Pareil pour moi, d’ailleurs: zero souci.

Même mes Airpods marchent du premier pocup sous Mint (c’est d’ailleurs pour cette raison incroyablement essentielle que je me suis décidé à switycher à Mint: j’arrivais pas à connecter mes Airpods avec les autres distros… Comme quoi j’ai des exigences dans la vie). Depuis, je suis vraiment tombé sous le charme de Mint, faut pas croire que je suis que superficiel comme ça ;)

Par contre, j’ai jamais aimé BT et je l’aimerais jamais. Même quand j’étais sur un Mac.

C’est malin, tu me donnes envie d’une gauffre de gauffres.

Je ne cherche pas à blâmer. J’observe juste comment ça impacte ma capacité à faire des choses ou, plus justement, comment ça me contraint à faire des choses que je n’ai aucune envie de faire et, surtout à mon âge et malade, pas très envie d’y consacrer du temps non plus.

Cela ne remet pas en cause ma reconnaissance envers le Logiciel Libre et ses auteurs. Comme je l’explique dans le blog, cela souligne surtout une des raisons dans ma distanciation d’avec la high-tech informatique, libre ou pas: les frictions imposées. Apple avait aussi des bugs pénibles et là, pour le coup, si les probabilités que Apple se soucie de mes signalements n’étaient pas nulles elles étaient quand même assez faibles… surtout ces 15 dernières années, où tout a profondément changé chez Apple.

Je pense que c’est le petit addon que j’ai instalél pour facilement/rapidement switcher la sortie audio depuis le Panneau. Mais il va falloir que je vérifie ça, ce qui ne se fera pas en 5 minutes…

D’où mon agacement (excessif), je pense ;)

Le souci c’est que tout est déjà câblé (et aucun câble ne passe par l’écran) ;)

I’m a 50+ dude, married for 25+years and I have no idea who this Andrew Tate is nor who young men identify to nowadays (I wanted to be Michel Strogoff and an astronaut and Maria Callas too, as a little boy) but I would say that it was enough for me to read some of the comments (way too many of them) in this discussion to get a pretty good glimpse of what may be causing such a split. At least partly.

Could it be that young men and teens are growing tired of being told they’re a threat (to women, when it’s not to the whole society) or, when they’re not a threat that they still are a nuisance, just because they have a dick and because that dick may sometimes grow bigger and harder when they feel attracted to another person?

My childhood was what today’s press would call ‘traumatizing’ (and not just once, mind you) but at the very least I did not grew up afraid of my dick getting hard because I was attracted to someone. And I was never too afraid to ask that person if they felt the same interest and if they would be willing in exploring it further together (more often than not, I was being told ‘no’).

For the rest, one simply needs to add a lot of partisanship, militant certainties and self-proclaimed righteousness with hordes of so-called experts and journalists that have no clue what their job is supposed to be about (hint: it’s not about making the buzz and not about collecting page views, or Likes) and then, on top of that, add a handful of smart-ass people (some real assholes too) that want to profit from all that stupidity that is raging-on everywhere, in every ‘camp’.

It’s easy to tell people, boys and girls alike, what they want to hear and nothing but what they want to hear. That they’re right, that they’re great and that the other group is just assholes that hate them. And to profit out of that.

It’s so easy that I’m seriously starting to wonder if the next generation or maybe the one after them will still be able and willing to make love or even just to enjoy some intimate good time together, and to make babies by themselves? Maybe I should invest a few cents in whatever startup will undoubtedly show-up and try to profit from that situation. Pretty sure I would make a fortune…

Sad times, indeed. I will go make some coffee and pour a cup for both my spouse and I.

Edit 1h later: you’re welcome to downvote till the end of times if that helps you feel any ‘righter’ in your opinions, or if it helps you think you’re punishing me (really?) but may I remind you that without any explanation no amount of downvote will help me understand any better why you disagree with what I wrote. Also, I won’t be able to read or contribute any further to this very interesting exchange we’ve had so far as I’ll leave for a long walk to and back from a tiny bookshop that is set nearby the Seine. A real nice shop and a real nice and long walk which means that, taking into account the fact I will probably spend some time there chatting with the lady owner (there are much are closer bookshops to our place, like a lot closer, but I really like how she works and how she really cares to help customers find the right book for them and not just try to shove them whatever the latest trendy book is and be done with them. So, I shop at her place). Considering all of that, I shouldn’t be back before at least 3 hours. PS: our cup of coffee was great.

I journal on my desk and everywhere I go.

My actual journal never leaves my desk (the old ones are lined up on a bookshelf not far away). So how do I journal on the go? I used to use my phone a lot, I had been using the DayOne app since it was first introduced (and I loved it) but I’ve switched back to analog full time and see little incentive for me to ever move back to digital as I want my privacy to be respected.

So, to journal on the go, like I used to do through the late 80s up to the early 00s (at which time I got my first Palm PDA which lust be the piece of tech I’ve liked the most), I now carry a small pocket notebook in which I quickly jot down thoughts, events, anything I want to add in my journal later on. Quickly is they key elements here as I don’t want to waste my time writing two times the same stuff so, I quickly learned to devise my very own shorthand system to take notes real quick and, in the evening that day or sometime later during the week I would be able to transfer them down into my real journal in plain Engl… French ;)

Without that shorthand system which is nothing complex (a few symbols, abbreviated words in a single letter and silly stuff like that), I’m not sure I would not use my pocket notebook as much as I do (which is all the time as I even use at home, when I’m not in front of my desk). It’s really quick and it really does save me a lot of time.

So what would it actually take to get you to switch? I’m all ears.

Nothing. I switched a few years ago. On Mint, from Mac.

What prevented me of doing it for many years was my own fears—it must be difficult, it’s too complex/geeky for me (hint: it was not)—and my own habits as I had been using Apple computers since the early/mid 80s. After my switch, what almost got me to switch back to Mac was all the ‘moral’ codes of conduct I saw popping out. I mean, what the fuck was wrong with people telling users what they could and could not do in a very similar way proprietary software with their EULA were doing!? thinking that if I had to deal with that same level of shit why not simply keep using a Mac? But then, I realized those were only a vocal minority.

I don’t miss much from macOS, beside Spotlight. This was so useful and so well integrated into the system.

Sorry for this depressing as post but I don’t have anyone to really talk to

Don’t feel sorry.

Have you considered writing in a journal? I started as a little boy myself (now well into my 50s) and it helped me tremendously all my life and still does to this day.

As a child, I could certainly not speak with my dad or my mom despite or because of the things that happened to me. Even ignoring my family, a lot of my thoughts I simply could not share them with my best friend as he would not have understood most of it. Writing in my journal, discussing with myself in my journal, was my way of dealing with that absolute loneliness (after I quickly learned to make said journal unreadable to my inquisitorial mother that would quickly find it and read it no matter how hard I tried to hide it)

r/simpleliving or, more exactly, a more active version of it since the community is there: [email protected]. And more people participating in the [email protected] community too but hopefully we’re slowly getting there.

Now I’m seeking advices from people who turned their life in a positive way by writing journals as a first step

I’ve been journaling since I was a 7-8 years old boy (now nearing my 60s). Don’t worry about pausing your journal. It’s not a job, it’s your journal. If it can be compared to anything, it’s a tool. You don’t always carry your hammer with you when you don’t need it, right? Neither do I. So, I’ve had plenty breaks where I did not use my journal at all. Ranging from a few days to a few… years. That’s fine. I know my journal is there, when I need it.

Not blaming yourself for not journaling can also make it simpler to get back to it. I mean, if you don’t feel bad for not writing in your journal you will not hesitate to re-open it and start writing in it again.

It doesn’t matter for how long I’ve not been using it, I never feel bad starting again. IN reality it even feels great as it’s a lot more like meeting one of my best friends I had lost touch with for a long time, and we’ve so much to tell!

Now I’m seeking advices from people who turned their life in a positive way by writing journals as a first step.

That’s a bit vague to suggest anything.

What I can say is that it helped me all my life. When I was a little boy going through what people nowadays would call some serious trauma, as a teen going through that thick and seemingly endless stupidity period I was stuck in, as a young adult when I decided to change life (I quit my well-paying job and decided to live a much more simple (and poorer) live). And so on, up to this day. It also helps me face mistakes I can make. It helps me even for more mundane things… simply by allowing me to take a step back from whatever it is I’m journaling about, allowing me to look at it more calmly, to think about it in a non-emotional way (or less emotional).

Like you already realized it’s great to feel more in control too.

It also helps me keep track of stuff I simply want to remember in the long run. Last but not least, it helps me be more present too. How? Journaling helps me be more attentive and so does sketching which I also do in my journal—badly and, exactly like making pauses, I’m 100% fine with that.

What helps me journaling almost daily nowadays is that I made it as simple as possible: I don’t try to make nice sentences. I don’t mind making mistakes and crossing out stuff. It’s a work-in-progress that will never be finished. One day, I will be gone and I won’t be able to write that one last sentence: ‘today, I died.’ ;)

For years, I had been using some a digital tool of some sort (word processor, journaling app, voice recorder, whatever) but I’ve come back to the analog way, good old pen and paper, because I never felt the same connection using digital, and because I don’t feel confident writing what are sometimes my most intimate thoughts into something that is connected to the Internet or worse, that is stored online, an app that can read what I write and do god knows what with it.

My journal stays at home. So, to journal on the go (which I always do) I use a small pocket notebook I carry with me. Somethig xheap with a cheap ballpoint pen I don’t mind losing. Later on, I copy whatever is in that pocket notebook to my ‘real’ journal. To make it quick to write on the go I don’t write full sentences in that pocket notebook, I use my own shorthand I devised along the years.

If you have other (more specific) questions, feel free to ask them.

BTW, you (and anyone else reading this) are more than welcome to join the [email protected] community. I’m the admin and I would love to see more people share their experience/doubts/questions, like you just did. Hopefully that would motivate others to start doing it as well.

All those ungrateful tourists that can’t stand the idea of getting mistakenly deported into a High Security Salvadoran prison and then being left to rot there because ‘yeah, it’s kinda annoying but we can’t get him back, you know’.

If I were the all-mighty orange dude, I would put a 146% tax on every single tourist that is refusing to come spend their money in the USA! They’re nothing but traitors! They should pay! And maybe I would invade their country, to show the world who’s the boss.