You say you are Progressives but you continue using products from a company that DOES NOT have your interests in mind when they design Windows.
For example
A recent customer asked me to assist them in transferring their data from an older Windows 10 system. Normally a simple process that in this case was turned into a time consuming mess because Microsoft has apparently mandated a supposed security solution called Bitlocker to "protect" us all from the bad guys. In reality its another method to lock customers into the Windows platform and control them while using it.
When I hooked up their new system to a different keyboard, mouse and monitor and dared to use a flash drive in this system Bitlocker locked the drive and would not allow access until I went through a time consuming process of retrieving a "key" from Microsoft. This involved getting login info from the customer for their Microsoft account and wading through a time consuming hassle to get the key so the customer could actually use the computer they paid for.
This is beyond just being consumer unfriendly, this is ruthless monopolistic behavior by a out of control corporation.
STOP using products from Microsoft and Apple. Make the effort to switch to Linux. Most of you have zero need to use Windows and would be fine using some version of Linux. You don't NEED Windows.
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