• deur@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Sounds like you’re part of the group they’re protecting if you refuse to understand and value the need for permission management ;)

    Unlucky!

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      1 year ago

      You joke but those and helmet laws all should be repealed. We need to stop protecting people from Darwin. When the stupid assholes can’t cull themselves naturally it drives the average intelligence downward.

      We see the results of this in modern society with the number of iPhone owners. No one should want an iPhone but marketing is all it takes for the stupid to be convinced.

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        When the stupid assholes can’t cull themselves naturally it drives the average intelligence downward.

        And yet … here you are.

        • qfjp@lemmy.one
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          1 year ago

          Only because he’ll get a ticket if he’s caught not wearing his seatbelt.

      • poopkins@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        …until you’re personally involved in a fatal accident—even if by no fault of your own—where the other party would have survived. Post traumatic stress is no joke. I don’t think we should aspire to have a society with more suffering.

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          Lol. Forcing people to do your bidding just ‘in case’ someone dies in your vicinity. What a tyrant.

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            The argument I’ve made is that I don’t wish to personally suffer psychological damage because of somebody’s death. We don’t allow others to inflict harm in other ways, and this is in my opinion no different. It has nothing to do with tyranny.

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              No, you’ve demanded other people restrict themselves so that you are spared the ‘chance’ of “personally suffer psychological damage because of somebody’s death”.

              Pretending your demands have no consequence on others isn’t a valid defense. It’s pure selfishness expressed as tyranny.

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                What an absolutely absurd position you’ve chosen to take on this. I can only hope for the sake of compassion that this is not what you actually believe.

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                  "Forces others to do their bidding and draws on ‘compassion’ to justify it. "

                  Narcissism defined folks.

    • Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works
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      How is downloads folder not important? For most people this is literally the biggest folder of files containing everything they ever downloaded, and it may also include downloads from messengers, e.g. Whatsapp and Telegram.

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    This is so every app can only read it’s own subfolder. Unless you think it’s better that advertisers and app developers can have access to 100% of your personal files

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      1 year ago

      I wish I could at least create a folder on my microSD card for these apps but no.

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    I THINK THIS HAS TO DO WITH APP PERMISSIONS. IF YOUR APP NEEDS A PLACE TO READ/WRITE FILES, IT MAKES SENSE TO KEEP IT OUT OF YOUR DOWNLOADS FOLDER THAT COULD CONTAIN SENSITIVE INFORMATION LIKE BANK STATEMENTS OR OTHER THINGS. YOU DON’T WANT SOME RANDOM APP LOOKING AT EVERYTHING THAT ENDS UP IN YOUR DOWNLOADS FOLDER!!!

    GET RILED ABOUT GIVING THESE GREEDY DATA SNOOPING APPS THE LEAST PERMISSION POSSIBLE!!

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      I understand the security implications, but I think I should at least have a say about what happens on my own phone

      The app in question is popular and open source. My SD card’s downloads folder is also unused and empty, as you can see. There is absolutely zero risk here

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        But…… if you’re allowed to install into the downloads folder, then it wouldn’t be unused and empty…… ?

        Is this Schrödinger’s file system?

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          OP isn’t trying to install into the downloads folder; they’re trying to grant an app access to the downloads folder to read and write data.

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            But… if they write data into that folder, it wouldn’t be unused and empty… ?

            Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here?

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      The mildly infuriating part of this post is OP thinking that his consumer phone OS was made just for them and not millions of tech-illiterate people.