There is exactly one situation in which it sort of makes sense: Copilot integrated with VS Code, running repo-specific commands like yarn build, with direct human oversight.

That's it. That's the only situation.

Silence! No questions! You will be assimilated!

Me too. Linux already comes without warranty. This warning basically just says that if the user enables the AI agent all guarantees are off. They didn't bother putting safeguards in and don't want to be responsible for it.

Yes, but now the malware is telling you it wants to invite friends over for tea.

Tbf, you're just swapping one glass of tainted punch for another. Both murder your data privacy and security.

I guess if you like Apple's form of abuse more than Microsoft's, more power to ya. It definitely isn't the escape hatch you think it is for privacy or security though, that belongs to the Penguin crew.

Apple hardware is typically more difficult to install linux on, and is therefore less useful. I mean you can do it in many cases from what I hear, but I think it's still not easy on average.

Why bother playing by their rules? We have Wine. We have proton. We can build our own "windows compatible execution environment", with Blackjack, and Hookers, and better compatibility, and better efficiency, and...

They don't seem like they're the types that are savvy enough to feel like it's a problem.

There actually is a version of Windows 11 that exists without any bloat, AI or any other shit (most of the system requirements are also gone) called « Windows Iot LTSC », most of its updates are security ones, and for all I've observed it even escaped some of the crappy « windows killed itself » kinda updates. Any company can get access to it.

I don't know if they use it, but they'd be dumb not to.

It's hard to believe but there exist an entire chunk of people who don't use PCs at all (Personal Computers). Being executive level is absolutely rich enough to do that. You've someone else to do all of that.

sunk cost fallacy

Because they will give you no choice.