I had manjaro for a few years, it worked but it never really felt good. And their attitudes in the forum is to me very rude.
And in the past they had a few issues in management…
The lead developer/maintainer set up his own company to make money of Manjaro was for me the edge, I went to the purple side and never looked back.
And now this…
I even tried to remove my manjaro forum account… nope not possible only a sysadmin “might” want to delete it if i ask nicely… pff
So no more Manjaro, and i’m very happy with EndeavourOS
Given the world is all about fake money (cyber-currency), fake information (the news), fake human interaction (social media)… why would any for-profit business operate out of that main stream???
The forum of Zorin OS uses a similar software (like many others). They managed to get a button on the user profile site with “delete my account” on it. Maybe this is only a shortcut, but it works.
However, this only works as long as you have not yet published any posts in the forum. This option disappears as soon as you make your first post. At least with Discource.
So it might be possible to delete all one’s posts and replies then get that delete account button returned? Any takers?
The other idea would be to create an email alias somewhere (Firefox Relay?), change the email address, then kill the alias. Could also set up a TOTP code for it and erase your token.
Isn’t it same here (besides the only if you ask nicely part)? I’ve seen other discourse forums allow account deletion from the Preference Tab (for example https://forum.garudalinux.org/).
You can create the same username & from same mail account + delete the account as many times as you want. Probably to prevent abuse EOS forum admins disabled this delete/anonymize option? (need manual account deletion-request)
Anyway just checked my old Manjaro forum account (I used to be a Manjaro user for a short period of time before switching th EOS), it’s not available anymore.
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I’m glad I’m off that dumpster fire… Nothing against telemetry for the purpose of collecting data to improve a product, not to spy on people, but make it opt-in OR tell the user at their first ever boot/after the update that introduces this “Hey, we’re collecting info about your setup and whatnot. You can disable it here”.
I’m unsure this business scenario exists much i.e. collect data to improve stuff but not snooping. everything I read comes with the caveat of 'except we record your IP and XYZ.
not even Firefox holds up their end of the deal. we delude ourselves that telemetry is unchecked in their ‘settings’ boxes but in about:config it’s a radically different story of what goes out to their servers about what you are doing.
Solus sends the feelers out to see if it’s update time–that is purely no telemetry with nothing logged. That’s a great model. I think Endeavour does the same. Snaps distro don’t I am told. Etc.
I did not know that discourse had that limitation. Good to know.
Regardless though, the software could be literally completely incapable to delete a user, and they would still be liable and required to do so because of laws.
If it is impossible to delete an account, they simply are not allowed to operate.
The Telemetry sword is always double sided. There are pro’s and con’s to both. I always believe that the choice should be the USERS and not the Companies (opt in not out). The great thing about Open Source Linux is that if you don’t like the way a Distro is going then switch, forkit, or create your own. This isn’t Windows and your not Limited unless YOU choose to be.
Except that I found out about it from third party’s. If they were truly being open about it they would mention it in capital letters so no one misses it
yeah, If I’m part of a good Linux OS community, as minimum I’m expecting these kind of important announcements have to be discussed for some time before a decision is taken.
Manjaro sorry, but you’re violating my values.
I want to stay in the great community of EndevourOS!
. I don’t want to be registered there anymore.