This is the same false analogy people make as to why Americans drive giant trucks to shift blame… it’s not the manufacturers who are pushing these cars to circumvent taxes, it is the users for demanding it.

Very few people actually like these invasive shit Microsoft pulls, but the vast majority either do not know about them, understand them or feel they have another choice. For example, I hate MS, I understand what dog shit this Recall feature is, yet my job will provide a Windows machine with it and I have no choice but to use it.

I am a nerd so at home I do have everything running on Linux. But for the majority of people that would be a unknown option or just an unobtainable one

It’s worst than that (as bad as this is)…

Today getting some data on a user is bad as smart hackers can put together the context … However any guessing the hacker has to do may alert the user before the hacked data can successfully be exploited

Now, a hacker would know exactly where each password goes and worse, they’d could learn the entire workflow of internal systems to successfully imitate a trained user…

This means the hacker could use the stolen bank data and legitimately issue credit cards to anyone they want (for example)

It’s no longer “we’ll expose some data”, now it’s “we can use this data to infiltrate your systems and wreak havoc in whatever way we want”

If you have degoogled, even if partially, I doubt you’d find moving to Linux hard

Probably the hardest part would be to chose a distro… Stick with the main ones (Debian, Fedora or Arch) to start (you can chose one of their derivatives but pick a famous one so you can have easier time finding documentation)

You have no idea how many times I mentioned this observation from my own experience and people attacked me like I called their baby ugly

ChatGPT in its current form is good help, but nowhere ready to actually replace anyone