Lately, it seems the industry is aggressively pushing immutable, image-based operating systems for the desktop. Shipping a cryptographically sealed, read-only root filesystem sounds super fancy and elegant on paper, but in reality, it's a solution looking for a problem, unless you're running a smart fridge or a corporate kiosk.

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Hola! You know how sometimes you have a service user (like a bot or a daemon) that needs to access your files, but you feel dirty giving it sudo access? I mean, la neta, giving root permissions just to read a config file is like killing a fly with a …