These should be off by default (made opt-in not opt-out) or made plugins/extensions at worst and removed completely at best.

I did find this fork which removes all the AI and telemetry. You’d be surprised how much of it is there.

Yeah, I have. Seems like development has stalled, though. Last release was 4 months ago and the last commit a month ago.

Zed is full of AI rubbish, though, which is a shame as I was looking for a code editor built with Rust.

Exactly.

People typing whatever is the latest fad, such as “rn’, " tbh”, etc.

People ending sentences with “rn”.

“To be fair…”

Smoking cigarettes, and these days “vaping.” Never tried.

Amen.

Lost my virginity.

Being the (almost) 40 Year Old Virgin is not as great as they say it is.

Haven’t seen Metager and Mojeek mentioned. Not quite sure what the consensus of them are in the privacy community.

Personally I’d like to see Stract succeed.

By making the entire thing a JavaScript monstrosity with egregious amounts of scripts.

Also Blood and No One Lives Forever.

If only life were that interesting. Sadly, we’re just insignificant specs of stardust living meaningless, pointless lives for a finite amount of years and then disappear from existence.

You mean the inclusivity TED Talk.

Librera Reader. It’s a very functional ebook reader with lots of features, but the UI/UX seems like it got stuck in the early 2010s of Android interfaces.

A lot of the greats have already been mentioned by others, but Myst (1993) and Riven (1997) deserve to be up there.

Not only for the immersive worlds you got to experience through masterfully crafted imagery, sound and music, but also combined they held the record for best selling game series until they were surpassed by The Sims.

“Ignorance is bliss.”

I found ImageGlass to be very slow, especially when opening images. It should be snappy. JPEGView, instead, is lightning fast.