Speaking of, there’s VPNs or you could use PIHole to block Microsoft’s telemetry and AI ips.

That game of cat and mouse would get very tiresome very fast and Microsoft would win in the end. Better to hope for new vwrsions of Tiny11 or one of those debloater scripts to disable the AI features entirely, but they’d probably be reinstated with every update. Maybe use a hook to re-run the script after every update? I don’t even know if that’s possible in Windows.

Thankfully I’ve been Microsoft free for years now so I don’t have to know. Linux is a blessing.

This looks interesting to me as a beginner self-hoster. I’ll definitely look into it this weekend.