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by bhelkey 507 days ago
> Totally fair. I just don't know of that many (any?) "desktop calculator" applications that people download.

Quite a few apps fall into this category: single player games, photo editors, word editors, video players, pdf editors ...

It seems very reasonable to restrict these applications from accessing the internet.

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Gaming, I'm willing to largely get behind as something that should be more locked down. Networked games, of course, are a thing. Single player games should be a lot more isolated, though.

Any sort of editing software, though, gets tough. That is precisely the are that I have had bad experiences in in the past. Would try to edit raw photos and export them to a place I could draw or publish with them. Using a shadow banned application is the only way I know on how to describe how that felt.