Valve's Steam Deck has opt-in data collection for crashes, GPU hangs, kernel oops, OOM events, and split-locks to fix issues and optimize games/engines on SteamOS

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Nawor3565

lemmy.blahaj.zone

I mean, this sounds like exactly the correct way to go about this. Make it opt-in, and data is only used to find/address problems with the system and not to track your usage habits to sell you ads. I don't have a problem with this.

DFX4509B

lemmy.wtf

At least it's opt-in.

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