Half this guide is disabling unwanted features that come as a result of choosing Windows 10 home.
Why not run LTSC 2021and then MAS instead?
As a benefit you get access to group policy, which I would argue is not an unwanted feature if you want greater control over the OS. Lots of options are locked there.
The reasons don't really have to do with privacy, but rather economics.
The core issue is that most people ignore new features if they are opt-in rather than opt-out. And that presents a problem for investors who want to see people using the new features.
The fact that this is also a privacy nightmare is irrelevant to the money. That part is just a symptom.
As with most things capitalism, the only thing that moves the needle is money. If firefox sees a sharp and sustained loss of the user share, they'll reverse course.
I realize this is also unverifiable, but it's just a return to non-existentence.
You already experienced that for most of human history, and then for a comparatively breif period, things were different, and then it's back to non-existence.
If the building has a ton of bandwidth, good QoS rules and not too many people on the network all at once, the only downside is that you won't have any control over the network and cant make any changes.
If the building has a shitty connection, no QoS, or too many people, then you are likely to get bad service.
Content warnings on everything seems silly until you think about what the alternative is. It's much better to have largely uncensored media that people can engage with intellectually, making their own decisions if they want to experience it or not.
The alternative is visible in the advertiser-friendly hellscape that mainstream social media has become, where people can't even say words like "kill" or "drug" without being buried by the algorithm.
For a healthy society to exist, people need to be able to interact with sensitive topics and challenging ideas.
The other side of email is that it has become the default identity provider for the Internet. If that VM becomes unrecoverable somehow, how would you get access to your past emails?
Like, a potential rival that lives near your capital, is given the opportunity to pay for the development of a massive wall to protect it, along with bragging rights that they're powerful enough to help the city, and that they have close ties with leadership as an ally
This drains them of capital they could use to raise an army, and also installs a big fortification that makes it harder to attack.
Half this guide is disabling unwanted features that come as a result of choosing Windows 10 home.
Why not run LTSC 2021and then MAS instead?
As a benefit you get access to group policy, which I would argue is not an unwanted feature if you want greater control over the OS. Lots of options are locked there.