Not unfortunate, just what I’ve come to expect of Microsoft UX and marketing.

I came in for the jokes but all I found was helpful responses. Did I get the Nazi virus from Reddit?

French package goes brrrrrrr _

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Are you saying this is a Borg from the original enterprise from Kirk? Or do we have to go back further 2 centuries to the space shuttle Enterprise, the one from 1980’s NASA?

I’m not super familiar with Apple as I am with Android so take what I talk about iOS with a grain of salt, and Macos with a shovel of salt.

Android permission model is a bag of different layers, and some specific permissions have shifted to more strict layers over the years. For example, in the beginning all apps had a private space that other normal apps could never get into, and public space that everyone would be able to read and write provided they made such “request” at download time. For some time after that I think they moved it to next level, so you " requested" that both at download time AND with a pop up to the user. Currently you have to do all that AND not be a normal app and fill some forms and Google has to agree with you.

Camera, microphone and GPS has been for a long time in the middle tier of requesting at download time and with pop up, for both Android and iOS. But I think not on Mac os, and certainly not on Linux, with the exception of browsers, that have their own security models rolled up on top of whatever their os imposes, since they execute code from total strangers every time you open a page for the first time.

Some permissions like send and receive Internet data are still in the lightest tier, only asked at download time, for both Android and iOS.

I recently wanted to put my Linux obsidian without Internet access, and had to learn how to do that with a script that calls bwrap that in its turn calls obsidian. I wasn’t comfortable otherwise, because I wanted the freedom to run as many community plugins as I wanted, and this is strangers javascript code running in my machine, and I didn’t want it accessing random folders and uploading things.

If I ran vscode I’d do the same, since I’m not familiar with the vetting process for its plugins. Same for gimp, but I never needed plugins in it.

If history is the best way to predict the future, current Republicans will be ashamed of future Republicans, but in private. In public they’ll play along.

it’s not arbitrary

Voice over: it is arbitrary

And that’s the same reason Linux and open source doesn’t, because when developers are empowered to do things that impact them, shit happens

My understanding is that it’s called work profile. It’s like having 2 users in the same phone. One is personal and you manage it. The other is company owned and you can only install apps whitelisted by your it admin.

You know, countries can do more than one thing at a time