[ptx]

The vendors are never going to give you control over your computer no matter what vision they try to sell you on. The whole point, from their perspective, is to use their control of your computer to gain more control over you, which they hope to then exploit for profit.

[Terr_]

Right: Look at the ways Google has persistently taken away user-control and autonomy on the OS level.

Why would we expect the same company to exhibit a completely opposite philosophy as they add LLM features?

[duncangh]

Idk I feel like Ansible and RHEL aim to give you that control in a way that’s not typically corporate icky in the way you describe but ymmv. Granted both are products based on FOSS; so in the broader sense that pattern may hold