Fedora considers "privacy-preserving" telemetry

> there's also the classic 'locate' database, though I'm not sure if that's installed/enabled by default on Fedora these days. Personally I've always installed/enabled it as I find that functionality invaluable.

It is. Currently using plocate: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Plocate_as_the_def.... You're welcome ;)