Re: [trinity-users] Re: Re: [users] Re: In defense of TDE copy

On Monday 01 October 2018 23:14:04 deloptes wrote: Almost any question can be turned into a tautology. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tautology I used to run into Marxists whose guanonian fundamentalist logic drove me crazy: "Every action (or even non-action) is a political action." In a way, though, they had a point: when you live in conditions where everything is regarded in terms of politics, everything is political. (Or substitute religion, or whatever.) In a broad universal "everything is love" sort of way, this isn't so bad, but when people try to apply it to individual actions at every moment, it gets tiresome, and ends up turning into some species of oppression. It's only because our notions of privacy and freedom have eroded that now it seems like a radical idea for users to be able (or even to want) to control their personal data, or to decide what their computers and phones can and cannot do, or even to imagine that they ought to be able to customize the look and feel of their desktops (that is, beyond the dozen or so boring templates offered by other DEs). If one is old enough to remember a time before this "new normal", then the present reality looks increasingly unreal and disturbing. But enough sermonizing! This is why I want to keep TDE alive and well: I can get my computer to do what I want. Bill