• dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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        Would the genie get stuck in an endless loop, trying to find the owner of the three wishes for wish 2?

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          Fortunately the wisher is indistinguishable from a behavioral perspective of a P-Zombie, so they can still make wishes

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      I don’t know what’s the hate with edge, it works wonderfully for an average user, it’s fully configurable with add-ons and handles security policies really well

      The AI integration might be a bit over the top but nothing you can’t disable in your side

      Really I don’t see why you guys pile on so much on it

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        Microsoft’s monopoly and their for-profit anti-consumer practices is what’s wrong with it. Their history says they cannot be trusted. I’d ask myself why they need a browser in the first place.

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          Yup. As someone who lived through the internet explorer dark ages, I’m not eager for google and or Microsoft to have complete dominance

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        Because it’s my fucking computer and I shouldn’t have to edit the registry to uninstall a program I don’t use.

        After every update it’s also reset to my default browser which is infuriating

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        A lot of the hate comes from Microsoft forcing it down everyones throats.

        If it had been left to user choice, they may actually have a decent userbase; but instead it’s been forcefully installed on pretty much every windows computer regardless of the owners preferences, it repeatedly re-asserts itself as the default browser, some windows features are hard-coded to use it and break if its removed, there is no simple uninstall process, and windows update will re-install it if you manually remove it.

        It’s my damn computer; if I don’t want a piece of software, I should be able to remove it.

        Ditched Windows entirely 2 years ago partly because of that, partly because of the same upcoming behaviour with AI. Fuck Microshaft, I’ll take my money and attention elsewhere. (I was previously paying for/using pro licenses, for features like RDP hosting)

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        Edge is a fine browser. I use it when Firefox isn’t working for a particular reason.

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    My work laptop had a pop-up from an application that basically said “we couldn’t restart last time, so you e got 15 minutes until we reboot your computer” with no way to cancel or prevent the reboot.

    Me: the fuck you are

    * proceeds to kill the service and process from admin command line*

    Get fucked fortinet, I’ll reboot when I’m gods damned ready

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      You needed permission from the SYSTEM or TrustedInstaller account.

      Which you can give to yourself if you are admin.

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        Last time I did that it didn’t work so I figured I will restart and it will recognize then. Windows got a 30 minute update.

        When I logged back in my account was gone and still asked for a password. My old password didn’t work.

        Recovery option also fucked my grub. (Probably just the EFI now that I think about it.)

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          That last bit about GRUB is why I never put Windows on the same drive as my Arch, btw install. If they both have their own EFI partitions, Windows doesn’t mess with Linux.

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      Just because you have admin rights doesn’t mean the process you’ve invoked does. Unless you specifically elevate it or the process asks to elevate, it’ll run unprivileged.

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    had a friend that was having problems with his PC and windows kept bitching about he didn’t have permissions. he ripped out the harddrive with it still powered on and threw it off his balcony into the lake screaming, “I fucking own you!”

    epic moment in my life to witness such an event.

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    EZ fix i learnt from hunter2

    chmod 777 -R /

    sudo ufw allow 22

    hunter2 ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

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    To own something is to control it.

    You clearly don’t have control, therefore you don’t own it, microsoft does. You can fix that by seizing the means of computation and install linux.

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      Just to have linux be even more ruthless with its permission schemes.

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        When you switch to an admin account on Windows, there are still files owned by “TrustedInstaller” that you can’t touch, and processes owned by “System” that you can’t terminate.

        Linux doesn’t have that. When you switch to root, you can kill any process. You can modify or delete any file.

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          Sometimes (often?) at your own peril!

          To anyone else following, if you’re mucking around with “I am Root/Admin. OBEY ME!!” you had better have important data backed up!

          I once thought an unlisted BTRFS snapshot was an orphan folder taking up space. No permission? Nonsense! Obey my commands!

          Suddenly not even terminal commands worked. (“Command ‘cd’/‘ls’/whatever not found”)

          . . . it was the “writable snapshot” currently mounted, and the system was so borked it couldn’t rollback, and I needed to completely reinstall.

          Fortunately I had things backed up on another drive. Live and learn! But that could have been TRAGIC.

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      What the hell are you talking about? Permissions issues in Windows have absolutely nothing to do with Microsoft owning your files.

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          That’s a weird stance to take since the discussion was about file permissions, and there are absolutely ways around Windows protecting system files just like there are ways around Linux doing the same thing.

          There are many reasons to criticize Microsoft, but making it difficult for users to fuck up system files isn’t one of them. Most users are of the “it’s a box filled with magic smoke” variety, and they need to be protected from themselves.

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            Oh we absolutely can throw shade at MS when they use the very same schemes to install “features” you cannot turn off or applications you cannot uninstall.

            FUCK MS for deciding what invasive spyware-I-mean-features to turn on with no recourse for the average user.

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      Or just … right click to change ownership…

      You don’t have to change your whole OS because you can’t access a file. I thought you Linux users knew how to use technology properly. But it seems you are “power users” instead.

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    Can’t shutdown there is a running program

    /Me finger immediately goes to the power switch

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      I still remember the biggest brainfart moment as a child. I was playing video games on my computer, and kinda just looked around. On the pc was a turbo button, so i pressed it, turbo makes games faster. I looked again and one button said power. I wonder what that doe… I’m dumb.

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    This fuckin line

    Childhood me: “Whats he mean by that?”

    My parents: “[explains slavery]”

    Me: …

    Them: …

    Thanks, Disney!

    I still love the soundtrack.

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    Is there a technical reason that Linux apps can’t/don’t just pop up an authenticator thing asking for more privileges like Windows apps can do? Why does nano just say that the file is unwriteable instead of letting me increase the privileges?

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      Some do. I’m sure it is possible with terminal programs. In KDE, you do get authenticator pop-ups.

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        With arch+xfce4 I mostly don’t. Except for when I do systemctl reload <service> in a cli without sudo and it pops a surprise elevation password request gui in my face. I haven’t figured out what makes it behave like that.

        I use Arch btw 👉🧐 eats booger

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          That’s the result of polkit (policy kit) authentication agents. These are typically DE-specific for their GUIs.

          pkexec is comparable to sudo and can be used from the terminal to get the graphical prompt for elevated commands.

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          Yeah, when I was on xfce on Arch I remember going into some places in the file manager where it wouldn’t let me edit files etc without running it from the terminal through sudo.

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        Hmm I just tried editing some systemd service with Kate and it did actually give me an authenticator popup when I tried to save it

        Although then the prompt expired and now it does nothing when I try to save it. Restarted Kate and now it works again…

        I haven’t tried that before

        When I try to go into the sudoers.d folder tho it just says I can’t, and the same thing happens when I try to open the sudoers file in Kate. If I try to copy and paste a systemd service in dolphin tho it just says I don’t have permission and doesn’t give a prompt.

        lol if I open it with nano through sudo it says ‘sudoers is meant to be read only’

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      Linux apps follow simplicity principles. If you don’t have permission to delete a file, why assume you may know the password of the user who has permission?

      You can preface sudo to any command to execute it with root privileges, which would be similar to running as admin in windows.

      Graphical apps do tend to ask for authentication if it makes sense. No userland apps should need more permissions than the current user’s in order to run.

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        Small pedantic correction, but you can’t preface every command with sudo; only executables can be invoked with sudo as it can’t elevate your current shell. Naturally, the way to execute non-executables such as builtin routines as root is to just spawn into a root shell with sudo su.

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      The GUI apps do (depends on your DE). Terminal apps like nano are designed to work without fancy desktop stuff, like Polkit. Any sort of graphical text editor should prompt you for your password.

      systemctl still asks for a password, though. Because it’s systemd, and it’s part of everything.

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      Iirc there are ways to format your command to get it to do this. So whatever app you’re using just chose to format its command the simpler way.

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      Why use a hack when you can just go into properties and take ownership there?

      The only thing this does is make a shortcut.