Surely the most obvious business model is blackmail of the users with the sensitive information they’ve handed over?

How else do we get the data to train our Language and Vision models?

This is the dawning of the age of aquarius

I had this issue and it was because I told grub to support dual booting from two different disk drives (one of them USB) and then I removed the USB drive. Linux-boi still tried to enforce booting from the now not-connected drive.

I can’t remember exactly what I did, but there may be something about a systemd unit which can be removed/disabled - or maybe I did some fishing around in fstab to remove the drive it thought should exist but wouldn’t always (and then probably did an update-initramfs -u or similar.