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Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices by thaumasiotes on Monday December 23, 2019 @02:50PM (#21866683)
You've described the same system I just said I didn't want. But I'm uninformed for complaining that I want something different?

> Applications (at least on Linux) have no idea what device they are using. They just request a connection to an IP and it's the kernels job to route that request correctly.

This is a bad idea. I want to connect the application to the device I think it should use. It shouldn't be able to find anything I don't tell it about.

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Re:U.S. Navy bans TikTok from government-issued mobile devices by nl on Monday December 23, 2019 @04:57PM (#21867816)
>> Applications (at least on Linux) have no idea what device they are using. They just request a connection to an IP and it's the kernels job to route that request correctly.

> This is a bad idea. I want to connect the application to the device I think it should use. It shouldn't be able to find anything I don't tell it about.

Telling applications about resources is literally what the operating system is for. Both Linux and Windows let you do what you want.

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