Yea sure.. but again a big recurring theme of The Unix Haters Manual is "broken by default". That things can be fixed isn't the point, if the fix is local, ephe

Yea sure.. but again a big recurring theme of The Unix Haters Manual is "broken by default". That things can be fixed isn't the point, if the fix is local, ephemeral, easily forgotten, and the fix not being implemented is blamed on the user because "you can fix it". Broken by default is itself exactly the problem.