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    [–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

    I always hate when my own computer says I need permission. "Permission"? I own your damn ass! It should be more like, "Unable to comply due to security settings" - and even better, tell me where the settings are, and add, "Your Majesty".

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

    That's because 'users' in the system are considered different people and there is an admin who doesn't care about the message anyway(since they are supposed to know what they should do) but thats rarely the case in PCs

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

    you forget that UNIX-likes were originally made under the presumption that most users were not the admin nor owned the computer

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    Insert that intentionally unhinged thing I like to post here, about how we should bring back victorian servant-to-master etiquette but only and exclusively for computers trying to communicate with humans.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

    you know on the one hand i like the idea, but on the other i would like my computer to be as unantropomorphized as possible so that i don't start treating it like it has feelings.

    i'll take ERR 0x2038A702 UNABLE TO COMPLY; LP0 ON FIRE over oh nyo pwease don't SIGKILL me uwu any day.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

    Since it seems language AIs are going to become inescapable (not a fan, but if you can't beat 'em...), make it a toggle so that users who want to can have error messages with different "personalities", and those who don't can just have the machinelike codes.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

    Couldn't agree more

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

    L'administrateur, c'est moi!