alt Hacker News> My parents are getting old and they aren't tech savvy. The missing piece here is that I want my parents to have a computer they can safely do their banking on, without leaving them vulnerable to scams and viruses and the like.
Purists always forget this point :) What is best for 99% of people.
And dumb Euro bureaucrats.
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quaintdev • yesterday at 4:53 AM
Why not give people the freedom to choose what they want
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That's what can be achieved by encapsulation/containerization of apps: a la flatpak, snaps, docker or VMs...
I found my parents to install random crappy adware apps from official stores too. What protects their banking application is granular permissions, not root access.