Have you looked into reboot restore, or any of the other tools that re-image the drive on each boot? Someone that works at a School or University could suggest a good one. That way almost all tech support can be solved with "Have you tried turning it off and on again?". I'd also look into a better email service. Using a fairly cheap service such as Fastmail comes with much better Spam protection.

I think it should be up to the person taking the risk, but there should be some personal reward for the benefit of the wider community. Something like the system of payments in Gateway (https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FGateway_%2528novel%2529) maybe? I'm not sure how that would be funded however.

I miss daylight savings, at my latitude (Brisbane, Australia) in summer it gets light at 4:30 am. Install all the block out blinds you want, the birds still go nuts and early risers will be out making noise. I don't know why our state doesn't have it, slightly further south they do.

Samsung does. I've got one of the 2012 model smart TV's. The camera on it rotates on a vertical axis, I assume so that you can point it at the couch more accurately and not chop peoples heads off. If you keep rotating it however, the camera will point back into the TV. There is still the issue of the microphone even with this, but all the NSA would hear is me talking to friends on the phone. I think they have this covered by other means.

You mean the readable version.