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   Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:41:18 JST Sick Sun
   its 2024 and software still doesn't tell you:
   
   * where it puts config data (the os should mandate that)
   * where it puts user data (the user should mandate that)
   * what network communication it ever makes and what it requires (the os should restrict that until you are asked for permission)
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     Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! (mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:44:37 JST Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

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     @sun i think macOS does restrict that sorta stuff in some ways. On linux you can manipulate some env vars for some standard system stuff but a number of software doesn't give a shit about it and will pollute your home dir.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:44:51 JST Sick Sun

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!
     @mischievoustomato you still need little snitch to catch network
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     Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺 (dan@toot.d.sb)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:45:04 JST Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺

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     @sun Config should be in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME (~/.config) and user data should be in $XDG_DATA_HOME (~/.local/share)

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:45:18 JST Sick Sun

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     • Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺
     @dan god bless software that uses freedesktop locations
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     Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺 (dan@toot.d.sb)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:47:44 JST Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺

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     @sun You can use https://github.com/b3nj5m1n/xdg-ninja to fix some Linux apps that don't put their stuff in the right place, usually via environment variables.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:47:44 JST Sick Sun

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     • Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺
     @dan this is cool, thank you! I was thinking even about macos and windows, which (far too slowly) are getting better about mandating applications putting things in the right places
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     Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺 (dan@toot.d.sb)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:53:17 JST Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺

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     • Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

     @mischievoustomato @sun If you don't like the standard freedesktop/XDG directories, you can change $XDG_CONFIG_HOME and $XDG_PATH_HOME to whatever directories you want.

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     Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra! (mischievoustomato@mitra.taihou.website)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:53:18 JST Johnny Peligro, now on Mitra!

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     • Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺

     @sun @dan yes! Some things can be coerced into putting their stuff where it should be but many apps don't.
     Hell, there's people that don't like the freedesktop stuff!

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     Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺 (dan@toot.d.sb)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:57:10 JST Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺

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     • RedTechEngineer

     @RedTechEngineer @sun and ~/.thunderbird!

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     RedTechEngineer (redtechengineer@fedi.lowpassfilter.link)'s status on Sunday, 17-Nov-2024 13:57:11 JST RedTechEngineer

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     • Daniel Lo Nigro 🇦🇺
     @sun @dan the year is current year
     
     There still is ~/.mozilla