Spam filters don’t and should not have some global default whitelists that bypass all protection. One simple reason would be that someone’s account is compromised and it sends out malicious mail.
I have seen Microsoft Defender spam filter detecting legitimate Microsoft mails as spam. It’s just how spam filters work, there always can be false positives.
Google Maps are pretty barebones, but at the same time reliable for general / basic use. Depends on region, but OSM usually will be more detailed. It is also possible your region has some local provider that is even better.
Google Maps in my region excel only for navigation quality for cars and search for commercial stuff (businesses and shops)
In OSM ″Gulf of America″ is added under official_name:en-US tag so if any app uses this tag to display names, it will show up. 
Here is the link to OSM object for Gulf of Mexico. And here is a thread that discusses naming.
Any country/language can call any object as they want. This change of course was dumb and petty and doubt it will be adopted by other regions, but this is nothing new or special. Google Maps currently show ″Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)″ for me. When checking in another language it shows same naming standard.
Keepass2Android supports many cloud options including Nextcloud and OwnCloud so it sync with storage directly. At least with Dropbox it works like a charm.
Would miners be minemen or minermen?
So what you are saying you want a shitty AV that would not recognize a potentially malicious executable? Any normal AV should flag crack as a potential threat due to what it does.
Stick with Defender and whitelist executables you trust. This is computing 101.
Talking here about regular x64 OS install not ARM though, have not played with that myself.
Not really, it is usually PowerShell scripts from trusted blogs or in case of local account creation, you run a batch file that is built in installer (oobe\bypassnro) that adds a single registry value. Not sure I would call this hacking. Then again I don’t think Linux 10 years again had problems with account creation as well.
Would be nicer if you could create local account out of the box? Sure. Do some prefer MS account? Also true.
Corporate logo graffiti sounds hilarious to me
You paint over it with white paint and then put swastika in black. Very subtle
You don’t even have to pirate Windows. Without activation everything will work besides some customization (I think you could not change wallpaper) which you can easily bypass if you would really wish to.
the file it would have to be coded explicitly for the video player/system running it.
That’s the method. Rare thing I believe and nothing to worry with patched software. Found 1 example.
Anything that is an executable on PC (software / games) due to security risk. Game ROMs for emulators are fine.
I don’t know, I have never downloaded porn that isn’t porn.
They might have. Last post in their announcement community regarding downtime is this one.
Same here. They also had issues with downtime around same time.
You need to find appropriate storage driver that you then load during install (extracted in *.inf format not *.exe)
Possible alternative is to disable some proprietary storage related feature in BIOS / UEFI so that you would use standard drivers that are included in install. UEFI update might help as well. Usually there is a guide for all this.
W10 will be EOL on 2025 Oct 14. They are practically the same, what exactly makes you want to go back to W10?
Have never seen this as a consumer though. I remember buying a laptop 10 years ago without OS since it was cheaper than same model with preinstalled Windows. Checked a random laptop and same still applies, version with Windows costs 30 eur more in my local webshop for what seems to be the same model with same specifications (No English available, use translate if needed):
Another example is Exchange where all Admin Center (GUI) operations are calling PS commands underneath. Not everything is in Admin Center so you must use PS eventually. Not to mention that you cannot perform batch tasks without scripting.