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A screenshot of a Notepad page. I have circled the rainbow-coloured Copilot logo at the top right. On the page, I have written the following: "This is what put me over the edge. Copilot in Notepad. Notefuckingpad. My digital safe space where it was just me and a blank page with no strangers looking over my shoulder, shouting opinions and shoving in formatting and grabbing the pen off me to rewrite my words. The very sight of the Copilot logo in Notepad just pushed me to download myself off the ledge. I just installed LibreOffice. And Vivaldi. And signed up for Tutanota mail. Cantankerously and all at once. A small first step, but still a step. I hadn't started moving before because I was overwhelmed by the whole idea of All Linux! All The Time! Get It Here! Spend Hours Looking At Tutorials And Trying To Fix Things In It Every Day For The Rest of Your Life! (Have you SEEN the problems actual IT people cry for help with under the #Linux tag?) So I stood there, doing nothing. Now I've done something, a small end-user something, a gradual slow start. This farewell Notepad-note is posted via Vivaldi. My next toot will be drafted on a blank Libre page with no AI checking anything. I shall wear my spelling mistakes and garbled syntax with pride."