Cryxtalix

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Someone watched an old Bond film.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

The permission to do admin things is given by the root user, to your account. So you have to verify your identity by entering your password.

Isn't that how it is? I though that was analogous to how almost everything worked IRL. Whether withdrawing funds from a bank or engaging government services, you prove your identity as a customer/citizen to get the relevant services. At no point do you login to bank or government computers with full privileges.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

More like 5 divided by 0 is infinite.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Doesn't that guarantee you'll die of cancer instead? Or gruesome accidents. Or both.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I tell people it's like signing up for a newsletter with your email, except the newsletter is also your social media feed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does returning errors mean? I had a main account that I tried migrating away from lemmy.world, only to have it return errors from lemmy.world. I can't see two thirds of the comments I can from this programming.dev account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The youth have an innate pressure to follow trends and their peers. They need and crave social acceptance while still lacking the means to be independent and "go their own way", so it's not viable to expect younger users to form the bulk of pioneering users of an unproven platform like the fediverse.

Older user will generally be more confident and independent, especially when the craving for social approval is not as powerful as it was in younger users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me on both desktop and PC, but I don't think I've had 10 windows open at any one time tbh. Or that any particular DE would perform significantly better if you really needed to work with 10 windows simultaneously. That's a problem I would fix with additional monitors.

I would also have windows snapped to half screens on the workspaces, so I really only need 5 workspaces. Considering I have a 3 monitor setup at home, I don't think I'll have too much of a problem since I can have 6 windows up at once. Still, juggling 10 bloody windows is going to be annoying whether it's GNOME or not.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's programming.dev though. Do any Meta platform host a substantial tech community? I honestly have never heard of any, but I might be wrong. Maybe they should be joining us?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Sideloading must always remain available, but I feel like restricting the ability to unlock sideloading might be potentially beneficial. There have been reports of people getting their bank accounts emptied after sideloading some random app and giving it accessibility permissions. Preventing people from granting such permissions on impulse with a more tedious unlocking process could potentially benefit some.

Of course people will disagree. Why should we be inconvenienced for some idiots? It comes down to how willing you are to be inconvenienced for the safety of these people I guess. I already know I'll probably be downvoted given the tech inclined crowd on lemmy these days, but I personally wouldn't mind performing an adb command or smth. Something like executing an adb command once is a relatively small price to pay imo.

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