Does umbrel still run everything as root?
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I am not the person to ask, don't know anything on the technical side, that's why I am thinking of umbrel
Well that was one of the concerns… if you do want to get technical, those projects are all based on raspibolt and blitz and the using node.js to give you that “app store” experience.
And is that a bad thing?
It’s kind of like “not your keys, not your coins”. Unfortunately Linux server administration is an endless rabbit hole like any other. I’ve kinda hit a wall in my experiments learning nginx and while trying to learn that got sidetracked on some sort of weird Let’s Encrypt security concern with acme.sh a few weeks ago. And so put the project aside and started playing around with Nostr and Damus but now Apple Corp is saying that is illegal and so now I’m worried that next week running your own node or whatever will also be deemed so because powerful rich people feel threatened even though we are talking about the exchange of Pennies here. But I guess Pennies are worth’s lot more other places…
What does playing around actually mean so to understand what Apple Corp deemed illegal, and if running a full bitcoin node becomes legal does it matter if my full node is a hardcore properly configured one or an umbrel one?
For me playing around means never putting real money into the system or if you do being aware that you are spending money to play around like buying a movie ticket or a video game. If you’re such a hot shot Linux admin someone will pay you good money to make that your job. But you will never be able to build a 100% secure online system so you will have to bank any “winnings” and of course then educate yourself on paying your fair share of taxes when you bank those winnings so that we can maintain our roads, kids can go to school and you have some measured guarantee that the food you buy is not poison, etc.