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sethammons · 2021-07-24 18:05:35

su -u $otherUser

Wouldn't that mess it up?

oneeyedpigeon | karma 7765 | avg karma 2.34 · | 2014-02-08 16:27:37

Wouldn't this ruin usage stats?

anaisbetts | karma 5061 | avg karma 13.32 · | 2022-05-28 16:41:09

This is done in order to mitigate Han Unification - I suspect on OSs that aren't ancient this is probably Fine, but if you have a huge userbase like Bootstrap you probably need to support these people

sunnybeetroot | karma 145 | avg karma 0.92 · | 2023-07-23 13:39:09

I wouldn’t bother changing it. IMO the average user won’t notice or even care.

jarnix | karma 286 | avg karma 1.27 · | 2017-05-30 13:10:46

I'm not sure that it will "only affect a small number of users".

Maybe this should be an option with false as default value, it could help with the transition.

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marcosdumay | karma 27273 | avg karma 1.67 · | 2013-05-21 17:13:36

Think about monkeyspaw's answer, but also think about changing your users or the product.

But first think about monkeyspaw's answer, not mine.

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TazeTSchnitzel | karma 26116 | avg karma 2.81 · | 2014-12-18 03:39:49+00:00

I suspect that'd make it worse, as you've added a new inline call.

cm2187 | karma 24483 | avg karma 3.15 · | 2016-05-23 20:45:21+00:00

Yep, sorry. But I guess you are then changing people's code. Although in this case it is a relatively safe change.

mdre | karma 157 | avg karma 3.14 · | 2024-04-23 10:22:19

Well, you could change your user agent string.

colejohnson66 | karma 9319 | avg karma 1.93 · | 2020-09-25 14:57:41

They already allow that. You just can’t tell the user that it’s different. That’s what upsets people.

tvmalsv | karma 258 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2020-06-15 07:39:07+00:00

Nah, just replace it with the community_scribe_of_appropriate_self_hatred. It can be aliased to 'scribe' if it helps, though it loses some of it's power.

good_guy | karma 34 | avg karma 0.63 · | 2014-03-29 05:05:02+00:00

This is a bad idea.it's easy to change the user agent to whatever you want.

CyberRage | karma 207 | avg karma 1.49 · | 2021-02-22 14:56:34

There's no issue with that. layman users won't modify these settings while advanced users will be warned.

You're thinking wrong.

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totetsu | karma 3420 | avg karma 1.8 · | 2022-03-14 01:29:27

Just replace the '.hnuser' bit with '.hnuser, #me'

vcavallo | karma 210 | avg karma 1.12 · | 2017-11-10 00:44:16+00:00

Agreed. I did that as a simple way to prevent abuse. I'll have bring back special characters.

rkeene2 | karma 1451 | avg karma 1.74 · | 2017-09-11 12:24:08

If you modify "Yue", want to redistribute the modified "Yue", AND don't want to release your modifications to "Yue" in source form.

mikelehen | karma 71 | avg karma 1.42 · | 2013-04-09 18:42:45+00:00

Won't people realize that doing that would detract from the experience of other users?

Haha, just kidding! Moved everything into a closure. Thanks for suggesting it.

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Flow | karma 1240 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2012-12-05 09:39:28+00:00

Would it be possible to change this in OS X without making the whole user-land incompatible?

rplnt | karma 6199 | avg karma 2.64 · | 2013-04-22 09:16:22

It really breaks user experience though. So probably not the best way.

shireboy | karma 1472 | avg karma 2.91 · | 2020-04-06 12:26:46

Nice. That confused some users. Will definitely be doing that. Thanks!