Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

> all complaints about what other people are(n't) doing, and all armchair warriors themselves ...

As mentioned earlier, I used pre-RHEL RedHat and then Fedora since forever. Used, sysadmin-ed for a 500-ish user department, and maintained a few software packages of interest to my community. So I don't consider myself an armchair warrior. I'm also *clearly* not one of the charismatic "organizer" or "leadership" types ("not officer material", as they say in the military :) ).

So I tend to quietly work around the annoyances, and mostly quietly worry about the charismatic workstation types pushing "secure boot", "flatpaks", and now, most recently, "telemetry".

I think secure boot is nice in theory, but in practice mostly ends up having a vendor or corporate entity lord it over the user in physical possession of the device (a kind of "control collar" of sorts, so I hate it instinctively). Secondly, if we're going to treat the distro as simply a host organism for a bunch of third-party flatpaks, why the $#%@ even bother anymore. Lastly, telemetry is actually the least "evil" or scary thing, but the optics are bad, particularly when put in context with all the other stuff.

As long as I can install from the "everything" repositories, and customize my kickstart scripts to get the exact install I want, and disable or ignore the annoying bits, I should be fine. But I wonder for how long I can get away with that, given the overall direction of the "prevailing winds"...