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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/

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  • Not the USA, that I'm pretty sure of (as a nasty European)

    But like other have suggested that's no civil war. That's instrumentalized unrest that serves a few specific interests in my, once again, nasty (& very uninformed) European opinion.

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  • If you want to know how to reduce the value of the dollar as a currency, you may want to look at what Trump has been doing since he entered Office.

    Otherwise, I'm not sure to understand the question.

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  • Toi aussi tu veux te payer le Groenland O.o ?

    Je peux pas me l'offrir (l'autre clown orange a fait monter les enchères), mais je serais pas hostile à l'idée que nous allions nous y établir ma moitié et moi... Enfin, ça c'était jusqu'à ce que ce bonhomme orange laisse planer le doute que si un soir on s'installait au Groenland, comme dans n'importe quel pays libre, on risquait bien de se réveiller le lendemain matin soudainement américanisés, comme dans aucun pays libre. Très peu pour moi.

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  • La question a peu de sens.

    Un dollar dans la main, disons, d'un petit enfant innocent qui va acheter des medocs pour sa vieille grand-mère alitée, est-il aussi débilitant qu'un dollar dans la main de Trump (ou dans ma main, allons-y) qui veux se payer le Groenland?

    C'est pas la richesse (ou la pauvreté) qui rend con. C'est comment on s'en sert. C'est qui on est. Comme pour le reste.

  • How to get over it and move on without being numbed out?

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  • Disclaimer: I speak as a 50+ (French) dude happily sharing his life with his spouse for the last 25+ years and counting.

    I am getting over it

    This may take time. What you need to not do is ruminating. Once a story is over, no matter how heartbreak it feels, it's over. The more time you spend grooming your nostalgia and regrets, the harder it will be to move on.

    If you want something, you do everything you can to take it. He just wasn’t emotionally mature and it sucks.

    I will completely disagree with this. Maturity is not doing whatever is required to get whatever it is one wants. Even less so in a relationship. Accepting the other is not the perfect faultless ideal person one may dhave dreamed of and then being able to listen and accept the other's limits, doubts, fears and, obviously, feeling that it's ok to share yours as well, is what maturity is supposed to be. At least that's how I see it.

  • people who have been on internet for too long when did you start hearing others complain about time going too fast on internet?

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  • +1 to that question.

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    If you had an irl evil lair or HQ, what would the elevator or dungeon music be? ¡Explain urself!

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  • No elevator. I would teleport. Or take the stairs (it's good for the heart). And no music playing either because music is always an hint at who's the bad guy in a movie ;)

    Maybe one could ear in the background the noise of my devotee evil assistant's mechanical typewriter because for obvious reason I would not trust any digital device to write anything related to my secret plans to conquer the world [here, one should ear a mad scientist laugh].

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  • I'm using them and I will keep an eye on that as I'd need more than one opinion article to consider it's time to leave them.

    The thing I'm really concerned with is not Infomaniak or any other corporation (I would not like to see any corporation decide they they have a right to raise above the law). My issue is with the men and women writing and voting that law.

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  • I doubt anyone here is looking to spend that much money to make a fashion statement.

    Sure, we would know it by now if 'fashion' was working at all to drive sales. And if it was, by now we would be surrounded by ads absolutely everywhere, and our landscapes would be filled with mountain-like piles of trashed useless craps that we would feel the need to regularly throw away in order to make room to buy the newest and latest whatever trendy crap. That's obviously not the case. Aren’t we lucky.

    Let me ask you this: for what reason do you think most people buy the latest $1000+ smartphone?

    Is it because they need the hardware, be it the titanium or whatever metal body because they regularly heat their phone so much that titanium is the only reasonable option? Or is because it looks somehow cooler? Or maybe it’s because they need more pixels in order to share a sharper video of, say, the latest revolutionary brain surgery procedure they devised? Or is it in order to share some video of their cat, or their latest shopping spree, or film themselves in front of whatever touristic destination they fancy visiting? Please, do note that I wrote 'most people' and not all of them, as I certainly don't doubt a few targeted consumers do indeed need whatever new features are made available.

    So, as a matter of fact, I do think a lot of people are more than willing to spend whatever amount of money they consider reasonable, be it a couple hundred bucks on e-ink device, or 1 million dollars on a diamond incrusted fountain pen, or even 50 billions to buy their own Twitter (which is also a writing device, mind you). Or do you think a 1 million dollars fountain pen write that much better? Hint: it doesn’t.

    Do I think the OP is one of those person? I have no idea and how would I know? But, contrary to you, I don’t care at all because I don’t think it matters.

    I simply offered a cheap (answering the OP exact concern) alternative to e-ink, an alternative I know is very often overlooked because, well, it’s so low tech (which is not great in a society that has a constant hardon interest for high-tech).

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  • Merci pour les infos.

    Je vais voir comment ça se passe. J'avoue que même si j'ai un compte piefed depuis hier, je préfère n'avoir qu'un seul compte à gérer...

    SI on migrait sur piefed, les comptes d'utilisateurs seraient eux-aussi migrés? Ou faudra le faire à la main?

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  • Seul les publi peuvent etre crosspostées, pas les coms.

    Ce qui est l'implacable démonstration que j'ai encore tout à apprendre mais au moins, à partir de maintenant, je saurai ça ;)

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  • Question technique con:

    Avec la fermeture de lemm.ee, certaines des instances auxquelles j'étais abonné migrent vers piefed.social. Quand je clique sur 'Join', il me porpose au choix de me connetcer ou de créer un compte piefed. On peut s'y connecter depuis jlai.lu, ou bien il faut se créer un compte là aussi?

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  • Thank you very much, you're more than welcome.

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  • As long as people know how to and are willing to socialize outside of the internet, and as long as they realize most knowledge is available outside of the Web (and away from those trying to take hold of it), they should not be that much different.

    BTW, that 'outside of the Web' place filled with knowledge are libraries ;)

  • [Meta] We're are discussing the options for migrating this community, we'll keep you posted

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  • Have you an idea on what instance you want to migrate already?

    I have had a real fine experience with sh.itjust.works (and with the French Jlai.lu, but this one is focusing on French language ;)

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    • 25 years and counting with my spouse. We've had our share of rough times but that helped us realize how lucky we were to be together and to realize how deeply we could rely on one another no matter what was happening.
    • Be ok with shit happening. Constantly.No matter how well one think they're prepared something can happen that will wreck havoc on their perfect plan. I mean that in a very pragmatic way, not as a metaphorical way of speaking. Stuff happen all the time and one can either cry and rage and blame the world, or deal with it. Imho, the least inefficient answer is to learn to deal with it.
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  • You got a point :)

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  • d’ailleurs bonne idée, je vais vérifier.

    C'est ce que je ferais, juste au cas où ;)

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  • So, Ive recently gotten back into writing and been thinking about how much more fun it would be to write Outside.

    I know it's not what you're looking for but since it's the tools I'm using for the exact same purpose you're mentioning, maybe they're worth suggesting?

    There is no copy paste, no edit, no syncing either but depending what you wish to write, you may not need that—I certainly don't, and I even prefer this to more high-tech solutions for my purpose.

    • It’s dirt cheap. Less than 30 cents for the Bic (I buy mine in bulk, normal price should be approx. 1.5€), and less than 3 euros for the notebook itself and they both offer at the very least a few weeks worth of writing autonomy. I reckon most countries should have local manufacturers for those tools (less shipping and less waste are always a nice option). Here in France, I like to use the French Bic ballpoint pens and the French Clairefontaine notebooks/papers (it also helps that they’re excellent products)
    • It works great under the sun, on the beach, at the pool, or under the rain. Ballpoint ink is waterproof and quality paper (like in this notebook) can work under the rain and it can even be immerged under water. It will buckle but it will be usable (and readable, if one is using a ballpoint or a pencil) after it dried.
    • Highly portable. It fits in any pocket (and small bag), and the Bic sits nicely within the spirals so no risk of losing it and I never need to search for it.
    • It needs no charging. It needs no software or firmware updates. It has no bugs.
    • It works great with any pen you fancy, be it this cheap Bic pen or some multi thousand € fancy fountain pen.
    • One can use it to write absolutely anything. Poetry, the next best-seller, a secret plan to conquer the world, a list of errands,... You can also use it to sketch, to mindmap, to outline, and so on.
    • It’s not unbreakable but one will need to put in some real effort. Meaning the thing can take a few beatings without any issue. Plus, if it’s too damaged, it’s cheap to replace.
    • Thieve appeal? None. Try letting a tablet or a phone, even a cheap old one unsupervised on any table in a public space…
    • Privacy? OK, it's not encrypted but at the very least no corporation is spying on my notes, ever. And I'm free to write anything I fancy, without worries.
    • Backups? None. I don’t need any since I use for quick notes that I then reuse back at the desk: ideas, dialogues, short descriptions (a few keywords will often do it's rare I need to write complete sentences), or stuff like that. Even stuff I want to write about in my journal (that stays at home) I will simply write a few quick words so when I read them back later one I will remember what it was all about.
    • Icing on the cake? Zero distraction. No social, no games, no Notifications to distract me, and no endless settings and tweaks for me to use as an excuse to fool around and to not be writing ;)

    I know it’s low-tech and not trendy at all, but it works great and have been doing so for... centuries (for the notebooks in its current form) if not for millennia (handwriting) and has been used by many authors whose work we're still enjoying/admiring to this day.