> if you want employment, you have to use it. I'm not referring to employer-owned hardware, where you have no ownership power over the hardware. The vast majo

> if you want employment, you have to use it. I'm not referring to employer-owned hardware, where you have no ownership power over the hardware. The vast majority of personal, privately-owned computers, are unnecessarily subjected to this garbage, it's those I'm referring to. If you must for whatever reason, then use them isolated in a disposable VM like any other potentially hazardous software. Surrendering control over the freedom to use your computer however you wish to these proprietary systems has predictably negative long-term consequences. These are for-profit businesses which will inevitably leverage their increasing control for supporting increased growth/revenue, it's only a matter of time.