Thx a lot, that’s quite spot on :)

Sorry for the delay, I’m busy testing out https://piefed.social/u/Libb Not sure if I will be staying on Jlai.lu/lemmy or move there to be honest. Both have strengths and both have their flaws ;)

Screw us always more, why?

Same. I would have left long ago if that was not for that setting and without a careful selection of whatever community I subscribe to ;)

My only blocked content is a few people who I can’t be bothered reading again. I also have two words blocked: Trump, Musk just to make sire 99.9% of the shittiest content is filtered out.

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Sure but you still have to believe and trust Filen

Obviously, like I must trust anyone involved in the whole process of me using a computer/phone to do anything. From the maker of my device (that it doesn’t contain some spyware out of the factory, I remember an issue like that with Lenovo and another with Sony), to the app I use but also my ISP (that in France is legally required to keep all my online activities for a few years, btw) but also the maker (and the seller) of my keyboard hoping that they too did not add some spyware or keylogger.

As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I moved a lot of my activities offline is me realizing my inability to trust (corporate-owned) digital tools to actually respect my privacy. The simplest solution for me was to remove as much as possible of that tech from my workflow ;)

Depends what you use cloud storage for obviously.

Indeed.

ok, but requiring standard TOTP 2FA is one thing. that can be perfectly privately and without any real issue.

I see at least three issues: the extra cost, the extra layer of complexity it introduces, and the almost complete loss of autonomy it creates. Exactly like with public transits in many places switching to digital tickets instead of paper ones, save that it’s much worse when it concerns our ID and personal security/authentication.

but that and mandating the usage of an app with built in snitching and which refuses to work on non google-approved devices are different things.

That would not be an issue at all if there was no requirement/expectation to use any phone or device of any kind to begin with. To me, that’s the real point worth considering but it’s also a point very few are actually willing to consider because ‘technology is always the solution, never the issue’ ;)

This is not irrelevant if you just don’t want to bother with encrypting them or with having to deal with a locked folder (I think I understand what that would be, but I’m not sure). Filen does encrypt the folder(s) I tell it to encrypt and sync them to its cloud storage. I have nothing to manage once I’ve setup the sync(s) I need. Different solutions for different needs… and different types of users ;)

I use it too, as well as Infomaniak KDrive (not E2EE)

I’m not a gamer, but gamers have my entire support. That industry, like so many others, needs to be reminded they’re not supposed to be making the rules.

There are ALLOT of people

You lost me right there. ‘a lot’ is purely subjective and is not much of a fact. I mean, there are 8 billions of us on the planet. So, what is a lot? How many ‘people on the Internet who adhere to almost a religious orthodoxy to Left Wing values’ have you personally met ? 10? 100? 1000? 10000? 100000? More? And how (what criteria) did you count them?

Have you guys ever considered going an opposite direcrion?

Have you ever, and why would that be different for anyone else that is not you?

Les lunettes et les verres que j’ai sur le nez pour te répondre ont presque 5 ans. Je vais bientôt changer les verres (pas la monture) parce que ma vue change (je suis suivi de près par un docteur des yeux, j’ai juste pas eu besoin de nouveaux verres depuis ce temps): je suis passé il y a quinze jours chez un nouvel opticien qui a été surpris de voir leur état qu’il a qualifié de ‘neufs’ ;)

Le revêtement peut s’user plus ou moins rapidement, d’où l’importance de :

• Délicatement les nettoyer. Jamais avec le t-shirt ou la chemise, ou la robe ou le chemisier (ni la tenue de plongée), sauf exceptionnellement (sérieux, une exception càd pas parce que c’est plus facile comme ça). Edit: et quand tu dois vraiment le faire à l’arrache, toujours souffler dessus avant, sur les 2 faces des verres: pour enlever le max de posusière et ajouter un peu de buée
• Pour les laver, j’utilise du… liquide vaisselle sous une filet d’eau courante et je nettoye les verres doucement avec la pulpe des doigts, pas de spray ni de lingettes ‘pour les lunettes’. Le liquide vaisselle est vraiment super, je connais pas mieux.
• Les ranger dans un bon étui quand elles ne sont pas sur le nez. J’ai des étuis un peu partout chez nous (2 sur le bureau, en permanence, par exemple) et, en déplacement j’ai toujours au moins 2 paires avec moi (de près + de loin) voir 3 paires en été (une solaire pour voir de près). J’ai donc toujours soit 2 soit 3 étuis rigides (et solides) dans mon sac
• sac où je range j’ai aussi 2 lingettes microfibres neuves de réserve (sèches, pas celle livrées avec un produit nettoyant).
• Je ne lave pas ces lingettes microfibres. Après un certain temps, pas long, dès que j’ai un doute en fait, je prends une nouvelle lingette. C’est un réflexe que j’ai pris tu temps où je faisais de la photo: le risque est bien trop réel qu’une poussière ou une merde microscopique reste dans la microfibre et raye le verre, vous niqant bien profond, toi et ton optique hors de prix (ou tes lunettes). Me demande pas comment j’ai acquis une telle sagesse ;)
• Je bricole aussi un peu. Pour ça, j’ai gardé ma précédente monture et mes anciens verres qui sont encore assez bon pour ce genre de situation où ils risquent de prendre des coups.

Trump va-t-il envoyer un bombardier survoler Lyon pour (aimablement) nous rappeler que c’est les USA seules qui décident de ce qu’on a le droit de faire chez nous? Edit: ha ben non, je suis con pas besoin d’un bombardier (même aimable), quand il suffit de nous coller des taxes de douane…

Hmmm analog nudes and porno

• With another person(s), that would actually be called having a sexual relationship :P
• With pictures, well, if I recall correctly one has found erotic paintings in Pompeii (destroyed in 75 AD). So, yeah, pornography or at the very least eroticism is kinda older than your average youporn clip watched on a phone ;)

Not as old as Pompeii, not by much some could say, people used to read erotic magazines when I was kid (I knew where my dad kept his hidden) and used to watch video tapes which were like the modern youporn but offline, without ads, without tracking and without any need to use a VPN or to be able to prove your age…

The default home feed: out of the box, it puts too much shit in the face of newcomers.

Once filtered out, it’s great but one must first learn to filter the noise out which, I’m pretty sure, is dissuasive to a lot of non-geek users like myself.

Merci!

Effectivement, y aurait peut-être moyen de moyenner qqe chose. Pour ce qui est de ma ‘suggestion’ (qui n’en n’est pas encore vraiment une: j’ai parlé de ça en passant, perdu dans un commentaire), y a pas vraiment eu de réactions… à part la tienne ;)

Peut-être ça mériterait un post dédié? Mais je reste persudé que bcp de monde pourrait apprécier de recevoir (et envoyer) une carte postale ou même une lettre… à l’ancienne, avec un joli timbre même. Sans rien de digital, quoi. Un bête objet… mais qui serait chaque fois unique.

J’ai pas encore trouvé de moyen (France-friendly, pour ainsi dire) de préserver la vie privée des uns et des autres. SI seulement on pouvait facilement ouvrir une boîte postale, la question ne se poserait plus trop.

if you self-censor, probably ;)

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

1. 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 ;)
2. 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.
3. 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:

1. test the the live CD and
2. 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 ;)