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I don't have this much patrience, I had a really similar issue, I had a streaming service as an extra perk for somethimg I have- When It stopped working - Something hit me, this isn't a troubleshooting session but twas the call of the seas.....
Big companies are pushing cloud really hard, and yea the hardware prices too is a problem. People still buy Google cloud and OneDrive when they could literally pickup an old computer from trash and Frankenstein it into a NAS server.
I genuinely wish they woulda gotten beytet, it's always good have some competition Nd alternatives, but Microslop just wanna slop around after all.
why can't they just look at the keyboard...
Wouldn't a a feature to turn all AI features work? You can turn of all AI from Brave search and duckduckgo and for Google just use startpage.
The only thing I know about computers is to annoy everyone I meet by saying I use Aah btw :)