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  • "Montagsblues": Auch Rentner haben montags noch hohe Stresswerte

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  • Hmm ich bin noch kein Rentner, und Online-Einkauf ist bei uns auch Standard, aber irgendwie fehlt mir da was.

    Man kauft immer das Gleiche, weil's in der "Zuletzt gekauft"-Liste ist, und man im Online-Shop (zumindest unserem) nicht an Dingen vorbeischlendert und denkt "Ach, das hatte ich lange nicht mehr ...". Ich finde, selber in den Laden zu gehen, ist inspirierender, man hat 'nen Grund, aus dem Haus zu gehen, hat ein bisschen Gewusel um sich rum.

    Insofern, ist vielleicht kein Altersstarrsin, sondern einfach ein Prozess den man als erfreulich empfindet ..

  • ich⌨🇩🇪👍iel

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  • Oh, Cherry Stream ... meine Lieblingstastatur ...

  • Geburtenrückgang : Ja, Kinder wären schön, aber ...

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  • Eine Sache, die hier nicht erwähnt wird, ist, welche Stellung das Kinder-Haben im Leben haben soll, bzw. was die Erwartungshaltung ist.

    Mein Eindruck ist, das Kinder früher(tm) irgendwie in's Leben eingepasst wurden, während heute die Erwartungshaltung eher dahin geht, das das ganze Leben dem Kind angepasst wird, was dann natürlich zum Eindruck der starken Selbstaufopferung führt ...

    Früher sind viele zur Grundschule gelaufen, zur weiterführenden dann mit dem Bus ... heute scheint Elterntaxi fast Standard.

    Mit Kinderwagen in die Kneipe oder zur Feier? Macht an sich kaum jemand, das Kind muss in's Bett. Als ich Kind war, haben mich meine Eltern an sich einfach überall mit hingenommen ...

    Kinder, die ohne Aufsicht den ganzen Tag draußen rumrennen und Unsinn machen, sind dem Hörensagen nach auch seltener ....

    Kann natürlich sein das mich mein Eindruck da trügt.

  • Europeans would swap planes for trains... if they could

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  • Night trains (the sleeper trains, not the ones where you have to sit and they go at night) sound great in theory but, after having taken one once, I'm not sure whether I'd enjoy it as a regular means of transportation.

    I don't think it would scale and thus would always be pretty expensive.

    I had to push my heavy luggage up high into a compartment above the beds, and navigate in very tight quarters, which works fine if you're young and have no back problems, but older folks might struggle.

    I traveled in a 2-bed compartment with my partner, not sure whether I'd enjoy a cramped 6-bed compartment.

    I'd much rather have a good connection in the morning and enough space on the train to use the trip as a work day (remote worker privilege, for sure) or reading day, and arrive in the evening, or, if the distance is very long, have affordable accommodation at the major train stations (not overpriced hostels with a club in the courtyard, which happened to me in Paris once).

    So all in all, I feel like the sleeper train thing seems more of a touristy event-thing than a regular mode of transportation, at least if other options are available ...

  • Europeans would swap planes for trains... if they could

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  • Sorry to disappoint you ... in Barcelona-Sants, you have to go through one ... not the body-scan thing yet, but you have to pass your luggage through a scanner, there's a line, and you definitely have to bring some time, be there 20 min before at least ...

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  • I get that ... It's just my impression that the "can't teach an old dog new tricks" mentality is pretty prevalent in general and people might read an article and use it to confirm that mentality, see a phrase like "critical learning period is closed" and say "see, why even try". Not you personally, just to be clear.

    So I didn't want to leave that uncommented because I think despite that we should foster a culture of learning at any age.

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  • It might be scientifically accurate but I think the notion of an age cap is misguided. Just because it's harder doesn't mean it's impossible, and the idea of an "age cap" just makes it seem like you shouldn't even try (might just be my interpretation).

    Also it's just super helpful to learn something even though you're not perfect.

    I've started learning English at 10, put in a lot of work over the years, and it got to near-native in my late 20ies (certified by my language-nerd native-english-speaker wife). At 20 I had trouble booking hostel rooms over the phone.

    In my 40ies now and I feel like most of the skills that make "me" today, including playing instruments, programming languages, all kinds of crafts, I learned way past ten and many of them past 20. Started learning Spanish at around 35, nowhere near native but decently conversational. About to start the next course in Catalan soon.

    So, this is the one thing where I think people just should ignore the science (which is usually not my stance at all) and get cracking, you can teach an old dog new tricks, and it's always helpful and fun.

  • Atomic Linux Distros: What Barriers Stand Between You and Making the Switch?

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  • I have to admit, when it comes to new developments in the Linux world, I tend to live under a rock ... never switched to Wayland, not because I have any ideological reservations, but because my favorite WM (a minimalist WM developed by a friend of mine) is available only for Xorg.

    I had heard about NixOS before, but until I stumbled upon this thread, I didn't have a good understanding about what an atomic distro is. Now that I have a bit of an understanding, I guess I can only repeat what others said before, it seems to be solving a problem that I don't have. I've been using rolling release distros for a very long time (at first Gentoo, like, 15 or more years ago, but Arch (btw) for over a decade now, with occasional, typically short stints in Debian-based distros), and the amount of problems caused by updates has been negligible for the last decade (Gentoo overlays 15 years ago could be a pain, for sure).

    It does sometimes bother me that my OS config seems to so ... static these days, but then again I have so many things going on in life on that I don't feel a huge need to prioritize changing an OS that feels blazingly fast to use, stable, minimalist, and basically checks all the boxes. It just became my high-productivity comfort zone.

  • What was Linux like in the 90s

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  • Hmm my first linux distro was Suse 5.x that came on 5 CDs (i think it was 1998) ... can't say I used it much, I had weird German ISDN Internet at the time and the PPPoverWhatever (forgot the exact name) just didn't wanna work. Making music wasn't really feasible at the time. It mostly lay dormant. I slowly climbed the learning curve and switched to Linux full-time in the mid-2000s, when a lot more things were possible ...

  • What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?

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  • My first ever smartphone (in 2015) was a BQ Aquaris 4.5 Ubuntu Edition that came with Ubuntu Phone pre-installed ... a lightweight, 4.5" smartphone ... there wasn't much of an app ecosystem at the time but I didn't miss it because up to that date I used a dumb phone, and the smartphone allowed me to do eMail and use a browser, which was enough for me.

    At some point I accidentially dropped it on a hard floor and it broke, and I was quite unhappy that the company didn't continue that line :(

  • What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?

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  • I guess it depends a lot on what you think of as "an alternative". I'm really happy using FOSS because I generally try to find a different angle on things, and it allows me to do that.

    Luckily I'm not dependent on using common office software, the few spreadsheet tasks that I need can be done with online tools, either open or proprietary. For documents I usually use markdown and pandoc. For music making, I use my own software or Ardour for mastering, etc. For modeling and 3D printing I started using OpenSCAD.

    There's also many things that proprietary software just can't do. Like, my day-to-day workflow is based on a minimalist approach to computing, with the most common operations being very easy to perform (browser, editor, terminal) ... MacOS is always hailed for their great UI but honestly, it seems slow and clunky to me even though I used it daily for a long time ...

  • What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?

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  • Second this, I've tried TinkerCAD before and the whole Idea of CSG started to make sense, and then I found that OpenSCAD does something very similar, just with code ... I find it very satisfying ... I guess if you're making highly asymmetrical, organic shapes, you might have some puzzles to solve ... but I'm mostly making loudspeakers, so basically boxed with holes, and it's not a huge problem.

  • What programs do you wish a good FOSS alternative existed, but doesn't or most of the FOSS alternatives simply aren't good?

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  • Hmm I think the issue is that Ardour is more focused on recording than electronic music production ... There's more intuitive DAWs out there but I suppose in terms of what it can do it doesn't have to stand back ... compared to ProTools I'd say it's still quite intuitive (not a high bar for sure).

  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • hmm I might be biased because I'm a programmer by trade, and even make music with code, so describing things as code is pretty natural to me ... but I once I got the hang of it I found it easier than TinkerCAD in some sense, because there I would always get lost in the stack of objects ... and FreeCAD ... well, I couldn't even get a basic box designed ... 😅

  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • Yes :)

  • For me, it's going to be Fediverse or nothing

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  • Meh ... I wish there was a middle ground. Non-corporate, yet effective. Unfortunately, the Fediverse is only the first.

    Discovery algorithms can be great, if applied with care. And I really think ActivityPub is not very effective at showing interesting stuff, while from a user perspective it's super intransparent. Personally I'd prefer a centralized user experience to the Fediverse fragmentation any day ... I guess I'm really only here because I'm fed up with corporate bullshit.

  • What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts?

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  • OBS for streaming is amazing.

    Ardour is a pretty amazing DAW that can compete with proprietary ones. There're also loads of FOSS plugins out there that don't have to hide behind the commercial ones. My favorites are the Calf Plugins and the Luftikus EQ for mastering. Helm and Yoshimi are great synths. Pure Data is lightweight and can compete with MaxMSP.

    Krita has already been mentioned.

    But, I think what strikes me most is that there's a lot of FLOSS software out there that just doesn't have direct proprietary counterpart. Small command-line tools like FFMPEG or ImageMagick. Linux as an customizable OS. Programming Languages to make music like SuperCollider. I never learned how to use proprietary CAD software but recently got into OpenSCAD to model some things and it's really fun once you get the hang of it. I don't do this professionally so there's no need for me to learn Fusion360.

    Some have a bit of a learning curve but are all the more satisfying to use once you get into them. People are just too stuck in their "industry standard" (which really just means "the most common product that has been around the longest"), but if you're not bound to that, there's just a huge number of programs out there that allow you to do amazing things. That to me is the beauty of FLOSS.

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  • An FreeCAD hab ich mich auch schon mehrfach aufgehängt ... selbst einfachste Dinge erscheinen da sehr kompliziert, und ich hatte bisher nie den großen Durchbruch ...

    Wollte einen kleinen Lautsprecher 3D-drucken, und in der Zeit, die ich FreeCAD-Tutorials studiert hatte, hatte ich mit TinkerCAD schon zwei Iterationen des Prototyps in der Hand ... und sogar Spaß dabei ... klar ist TinkerCAD nicht vergleichbar mit professionellem CAD, aber ich wollte ja auch nur 'n Kiste mit Löchern drin machen ... dafür ist 'n volles CAD-Programm eh' overkill ...

    Halbwegs intuitives CAD Ist tatsächlich noch 'ne große Lücke im FLOSS-Universum ...

  • HLI: Die Begriffe "soziale Medien" und "soziale Netzwerke" sind (mal wieder) eine Fehlübersetzung aus dem Englischen

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  • Sprachkritik in allen Ehren aber so scharf abgegrenzt sind die Begriffe, so scheint es mir, dann doch nicht?

    Auch im Englischen spricht man gelegentlich von "social housing" ("charitable housing" hab ich noch nie gehört), "social services", "social security" usw ... während man im Deutschen auch von der "sozialen Ordnung" spricht ...

    Insofern passt "soziale Medien" schon als Übersetzung, würde das nicht als "false friend" bezeichnen, beide Bedeutungen kommen in beiden Sprachen vor ...