The future of validating if people are "real" or not is beginning to feel like fighting with ghosts.
But I feel you, using github copilot as spicy autocomplete is the only way it is useful to me too. I also sort-of like the AI summaries of messages in my notification bar. I just wish that was all guaranteed to be locally generated. I'm kind of hoping a budget NPU will make a decent open local spicy-autocomplete solution at some point.
It always does amuse me when americans complain about gas prices. A gallon for $3 is unimaginably cheap. I'd be filling the backseat with cans.