As someone who has designed and used telemetry systems, I’ll never quite understand the strong aversion some people have to them. Telemetry is what lets me tell my boss “yes people really do use our software this way and we can’t break it” or “90% of crashes happen right after the player uses a grenade”. And despite what some conspiracy theorists would have you believe, telemetry data for software from reputable companies does not get sold or used for marketing purposes. Our lawyers make sure of it, and also make us go through privacy reviews to make sure that data isn’t leaking PII.

Yeah but the main issue is that I don’t want there to be a Downloads directory in my home.

I wonder how many things subtly break when you enable that option.

Even worse, many components will ignore the XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR var so even if you manually change it to $HOME/downloads (lower-case) it will often break things.

this seems like a recipe for disaster

It’s insane that anyone needs to drive their kids on a regular basis

I take it you didn’t have a very active childhood.

While it’s probably true that most oversized SUVs are owned by people that don’t need them, “soccer mom” specifically refers to someone that would need that space, since they’re the one that drives their kids (and their friends) to and from soccer practice.

Honestly “soccer mom” is probably a better use of street capacity than most usage of cars. One adult and six kids in a Suburban is much more efficient than three adults each with two kids in the back of three sedans.

I don’t think I’ve seen a legitimate shower thought on Lemmy ShowerThoughts.

What kind of apps are we talking about here?

Food of the Gods by Arthur C Clarke

Or just use vscode remoting.

Honestly url.join looks like a cluster-fuck of landmines to me: https://github.com/servo/rust-url/issues/333

I’d probably have just stuck with strings as well.

I can’t tell if your comment is intentionally sarcastic but it sure sounds like you’re saying “just don’t write buggy code in the first place!”

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You mean “beans”