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We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human (www.windowscentral.com)
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The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

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[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

Yeah, that was an unexpected nice thing about switching to Linux, though also the whole point. Like I knew that I wanted to take control back over my computer and OS, but I was surprised at just how much nicer it is when defaults are set without any profit incentive. There just wasn't "spend time disabling MS attempts to get me to use their other software" or "dig deep for how to change a setting MS would really rather you don't change" periods and it made me realize that that was where I'd spend a majority of the "computer maintenance" time on windows.