there's no clear-cut "good" choice out there.
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"I want to use a web browser that is deep-throating AI"
Well, your choices are lynx and that's basically it.
Chrome and by proxy all of its derivatives always make me feel super fucking gross, because the browser wants you to fucking log in to your google or microsoft account. The browser wants you to log in.
What in the goddamn fuck.
But then you're like "Firefox sounds okay" and then you see how hard Mozilla is deep-throating AI, and cutting their developer staff, trying desperately to be hip and relevant to shitheads who think hacker news comment section is the equivalent of greek philosophical debate
and this is just one example. Both of the major choices are there, and each of them is like "Which curse do I want to take to be able to use functional software?"
Use linux. Accept the curse of the automatroid: most major distros are accepting AI commits. Accept that systemd has been a cancer for a very long time.
Use macOS. Accept the curse of the Walled garden: You may run only what we tell you to run, when we tell you to run it. The rules change with every major OS update. You will accept them or you will go elsewhere.
Use Windows. Accept the curse of the hunted: You are being watched. You cannot slip your pursuer, you cannot obfuscate yourself. Even if you think you've hidden yourself, because of how convoluted Windows is, you can't really be 100% sure that you are not being watched. And even if you aren't you won't know whether or not a critical update re-enables the watcher in the walls.
