Don't want to deal with admin/security stuff ;)
Libb
joined 2 years ago
I imagined myself like a new Dr. Frankenstein, trying to revive democracy from whatever little of it remained. Trying to and, unlike Dr. Frankenstein back in his days, pitifully failing at reviving it.
Those last weeks have been so... painfully filled with this ugly orange hatred and despise for democracy and for its institutions that I've not really been feeling like enjoying much hobbies, I must say. My bad, 100%, and I should not let those billionaires oligarchs and their Orange clown reach me like that. I should even be thankful to them! At last, they showed the world who they really are and what they stand for. Maybe that will create an electroshock? Probably not, oligarchs are everywhere and controls already so much of what we need. Now, they also know they don't have much to worry much about and the can do whatever they want. The orange bully and his billionaire pal, have took hold of the USA. I wonder how Putin celebrated that re-election? Probably a lot more than he celebrated all of his own...
Sorry, I should not have answered like that to your fine question. I wanted to be funny and post something silly. It's just I feel a little bit depressed or maybe a little more than that, by what's happening in the USA. And how easily it's happening.
So much this.
Stallman was and still is right probably on almost every single point he ever made. I'm afraid we will only understand that once it's too late if it not already is.
that's why, as a mere user myself, someone that will never be able to write a line of code, let alone develop an app, I still want my apps do be Free/Libre software. I want for those many more competent people all over the world to be able to identify any such a turd and flush them down the drain. I don't trust any corporation to do a good job at that, even Apple (disclaimer: I use an iPhone...)
I quit GitHub the day Microsoft bought it. I'm not a dev and I was barely using it but still I did not like that change. Now, I'm using codeberg.org which is more then enough for my needs.
You need better air flow.
I had the same issue as a student, when I lived in that pocket-sized 1 room 'apartment' with barely any airflow coming through a single and tiny window. The only solution I found to be working was, each morning, to lift the mattress and store it on its side with the bottom/downside face part of it not facing the wall, and let it like that for the rest of the day. The air would do its magic.
I also raised the bed frame that was very close to the ground.
I've been journaling since the late 70s, I started as a child and I'm an analog journaler. That being said, I'm also curious and always willing to experiment with new tools and I've used many. Some I've been using them for many years because them and I we worked great together. Tools ranging from the typewriter to the computer, the smartphone and the tablet. I've also used tape recorders (be it standard cassettes or the mini ultra portable ones, the MP3 player or, here again, the phone). I still own a mini recorder I use from time to time, it's a cool device but the sound is so... meh, at best. In the end, I've always come back to good old pen and paper. It feels like home to me.
The longest affair I've had it's with DayOne (Mac/iOS/Web). I remember switching to it almost the day it was realized, I can’t recall the year but back then the iPhone was still more or less a new product and the app itself was a one time purchase (no subscription) and was made by a small independent company. It was wo great I purchased the Mac version when it was released. It was groundbreakingly refreshing, and great, and cool, and so effing nice to use. I'm smiling just thinking about it. It felt almost as intuitive as using pen and and paper. I loved DayOne. As a long time user, I never was asked to pay when they switched to the subscription model, which is really nice gesture (I would still be able to use it without paying to this day) but I also realized the company changing hands (it’s now owned by the same that own… WordPress) was not going in the direction I wanted. So I slowly, and hesitantly, quit using Day One. It took me a few years to finally decide I had enough of the app as it was and to decide to fully commit back to pen and paper. I’ve not had any other serious affair since then, just a few flirts ;)
+1 to this. Beside our phones there is no smart device in our home (and when not in use, they're turned off and stored in a box to limit their ability to spy on us). No TV, no Alexa, no smart light-bulbs, no smart thermostat, no smart doorbell,...
Heck, I even stopped using my Kindle (and completely quit reading DRM-protected ebooks) because I had enough of Amazon 'monitoring' my reading habits.
F*ck that, I want privacy. If digital can't give it to me, I'm going back to good analog ;)
Also, as an ex-lifelong Mac user (started in the early 80s) our PCs have been running Linux for a few years now, and so far I've not morphed into some kind of geeky-hairy-creature. I'm still as bald and as neatly shaved as I always have been, and I'm barely any more of a geek :P
There is one Windows machine still running at home, the one my spouse must use for her work. That being being said, seeing how great the USA-EU relationship have been since Putin's orange angry puppet has started his new show in the oval office, and knowing the rather specific field my spouse is working in I would not be surprised if her bosses suddenly realized using Windows was not the brightest idea ever and decided to switch everyone to a less spyware-filled and a less US-owned OS alternative. We will see. Meanwhile, the webcam and microphone are constantly covered, and the PC itself is unplugged from the network (Ethernet only) and from the wall-plug after hours. Paranoid & excessive? Maybe... I'd rather be paranoid than be sorry I was not enough ;)
To the list one could add the French Clairefontaine and Rhodia (paper, notebooks)
I'm not a pro of these, but Isn't there also that hardware line of power-tools from Lidl, 'Parkside'?
I love this movie so much. First watched it as kid it made a deep impression on me. Still does, some 50 years after I first watched it.
I don't and I won't 'call it necessary, preferable and even desirable'. That's a nightmare that's being build right before our eyes, with the (often unconscious) complicity of a lot of us (me included, for many years).
Here in France, certain ideas are literally outlawed from any public discussions (it's in the law, what an impressive feat from a country so proud of its promotion of free speech). But it's everywhere and at every level, even in the way we've learned to not use certain words in our everyday exchanges or to not try to understand something a little better before condemning it—we do like all the people around us, we hate what and who we're being told to hate.
That's why I steer away as much as I can from digital means of communication. And do as much as I can offline and the analog way.
Younger people have probably never experienced it but good old snail mail (as well as in-person talks) is still private by default (that too is in the law, at least here, doesn't l mean it's above the law, which is fine, but at least it's private). Also, it's not tracked or algorithmically quantified and validated by anyone.
Mandatory disclaimer (because we live in this absolute moronic age of 'either you're with us, or you're against us' angry crowds): me protesting against the growing (self-)censorship of any idea does not mean I endorse any of those censored ideas. It just means that I think censorship is a terrible way to fight any idea. As history have shown us countless times.