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Re:AWS doesn’t know who I am by mbesto on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:05AM (#28266054)
> I need to log in with my personal credentials to download software from the Mac App store.

Do you though? Why not just setup a "apps@<yourbiz>.com" and create a new account?

> and now her personal iMessages and emails are on it. It's stupid.

So just turn these services off? They aren't mandatory.

Re:AWS doesn’t know who I am by saba2008 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @11:59AM (#28266531)
Registering AppleID involves phone number checking. In some countries getting one without exposing personal information is not trivial.
Re:AWS doesn’t know who I am by donmcronald on Sunday August 22, 2021 @12:41PM (#28266954)
Lots of services won’t allow duplicates. For example, you can’t use the same number for account recovery on two different Microsoft accounts. Zoho won’t let you register more than one account with the same number. Etc..

I silo my profiles. I have 4 of them. It’s really hard to do. Everyone encourages you to put all your stuff into a single profile. It’s awful for work life balance and security, but it benefits big tech companies, so that’s why it’s like that.

Do you want separate profiles for your password manager? Pay twice. Do you want separate personal and work windows installs (dual boot)? Pay twice. Etc..

Re:AWS doesn’t know who I am by selfhoster11 on Sunday August 22, 2021 @02:53PM (#28268343)
Free, reputable password managers are available if you want to separate two different databases. As for work and personal Windows, it's likely that your company covers the licensing cost of their copy.