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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/

  • Should I use firefox sync in librewolf, Is it private enough?

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  • what can be downsides?

    The same that pushed you to stop using FF the browser to begin with?

    I mean, if you worry about FF/Mozilla doing naughty things with your browsing data, should you not worry as much if not more about the data you ask them to sync for you and save on their very own servers?

    For the time being, it's not a definitive decision as I'm waiting to see what they will do next, I've quit using FF (using Waterfox instead) and for me not using FF obviously also meant to stop using their sync feature.

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    Where to request inactive or unmoderated communities?

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  • Jlai.lu is a very small French instance, in order to coral our limited number of users towards more active communities the admins had made the decision a while ago to put into a deep sleep state any inactive community. They very recently created this dedicated thread where one can request the reopening of any 'sleeping' community: [Meta] Demande pour les réouvertures de commu + modération

    A side-note and a suggestion for anyone considering requesting moderation role of an abandoned community on any instance:

    Based on my personal experience requesting the !journaling@sh.itjust.works, I would suggest anyone to create an account on the concerned instance to administer that community. I can say that the admins at sh.itjust.works made no issue giving me full access to the community after I explained what I wanted to do with it, but even as a the new moderator with full access I had constant bugs and issues trying to do my job from my main account from my own instance (I'm French, so I was administrating that community from my jlai.lu account). All those issues, 100% of them, vanished the moment I created a new user account on the same instance I was trying to manage and gave that account full moderation role. I've also read other similar accounts of people facing bugs when they tried to moderate a community from a different instance.

    A warning that may be worth adding in the OP?

  • Pens, pencils and watercolors made in Europe

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  • To be honest I thought they were two completely independent branches

  • Pens, pencils and watercolors made in Europe

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  • Depending on where you draw the line, Lamy might no longer count as a European brand, since they were recently bought out by Mitsubishi Pencils.

    Good point. The company is still in Germany, though.

    That aside, you’ve still got Pelikan,

    I should have mentioned them (I quite like some of their high-end fountain pens)

  • Pens, pencils and watercolors made in Europe

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  • You're welcome.

  • Pens, pencils and watercolors made in Europe

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  • Thx, updated ;)

  • [EN] ARTE - La plateforme culturelle européenne | Direct, replay et +

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  • ;)

  • [EN] ARTE - La plateforme culturelle européenne | Direct, replay et +

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  • In Germany public broadcasting channels have a teaching mandate. And Arte is the only channel that takes it seriously.

    Not taking that teaching job seriously? That would never happen in France /s

    It's such a pity... but it may also be considered a truthful mirror of what our societies really value the most, I suppose. Which would not be much flattering.

  • [EN] ARTE - La plateforme culturelle européenne | Direct, replay et +

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  • I’ve cancelled all my streaming services lately

    We cancelled ours approx 2 years ago and don't miss them, the only one still running (I canceled it earlier this years is Apple Music but it won't renew. We're back on DVDs + CDs and ripped files played on a computer... since we don't have a tv.

    In the same logic, after almost 20 years reading mostly ebooks, I'm back to reading printed books, for privacy concerns and worries about true ownership. If anyone is interested in reading more about that I explained it in my blog and could share a link ;)

    It would be great if we could assemble a list of European public broadcasters along with some relevant information

    Indeed. It could even be much more interesting for people like my spouse and I—we really don't want to own a tv and be force fed ads, but we will also admit it's not impossible to find some quality content here and there so knowing where to look would help ;)

  • PSA: There is a student plan for Le Chat Pro. 5,99 € + tax

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  • You're right (and I did not get it the first time ;)

  • PSA: There is a student plan for Le Chat Pro. 5,99 € + tax

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  • Not sure to understand what you mean?

  • PSA: There is a student plan for Le Chat Pro. 5,99 € + tax

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  • Older dude question here: are students so wealthy nowadays they can spend that much money every month for a single service? Heck, back in my 20s I could not afford most books I was required to read for university (I love you, libraries & used book stores). I also befriended the girl selling the tickets at the cinema, so she would let me in for free (plus, she was a cool gal too, I was not that hypocritical ;)

    Also, if we are to adopt EU AI instead of the US-based ones shouldn't they try their hardest to get more customers by lowering their price? Even more so in regards to younger customers, aka potentially very long-term customers. Or did I miss something?

    To me, those so called 'reduced' pricing are more like a worrying sign there is a growing disconnect between some businesses and their customers.

  • The difficulty around finding legitimate European brans (that aren't just fronts for Chinese products)

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  • Am I just being kinda overly critical and paranoid or are others noticing this?

    Hard to tell without knowing the product and the company. the final product may be assembled here, and some 'local' touch added to it, for which some warehouse should be enough, but I would imagine all parts/components are being manufactured somewhere overseas where labor is cheaper.

    And it won't change overnight, not even after our leaders suddenly have realized it may not have been the fucking brightest idea ever to get rid of our production capacities (and worse, to get rid of our skilled workers and our expertise). Those can't be recreated from scratch by political discourses. It will take a lot of time, will-power and efforts from all of us, and a lot of money. All things it looks like we're in short supply of (contrary to political discourses, those we have plenty alas nobody want to buy those ;)

  • [Jeudi Tech] Posez toutes vos questions !

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  • Oui, l'occase... tant que notre gouvernement ne décide pas de l'interdire ou de la taxer à mort... 'pour notre propre bien', bien entendu. Même les bouquins, si j'en achète des neufs j'essaye d'en acheter un max d'occasion (ceux que j'emprunte pas en biblio).

  • Affordable sunglasses?

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  • Maybe get a glass case? I have one (two) in my messenger bag, never broke my reading nor my sunglasses, no matter how badly I treat my poor bag ;)

    There are hard case and soft ones, depending your usage.

  • [Jeudi Tech] Posez toutes vos questions !

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  • Brother mais pas une multifocntion. J'ai une laser N&B chez Brother qui marche impec. J'ai récemment changé de modèle parce que la précédente (Brotehr aussi) est morte de son grand age (15 ans d'utilisation, pas mal). A côté de ça, j'ai un scanner (une ancienne multifonction jet d'encre Canon, dont je n'utilise que le scanner).

    Aucune ne nécessite de cloud, les deux sont connectée en Ethernet sur mon réseau.

    Edit: j'utilise Linux Mint, au cas où ;)

  • [Jeudi Tech] Posez toutes vos questions !

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  • J'achète du matériel pro d'occase pour faire... de la bureautique.

    Là, par exemple, j'utilise un 'HP Elidesk Mini 800 G6' (celui-là, ou pas loin) que j'ai payé 200 euros doit y a avoir 2 ans de ça. Il était livré avec 16 Go de ram et 512G de SSD, wifi et tout ce qu'il me faut (y a même la place pour mettre un second SSD en SATA, pratique pour stocker des données). Des modèles un peu plus anciens seront encore moins chers bien entendu, et pas moins bons.

    C'est tout petit, silencieux et c'est de la super qualité (boitier métal, pas un de ces trucs en plastique à clipser qui finissent toujours par casser). C'est aussi très facile à upgrader si nécessaire et à réparer aussi (toutes les pièces sont démontables facilement et standardisées, y compris le processeur).

    Mon modèle n'est pas le plus récent mais avant de la passer sous Linux Mint je l'ai utilisé un peu sous WIndows 11 avec Office 365 et ça tourne... parfaitement. Rien à dire. Idem pour Internet.

    Faut juste prendre un peu de temps pour trouver une bonne affaire sur des sites d'occasions comme leboncoin (ici en France, c'est ce que je recommanderais; ensuite prendre RDV avec le vendeur pour voir la machine sur place parce que bon une photo et un bout de texte ça dit pas toujours tout ;)

  • Affordable sunglasses?

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  • Have you tried analyze why you break so many? Maybe there is something you could do that would be even cheaper than buy cheap sunglasses?

  • EU-US rift triggers call for made-in-Europe tech

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  • Exactly like we did, my spouse and I also cook and we love that. Alas, it doesn't change what's happening (a boost in shit restaurants that are nothing but pretentious fast-food with a fancy name), it make us (and you) less impacted by it, which is nice ;)

    What's sad is that it's happening everywhere. Not just with restaurants, I mean.

    I see the same trend of restaurants becoming fast-foods everywhere. It's also happening with newspapers or media in general, morphing from news outlets trying to inform people (with a few real turd exceptions) into dedicated and obsessed clickwhores who can't be bothered to inform and with journalists whose sole worry is to grow their career (with a few real quality exceptions). And it's also in our education system. And almost everywhere else. More and more, people are settling on crap. They're ok with eating crap, wearing crap, thinking crap, doing crap, telling crap, and so on. Heck we're even ok with turning the entire planet into a huge pile of crap. The issue being that crap is bad for health.

    With restaurants, it's kinda sad but OK it's also not the end of the world as we can go eat elsewhere or, like you said, we can learn to cook.

    But when considering the media and the education? What can one do? At least here in France, but as far as I can judge it's the same in the USA, it's a real tragedy and a systemic failure at teaching kids anything. Even basic reading skills and math. There are still many bright kids, good schools and good teachers, that's no question. I'm referring to what kids are being taught in schools on average, and how. Which is what should matter in a functional democracy (rich people will always be able to get their kids the best education possible, they have the money for that). As it is right now, public education is nothing but a systemic failure that not many seem to care about, save regarding its cost. Too bad, as in the very short term it's those kids themselves that will have to pay dear price for their lack of education, by not being qualified and educated enough. On the longer term, it's the entire society that will pay a very expensive price, most probably too expensive a price, as one don't build a bright future when one's kids can barely read.

    Well, that was quite off-topic, I'm sorry for that. It's just... I worry so much about what I see happening, I worry more about that lack of education than I worry about all the braindead fearmongering talks happening around that orange racist & illiterate clown USA choose to reelect—another sure sign of the catastrophic situation a failed education system can produce: the USA may not realize it yet but as a country and as a super-power they're broken, deeply. And if they were to fight China tomorrow morning (it should not happen, at least not before they take some time recover from the kick in the nuts they just received from Russia), I would not bet as blindly on them winning like I would have bet on them anytime in the last century or so. I think we're on a very similar path here in France/EU, a path of extremely extremely proud idiocy and failure, but I want to think we're not that deep in that shithole yet, that we still could escape such a sad situation. I may be mistaken, somewhere.

    Once again, sorry for the rant. I hope you enjoy cooking your meals as much as we enjoy cooking ours ;)

  • Quelle est la chose la plus étrange qui vous soit arrivée et que vous ne pouvez toujours pas expliquer ?

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  • le fait d'être né et d'être vivant.

    Désolé, c'est sûrement neuneu comme réponse mais ça me laisse toujours incroyablement perplexe. Je ne parle pas tant de ma conception et de ma naissance, je comprends le process de reproduction et de mélange de deux ADN, la gestation durant laquelle ils mijotent (pas si doucement que ça) et puis la mise au monde du produit fini. Non, ce qui me trouble c'est le fait que ce produit, justement, ne soit pas un produit mais un être vivant et, apparemment du moins, un être doté d'une conscience de soi. C’est au-delà de ce que je peux comprendre… du moins sans me résigner à faire appel à tel ou tel type de foi, ce qui ne m’a jamais beaucoup convaincu.

    Et donc, presque 60 ans après que ce me soit arrivé, je reste toujours autant incapable de comprendre ce qui s'est passé. Toujours aussi ignorant. Et toujours aussi admiratif devant ce 'truc' qu'est la vie ;)