These articles just stink corporate interests. “You’d have to pay 20% more than a competitor, if the difference is requiring not working from home.” rings a lot different than “please master, don’t make me go back, I’ll work for 20% less and be happy, it’s a win-win, right?”
Let’s see how competitive the company is when you are off by at least 20% and the ones who work from home at the competing firms are more productive at it too.
I too would like to know!
Doesn’t MacOS phone home every time you run a new or changed executable? https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/27/xprotect-what-do-we-know-about-it/
Edit: might be that it phones home for each executable if last it run was more than 12 hours ago, given this: https://www.howtogeek.com/701176/does-apple-track-every-mac-app-you-run-ocsp-explained/
Also, some (most) annoyances with installing Linux, still, is primarily due to Microsoft managing to fuck things up in subtle ways.
What does “based” mean to you?
Which is why I buy games on GoG whenever it’s an option.
That is the eventual conclusion of capitalism, the way it is currently set to play out.
The only forces that could act against it depend on the distribution of critical information… And those are owned by the same private interests… Soooooo. We’ll see. Doesn’t bode well at all.