@munin also “make doing the right thing easy” (other side of the same coin perhaps?)

@munin I routinely have to remind a (very smart, terminally online) friend that we do not shame people for taking the path of least resistance and just using a computer in its default configuration with the web browser that was shoved in their face and no fancy pants extensions.

Yes we can try to educate (depending on our relationship) but we first have to acknowledge that the fact that the default state of computers is terrible is an indictment on the corporations that sell them, not an indictment of their users.

Imagine if you bought a new car, and you (yourself, not a mechanic) had to install seat belts and airbags and ABS and a number of other safety systems before even driving it off the lot in order to get car insurance. Sounds stupid, right?

And yet, that is what we somehow expect of ordinary users, and I am so, so tired of terrible defaults.