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  • Not at all …

    You are free to do as you please, and I fully respect that.

    I was also a no AI coder, but somehow changed my mind slowly as I learned how to use PROPERLY the tool, which can be quite useful.

    Learning how to use it has been fun too, so I suggest you give it a try if you haven’t done so yet.

    The first risk is abusing it. The second risk is trusting it. And there are many more risks, but AI is a knife and not a pistol: there are good uses for it, but you must be careful and use it properly all the time.

  • I suggest you open a ticket on akonadi or plasma settings to add that option. That would be a good addition I am always for more settings…

    But no, plasma is indeed not in the ballpark of highly customizable de. Maybe more than gnome, but the bar is really low

  • So what’s the point? A modern and fully integrated de uses background services and those services are required for many pieces to work so much that they have made not that easy to disable the service?

    If that’s the point, you are definitely being unreasonable.

    On the other hand the service can still be disabled understandably by text file editing to prevent users from breaking their system. I find the lack of an UI setting to disable it a reasonable choice, and yourself are telling me that it’s still removable by user anyway. A power user indeed, but still user manageable.

    Plasma user base definitely is not the customize everything people. I think it’s reasonable that akonadi needs deeper user action to be disabled

    That service is local only and needed for many apps to work, including stock widgets.

    What is your point against akonadi exactly?

    I would complain about that search indexer daemon (kglobalaccel or something similar) in plasma that still after years sometimes gobbles up 100% on a CPU core after screen unlock instead … But whatever