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by TechBro8615 1065 days ago
I do the same, mostly because I don't like my full name showing up in every subpath of the home directory. Sometimes this leaks far beyond your local computer, too, since many build tools include some path info in the compiled binaries. You can download apps from the app store, run `strings` on them, and find the username of the developer who built the binary.