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Disabling bloatware (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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I've discovered Akonadi, a KDE service. As far as I could understand, Akonadi provides "personal information management" and is responsible for some interaction between apps within the KDE ecosystem. To me, it seems to be bloatware. Somebody may use the functions it provides, but I do not. It is just running in background all the time with no use.

How do I completely disable it forever?
Have you ever met something else in Linux or it's ecosystem, that appeared to be bloatware to you (and how did you disable it)?

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's just a helper. It's a way for your calendar to ask "uhhh... Should I already know of any calendars...?" and the service going "oh actually yeah, the user configured their email account, hold on, here's the corresponding calendar".

That's just basic functionality. Maybe what's tripping you up is that it's a separate service? Because I assume you have nothing against inputting your email into a mail client and a calendar separately.

If so, then for one, it's not really a difference if the mail app stores this into or the service does; and second, it's a good thing to have this standardized into a single purpose built service, rather than having each app reimplement this stuff.

CPU and RAM usage is so negligible it's laughable.

IDK.

It seems like you read something about personal data in the service description and just jumped to the conclusion that this is something nefarious.

[–] pixeldaemon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I know what it is, that's why I'm so sure I don't need it for my tasks. The disturbing thing is of course not the data storage itself, but its movement accross my system. I'm okay with having social media accounts, but I'm not okay with shit like TikTok (don't use it though, just an example) knowing each of my contacts from Signal or whatever, or the browser knowing what I've planned for August 16 at 04:40 PM in my calendar. I want user apps to minimally interchange any kind of data. Why would I ever use Linux if not to have control over this?

The CPU and RAM usage might be negligible, but only until there's only one or two services like this. And I don't think that a service, that I don't use at all in any way, should occupy any amount of my RAM.