That’s about the story of how am I about to try a fourth one in so many years. Gosh is it hard to find a good one ; taking the step to recognise you should see someone isn’t the hard part. Picking up your phone and call one isn’t the hard part. Fiding one that works for you is the damnedest hardest part of it, period.

Don’t drop it. Keep trying.

Debian c’est fort calmé, aujourd’hui une install de base demandera peut-être un ou deux “codecs” (pour lire des fichiers audio ou video non-libres) mais installer VLC suffit ; il doit y avoir eu un shift vers plus de praticité et moins de religion parce que lors de mon dernier setup c’était vraiment tranquille

Si on est allergique au côté megacorp de Fedora, je souhaite souligner que Tumbleweed vient d’opensuse qui, bien qu’entreprise classique, n’est pas un monstre comme RedHat

Enfin, ceci étant une discussion sur Linux, il doit y avoir Polémique et Mauvaise Foi : Arch m’a appris énormément, et suivre pas-à-as le process d’installation depuis leur wiki est à la portée de quelqu’un qu’on retrouve ici - Et il ne manque RIEN au bureau Gnome, c’est les autres qui sont relous de boutons partout et de menus de 10000 lignes (OP toutefois devrait jeter un coup d’oeil à la dernière incarnation du bureau KDE, ces possibilités de customisations sont ahurissantes)

Beaucoup de questions, mais sur Lemmy, demander une question sur “quelle distribution linux utiliser” devrait normalement te noyer absolument sous les recommandations

Spoiler (not a spoiler): Mint

Pour répondre à d’autres trucs, d’abord installer Linux est très rapide, compter 30 minutes si pas 20 quand tu te fous de l’existant et juste écrase tout avec le setup par défaut

Tu as trois machines ? Mais essaye TROIS linux alors !

• Ubuntu est toujours un bon candidat, surtout avec les mises à jours automatiques, pour les machines des autres ; ils pourront facilement installer des trucs avec l’app shop, les mises à jour de sécu se passent en arrière-plan, c’est tranquille, il ne faut intervenir que tous les deux ans pour les mises à jour système

– A noter, Debian fait ca aussi, très bien, et la version de base inclut LibreOffice, un client mail etc etc

• J’ai surpris Mint à foirer là où Fedora / Arch / Debian fonctionnaient mais c’était super-niche, hardware de contrôle DMX pour l’éclairage de spectacle

• Tu devrais juste prendre tes machines par ordre d’age, et installer comme suit :

– Fedora siur la plus récente

– Mint entre les deux

– Débian sur la plus vieille. Ou Arch. C’est rigolo Arch, si tu es un “power user” de windows, je dis, c’est faisable :)

Aussi, il n’y a pas que TeamViewer (que j’utilise pour contrôler du windows depuis la maison), il y a totalement la même chose en open-source de linux à linux

Si le laptop Yoga a un écran tactile, l’environnement Gnome fonctionne bien. D’ailleurs j’écris ceci sur un Yoga de 2017, i5, Debian, qui est ma machine de travail et là je vais te souhaiter le bonsoir, une bonne année et félicitations pour ta bonne résolution !

Have you looked into phones with the new virtual sims?

It’s too good not to be posted here :

The fact is that the world is divided between users of the Macintosh computer and users of MS-DOS compatible computers. I am firmly of the opinion that the Macintosh is Catholic and that DOS is Protestant. Indeed, the Macintosh is counterreformist and has been influenced by the “ratio studiorum” of the Jesuits. It is cheerful, friendly, conciliatory, it tells the faithful how they must proceed step by step to reach – if not the Kingdom of Heaven – the moment in which their document is printed. It is catechistic: the essence of revelation is dealt with via simple formulae and sumptuous icons. Everyone has a right to salvation.

DOS is Protestant, or even Calvinistic. It allows free interpretation of scripture, demands difficult personal decisions, imposes a subtle hermeneutics upon the user, and takes for granted the idea that not all can reach salvation. To make the system work you need to interpret the program yourself: a long way from the baroque community of revelers, the user is closed within the loneliness of his own inner torment.

You may object that, with the passage to Windows, the DOS universe has come to resemble more closely the counterreformist tolerance of the Macintosh. It’s true: Windows represents an Anglican-style schism, big ceremonies in the cathedral, but there is always the possibility of a return to DOS to change things in accordance with bizarre decisions…

And machine code, which lies beneath both systems (or environments, if you prefer)? Ah, that is to do with the Old Testament, and is Talmudic and cabalistic.

Be sure to click the link to a fuller version provided beneath this one. Eco is just excellent.

Driving 4 Answers

That guy is great !

Die Hard évidemment

One of the best films about war, of all times and genres. Incredibly powerful and, yes, quite a tearful experience.

This is an excellent list, that proves that as an individual there are things you can do to feel right about the world surrendering us. I’ll add, tho I’m pretty sure you are probably doing it already, that I don’t buy anything from Nestlé, Coca Cola, etc like you’re avoiding amazon. Not buying from megacorps goes hand-to-hand to not using meta/google/apple/microsoft services I think.

The Best Ever Use Of Real Military Assets, Ever

In my case, The rollback feature bricked its onw disk because on a 30g system partition, an install with a separate home partition (not included in the backups) will drown itself in factory settings backups.

It’s a great feature. Give it ample space and trim down on the all the snapshots afterwards.

I have a debian 12 with Unattended Upgrades as a work machine, and it works surprisingly well (I use Arch BTW) - it is probably the simplest way for you to be sure their browser stays up-to-date & keep them safe on this side

Issue with these updates is they happen “behind” and may need a reboot ; this is the only moment I found Debian to misbehave, decide to reboot & I get it when I see the machine updating some component before rebooting again

So this is the full extend of the training to give: in case of doubt, reboot.

I think gnome is perfect in that context also, the lack of Menu is just one hit on the Meta key away, which, if you trim down the install to their exact need will be accessible, confortable.

Oui, si dans ses paramètres il a autorisé le fait d’être “trouvé” sur signal via son numéro de téléphone.

Elle y était pour le boulot, c’est assez reculé et je le sentais pas de me greffer en touriste au milieu de gens qui bossent pour de vrai

C’est superbe là-bas

Mais je vais éviter leur confitures quand même ! Celle d’à côté c’est melon-menthe…

Elle m’a ramené des noix, super-bonnes !

There’s this brand of organic yogurt at my local shop that says “probably best before xx/xx/xxxx, but after that just lift the lid and have a sniff”

I think I remember 6 weeks as being absolutely fine once, and 3 weeks didn’t some other time.

Phishing par Signal c’est pas piraté / attaqué par une faille dans Signal, c’est tombé victime de sa propre imbécilité par n’importe quel biais.

Oui, on est aussi un imbécile si on considère que parce que c’est sur Signal alors ça doit être valide.

I’m still getting paid by check.

France, public administration.

I moan absolutely every time, and then hold on to it as much as I can to fuck up their accounting because unclaimed checks whacks their balances. When they phone to complain I call them palaeolithic morons & ask them to fucking wire the money already. I think my record is three months (I don’t work exclusively for them). Nice people and fun job otherwise but gosh, why the checks, seriously.

I dropped kindle when I stopped using any amazon services, I have a kobo now.

Any file transfer / backups are just that, plug your device and move files around ; as long as you organise your files as author > books, you won’t even need software to manage it. Of course Calibre does it very well, and will act as a backup or transition tool for you should you break your device. Buying books elsewhere and manually transferring them is as simple as that, as long as you buy from drm-free publishers.

You don’t even have to run the kobo native software, there are alternatives out there.

As DRM goes amazon was a finicky nightmare, and removing that shit from my extensive collection took some effort in order to get my books in my new device; it seems kobo has somewhat weaker protection and removing DRM from kobo-acquired books to be able to read them anywhere is simpler. The online kobo store does have a search tool for drm-free books tho, respecting publishers like Thor who do not use drm on their content (where amazon slaps it on everything. Jerks.) & these ones are truly free, will open anywhere.

As note taking / note keeping across devices I wouldn’t know, sorry. I only use calibre, and not much else of it than as a library management tool. Surely that device should come with some kobo app or piece of software that maybe include this? I use Linux so I didn’t even try.

Latest Clara is now usb-c and waterproof. Still inferior software-wise than kindle, rather slow where a paperwhite is snappy, no 3g network access, but decent enough to make it from being not an amazon product.

Ici mon fond d’écran :) le gagnant du concours de fonds d’écran pour la sortie de KDE 6 :

Non, pour les logiciels d’éclairage de spectacle le tactile est très pratique, leurs UI sont souvent pensées pour des consoles modernes qui incluent des écrans tactiles.