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That is fucked.
I'm already starting to transition to full Linux on my devices with the arrival of Windows 11 and Windows 10 reaching end of life in October next year. I never thought I'd see the day of this happening.
ITS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP! ๐ฅ
I doubt it. Regular folks are ignorant about those issues and what the technology involved implies. AI sounds cool until you realize every single action you take on your computer, every single word you say, everything you look at, is collected and sent to some machine which does god knows what with it.
That plus the ads. The fucking ads. I'm so god damn tl saturated of seeing ads everywhere. But apparently most folks have grown some kind of immunity to it??
Some ads I really enjoy though. They're not ALL bad. But it's the quantity and how they've just become omnipresent. Especially with these god damn smart phones. Constantly trying to get our attention.