their immigration over the years. And I’ve heard similar anecdotes from others. Only started this year, so definitely something this administration has either broken the security of to speed up deportations or possibly purposely allowed to leak to foreign agents and thus their hacking groups.

I do this as much as possible, though I have a self hosted VaultWarden instance. I really wish more stuff supported TOTP or Yubikey. There’s still a ton that only support text or email which just puts a big old hole in the security, IMHO.

Don’t format, just create separate subvolumes for the distros and keep the home subvolume mounted on each root then delete the root subvolume of the distros you don’t want when you’re done with them.

I didn’t have to change anything including secure boot when I removed windows and installed Fedora on my laptop. Should generally work, but there’s a possibility some newer features may not or may have a Windows-only setting and an other OS setting. Update the BIOS to the latest and just try it…

I get the idea of wanting that lifeline in case of an emergency, but I agree, constant tracking is toxic. I’d never give a corporation my kids’ information just for some small convenience like that. Basically selling their future for almost nothing. By the time they grow up, potential employers and governments will know every place they ever visited as a kid, even places that might have been technically trespassing or politically divisive in the future. Kids need to learn and explore and be guided on what’s right and wrong, not be punished for minor stuff they did as children their entire lives.