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Re:Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From ma... by CamperBob2 on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:36PM (#35221471)
At some point you have to trust the user to choose the apps they want to run. That's simply not the OS's job.

To the extent that it is the OS's job, you don't have a computer anymore. You have an appliance. Sometimes that's OK; I don't complain because I can't run Doom on my dishwasher. But let's be clear about what is a general-purpose personal computer, and what is not.

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Re:Unix legend Ken Thompson announces he's switching From ma... by kitsunesoba on Sunday March 19, 2023 @01:38PM (#35221497)
> To the extent that it is the OS's job, you dn't have a computer anymore. You have an appliance.

In my opinion, that depends on the existence of an escape hatch. If it's like iOS where there effectively is none, sure, but if it's like macOS where SIP, Gatekeeper, etc can be temporarily disabled to make changes and then re-enabled or disabled entirely it's a different story.

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