Pro tip, don’t stand there and smirk, she’ll know somethings up. You need to put up a convincing protest, and whine in anguish when she deletes the icon.
Mom: sudo rm -f /
“My homework folder!”
Mom: your homework folder is there, on the shelf!
Sadly my kids got me, someone who’s career has been with IT for over 20 years now lol. Gonna be fun times when they get to this point.
Tfw I’m using highly customised i3wm, with no desktop, no gui, and everything is done via cli.
/s
bro thinks he is safe from his mom googling “how to delete linux” and typing rm rf
She’d need root for that.
Have a sysadmin with thirty plus years of experience. Leave the game and desktop shortcuts but black list the executable.
Group Policy, GenZ/A hates this one neat trick
Okay so funny story, I needed to spin up a non enterprise windows VM with defender disabled for testing and got to experience the horror of local group policy not actually applying the disable setting because Microsoft disabled the functionality without telling anyone.
And then I learned you can no longer disable defender on non domain joined systems without downloading a perma disable tool.
Otherwise group policy looks so cool until you run Bloodhound and realize you’ve created a security nuke lmao.
Thank God we have Linux
And then Windows goes full Brutus on you, and displays an info window which states that this will only delete the link not uninstall the application with a convenient link to programs+features.
“Remove from Homescreen” “Delete App” Is what I saw recently when helping an older person remove an app from their iPhone.
They are trying to make it as easy as possible for people, but I guess that doesn’t help much when you are trying to subvert someone with authority over you… Cause then you get into child accounts and screentime settings apparently.
They have gotten pretty robust now.
Unrelated but my work PC recently got installed a “Windows App”. Big tech is really trying to mess with non tech-savvy users.
