On Thursday 06 March 2025 05:54:30 E. Liddell via tde-users wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 02:01:16 -0800 > > William Morder via tde-users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Also, over the past couple years I've been reading various complaints > > about the new "privacy" policies of Audacity: that it now snoops on > > users, even when it's not running, if it's installed on a system. I would > > like to find a better fork that respects our privacy, but so far I have > > found nothing to compare with it in GNU/Linux programs. > > The telemetry features embedded in Audacity can be disabled at > compile-time. I'd assume that any sane linux distro is building it with the > appropriate configuration. Having them present at all isn't good policy, > granted, but having them not-mandatory means that there's limited interest > in forking the codebase. > > Just make sure that any prebuilt binaries you install do *not* come from > the Audacity development team, and you should be okay. > > E. Liddell In my brief search for non-snooping replacements for Audacity, I found Rosegarden (which apparently is KDE), for which there is a Trinity version, rosegarden-trinity. This looks interesting, and seems to have a lot of similar features, but the interface is rather cluttered (at least, at first glance); also, it seems to be specifically for midi instruments, most likely keyboards. As it happens, I do have a keyboard, though I don't use it much. But Audacity works with any instruments through my much better mixing device. If I can plug in an instrument or microphone, Audacity works. My new little toy is just a USB microphone, and I don't intend to use it for anything but quick and dirty acoustic recordings. If I recall, there is somehow that I can use tools that are already in my system (maybe, in TDE?) for simple sound recording with a microphone, but haven't found it yet. If I could go all TDE, all the time, for everything I do, that would be best of all. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
