15 Sep
2020
15 Sep
'20
1:14 p.m.
On 2020-09-15 07:40:58 William Morder via tde-users wrote:
On Monday 14 September 2020 10:44:39 BorgLabs - Kate
Draven via tde-users
wrote:
Actually, as has been pointed out by many people, to these businesses we are
no longer so much customers (to be sold products to) as products ourselves,
whose data can be sold to other companies.
Leslie
On Monday 14 September 2020, William Morder via
tde-users wrote:
I don't understand why this is even needed?! I can already move home
directories without a problem. Been doing it for years. I just make sure
to use the same user on the same distro, same etc. Works perfectly. Or I
save key settings (konq bookmarks, FF bms, etc) it's so easy after that
to just retheme to spec.
There's something suspcious about systemd, especially the way they are
pushing it on everyone. Whatever happened to freedom on free software?
Kate
Better not to give in to conspiracy-theory thinking here. I believe a
simpler proportion is at work.
The more money, property or power is involved, the greater the degree of
corruption. Who was it that said it? Lord Acton? "Power corrupts. Absolute
power corrupts absolutely."
Corruption creeps in by small degrees. It starts with somebody offering
front-row seats at some special, exclusive event, or just being given "free
money" or other unearned bonuses and perks.
In all this technophobic conspiracy thinking, there is a simpler principle
at work. People who are in business want to know who are their customers.
(It makes more sense in a small business, where we meet in person.) When we
move into situations where the people in business never actually meet most
of their customers, they must find other ways to get to "know" them. At
first, I'm sure, they mean well, and only want to serve the needs and wants
of people who buy or use their goods and services; but as the company and
customer base grows, and as competition also increases, then comes the need
for greater control.
And now, we the users are not even really exactly "customers" or
"clients",
but just use what we get for free; and because it's free, of course, we are
taught that we should not complain or make demands, but just be grateful.
In the end, we, the customers, users, renters (whatever our situation)
become the least important part; in fact, an obstacle to doing business.
What the business person would prefer, really, is just to withdraw money
directly from our accounts, without any interaction from ourselves. But
this is only because doing business in person is becoming a rare occasion
any more.
Bill From
Nik's previous post: https://linuxreviews.org/Systemd-homed
This systemd crap is already bad enough, but homed will eventually work
its way into other stuff beyond systemd, and then will become hard to
avoid.
It *sounds* good, being able to move home directories from one machine
to another without so much fuss; but I already do that, pretty much,
with only a little fuss.
My suspicion is that somebody's mother is now trying to impose
conformity on everybody, not just myself, to do our thinking for us;
because, of course, it is for our own good.
They are trying to get rid of a headache by giving us nightmares
instead.
Bill
P.S. Note that I alone am sticking to the discipline of creating a
completely new thread.