You can't halt a bank collapse, but you can postpone it and attempt to reduce the impact with inflation which is exactly what has happened.
Additionally, if you don't address the lack of regulation that allowed the collapses in 2008, which we absolutely did not, it will keep happening and those future occurrences will grow in severity. Since now, in order to 'make money', the frauds have to be bigger, faster, and more aggressive.
Just remember that now instead of your ISP knowing every site you visit, Apple now will.
So where as in the olden days, in order to figure out who you were, some actor had to buy logs from the destination sites and from the ISPs, then correlate.
Now they can just buy the information from Apple. How convenient for Apple.
I know Apple says they will only share your information with trusted partners and only with your consent which is implicit when you use private relay. No one ever asks who these partners are though. Probably the same people that used to buy your data from the destination sites and ISPs...
Everything in this country, in this life, is a competition. One big zero-sum game.
It starts in high school. Social status, academics, athletics, and now social media followers and likes.
I am very glad that when I was in high school, social media wasn't really a thing yet. I could leave it all at school. Just go home and read, play video games or go outside. Most of my mistakes were limited to the memories of those people who witnessed them first hand.
Kids today are under near constant competition with each other and it takes a toll.
At some point, I hope, without some massive existential crisis serving as the impetuous we can collectively come to the understanding that our technology has vastly outpaced our morality. I hope that the prevailing social norm becomes cooperation over competition and the desire to lift others up instead of stepping on them for your own personal gain.
- People who know nothing about computers and don't want to.
- People who are being held hostage by some third party software that isn't built for ARM/Mac/Linux.
One can argue that Mac's satisfy the first condition as well.
Linux is for people who either don't mind learning how certain things work or outright require an understanding of how they work. Or who just want more choice in how they interact with a computer. Freedom from corporate data-mining and the privacy nightmare that is Windows...and coming soon to MacOS/iOS...is another big reason to seek alternatives.
The modern truth is that, for people with relatively simple needs, there are plenty of Linux flavors that just work as long as your hardware is not from Apple.[>=M1] These flavors have app stores that help even the freshest of newbies find media players, games, office apps, browsers, whatever. The fact that so many contemporary apps run either in a browser or use things like electron also further diminishes the requirement of Windows.
Even Microsoft realizes that Windows OS as a thing isn't something to explicitly sell to people anymore. They have been taking a page from Apple and trying to market how lovely it integrates with Xbox, Teams, the CloudPC versions, whatever. They've also hilariously made Windows 11 look like MacOS/various Linux DEs by transforming the taskbar into a dock and making the start menu look incredibly like Whisker/KDE's menu setup. They are also introducing stuff like virtual desktops, etc like they are some sort of revolution despite being on Linux DE's for eons.
Truth is that there's never been a better time to re-evaluate your computing needs and make some thoughtful choices about your workflows, your privacy, what you actually need vs what's actually on offer in these platforms.
Everyone is assuming this is the Russians and that could very well be true. If I were a bad actor from some place other than Russia, now would be a great time to pursue my own objectives and make as much noise as I wanted assuming that Russia would be blamed for it. Maybe even drop some misleading artifacts while I inside someone's network to re-enforce the paranoia. Just saying...
My favorite fuckup is when the MS Authenticator itself tells me that it needs me to use MS Authenticator to verify who I am, so it sends a code to itself.
Even if you ignore the fact that they'll find a way to shit on Linux[to push WSL] I simply do not trust Microsoft to get anything right in terms of security.[1]
[1] Being alive and security aware for the last few decades.
Finally, someone gets it. There is a lot of other well intended, intellectually driven arguments and opinions in this thread, but I am afraid that the people actually making the calls here are mostly likely being guided by their own self interests.
Additionally, if you don't address the lack of regulation that allowed the collapses in 2008, which we absolutely did not, it will keep happening and those future occurrences will grow in severity. Since now, in order to 'make money', the frauds have to be bigger, faster, and more aggressive.