I’m disabled and can’t work, so I troll scammers with my VMs and VOIP.

I agree with that, force microsoft to make windows open source.

Shitty security practices, and a lack of good security software is to blame for that

They are if they have shitty security practices and never set up good security software

Maybe, but only if windows users continue to not learn how to use their PCs

Just because you know what the buttons do doesn’t mean you know how to use it.

Trillions, if you count all the taxpayer money that corpos get for free

Here in the US it’s the employees that get stolen from the most.

Who the fuck would ever connect their fucking toothbrush to the internet?

That’s almost as stupid as connecting your laundry machines to the internet, or your thermostat, or any other appliance in your house

Compartmentalizing it and/or blocking it with zero trust whitelisting would stop it.

I don’t know if there’s any privacy-friendly alternatives to microsoft teams.

Something end-to-end encrypted. Preferably with quantum-secure end-to-end encryption.