Libb

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OK, merci :)

oui qui ne soit pas jlai.lu. C’est impossible de garder le meme nom de domaine pour PieFed car ça va poser des problèmes le fédération.

Dommage, mais on va trouver un autre nom, je sais: 'jlaivu' :p

The two big things for me are 1. I don’t want to use the command window for everything, or really much of anything, at least at the start. and 2. I currently use Proton VPN and I’d like to use it on this new laptop too. Unfortunately, based on what I saw on the Proton website, if I want to use it on linux it looks like the only way is to get it on Ubuntu, Debian, or Fedora using the console.

Complexity: have been using Linux Mint for a few years and I'm not an expert at all (50+ years old lifelong ex-Mac user, to give you an idea I got my first computer in the early 80s and it was an Apple). Everything worked out of the box (including my Airpods, and back then at least it was the only version of Linux that was able to connect to them). I don't think I never was forced or expected to use the command line... but I slowly started to use it out of curiosity and I learned to appreciate it's efficiency and now I love using it but that's by choice, not out of necessity ;)
Proton VPN: you need to understand that most distributions (version of Linux) are 'clones with a few variations' based upon a very few limited 'originals' distributions. Ubuntu is one clone that has become very popular but in reality it's based on Debian, and therefore it uses Debian installer package (DEB). MInt being based on... Ubuntu also uses Debian installer. And so is Kubuntu. So, if there is a DEB installer, there is a real chance it will work on most Debian-based distributions.

Proton: it's command line. I use it too (I'm a paid subscriber to their service, just not their VPN, which is good), but the VPN I use is Mullvad... which is at least as good and has a graphical installer ;)

Just for reference, uhhh how easy is it to fuck up the process of trying and then installing a linux distro? Like completely-make-the-computer-unusable fuck up? Because that’s my biggest fear

Testing from the Live CD/USB, there is zero risk of damaging anything. That's one fo teh first thing I fell in love with testing Linux myself ;)
Installing Linux on the computer, well, shit can happen. They are not usual but they can happen. Hence the importance to test it live before to see that most things are working all right. Using a distribution like Mint things should dead simple just following the graphical installer. The last time I installed Mint, it took me less than 10 minutes total (from the first click to me booting on the new installed system) and most of that was the installer downloading packages and installing them while I was drinking my coffee) But that's the exception if you use something like Mint (I preach for my own chapel here because I know how reliable it is) with its integrated graphical installer. You simply click a few buttons and answer limited few basic questions like what will be your user name, what is your time zone and do you want to encrypt the disk (you probably want that at least on a laptop so if it's stolen your data will be safe from thieves). It's real quick process. That also was impressive coming from macOS (installing any new Mac takes way too much time, a lot more than it used to back in the old days.
No matter what version you decide to use ALWAYS BACKUP your personal files before installing a new operating system. It's a bit like opening someone's chest and removing their heart before putting an new one. It's... well, better be safe than sorry. Do you value your personal files at all? Then you should have backups, and not just during install. At any time.

Also, I’m kind of confused about how updating things works on linux

With Mint, you regularly will get a little pop signaling there are updates. If you don't like Notifications (I don't), you can simply ask it to deal with updates for you and to not bother you (I almost never have to update anything myself). Then, from time to time there is a 'major' upgrade, from one version of Mint to the other. Here again, Mint will kindly let you know when everything is ready for your computer (which will not be the exact same day the new version is announced to the world, there is no hurry), it will tell you if anything needs your attention (and why) and do the upgrade for you (reboot required).

For all my life I thought in terms of simplicity Apple was the way to go. That was until I tried GNU/Linux Mint ;)

P.s. I’m sorry to make another “what distro do I use” thread, but I had some questions that I didn’t see answers for in the other threads. And honestly, I’ll feel a lot more comfortable with switching if I feel like I’ve actually talked it out with people who know what they’re doing.

Don't apologize. The best thing to do do would be to:

test the the live CD and
keep using a 'noob' friendly distribution like Mint (there are obviously others, I'm just totally bluffed by how well Mint worked out of the box, and how reliable it has been for the now 4 or 5 years I've been using it. And, yep, I tried quite a few other distributions before settling on Mint ;)). Being 'noob friendly' doesn't mean they're a lesser kind of Linux, say, not as complete as Arch (which is another kind of amazing distribution, just less easy to begin with). It just means that the technical part, at least most of them, have been taken charge of one way or the other. The moment you need the more advanced/powerful tools, they're already there, waiting for you to start using them: it's 100% full GNU/Linux just less intimidating ;)

I sit at my desk, at 4/4.30 in the morning and I start writing, longhand, in silence (my spouse is sleeping in the next room, so is the entire city around us, and so are our noisy neighbors who will have turned off their stupid blaring box, aka their TV). Later on, I will start hearing a few birds singing, which feels amazingly good and motivating, and then a little later I will start hearing the roaring of engines vehicles invading the streets—which feels a lot less pleasant to me, and is the signal I should quit writing. Then I prepare breakfast for the two of us, probably picking up some fresh croissants at the nearby bakery.

So, not much of a ritual for me beside waking up early (which is something I've always done) and enjoying an almost undamaged silence.

Super!

Compet créé sur Zulip. Byebye, Matrix.

Aucun souci pour passer sur piefed en ce qui me concerne. Par contre, 2 questions cons:

J'ai déjà un compte piuefed, est-ce que je dois faire quelque chose autre chose?
Si on migre allons-nous perdre nos posts/commentaires? J'ai tenté d'importer mes données depuis jlai.lu sur ce compte piefed et, sans surprise, ça a importé ma block list mais ni les posts, ni les commentaires. Du coup, s'il faut les considérer comme perdus lors de la migration je préfère le savoir tout de suite pour déjà migrer mon compte principal sur piefed que je n'utilsie pas pour le moment, pour éviter de perdre davantage de contenu ;)

Sur Zulip, nous avons ouvert une discussion pour trouver un nouveau nom pour l’instance piefed. Des idées ?

Un nom de domaine tu veux dire, qui ne soit pas jlai.lu? Désolé si c'est (encore) une question con, mais je suis pas vraiment doué pour la technique ;)

France and, yep, depending the bank (I have multiple), they all push you to use the app but some will not even allow you to open an account without the app. Even traditional banks will push hard to use the heir app, I mean.

Digital ID is not mandatory yet, but using online services can be a lot simpler using some sort of IDying and, at the very least, one better have 2FA, or something better, configured on the phone for any type of access that is worth securing.

Fingers crossed & thx :)

I agree and sincerely hope so.

But pessimistic me also can see them decide the EU is too much of a pain, which it indeed is, and that they could make as much if not more money with their new 'best allies/customers/friends' (which happen to also have a lot of money, like the EU, if not more) in those somewhat less democratic countries with a lot less rules... And who would care about democracy as it's obviously its way out, in the USA as every where else.

I hate our government so much

Hate is of little help, I'm afraid.

The question would rather be how such a sad situation could happen? Alas, I fear answering to that question may not be as pleasing as blaming one guy, no matter how poorly educated and ill-mannered he is, or even a group of people (and btw, not just in the USA many Western countries are playing a very similar sick game). And trying to fix that will take a lot more work, and a lot more time too, than just putting someone else in charge.

Probably because, I'm not a fan of using highlighters

The typewriter never really existed. It's a fabricated lie to make us think we have been existing for some time. In reality, there was nothing before the digital age. Then, Adam and Eve, and Apple, met and the rest is the real history we all know.

Happy (Intergalactic) Typewriter Day, to all of us ;)

They want to stay by themselves? That's fine by me. But then they should also stop exporting their Hollywood and streaming turds (as well as their shit food). That would only be fair. And maybe also stop behaving like if they owned the entire planet?

Easy: make your data offline. Or even better, analog.

But the USA would never do that!

They only play by the rules, and they're the nice guys. Not the kind that would suddenly tell their partners they could go funk themselves because they changed the deal and that we should pray they don't alter it any further.

They would not.

That’s a good tip, thank you.

You're welcome.

Eh. Maybe I will remove this post so as not get reminded more of my stupidity.

Maybe it could be very useful to someone else reading it.

Nah, cheers on ya lad. Helps hearing sanity amidst equally purposeful chaos. Good people in France, good people in America, good people all over.

I would be tempted to say 'Amen to that' but since I'm not a believer and, more importantly, since I know how 'Amen' is frowned upon but this time by another bunch of self-proclaimed defenders of the good values (aka censors), I will simply and enthusiastically say +1 ;)

I don't think I need to spend that much money on my current hobbies. But I obviously could

A real lot of pencils, a lot of Bic and a lot of paper to write with (and to make paper planes, too). Like a good chunk of a lifetime worth of supply :p
A lot (but already a little less) of top quality watercolor paint (that I don't need to enjoy my hobby watercoloring), too many top of the line watercolor brushes (that I don't need for my hobby either) and a lot of excellent watercolor paper (that I may enjoy using but still don't really need for my hobby ;)
The entire line of Caran d'Ache 'Luminance' colored pencils and the entire line of Faber Castell 'Polychromos' colored pencils, in multiple examples. But why would I need that many colors when I use maybe 10 or 12 regularly?
I do a lot of scratch building also using... cardboard. SO, a 1000€ would buy a few decades, centuries?, worth of cardboard and fresh hobby blades too. But since I mostly used recycled cardboard from old packages and parcels... I won't need to buy those.

Back when I was making scale models (plastic planes and tanks) I could have easily spend that In a couple hour in any hobby shop worth shopping at, buying a few fancy model kits, too much paint and some of the fancier tools, plus reference books. Or on a single camera lens, but that is another hobby I quit practicing. Or on some rare books... which I also quit collecting. It looks like I won't be able to spend much money :p

Like with every single other day of the week: I welcome it and do my best with whatever it gives me.

Some parts of the US population are so intellectually fucked up, it's hard to believe witnessing it from the outside while also knowing perfectly well how fucking smart and bright other parts of the exact same population are at the same time.

But fear not, dear USA, you're not alone in that dumbefuckery shitshow your're putting on for the world to see as we have the same kind of morons thriving around here, in France, too. They too like to (try to) ban and forbid stuff, they're just a tad dumber than your own dumbfucks.

Once they will realize banning books is not enough, I suppose they will ask for laws allowing to take them out of our private home, and burn them, to show how bad those books are. Like some other absolute assholes already did some 80/90 years ago.

I'm sorry for being so negative. It's just... They're exhausting. I wish they would take some rest, once in a while.

We have people telling us the earth is flat. Them saying so doesn't make our good old planet any flatter ;)

I mean one can find excess absolutely anywhere, that doesn't demonstrate much imho.

Libb

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