Maybe Iām missing something, but isnāt this a good thing? Forcing extensions to be transparent to the end-user about personal user data collection?
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I thought I heard somewhere they will track what sites you use them on now & ya over reaction.
I canāt speak for our old friend @Yorper (xfce maintainer), but he generally prefers to maintain a version that is not highly customized and therefore more stable. The Xfce edition is intended for people that want stability and low resource usage, not flashy looks.
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Agreed 
I did test the picom compositor (fork of commpton) as shown in video. It does like to hog down resources a little bit, specially the blur settings. So yeah but I still am using it for the the simple shadow-under-windows and subtle fade animations!
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I agree with @IUSELINUX, I wouldnāt want Xfce to become bloated and slow, but Picom can be harware accelerated and could be used for simple transparency + shadow and fade FX without bogging down the system. It would also be nice to have the Gnome type start option, and @TilliDie does some great animations, so it would be nice to have the option of using these as backgrounds.
Anyway, just a thought. 
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Eight Sleepās products rely on cloud connectivity to control temperature and track biometric data.
This sounds quite dystopian, but also fairly stupid. Some people choose to be dependent on tech companies to regulate their mattress temperatures? Also, Isnāt it fairly predictable that the company selling those mattresses will stop supporting them within a couple of years, either for sales purposes (āPlease buy our new Sleepinator 2000 if youād like to keep receiving updates.ā) or because theyāll be taken over or go bankrupt?
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WELL depending what āpositionsā you like that might be a good thing. 
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Yes it is.
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It was tracked down to this commit for cpuidle aiming to avoid discarding useful information.The commit was merged to the Linux kernel earlier this year but where it became a problem was being back-ported to the stable Linux LTS kernels and then noticed by Google for regressing the performance on Intel Chromebooks. The regression appears to be primarily for Intel Jasper Lake based Chromebooks.
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Why not just release 2 different versions?
Version 1 - Xfce is what it is now simple, etc
Version 2 - Xfce that looks fancy
Flyatter, build a fancy shmancy version of Xfce and we can add it to our list of offerings. That is the problem in a nutshell, lots of great suggestions for new editions, but not a lot of volunteers to produce and maintain these new editions.
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I would love to help out if I actually knew how to do it
Here ya goā¦
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Yes I understand that. Lots of people would like to help out, but without the skills and long term commitment these great ideas never go anywhere.
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ALERT doesnāt always mean bad. I just wanted to get their attention for good news. The first vid. in a post I made 13d ago, I have Jul 12, 2025 at the top. i do think itās odd, because 1:43-3:10 in this video he says some bad stuff. You can listen a few more secs, he says some important stuff about the Extentions.
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I think this new Mozilla policy is exactly the way to mitigate against these kinds of āmaliciously greyā extensions - if theyāre scraping your data and selling it to AI companies, they at least have to be transparent about the fact that theyāre collecting data to begin with, and which data theyāre collecting.
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After reading that I will not be putting any inmutable OS on my roommates system at all.
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Canāt be surprised since for decades a fairly large group of scientists have been claiming our higher math is wrong.