Global supply chains are a bitch.
I don’t see the two as mutually exclusive. You can have these kind of “fun” apps. The journal app might be really cool to see what you were doing and how you felt 5 years ago. You can also do those kind of deep reflections with paper or a word processor or whatever.
There’s always some telemetry. But there’s a fair amount they do to truly make telemetry anonymous.
I just wish I could run an eGPU at all.