On Tuesday, January 16, 2024 at 6:44:43 AM UTC-8 G Hammer wrote:

The point isn't if you can change what's written in a guide, the point is 
if the guide works as written.
It does not. Later in the quick start there are commands that DO require 
sudo.


This is not complicated.

   - If you are root and want to run as root  you do not need to use sudo. 
   - If you are a non-privileged user you do need to use sudo for ‘some’ 
   commands typically
   - If you are root and ‘want’ to use sudo you of course can…if your 
   system is configured accordingly.
   - If you are a non-privileged user and need to use sudo, your system 
   must be configured to permit that as well

But…there are edge cases for a install and run non-privileged setup where 
sudo would not be required either if you go outside typical installations. 
I can think of a couple ways it would work on a typical pi but I won’t 
mention them here.

There are always edge cases where any docs written for the 98% will be 
incorrect for those in the 2% who do uncommon things. You always need to 
understand your system well enough to know if you need to salt to taste a 
little, so to speak.

Installing into Docker is in that 2% that need to do more things or 
slightly different things in most cases, depending on how you want things 
to run privileged or non-privileged. 

No docs can be 100% perfect for an infinitely variable desired end state. 
Once you go Docker the onus is on the integrator to up their techie-fu and 
think more rather than blindly following a recipe intended for the other 
98% of configs.

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