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Manjaro distribution is introducing a system for sending telemetry about the system (lemmy.ml)

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The developers of the Manjaro Linux distribution, built on the basis of Arch Linux and aimed at beginners, announced the beginning of testing a new service MDD (Manjaro Data Donor), designed to collect statistics about the system and send it to the external server of the project. The author of the MDD intended to enable telemetry by default (opt-out), but the decision has not yet been approved and, judging by the objections of some developers and users, it is likely that telemetry will be offered as an option requiring prior consent of the user (a request to enable telemetry is proposed to be added to the greeting interface after the first download).

The report includes data such as host name, kernel version, desktop component versions, detailed information about hardware and drivers involved, screen size and resolution information, network device MAC addresses, disk serial numbers, disk partition data, information about the number of running processes and installed packages, versions of basic packages such as systemd, gcc, bash and PipeWire.

The sent data is stored on the project server in the ClickHouse database and visualized using the Grafana platform. The IP addresses of users are not stored, and the hash from the /etc/machine-id file is used as the system identifier.

Аccording to the code https://github.com/manjaro/mdd/blob/master/mdd.py#L40 sends everything.

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[–] auzy 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yep. I'm not going to get into details of which projects.

But one project was mentioned in hard print magazines (it was a backend project). Despite the publicity, people like you guys basically offered no help, and whilst there were supporters, were happy to criticise (Ubuntu ended up doing something similar after I dropped it). There were people who thought it was life changing, but also people happy to tell me it was unnecessary and the wrong way of doing it and pointless (simply because they didn't understand why I was doing some things)

I'm watching you guys do exactly the same thing to many projects where you're purposely damaging morale for the developers

I documented an entire web panel project (not sure if they're still around), and wrote an rewote the nsis installer for a app to fix bugs

I also did some other misc projects.

Again, downvote me, don't care. But the reason Linux hasn't dominated the industry yet Is because many developers feel unappreciated, and move to commercial projects.

The culture needs to change

Also, I'm in commercial development now (specifically because I got sick of the lack of support). It doesn't matter if you believe me. I just want to see change in the community so developers are treated better