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by throw0101a 2051 days ago
> ... The user?

As someone who works in IT: not for most users. Certainly not for any of my relatives, as successful/smart as they may be in other fields.

Certainly have manual overrides for Alpha Geeks (to use O'Reilly's term), but even if a person is on the right-hand side of the Bell curve generally, that doesn't necessarily mean they can make informed software decisions specifically.

I'm fine with automatic seatbelts as long as there's a Terminal.app command I can run to disable them on an as-needed basis.

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Then the fake tech support call center scammers just add having the user enter that command to their script. This is why 1TR became a thing, I imagine.