Stop exaggerating. The OpenAI speech-to-text service is a paid extra you don’t accidentally switch on, and telemetry is off by default and hidden in the developer options menu.
(But yeah, OpenAI was a disgusting choice. The default should have been local, even if it’s worse.)
Let me put this here:
Murena (the ppl behind /e/ OS) feed your data to LLMs, and there’s also telemetry.
Stop exaggerating. The OpenAI speech-to-text service is a paid extra you don’t accidentally switch on, and telemetry is off by default and hidden in the developer options menu.
(But yeah, OpenAI was a disgusting choice. The default should have been local, even if it’s worse.)