I think that was the reason he gave for using clippy?

“Clippy didn’t spy on you, he just wanted to help”, as a contrast to copilot etc.

Not sure how great it holds up today since it was a while ago I watched it last, but The Thing is for me still one of the best ones.

Seems to be some cursor themes that do it that way, like this one for example: https://store.kde.org/p/2103612

Yes, its possible to check. Data has to be sent through some connection, and we are able to monitor all traffic going through connections we control. Its not happening on wifi and not on 4G/etc. So unless there is some other connection that is not a real issue.

Which model? Currently searching for one, and that sounds bearable

Have you tried tumbleweed? As someone who uses both Fedora (or more accurately Nobara) and tumbleweed, my laptop experience on tumbleweed has actually been slightly better on tumbleweed.

My only remaining issue is that wayland has slightly more input latency when playing games, enough that it’s noticeable (or a very convincing placebo effect).

This makes it so that I have to use X11 and that I have to disable compositioning when playing games as my displays have different refresh rates. All in all, not a big problem but looking forward to be on wayland for good soon.