Re: Interpretation
"I'm happy with 'turn almost all of it off, if anything really needs access it will ask'."
Then you have presumably discovered that, in practice, most software does not ask but instead just fails quietly and it is up to you to figure out why. You sound like the sort of person who is willing to do this.
Your mates sound like the sort of people who aren't. They've discovered that switching things off screws up and wrecks things, so they don't.
A 70:30 split between these two populations sounds surprisingly heavily weighted on the "clued up" side.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
