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Now do Visual Studio. Give Visual Studio Code a spin, too, if you have time.
by cratermoon 2y ago
Now do Visual Studio. Give Visual Studio Code a spin, too, if you have time.
- gjsman-1000 2y agoNow do almost any modern video game, particularly those with Denuvo, if you have time.
- nazgulsenpai 2y agoYou mean the ones you launch from Steam?
- gjsman-1000 2y agoNow consider how much phoning home Steam is doing…
- Rohansi 2y agoSteam does its own thing but many games also collect their own analytics as you play.
- 1over137 2y agoOr almost any modern software period. Everyone is in love with data gather and analytics.
- ryandrake 2y agoAs long as it is only done with the user's consent, and the analytics can be turned off by the user, I don't see a problem. But if it's forced and/or done without consent, then it's a problem no matter if you're Apple, Microsoft, Steam, Epic, or any other company.
- bt1a 2y agoHeh Can be turned off by the user usually means you must run your own recursive DNS resolver and firewall
- calgarymicro 2y agoJust run VSCodium[0]. Unfortunately there's no Xcode equivalent, of course. [0]https://vscodium.com/ https://vscodium.com/
- koito17 2y agoI wouldn't call VSCodium an equivalent[0]. Please note that some Visual Studio Code extensions have licenses that restrict their use to the official Visual Studio Code builds and therefore do not work with VSCodium. ... In some cases, ... [workarounds] won't help because the extension is hard-coded to only work with the official Visual Studio Code product. Notably absent are all of the remote debugging extensions and Copilot. This would be a deal-breaker for many. [0] https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/index.md https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/blob/master/docs/index....
- knallfrosch 2y agoYou can compile from public source code, you can use any extension not using MS proprietary code (notably, other LLMs) AND you can use VSCode without telemetry. Credit where credit is due.. it's miles better than whatever Apple is doing.
- realusername 2y agoI do use Copilot with VSCodium, I just installed the extension with a file
- int_19h 2y agoSome extensions from Microsoft go so far as to check whether they are running on "genuine VSCode" and refuse to run if not.
- Rohansi 2y agoEverything collects analytics these days. However, VS Code let's you opt out of telemetry and I doubt it slows down builds like Xcode is doing.
- cratermoon 2y agoIt's my understanding that it's not possible to opt out of all VS Code telemetry. There are some kinds exposed in the settings page that can be disable. > I doubt it slows down builds But we don't really know, do we? Speculation isn't helpful.
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