Opt in means they’re building up the infrastructure to make it opt-out when nobody is looking.

It’s the U.S. equivalent of cheap N. Korea propaganda videos.

Well just end up back here begging consumers to please use specific, non-corporate distribution forks of Linux rather than just Linux in general.

I just wish I could have my own personal AI that I could plug into everything, so I don’t need to subscribe to a bunch of separate things that are otherwise stupid for subscribing to. Something I have complete agency over and can run offline.

People have survived without tools like this for thousands upon thousands of years. I think we can afford to wait a few more until there’s a privacy-respecting method behind it. I know we won’t, but I’m sure we could have.