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How is it at all inaccurate? It's been clear for years that various software corporations would prefer you not actually own your hardware (in the sense that you can modify it as you wish and run whatever you want on it). Apple, Google, and Microsoft have all been trying to achieve this (through various secure boot and attestation measures) to better extract profit from either their walled gardens or their SaaS offerings. To them, the ideal computer is one you pay for, but they control. That's not ownership.
i turn on the computer, i sign in, i dont have to use my MS account to sign in. Nothing is locked down or paywalled yet so yea it's not really much of an issue from a practical "can i use it" standpoint. You're talking about a future that might be on the horizon but it's still not here yet.
If we're talking privacy issues then that is a whole other situation. But it's not like i'm doing unabomber levels of opsec. If i use only Tails(Linux) and Tor from here on out, am i deleting my google email? Prob not.
I used O&O ShutUp10++ to turn off a bunch of settings for privacy in Win 11.