Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we’ve been doing for decades?
Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.
Why wait for Microsoft to catch up with what we’ve been doing for decades?
Get Plasma, a modern, fully functional, clean, privacy-respecting, non-intrusive operating system now, regardless from where you live and ditch Windows for good.
@shved @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
You mean the completely opt-in thing that is off by default and enables people to anonymously contribute user information so the developers know they’re on the right track for new features, support, and updates?
There’s even a slider after you opt in to determine how much information you want to share. I’m concerned about software that develops with no user input.
@shved @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
It’s open source, too. You can delete the whole module with a single click and a sudo if it bothers you. Try that on MacOS or Windows.
@jex @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social @radioactiveradio While its FOSS, the telemetry is a slippery slope, and a single module now is the sign of a direction they’ve chosen. The flippant attitude of a developer mentioned in that reddit thread is worrying to say the least.
I’m aware its a single example about a project I know nothing about.
@shved @kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social @radioactiveradio
I can’t think of a single project that is concerned with directly user-facing elements that doesn’t gather data about its users needs. Gnome uses telemetry, too. Otherwise, we end up with KDE 2007 again.
Slippery slope my ass.
You really think a community driven project such as KDE would be allowed to add invasive telemetry? The same community that would rather hard fork audacity then deal with their bs? KDE is not muse group or canonical, it’s just not going to happen and it hasn’t happened over the 3y period since that brain dead Reddit post.
What flippant attitude? The part where they tell the poster to just read the source code? That’s not flippant that’s the exact answer to the question. If you don’t trust it just check out the source, it’s all out in the open. If you don’t like it don’t use it, same as the telemetry alsame as the desktop. FOSS is about choice, you can choose to use Gnome or fork KDE and remove the telemetry yourself. Or maybe just flip a switch and turn it off.
Edit: Also the whole argument about how the “average user can’t read source code” is useless. Remember when audacity put ‘actually questionable’ telemetry in their code? Everyone was up and arms about it, distros still don’t provide the new updated versions of audacity in their repos. Now imagine that with KDE, it’s a much bigger project, any average user would figure it out with 5 seconds of reddit or a simple google search.