Remember when you could reboot your computer without rebooting your phone first?

Re:Remember when you could reboot your computer without rebo... by pugworthy on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @11:25PM (#25206038)

It's also your "fucking" phone.

You own your car but you don't demand the right to turn it off any time you want, nor to drive any way you want. You don't do it because you know there are consequences if you do. If you're happy with bad things happening "because I have the right to do it", then well... by all means proceed.

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Re:Remember when you could reboot your computer without rebo... by Brian_K_White on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:13AM (#25206983)

I rarely want to, but in fact I can turn off my car at any time, and have, and it would be an intolerable problem to discover some day that I was not in control of my car.

You have presented no argument.

It's bad enough that it's impossible for anything to be perfect, and so even when you do your honest best, I will not be in control of my car once in a while because something simply broke. (I pressed the brake, the car didn't stop)

But there is no excuse for artificially injecting avoidable breakage by having things decide not to work, on top of the unavoidable honest breakage.

It is ultimately, and fundamentally, wrong to try to predict all valid actions ahead of time and provide some sort of managed answer for all the actions you though of and decided are the universe of valid actions.

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