I was able to get to the 3/4th mark of the post but as someone who isn't a RenPy developer, in fact as someone who has never done anything beyond basic java and HTML/CSS/JS, it makes me go mad that they are complaining that "Google keeps getting around my ublock filters", "VsCode is shoving gemeni in my IDE", "Windows is showing me Ads", "If you have a pixel phone you can go to this obscure menu and disable one portion of googles fuckery"
YOU ARE A DEVELOPER! YOU CAN USE LINUX. You can use Graphene, Calyx, Lineage, iodé, /e/OS. You (the OOP, not people who may not have as deep an understanding of computers) are very capable of switching to tools that AREN'T FULL OF GARABAGE. VsCodium- Its a fork of VS Code with all the M$ BS removed. StartPage, Mullvad Leta and Searx show you No-AI proxied Google results. Theres no excuse to keep using the garbage, and bring up their user numbers for investors.
I don't understand the culture where we try to "fix" tools that are constantly abusing us, when there are options that AREN'T doing that. It takes as much effort to add ublock filters to get rid of Gemeni, as it does to change your default search engine to StartPage. It takes as much effort to download VSCodium, as it does to download VSCode.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with OOPs point. The "Whatever" culture we have needs to go. People should start making things again! If we spend time fixing things that will always be broken however, there is less time to make things.
this is going to be stuck in my head for the next 12 hours now thank you