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Those multiple users could be used to implement sandboxing. And of course if one has a family then one might want accounts for Mom, Dad, Alice and Bob.
by eadmund 2y ago
Those multiple users could be used to implement sandboxing.
And of course if one has a family then one might want accounts for Mom, Dad, Alice and Bob.
- bloqs 2y agoDepressingly i think sharing computers at least in the western world has become a thing of the past. At the very least, sharing your main form of computing.
- throwaway87483 2y agoWe're sharing a computer as we speak.
- xcdzvyn 2y ago[dead]
- chrisweekly 2y agoRight, in the sense of "the network is the computer". Tangent: one of the most talented engineers I ever met gave an amazing (tho sadly company-private, unrecorded) talk about how the OS was his IDE. Kind of analogous... anyway, I like this type of re-framing or meta-level-shifting.
- gjvc 2y agohe must be getting a bit twitchy lately then
- nunez 2y agoUsing computers in general outside of work is quickly becoming a thing of the past too.
- sim7c00 2y ago?? not all households have money to buy pc for everyone. for phones maybe (also less common outside of rich countries), but definitely not true for pc platform, for most of the world actually.. there a lot of pcs for the family still.
- pjmlp 2y agoIn poorer countries, the phone/tablet is the only "PC" they have, and I guess that was the point being made.
- saulpw 2y agoThe days of multiple family members using the same computer are long gone. Do you ever log into anyone else's desktop/laptop, or does anyone else ever log into yours? That's what I'm getting at.
- bigstrat2003 2y agoYes, actually. My wife occasionally logs into my desktop and vice versa. But I take your point - it's far less common than it used to be, even if it does still happen.
- IcyWindows 2y agoYes, my children log into their own accounts to play games and/or do homework on the desktop computer with large monitors and good GPU.
- wruza 2y agoI have to clean my grandmas tablet every time my nieces come and screw it up by installing games, moving icons around and setting who knows what.
- c-hendricks 2y agoRight, but you're not logging in to a separate account for that.
- wruza 2y agoA separate account for kids would make this cleanup unnecessary. They don’t want to screw it up for her, they just do what they think will help with their activities.
- acuozzo 2y agoMy children all share an unprivileged account on our family desktop computer to play video games, etc. In addition to this, my wife has an account on the computer which is separate from mine.
- ryandrake 2y agoYea, I'd like to see a system where each application runs as its own user, especially third party applications not vetted by the OS vendor, the package manager and so on. Maybe this already exists--I think it would be a good step forward for security and privacy. You can no longer trust 3rd party applications to stay in their lanes. Running an application with full access to everything that I as a user have access to seems insane in 2024. Ideally, I don't want a third party application to read or write anything outside of its "home directory" without my explicitly giving it permission. That includes files on my filesystem, network shares, hardware devices, everything.
- tredre3 2y ago> Maybe this already exists That's how Android works.
- pjmlp 2y agoIn the early days, nowadays not only it does that still, it also has LinuxSE and seccomp enabled, and Linux drivers are seen as legacy, modern drivers run out of process as well, on their own accounts, talking via Android IPC with the kernel.
- sim7c00 2y agou would either need to statically includw everything in the binaries all the time causing huge files everywhere, or use something like bsd jails. both is doable. then it is still possible to access the kernel though. so its highly impractical. as other guy pointed out Android somewhat works like that, but lots of malicious programs also exist for that..
- anthk 2y agoStop running 3rd party propietary crap. Problem solved. Better: separate your work, gaming/leisure and 'sensitiive' (banking) files with 3 different users.