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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I always found it to be a real PITA... It felt like a parallel system to file permissions, which meant I had two things to configure instead of one and I never really saw the purpose. It seemed like it could be more granular than the default, but if it did anything more than that I never learned about it

Granted, I'm a dev, not an admin. I go back and configure the firewall after I shut it off because it was in my way... Eventually