A 50-something French dude that’s old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
Indeed, Europe have high value industries (and not just our respective countries, France and Sweden ;). We would not lose much quality-wise. Europe has only stopped being autonomous after WWI and WWII, we’re not doomed to remain like that. But we need the willingness to change that, no matter how painful.
My old laptop was very slow and laggy. I wiped it clean from Windows and installed Linux Mint. Now it’s like it’s brand new, I’ve come to rely on shortcuts and features that don’t exist in Windows and I love how all the unnecessary resource draining bloat is gone.
I did not wipe clean my old desktop running macOS, also I was not suffering much from bloat on macOS (I suffered of the lack of repairability). After 40+ years being an Apple customer, realizing they would not come back to selling upgradable/repairable devices, I just stopped replacing my Mac by a newer Mac and instead purchased a (much cheaper &) used Mini PC (HP ProDesk something) on which I installed Linux Mint and came to the same conclusion as you.
That was 6+ years ago and I did not miss the Mac once. My only regret? Not having made that switch a few years earlier…
I feel like I’ve been subject to some psychological fallacy where I’ve assumed that the most popular alternative is the best and it’s been eye-opening to realize it’s simply not true.
I can share that feeling but I also feel like I also have way too lazy, personally, all those years by not bothering considering ‘local’ EU alternatives and sticking to US-based tech out of a lifelong habit of using them. In that regard that sad election and the (unsurprisingly) pitiful shit show that followed had a real positive impact by forcing to stop relying on as much US-based products as I could, and to check in my own part of the world what was available.
Side note regarding that dangerous laziness, probably also a very naive note: as a French, I hope our German friends will realize their government could very well be as lazy, at this very moment. How so? By insisting on keeping on purchasing an other very specific type of US tech instead of European-made alternatives (and yep, disclaimer, that alternative could include my very own French tech): US weapons.
The EU should question that choice which hurts real bad, and is only made in the hope of maybe preserving something that I think is already gone, for good. Something that will hurt the EU even more long term by weakening our key defense industries and any hope the EU can one day stand its ground against the US absurd demands and can one day stand alone. Maybe the US and the EU countries can remain partners, and members of NATO, I would see no harm in that, but we can’t rely on the US anymore and certainly not on something as critical as rearming ourselves. I mean, we should not rely on them even after (if ever) the Trump is replaced by another POTUS because, as we witnessed, there was barely any opposition from any US institutions or persons in power against his shit show and his wreckage of our 80-years old alliance which means we should take it as a fact that the US don’t give a fuck about our alliance, and we should stop hope for the good old times to come back. Those times are gone.
Depends what you mean by data sharing and what exactly you expect to get out of it (E2EE?) but in most case I would also suggest Infomaniak Ksuite. It’s really good and not expensive.
We met online some 25+ years ago. We met by accident, while we were discussing with other people about some topic. We then started chatting just the two of us, through email and phone and after a (short) while we decided to meet (just to have a drink and diner). We met and that went quite well. So, we met a few more times and one day, rather quickly to be honest, we decided it would be a lot simpler for both of us if we just started living together not planning on anything special or anything long-term, no commitment… 25+ years later, we still live together ;)
The danger of a poster being less neutral than a moderator seems small to me.
Imagine this: I disagree with your reply (not saying I do, just pretend I do), and since I’m also its moderator, I simply delete it (and if you repost it I block or ban you. And that would just be me not liking someone daring contradict my own little comment.
More seriously, I think this would be a real huge source of trouble: people IRL already have a hard time to stand critics. That’s worse online.
The person who posted would be the moderator for that post.
In theory a moderator is expected to be neutral in regard to what is being posted/shared (be ok with conflicting opinions, for example, even ones that completely oppose the OP). At least, in theory.
Someone posting something will seldom feel neutral regarding what they just posted.
Why is one bad but the other is acceptable?
A bit like being nice and polite would seldom be frown upon but acting like a dick would?
Things like !outofcontextcomics@lemmy.world ?
Then, I can suggest a couple dedicated comics communities
Daily, at least once in the morning and later in the evening. A lot more often whenever it’s possible. Summer and winter.
God knows I’m hostile to the marketing shit filled world we live in, but ads are… there would not even be a society without the ability to advertise, aka to share information (be it paid for or not) with other people.
The issue, my issue, is with marketing.
Any insight into this besides useful idiots saying advertising is good or necessary would be greatly appreciated!
A single one? That may be too little to be helpful but here it is: insulting people is probably not the best way to attract them to your cause.
edit: typos/ missing word
“Don’t waste my time with your hate or anger (and maybe try to stop wasting your own time too?)”
Disagreeing is to be expected and even welcomed in any discussion. I also don’t mind people not sharing my views, and I don’t even mind people not ‘liking’ me (why should I? We’re not living together). I do mind ad hominem attacks, insults and bad faith arguments, because those are not a discussion anymore: the idea is not to exchange contradictory arguments anymore but to somehow hurt the other person, or to hurt their reputation in the eyes of other users. The moment I realize what’s going on, I will block the person doing that. (edit: I will not try to discuss any further, nor try to explain other participants what I just realized, I will simply say “thx, have a nice day”, or something like that, and block them once and for all)
They are free to keep on throwing insults (and non-sense) around if that’s what they want their online presence to be… exactly like I’m free, literally freed from wasting a second more of my own time reading them. That’s not worth it.
Edit: clarifications
I don’t shop fashion, which means I may not the most qualified to answer your question, but I still do shop for stuff so maybe I can still answer ;)
I only care about a brand when I know it offers quality products (or not). I care much more about the place I will purchase something as I like to know I can rely on a good customer service if anything was to happen.
Interesting, to say the least. Would you happen to have any source about that mass poisoning?
Isn’t there already enough labels?
And like you said: who will bear the cost of that nth label?
If reading is like a drug. And a drug, consumed in large quantities, produces disease. Then reading, in large quantities, produces disease.
It’s logically straightforward.
Not any more than saying ‘if cold is hot than too much hot can freeze you to death’. As long as the premise is not true (not a fact) no valid conclusion can be made out of it.
In your situation, saying “if reading is like a drug” doesn’t magically turns reading into an actual drug (the ‘if’ part is key). It still is an hypothesis that need to be demonstrated/validated.
I’m using Waterfox: privacy respecting and AI-free fork of Firefox.
That I understand (I can read ;)), what I don’t understand is how you manage to come to such an odd conclusion. Based on what?
Welcome onboard ;)
That was the last piece of Apple tech I replaced too. I would have loved to buy an e/OS/ phone but it was too worrying to not be able to find reliable info regarding the compatibility of those very few specific apps I need. So, I went with a stock Google android… and since I tend to make the device I own last as long as possible, it seems it will be my phone for at least the coming 7 years ;)