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If you’re not ready to switch to Linux:

Windows 10 Enterprise IoT is supported until 2032, works great, contains almost no bloat, and is free to download and activate.

You can configure just about anything else you want or need using Chris Titus’ Power Shell Windows Utility.

Rufus is simple and easy to use for extracting the ISO to a USB drive, and has built in options for setting up a local account and automatically disabling telemetry options during installation.

Microslop is rabidly, desperately, sprinting-on-fire towards a closed mobile-style system paradigm, frothing at the mouth and glowing radioactive iridescent green with envy at Apple and Google’s silicon to application device and software ecosystem control. They want you to purchase the edge tensor hardware they need to run and train the LLMs and machine learning algorithms that will be used to analyze everything you do on your computer, perform deep learning recognition on every photo, video, and file on your hard drive, and securely export that model to themselves, advertisers, and the government at a premium, paid for by our tax dollars.

They’re burning down their own company to do it, that’s how bad they want it.

The law does not require photo ID uploads or facial recognition, with users instead simply self-reporting their age, setting AB 1043 apart from similar laws passed in Texas and Utah that require “commercially reasonable” verification methods, such as government-issued ID checks.

What even is the point of this then? To make shitty parents feel better?

Assume the same for Telegram and pretty much any chat platform that controls your private keys.