Turns out voting for conservatives has consequences.

1980: TVs will fry your brain

1990: Videogames will fry your brain

2000: Computers will fry your brain

2010: Smartphones will fry your brain

2020: AI will fry your brain

Any takes for the 2030s?

Defender with Malwarebytes as already mentioned should be enough. What false positives do you get exactly?

Personally I have a Linux distro on my PC and don’t need AV software at the moment.

Not just a US thing. EU is pushing for much more restrictive measures regarding mandatory ID registration. And it will be EU-wide for us. US will most likely be much better in that regard from 2027 onward, since only a few states seem to change things.