@linuxnews some manjaro dev wants to add opt out telemetry which would collect inxi data on a centralized server hosted by hetzner.

any project going through with adding opt out telemetry is unusable, but this data collection (https://metrics.manjaro.org/public-dashboards/cb0f690cba304389bf3ed2c254c14c01) is so over the top i have no idea what is wrong with these people.

people thinking about telemetry should read russ cox papers about adding telemetry to go. telemetry which was designed to collect very few datapoints to only be sampled occasionally, still they got enough critique for even this that they switched to opt in because it's the only correct way from an ethical and security perspective.

https://research.swtch.com/telemetry