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Seriously, people are acting like the "do you want to give this application elevated privileges" popup is some arcane magick that we as a race can never hope to
by stavros 1y ago
Seriously, people are acting like the "do you want to give this application elevated privileges" popup is some arcane magick that we as a race can never hope to possess.
- bigyabai 1y agoThat really should not surprise people when their smartphone has been telling them it is the wrong design pattern for over a decade. Point the finger at whoever you want. If you need to find who broke the bicycle for the mind, I think most of us know who's responsible.
- stavros 1y agoI'm not sure what you mean, I find smartphones' "do you want to allow this application access to X?" a pretty understandable and secure pattern.
- EvanAnderson 1y agoWhile I agree with you, without using a more granular permission paradigm I get more than a little antsy giving third-party software arbitrary access to even my standard user's privileges on Windows. I've been using a dedicated computer for banking / finance work for a few years now. I also run some software that I consider less trustworthy on my "daily driver" Windows PC as a dedicated user, separate from my "daily driver" account. I really need to make the jump to Qubes. I've been meaning to for years. The learning curve for their contrivances seems steep and I'm lazy.
- stavros 1y agoOh yeah, definitely, but mobile OSes do this fairly well. Windows just asks if you want to give access to everything or not, of course you're always going to click yes, especially if the program doesn't work without it.
- dwattttt 1y agoThere's plenty of actually granular permissions; they're just not used by anyone. How many people on Windows create separate user accounts, run programs as those accounts (hello runas), & set ACLs?
- ranger_danger 1y agoNot many, but I have found Sandboxie to be quite useful for this purpose.
- ClumsyPilot 1y agoIt’s not user friendly
- dwattttt 1y agoIt sure isn't. Although its competition is stuff like chmod (way less granular), and SELinux, and SELinux isn't winning any usability competitions either.
- ben0x539 1y agoFive minutes after this popup exists, you won't be able to run any of the big "can't participate in your social life without these" apps anymore without granting them those elevated privileges.