I concur, and I've been on Linux exclusively for about the same amount of time as you. But there are a LOT of people who will try Linux and then go back to Windows. Some of them are gamers whose favourite games won't run well, or at all, on Linux. Others are like my wife; she relies on an office suite, she cannot stand LibreOffice Calc as a sub for Excel, and she doesn't much like Writer either. Still others need to use Teams. I don't usually need it, but a group in our neighbourhood is in discussions with the MECP here in Ontario, and if it wasn't for my wife I'd have to attend by phone rather than by computer.

Like it or not, Windows isn't going away. Microsoft knows that, which is why they're being abusive intrusive fucktards. They can get away with that and profit from it, so they do.

You may want to give Plasticity a try. Depending on your use cases it may not replace Fusion, but it's free to try so checking it out will only cost you some time. Its advantages are that a) it's not subscription software - you pay for a license and keep using the software however long you want, and b) it's available for Linux. If it meets your 3D needs then you can be an owner instead of a renter, and you'll still be able to use it when you ditch Windows and install a real operating system.

I haven't tried Plasticity yet - I'm new to 3D, and am in it primarily to print stuff, so OpenSCAD is easiest for me now. But I downloaded Plasticity and plan to try it out within the next few months.

For obvious reasons I consider Autodesk to be evil. And I don't use cloud-based stuff, so OnShape would be out even if it didn't have IP ownership issues. FreeCAD seems clunky and impenetrable, and Blender is an uncomfortable fit for 3D printing. So I'm hoping Plasticity is good.

Umm... if you have Windows then you have already allowed Microsoft to effectively own the computer you presumably paid for. And since they own it, when it comes to them controlling YOUR access to what is effectively THEIR computer, guess what?

For quite a while now I've seen a remarkable degree of inconsistency in Google results when I use modifiers such as "-" and "allintext:" Sometimes they're honoured, and other times they're ignored. So far though, the "site:" modifier still works consistently.

Also, what would ANY country's security apparatus say about what an 'unfriendly' nation's hackers are up to?

To be clear, I have no difficulty in believing that Chinese hackers are up to what TFA claims. But I also have no difficulty believing that many such claims might be exaggerated, or even fabricated, in order to secure more funding for, and promote the growth of, whatever security apparatus is making the claim.

Can't wait to hear the chatter as these things hit the towers. FTFY.

Where have you been? They don't need to unload it - they just fly it over Asia and it unloads itself!

Nah, they know better than to be onboard a Boeing...

If you're using dating apps you want to be listening to your hard. Your heart only gets involved later in the process, if at all.

Also, if you need external analysis of your brain signals to recognize who's most attractive to you, you're probably beyond help of any kind.

The one-l lama, He's a priest.
The two-l llama, He's a beast.
And I will bet A silk pajama
We'll all be screwed by Meta's version 3 llama.

Let's generate still more greenhouse gases, while simultaneously dumping more heat into our atmosphere, in the cause of corporations firing more people and wealth being concentrated further still. Then we can move faster toward the dystopia outlined in the film Elysium. Historians may look back on all of this and call it The Grand Cost Externalization - assuming that civilization survives long enough for said historians to be born.

Is it time yet to break out the torches and pitchforks?

I'm sorry you were modded down - you make an interesting counterpoint. And your note about not realizing "how good" we've been having it resonates with me. I often think about that, shielded behind the ad blocking technology that saves me from the junk that so many others put up with. And sometimes I'm thankful that they put up with it, because that actually makes it easier for ad avoiders like me to get lost in the crowd.

And then I think about ALL the people who have fully bought into Corporate World's vision: the people who allow themselves to be tracked without putting up a fight, who wear corporate-branded clothes as though they're cool, who buy into 'loyalty programs' that make it more expensive for me to not be tracked, who have helped make Facebook the slimy giant spyball that it is, and who bend over reflexively for the likes of Google. ALL those people make it ever and ever more difficult to have an umbrella big enough and strong enough against all the crap raining down from the sky. That's when I say "Fuck'em - I'm looking out for myself. I'm happy to escape the ads, and if there are enough of us ad avoiders that it results in the end of YouTube, that's probably for the best".