Yep, this is correct. It started as a “friendly fork” that added a few quality-of-life features that the official version didn’t have.

I know it can be done, so it wouldn’t shock me at all to find out that it does happen, but do you know of any manufacturers who have been proven to do this?

Keeping it offline some of the time isn’t effective against passive data collection unless you’re willing to take the inconvenient step of factory-resetting it each time you’re about to use it. Anything it collects it can just hold onto until it next gets the chance to upload.

All good! Since RSS doesn’t really have modern levels of polish and usability, I just wanted to make sure we were being precise for OP.

it downloads a file that you can then import into your RSS reader of choice

That’s not how it works — the feed isn’t a file that you download. You copy that feed URL and paste it into your RSS reader’s ‘subscribe’ feature. Then your reader application will regularly check that URL for new posts.

By the way, there’s an RSS community: !rss@lemmy.ml

You dirty root preserver.

“We made an extension system. You’re not really supposed to use it, though.”

At the time of death, or, uh, cumulatively?

Visit Eroticon 6, ask for Eccentrica.

Thought I’d recently seen a Lemmy dev comment about fixing this… and I found it. It’s coming!

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they ship with closed source software/packages/drivers/firmware/kernel blobs etc.most

Yes.

linux distros are the same trap that windows locks you into.

Oh, come on.

Panominism.

(edit: I made this up, probably.)

Do you ever look at htop during/around the time of crashing? Notice anything unusual?

Agreed. There’s nothing digital about them, either.

CD-ROM was turning

We didn’t start the fire

Possibly Long COVID symptoms? I remember reading a few years ago about scented candles (or something like that) suddenly getting review-bombed by people complaining that they weren’t scented much, if at all.

They.

A hotdog would be the opposite of a cold cat. Or were you thinking of a warmdog?