There are two ways to opt out. First, is that you call and withdraw consent to connected services. Manufacturers will punish you by disabling every remote feature. For example, Toyota will disable keyfob remote start when you opt out. This does not generally prevents your car sending out the data, as verified by multiple people doing signal analysis.

You can find a remote telematics/data collection module and remove cell modem. This is A LOT of work as these modules tend to be deep in the dash. You can disconnect cell antenna, this usually less work but people reporting that driving next to cell towers you can still get signal.

You concluded all of that based on AI data centers increasing electricity costs?

By pretending that a robot could have spirituality its creators pretending that they could create fully sentient and spiritual being.

No I did not know that.

Yes, lets talk about feelings, and not what the next day after China attempts to take over Taiwan would look like for Apple, NVIDIA, etc.

Demanding US-based semiconductor fab locations is a very reasonable policy. TSMC location in Taiwan makes it extremely vulnerable to Chinese disruption. It is insane that major US companies are making trillion-dollar bets that a single-source provider will remain operational.

For example, enforcing austerity measures on developing countries.

I am fairly certain that IMF fiscal policies caused the last two global recessions.

People that build their own PCs are mostly gamers, with Windows 11 being so awful, people like me are no longer building PCs.

My gaming rig is still on Windows 10 and I have no inclination to build another one and be forced into Window 11. So I am not buying motherboards.

No, he is telling you what you don't want to hear.

I don't think these are for YOUR use.