No offense, but saying this almost completely disqualifies you from having this conversation about private messengers.
This drives me nuts. I like Chrome. It's simple, it's fast, the extensions I want run on it (for now), and I love the Google Account Sync because I have an Android phone. This greatly pisses off people for whatever reason, despite the fact I've never had a bad opinion about Firefox and love what they're doing too, and I never criticize anyone for choosing Firefox.
As with everything open source communities need nuance and understanding, otherwise they start to feel like cults.
I love Linux. I love the flexibility it gives me and I enjoy tinkering when I feel like it and having something rock solid and reliable when I don't. I don't game on the PC, so this works out great for me. However, my use case isn't everyone else's, and part of the idea of giving people freedom to use their computer the way they want is accepting that sometimes they want to use their computer in a way that you don't like.
Maybe that means using a proprietary operating system. Maybe it means using a search engine that you don't like. But that is what works for them, and sometimes I think the open source people operate on the fallacy of "there's two types of people, those who use FOSS and those who haven't found FOSS yet", and it's just so obnoxious.
You think people go nuts when you tell them you prefer WIndows? Wait until you see their heads spin when I tell them that while I use Arch Linux, I also use Google Chrome, Telegram, Spotify, and Discord...
This is why I unsubscribed from the Android community. I love Android, I use nothing but Linux at home and really appreciate open source software.
But the FOSS...enthusiasm is starting to border on zealotry. It's getting really unpleasant.
This is one of the coolest features I've seen before. Direct linking to settings!! Super cool.
There is something odd about the fonts used for Thunder. Maybe the spacing between the letters, I don't know exactly.
I trust them to run the compiled binary code they provide, why wouldn't I trust them to do the right thing with telemetry to actually improve the experience?
You can literally see the metrics schema and what is being collected, it's not some proprietary sneak on your system secretly phoning home. If it gives them actual information on problems, allows them to correlate issues with environment, cause and effect, UX heatmaps to improve common actions, why wouldn't I want that?
I can be privacy-minded, but also not have the binary black and white opinion that all telemetry is bad and evil. I've almost never reported bugs directly to a distro, it's just not something I have the time or patience for. But in the absence of that as my contribution, my telemetry is likely to help at least paint a picture for developers on where to start with fixing issues, and I think that's just fine.
Plus, I can just opt out at any time. And I have zero issues trusting Fedora that when I say "opt out" it will actually opt out and not try to do some funny business.
Oh I see.
I guess I'll wait with baited breath for when you're ready to hold people to that standard. I suppose until then you won't understand why this is just embarrassing for Musk.
That's the point of Twitter for users..."haha".
The people running Twitter should act like professionals. If I was Mr Beast, I sure as hell would not even reply to such a tweet.
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