These should be off by default (made opt-in not opt-out) or made plugins/extensions at worst and removed completely at best.

I did find this fork which removes all the AI and telemetry. You’d be surprised how much of it is there.

Yeah, I have. Seems like development has stalled, though. Last release was 4 months ago and the last commit a month ago.

Zed is full of AI rubbish, though, which is a shame as I was looking for a code editor built with Rust.

Exactly.

People typing whatever is the latest fad, such as “rn’, " tbh”, etc.

People ending sentences with “rn”.

“To be fair…”

Smoking cigarettes, and these days “vaping.” Never tried.

Amen.

You’re welcome!

There is a sequel to the original called Deus Ex: Invisible War, but it is generally not spoken of.

I see you’re missing Deus Ex: Human Revolution on your list.

Lost my virginity.

Being the (almost) 40 Year Old Virgin is not as great as they say it is.

Haven’t seen Metager and Mojeek mentioned. Not quite sure what the consensus of them are in the privacy community.

Personally I’d like to see Stract succeed.

Also Blood and No One Lives Forever.

Ameliorate your Windows 10 and Windows 11 installation.

If only life were that interesting. Sadly, we’re just insignificant specs of stardust living meaningless, pointless lives for a finite amount of years and then disappear from existence.

I’m still living with my parents. I’m in my 30s. I’m unemployed. Yeah, I’m a failure.

https://yewtu.be seems to still be working.

You mean the inclusivity TED Talk.