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Comment by watersb | Hacker News Reader

XDG directories for macOS dotfiles is my hill to tilt windmills.

To make it extra fun, my $HOME directory is immutable:

   chflags uchg "${HOME}"

(Simply setting it read-only would work too.)

Preventing arbitrary writes in $HOME breaks things, but it's actually quite rare.

I should document this setup. Or perhaps it's better to keep the madness to myself...

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No, I think you should write more about it. Motivations, what about programs or scripts that require writing or at least modifying files in $HOME, etc.? You say it is rare, but is it really? Also what is your way when you want to communicate between two programs? What is your preferred method of IPC? I will check how much my system works if I do the same thing as you, on Linux. :D

FWIW I use firejail so applications cannot run anything in $HOME and temporarily (heh) mounted tmpfs (two separate options).

I want this, but also a LuLu firewall style permissions prompt to accept or decline writes to my ~

I'm curious if you make your home directory immutable, where do you store your files like pdfs etc?

honestly as long as they don’t use the home directory ill survive. vscode and similar apps not offering any alternative to home directory pollution kills me.

I assume this breaks vscode? Would love a writeup if you have time

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