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@ Libb @jlai.lu

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I'm currently testing https://piefed.social/u/Libb all my new participation will be posted there, at least for the time being.

A 50-something French dude that's old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. Also, I like to write and to sketch.https://thefoolwithapen.com/

  • [décompression inside] Marre de la high-tech et de ses bugs

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  • Je ne cherche pas à blâmer. J'observe juste comment ça impacte ma capacité à faire des choses ou, plus justement, comment ça me contraint à faire des choses que je n'ai aucune envie de faire et, surtout à mon âge et malade, pas très envie d'y consacrer du temps non plus.

    Cela ne remet pas en cause ma reconnaissance envers le Logiciel Libre et ses auteurs. Comme je l'explique dans le blog, cela souligne surtout une des raisons dans ma distanciation d'avec la high-tech informatique, libre ou pas: les frictions imposées. Apple avait aussi des bugs pénibles et là, pour le coup, si les probabilités que Apple se soucie de mes signalements n'étaient pas nulles elles étaient quand même assez faibles... surtout ces 15 dernières années, où tout a profondément changé chez Apple.

  • [décompression inside] Marre de la high-tech et de ses bugs

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  • Je pense que c'est le petit addon que j'ai instalél pour facilement/rapidement switcher la sortie audio depuis le Panneau. Mais il va falloir que je vérifie ça, ce qui ne se fera pas en 5 minutes...

  • [décompression inside] Marre de la high-tech et de ses bugs

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  • +1, ce qui ne devrait pas surprendre ;)

  • [décompression inside] Marre de la high-tech et de ses bugs

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  • D'où mon agacement (excessif), je pense ;)

  • [décompression inside] Marre de la high-tech et de ses bugs

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  • Le souci c'est que tout est déjà câblé (et aucun câble ne passe par l'écran) ;)

  • Actuellement en weekend avec ma belle-famille, depuis jeudi soir jusqu'à mardi matin, c'est... long

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  • C'est le bon moment pour s'installer dans un coin tranquille un bouquin en mains (et pour être sûr que la belle soeur ferme sa grande bouche, prendre un bouquin sérieux). Du moins, c'est ce que je ferais si j'étais dans tes chaussures... dans lesquelles je ne suis heureusement pas.

    Toute ma sympathie, cela dit. Et passe un bon WE de Pâques quand même ;)

  • Safe and private way to share location with family

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  • I understand. Hopefully someone will be able to suggest something more useful ;)

  • Safe and private way to share location with family

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  • When I go some place I tell my spouse I'll be there. Are you looking for something more specific in 'sharing you location'?

  • privacy recommendations for a digital journal?

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  • Given the volume of writing I do, I don’t think hand-writing is feasible.

    I write everything longhand. Many people have been writing entire books longhand, and have been doing it for centuries. And a few of us still do ;)

    The last few years average out to about 2000 words a day, and most of it is done on computers where I can comfortably type for long periods, and much faster than I could write by hand.

    Depends what you want to write, but speed may not be the key elements. Obviously, with tight deadlines from your publisher it may be a valid point but (I'm 50+) along the years I realized I would save more time by writing slowly but then spend less time rewriting/editing (less, as editing is still an essential part).

    All of that to say: sure, digital technology may be a great help but it is not a necessity (unlike what big tech want us to believe). Tolstoy did not use a computer, neither did Flaubert, Shakespeare and Dostoevsky, nor did Nietzsche or Plato (to name just a few authors that have written a lot). It's mostly a question of habits, aka developing the hand, arm and shoulder muscles used to write, and of endurance: the more you will write by hand, the longer you will be able to write without feeling too much fatigue. And of organization—aka, how you take your notes and maybe how your organize them. When I draft a text or take notes on the go, something I do every single day of the year, I use my own shorthand which helps me saves a lot of time. I also organize all my notes (research and personal alike) in an analog system that has been formalized many years ago: Zettelkasten. It works wonders and, in its way, it's easily 'searchable'.

    One last suggestion: using the right writing tool may help a lot in reducing fatigue too. Have you tried using a decent fountain pen (with good quality paper)? But enough about handwriting :p

    If you're using iCloud, have you activated the optional Apple's Advanced Data Protection? It ensures that no one, supposedly not even Apple can read your files on iCloud.

    For anything digital (I draft longhand but I still need to type the final version), the moment I became privacy-conscious, my solution was to switch from Mac to a Linux PC, with full disk encryption. With This Linux PC there is no tracking and no telemetry (I was horrified to realize the volume of data that was send back to Apple by my Mac, it's easy to test it: install LittleSnitch and tell it to not let apple's services connect to the web. Sure most of it is probably fine. But probably was not enough for me) and I can use VSCodium (a Microsoft-free version of VSCode) for Markdown and LibreOffice Writer for word processing. For cloud storage, I would suggest Filen.io a small German company that offers zero knowledge end-to-end encryption.

    I think many dedicated journaling apps (like DayOne on iOS/Mac) do offer password-protection but I have no idea how reliable it is. I would rather trust some Free/Libre software and the community to tell me what is safe.

    BTW, feel free to come say hi to our small !journaling@sh.itjust.works community (I'm the admin). As an analog user myself, I would love to have more digital users participating. Well, to be perfectly honest I would love to have more people participating, digital or not ;)

  • TLDR - What you can do to make your computing more European

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  • I'm not much of a gamer (I play chess, though), I only wanted to say I needed no 'fix' nor terminal in order to get my Mint to update to its latest versions ;)

  • TLDR - What you can do to make your computing more European

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  • Mint 22.1 still runs Kernel 6.8 whoch means you’ll be hitting the terminal to either upgrade to mainline kernel

    The last two major updates of Mint were done through some GUI. There were a few warnings (about a few extra apps I had installed) but everything was done through that app and went smoothly. Edit: and so quickly (yeah, I'm looking at you, macOS)

    or add extra repositories

    I don't think I use extra repositories but I did add two PPAs and did it through the GUI 'Software Sources' that comes with Mint. I just checked, it also offers the option to add 'Additional repositories', if that means 'extra'?

  • TLDR - What you can do to make your computing more European

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    • Firefox is owned by the Mozilla Foundation, which is US-based and I say that as a lifelong Firefox user, mind you. Waterfox is a UK-based fork of Firefox. Not owned by Mozilla. Also, based on Chromium (the open source part of Chrome) there is the cool Vivaldi browser (Norway).
    • Why Ubuntu only? Promoting almost any GNU/Linux distro would be a good move. I will promote the one I'm using: Mint. I'm happy to say that everything works out of the box and have been working great for 4 or 5 years now—and I never have to use the command line if I don't want to... which, frankly, I don't mind using, quite the contrary ;)
    • Cloud: I tried following the suggest links and gave up on the 3rd one. It's too technical, at least for me. depends what you're looking for but here is a couple of EU/European cloud storage providers I use: Infomaniak (Swiss, works great, more features than just cloud), Filen.io (German, works great, more limited in features but offers full end-to-end encryption).

  • Germany opposes French push to tax US big tech in tariff war

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  • Scoop for the German government: we also have no real alternative to US troops/military supply. Should we lower the EU flag and welcome anyone wishing to took hold of it since the USA has made it clear it's now up to the EU to defend itself?

  • Any opinions about Filen?

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  • Clicking the link should not say anything special when you land on the page (which is rather dumb) but once you create your account you should get double the base free storage (20 instead of 10). I don't recall them announcing any change in that policy.

  • Finally, an active community for trackball enthusiasts!

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  • trackballs, the arguably superior input method.

    As a mouse user, I vehemently contest that unfounded affirmation!

    That being said, you have already managed to make me pull out of its drawer my old trackball and put a fresh battery in it. So, who knows? Maybe trackballs are not all worthless plastic gimmicks? Joined! :p

  • European tourism to the USA in free fall

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  • All those ungrateful tourists that can't stand the idea of getting mistakenly deported into a High Security Salvadoran prison and then being left to rot there because 'yeah, it's kinda annoying but we can't get him back, you know'.

    If I were the all-mighty orange dude, I would put a 146% tax on every single tourist that is refusing to come spend their money in the USA! They're nothing but traitors! They should pay! And maybe I would invade their country, to show the world who's the boss.

  • New community for blood donors and the donor-curious!

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  • One could be surprised ;)

  • ‘It’s like our friend started a fist fight with us’: These Europeans are skipping US travel | CNN

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  • Yep, like one of them said trust will be hard to restore.

    That Trump is a diva addicted to having a tantrum we knew it, that's no surprise and I could not care less him being... who he is. But to realize how simple and effort-less it was for him to break existing deals, engagements and decades long alliances while also humiliating Zelensky in the oval office, on TV, without anyone, no one of the other US political powers supposed to prevent abuse of power even protest? And then hear Trump tell all of us we could go fuck ourselves if we did not agree to pay him whatever amount of money he considered fair, like some gangster trying to racket shop owners on the block, in exchange for his 'protection'? That's the real issue. At least, it's for me.

    I trusted such an absurd thing would not be possible in the USA, not as easily and not as abruptly. I was completely wrong.

    Trust won't be easy to get back.

  • Made Little Progress in Switching from Google, But Stuck on the root of the problem

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  • Got their reply this morning (it's early evening when I type this), useful but leading to one more question on my part. Wait and see ;)

  • New community for blood donors and the donor-curious!

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  • I can't resist mentioning your fellow (or should I say foe?) blood takers community, !vampires@lemmy.zip

    Sorry (partly, at least) for my silly humor, and welcome :)