If you mean automatic brightness correction, most computers have a camera, some have a more generic light sensor.
If you mean night mode, a computer knows what time it is and most know where they are, so they can look up local daylight hours.
If you mean something else, you'll need to elaborate.
Unless I misunderstood, the attacker already needs to have access to your machine. If that's the case, you have much bigger problems.
You realise that this is because Microsoft spent billions of dollars on what amounts to a new version of "Clippy" and it's just as helpful as the original.
If you're unfamiliar with the abomination, it's a dumber version of Copilot.
The comments here in relation to the arcane nature of fax machines might not be aware that often this relates to legal requirements to receive physical proof.
Interestingly, nobody has to my knowledge challenged the wisdom of this requirement in court. At the end of the day, there is no real way to prove your identity using either a letter or a fax.
Using email, you could exchange an electronic key in person and know that the sender has the agreed key. Note that it still doesn't prove the identity of the sender.
I doubt that anyone has researched the origin of such junk in detail.
If it doesn't fit in your rubbish bin, generally it costs time, effort and money to properly dispose of things. Tossing it off a bridge is efficient.
Likely there's a not inconsiderable proportion of anti-social behaviour, like stealing a bike and throwing it into a waterway afterwards.
I'd be sharing that footage with your bank, their bank and the police.
It's right up there with random requirements to upload government photo id to suppliers in a different legal system. Hard Pass.
(I'm looking at you, PayPal, Airbnb and Stripe)
Yeah, can't wait to see just how much he also doesn't end up behind bars ..
Given that this is in a thread about Microsoft Server, I'd recommend using Debian as the distribution to replace Microsoft Server.
If you want a desktop, I'd start with a LiveCD version and familiarise yourself with the various available distributions on offer.
The intent of a LiveCD is essentially to boot into Linux without modifying your hard-disk and keeping your existing OS unchanged.
I'll note that many of these images are available for DVD or USB. Some will offer a mechanism to store data on your existing drive without wiping anything.
With USB drives being fast and cheap, you can also often use a LiveCD to install onto an external drive.
Finally, you can install a virtual machine on your computer and use it to run your Linux tests.
Bruce Perens is spearheading an initiative that he is calling Post Open to address issues like the sustainability of open source software development.
I'm an industry professional in ICT with 40 years experience.
I've come to form the view that industry certification is a vendor lock-in process created solely for the purpose of generating a guaranteed income stream for that vendor.
If your employer wants to spend its money on certification, by all means go for it as a learning experience.
If you have to pay for it yourself, I've yet to see any evidence that they represent a return on investment of any kind in your career.
That's not to say that learning should be abandoned, quite the opposite. In this industry, if you're not learning, you're going backwards.
Stay curious, read verociosly and try to figure out how stuff works and more importantly, how it breaks.