You can get pretty close and go far by Ameliorating your Windows install.

These should be off by default (made opt-in not opt-out) or made plugins/extensions at worst and removed completely at best.

I did find this fork which removes all the AI and telemetry. You’d be surprised how much of it is there.

Yeah, I have. Seems like development has stalled, though. Last release was 4 months ago and the last commit a month ago.

Zed is full of AI rubbish, though, which is a shame as I was looking for a code editor built with Rust.

You mean the inclusivity TED Talk.

Librera Reader. It’s a very functional ebook reader with lots of features, but the UI/UX seems like it got stuck in the early 2010s of Android interfaces.