I get the anti-corporate opinion. I don’t think it totally fits here because VSCode is FOSS, and it offers them a very limited moat; if they tried to push something weird then you can bet on a fork or the myriad of alternatives in the saturated editor market. I work against aggregated market power for my day job, but this isn’t a case that needs fighting IMO.
As for the appeal to true hackerdom, I guess I’ll just hope I’m in the minority of great-thing-doers.
>VSCode is FOSS
not really, the Microsoft extension store/repository is the only practical way to install extensions, and the totally open-source fork (VSCodium) is literally unable to install a lot of fairly key extensions because MS is apparently alright with open-sourcing the editor but not the tools they build for it.
regardless, I do not want to have to disable telemetry in my text editor -- the idea that it exists in the first place is frankly baffling.
As for the appeal to true hackerdom, I guess I’ll just hope I’m in the minority of great-thing-doers.