It is not a bargain, because not only can it be used against you in the future (e.g., an oppressive regime, EVEN if you're in another country), or someone you know. Furthermore, many of these companies track your usage of other services, regardless of whether you use that company's services or not.
From what I've heard, openSUSE Tumbleweed is the most stable rolling release distribution around. It automatically checks packages, before releasing them. As for desktop environments, Xfce is a great one, if you add some addons (e.g., Whisker menu).
Yeah, but this is just the beginning. Identifying subtle typing patterns will be much more effective at getting your location. At this point, one of the only ways to fight back against that is to:
1: Write what you want to
2: Feed that into a local LLM, and tell it to use a ChatGPT-like writing style
3: Copy that text, and post it
Yeah… I have tried LLMs, and they have horrible hallucinations. For instance, when I tried to “teach” one about Hit Selecting in Minecraft, I used an example of a player that uses it (EREEN), it kept corrupting it to EREEEN. Even when I clarified, it kept doing it, forever.
It is insanely configurable though, as shown by Zorin OS Lite.