Retagging other users' threads and use of "embedded" tag

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I noticed today that a particular user, who does not appear to have the status of a moderator, retagged two of my threads from help to embedded.
I have two questions regarding this:

  1. How can a regular user re-tag my threads?
  2. Back then I deliberately chose help over embedded because I run the respective software on an operating system, not on bare metal. The category description of embedded here refers to Introduction - The Embedded Rust Book which in turn states:

Welcome to The Embedded Rust Book: An introductory book about using the Rust Programming Language on “Bare Metal” embedded systems, such as Microcontrollers.

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The rights given to each trust level are configurable (to at least some extent). Someone who's a "Regular" user here (trust level 3) can hover their cursor over a post's title and then edit the title of the post and/or its category.[1]

  1. Source: I'm a Regular. Though I haven't actually used any moderation abilities. ↩︎

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Thanks. I honestly did not know that this was a thing. Thanks for the explanation. That only leaves my second question unanswered: When is the embedded tag supposed to be used? I am unsure whether to keep the new tags or revert back to the old ones.

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I don't think there's a precise authoritative definition, but relatively "weak" computers like a Raspberry Pi still feel "embedded" to me, even though they can run operating systems. "Embedded Linux system" is a phrase, so non-bare-metal software can still count as "embedded" software.

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