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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by mijndert on Friday February 12, 2021 @09:59AM (#26114303)
You're mad because your Raspberry Pi offers you the possibility to install a piece of software you have no interest in? Microsoft can't track you if you just simply... don't install vscode. It's that simple.
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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by vetinari on Friday February 12, 2021 @10:36AM (#26114785)
> Microsoft can't track you if you just simply... don't install vscode.

Not really true. As the GP wrote:

> It pings MS every time an update occurs

is exactly true. You will ping Microsoft every single time you run 'apt update', even if you have nothing installed from this repo.

Ideally, the repo should be disabled by default.

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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by mijndert on Friday February 12, 2021 @04:35PM (#26118829)
The same goes for every repo by that definition. The only solution is to download tarballs and compile everything yourself.
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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by vetinari on Friday February 12, 2021 @05:11PM (#26119130)
The difference is that you usually add the specific repos only when you need them. This one is configured and enabled out of the box, by default, for everyone.

I wonder... why so many people on this topic miss the nuances and suggest going into extremes?

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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by viro on Friday February 12, 2021 @01:45PM (#26116978)
ah yes every repo is tracking you. -_-
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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by vetinari on Friday February 12, 2021 @03:38PM (#26118282)
well, because enabling a repo only when you need it is sooo difficult -_-
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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by viro on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:25PM (#26119787)
I have been using linux(slackware) since the late 90's. You are the first person I have ever seen even suggest that as an idea.
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Re:Visual Studio Code Comes to Raspberry Pi by vetinari on Friday February 12, 2021 @06:40PM (#26119905)
Really? Slackware came with proprietary repos enabled by default? (I don't remember; I had slackware on floppies).

Even Ubuntu didn't do that; their partners repo is off by default, if you want it, you can enable it. Fedora has similar mechanism, where it asks you when you first time run the Gnome Software.

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