By this logic, no businesses should rely on the internet, roads, electricity, running water, GPS, or phones. It is short sighted building stuff on top of brand new untested tech, but everything was untested at one point.

Where’s any logic here? You’re directly comparing untested technology to reliable public utilities.

Please go back to reddit if you want to pontificate

Don’t display your own ignorance

It’s in your comment. Back to reddit

RIDF begone

Don’t forget all the fifth-columnists who keep on trying to convince young people that voting can’t change anything. They’re desperate to push that ideal, and why not? It’s worked for decades.

That’s a fallacious argument, opinion discarded

Evidently your high expectations came from being up high on a cross

I don’t expect people to make zero mistakes, I expect people to not be belligerent when they make mistakes

You need to calm down

I’m repeating liberal propaganda because I’m a CIA plant, Communism would be thriving if not for us. Happy now? Validated?

Pot, meet kettle.

If you look up, you’ll be able to see my point. You might need binoculars.

I’m bothered by the fact that you made a statement that’s not internally consistent and contradicts itself. Like whatever you like, but if you’re going to cite a reason, be accurate. Don’t be so dense.

His exact words:

Telemetry is important for desktop developers, you can negate it but it’s a fact

I’m going to assume you know what the subject and object of that sentence are. Here’s the thing about how language works on my planet: through the magic of a radical new concept called “context”, we can accurately discern both meaning and normative statements from what people say and how they phrase it. In other words, “It’s a fact that telemetry is important for desktop developers” is an ostensibly descriptive statement that also creates a normative statement in the same way that standing in the sun casts a shadow: it has to, it isn’t optional. It’s “Desktop developers who don’t use telemetry are ignoring something that it’s factual to say is important they not ignore”. Please tell me you get it now, and that you don’t need the rest spoonfed to you.

Is that really a fact? (No.) Wow, it’s crazy how every desktop program that doesn’t use telemetry isn’t any good, according to you.

I don’t like bloat on my hard drive

So you installed GNOME? This is not the checkmate you think it is.

Usage data is a crutch, effective developers can make good software with zero telemetry and did so for several decades.

Dear liberals, you claim you installed “minimal” Ubuntu, yet you use GNOME instead of XFCE. Curious.

It’s pretty funny how they’re trying to characterize a Linux distro as independence from Western tech. The closest we’ve gotten to that idea is TempleOS, not a Linux distro with spyware baked into it.