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Disabling bloatware
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You can try just tracking down Akonadi's executable and removing its executable mark or renaming it, which may, however, break other stuff (in particular, make sure you're not running kmail—it seems to be the most substantial program with a non-optional dependency). Or you can ditch KDE and move to a lighter DE that doesn't have this stuff (TDE, Mate, XFCE . . .)
There are two ways to spin up a Linux machine: you can either use a desktop-ready distribution that includes everything you need to use it right away (including some stuff you don't want), or you can start with the bare bones and build it up to usability. If you want to take the second philosophy to the extreme, Gentoo will let you turn off all optional features you don't want before they're even built.