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Not the few communities I follow. Also I only read my Subscribed timeline.

I would love for a way to only see pictures if I click them, though.

Why don't desk chairs have seat belts?

Because unlike in cars there isn't much chair accidents? ;)

More seriously, no seat belt can help you sit correctly in a chair. What can help you, easily and cheaply, is sitting less. Regularly make breaks and get up, move do stuff that you can do standing up. This one is not cheap but using one of those sit/stand desks can help in that regard — I consider mine the second best health spending I ever made, the first one being: good walking shoes (another great habit for one's health is to walk as much and as regularly as one can).

No subscriptions? Sounds to me like you’re deep into a subscription to big paper, old man.

Well, I sure do purchase paper (and ink) but, unlike with stuff I would subscribe to, even if I would stop buying any more paper today I would keep a full and unlimited access to the one I already purchased, for as long as I fancy, at no extra-cost (1). Try that with a subscription, my young fellow ;)

1: the same with purchased films, series, music, licenses, books, and so on... Stuff I see no valid reason to keep subscribing to (I used to subscribe to many services), and enough good reasons to not keep subscribing to them.

I strongly recommend to switch to Darktable. You need 2-3 youtube tutorials for your start, because at first it is not intuitive at all. But then it is so much faster, easier and your results will be better.

Thx for the suggestion.

I tried it, already (as well as its fork, Ansel). It's too complex and definitely not intuitive, like you mentioned, and it's also too powerful for my humble needs. Really I'm more than happy with something as simple as Apple Photos and would use its Libre equivalent if I could find it ;)

So they named it Mozilla.

I had no idea about that.

I do remember how much I liked their various logos, be it those of Netscape and how madly I loved the old Mozilla t-rex logo — I still wear their old t-shirt from time to time, just because of that stupid but gorgeous head ;)

Yep, as well as for writing I must say. I'm no stranger to high-tech but I have yet to find a digital writing tool tool that makes me consider retiring my fountain pens.

Honnêtement tu n’es vraiment pas très clair. Si je mets une côte de boeuf au congélateur une semaine, pour toi ca devient un produit “préparé industriellement” ?

Non, ça devient juste un produit surgelé... qui n'est plus un produit frais, bien qu'il soit beaucoup plus froid :P

Or, tant qu'à dépenser des sous au resto (ce que ma motié et moi apprécions faire, on va pas le nier) on préfère dépenser cet argent dans une gargotte qui va nous servir des plats frais (et de saison) plutôt que des trucs surgelés, y compris la viande. Souvent, ce sera pas le moins cher non plus, mais si je veux le moins cher je le cuisine moi-même.

It may be surprising and it may not be a viable solution for many here but, as much as I can, I try to use... analog tools.

Analog tools have zero tracking, zero spying, zero code. They're also reliable, sturdy, long lasting, don't need daily charging, update, upgrade or subscription fees. They work great. There is no one to tell me what I'm allowed to do and to not do with my analog tool or how I must do it.

• Fitness tracking: pen and paper. Next to date of the day I write down in a pocket notebook all the exercises I do, the time I walk (and the approx distance). It's limited and there is no fancy graphs, sure, but I don't need more — and it works: I do exercises and walk daily, more than when I was still wasting too much of my time looking for the perfect device and apps ;)
• Agenda: paper agenda. I don't need sync and certainly not reminders or Notifications. I open my agenda every single day and look at the page to know what's up, so paper is more than adequate.
• To-do: lists in my notebook.
• reading: I quit reading ebooks because of privacy and long-term ownership concerns and now mostly read printed books. If you're curious to know more about my motivations to switch back to print, I wrote a couple posts on my blog (check the link in my profile).
• I draft all my writings longhand, using a (fountain) pen and paper... or a good old typewriter. I have yet to find a better/simpler/distraction-free/and less bugged way to write my first drafts, no matter how fast I can type on a computer.
• I take all my notes by hand, personal, research notes using an analog Zettelkasten. Yep I tried (many) apps, nope I don't want to use them (no hate, just my preference). I'm much more efficient (and happy) using a stack of A6/4x6 sheets of paper even though there is no Search button ;)
• I sketch by hand, using a fountain pen plus a small cheap set of watercolor I can carry everywhere.
• As for computer, beside the Mac and iPhone I still use (for business purpose and because it takes time to change habits, I have been an Apple user since the 80s) my personal computer runs GNU/Linux Mint (and another runs Debian). I would not want to go back to a Mac, and certainly not to a spyware-riddled Windows PC.
• Web: Firefox. I have always used it and I was already using it when it was not yet called Firefox — I started browsing the Web using Mosaic.
• Mail client: Thunderbird.
• YouTube: mpv (+ yt-dlp), or Freetube (this one has a a nice gui if you don't like the cli)
• Word processing + Spreadsheet: LibreOffice (unlike MS Office, LO has no tracking and no AI crap... and no subscription)
• Illustration: Inkscape, over Illustrator/Affinity Designer
• Photo edit: Gimp, over Photoshop but, here, I can tell I dearly miss the simplicity/ease of use of Apple Photos app and I will often use it on the Mac. Disclaimer: I'm no pro photographer.
• Managing images: Digikam, over Lightroom. Digikam is such a good app (for managing files, less so for editing them but it's still nice to use) and it is so under-hyped, I've always wondered why.
• social media. I have an account here and on reddit, that is all. To be exact, I have accounts on many platforms, I just logged out of them a few years ago — tired of the constant hate and anxiety they promoted and of people seemingly loving to feed upon said hate and anxiety — and never logged back in since then. Don't miss any.
• Edit: Seach I (happily) pay for the Kagi search engine. It works great, without any tracking or ads and with some really cool features.

Parce qu’il y a des produits qui se conserve très bien congelé, y compris la viande ou le poisson.

C'est certain, mais c'est pas le sens de ma remarque qui n'était peut-être pas très claire: je ne vais pas au restaurant pour manger quoi que ce soit de surgelé, que ce soient des produits frais comme préparés. Ça, je peux le faire, et je le fais, à moindre coût chez nous — mais uniquement avec des trucs frais car mon épouse et moi essayons de ne pas/plus manger de produits préparés industriellement.

On n'est pas pas des requins, pour qui tu nous prends? L'eau est grâcieusement offferte. Le verre, la table et la chaise par contre... Mais on a une formule Confort Premium tout compris, très intéressante, avec la serviette offerte. En papier la serviette, mais neuve :P

Bref, je sais pas si c’est ma culture Franco-italienne qui me rend relou ou si c’est les alémaniques qui n’ont aucun putain de goût, mais c’est souvent une déception.

Je ne me permettrai pas de juger des goûts culinaires des uns ou des autres, mais peu importe où un restaurant qui me servirait du surgelé j'appellerais jamais ça ça un restaurant — même si il était décoré d'autant d'étoiles que la voie lactée.

Mon micro-onde aussi est capable de décongeler des trucs. Et il ne me facture pas le 'service' ;)

You mean use a custom avatar and add a short bio + links? I do, but if you're thinking of anything beyond that I would not know where and what to look for, sorry ;)