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Comment by amelius

2 months ago

I am surprised that evangelists keep thinking they are safe from the evil of big corporations.

If you don't have root access to your machine, it's not your machine.

If you don't have root access to the machine your data is on, it's not your data.

  • If you're a scientist at an institution, why would you need root on the cephs or whatever storage system?

  • And Linus himself mostly just stores data on the cloud. At the end of the day, practicality matters.

    • Sure, you can be as "practical" as you like, just as long as you don't come crying when Apple decides to revoke your access to their data. You accept the benefit, you accept the risk.

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There's no reason to presume that the author 'thinks' that.