On Tue, 15 Sep 2020, William Morder via tde-users wrote:
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
there may be truth in some of this but it seems a bit like
thread-drift - perhaps retraction of apfelstrüdel must be considered;
how does this relate to systemd-homed?
it seems systemd-homed brings precisely the benefit which Kate
mentioned is lacking in our usual way of moving 'home'; she 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."
I take it with systemd-homed one doesn't get trapped by shifting UIDs
and such. they write (partial quotation),
"Linux assigns UIDs in the order usernames are registered on a
machine. you may get UID 1000 if you are the first user on a laptop
and you could get 1001 on another laptop if you are the second user to
be registered there. This poses a problem if you move a home directory
container from machine A where you're UID 1000 to machine B where you
are 1001. systemd-homed solves this by doing a chown -R on the entire
home directory if there is a conflict. [...]"
I once fell athwart of that! not to mention that 'home' gets encrypted.
why isn't this a net bonus?
f.
--
Felmon Davis
Verbum sat sapienti.
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