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Libb

@ Libb @piefed.social

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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.

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    How long can someone last with the Death Note in real life?

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  • I would say at least as much time as it takes to get an appointment with the real Santa Claus (not with one of those many actors, malls & shops everywhere are using to lie to kids) times the time it would take to tame and then to train the Easter Bunny, persuading it to lay actual eggs instead of chocolate ones.

    But it could be done much faster provided one can somehow get Rumpelstiltskin to transform gold into straw. Which is rather difficult.

  • Are fines rescinded when the person is gone?

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  • Like mentioned it depends the law/country/situation. Best course of action would be to contact a lawyer, but this will cost money.

  • Is there any point for a normal user to compile a custom kernel these days?

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  • Your question is one of the two reasons I love GNU/Linux so much, and will not go back to proprietary tools ever again :)

    Even tough as a very average user myself I would never feel like compiling my own kernel, and would even less know how to do such a thing, I know it's a possibility and I know other users are doing it. And that is a possibility only because of the freedoms we the users are given by the GPL to do... what we want. To me, as an ex-lifelong Apple user (I started being their customer in the early 80s and only switched full time some 7 or 8 years ago to GNU/Linux) this is amazing and wonderful freedom.

    Sorry if I have not replied precisely to your question but reading it I realized it was a great demonstration of what freedom is supposed to mean, and I felt like sharing it.

  • Calvin & Hobbes 3.0

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  • Would it work for me if I embroidered a 't' on my many socks?

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  • The Web (the WWW, upon which all websites are build) is less than 40 years old... I know this may seems like an eternity to younger people but it's younger than me and during that short period of time a lot of 'popular' websites have vanished already.

    So, yeah, all websites will probably end up going away. Even more so those belonging to Google (like YT) who is known for not minding killing perfectly fine websites and services...

  • I need a new computer - which would you recommend?

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  • I was really surprised how easy Mint went on, everything worked the first bootup.

    Yes, Mint is my other system (on my main machine) and it runs buttery smooth. It was running ok on the C2D but not as smooth as Debian... but what OS could run as smooth? ;)

  • I need a new computer - which would you recommend?

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  • I have been a Apple user since de early 80s (yep, I'm that old) and switched to Linux somewhere 7 or 8 years ago. It all depends what you want to do and what are your expectations (how willing you're to change your habits and the way you do things: Linux is not a free version of macOS, it will demand learning new ways and changing habits) but I've had zero regrets. No, that would be a lie as I have one tiny regret: I should have switched to GNU/Linux a few years earlier.

  • I need a new computer - which would you recommend?

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  • 150$? Like suggested, buy an external drive. If not, buy a used thinkpad install Linux on it, and be happy (at that price, unless you're rela lucky, it will be an older model and I'm not sure how well Fedora would run on such older hardware though).

    I run Debian an a... Cor2Duo/8g ram Thinkpad for very lightweight tasks (text writing, simple website browsing (no YT and script heavy things like that), local music and video playing (here again, not YT) without issue. Not fast but real usable, with a great keyboard.

  • Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?

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  • What is it like here in France? I don't have to lose sleep at night because I can't afford the cosmically expensive medications that are the only thing keeping me alive. Edit: well worth the many taxes I pay...

  • Those in countries with universal healthcare, what's it like?

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  • Some provincial governments are purposely underfunding healthcare in their provinces in order to make it worse. The purpose behind this is to try and push for more private healthcare.

    Some are trying similar things here in France. They've been doing that with many other public services too.

  • Linux users are insane! /pos

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  • I see. Let's see if the damage can be undone by enough 'new' readers, then ;)

  • Calvin & Hobbes 3.0

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  • :)

    P.S I don’t use ai

    But then how do you plan quickly becoming a gazilionaire?

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  • Aren't people free to call it how they fancy? Or are you one of those persons that think people are wrong the moment they don't like what you like, and don't dislike what you dislike?

  • Linux users are insane! /pos

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  • I don’t get it why you are being downvoted.

    Linux users, man! I have so much respect for the older people who are so used to using CLIs

    From that remark, I get that you're on the younger side of the spectrum yourself. Fyi, nearing my 60s, I consider myself on the older side.

    As an older person, I only started getting into CLI in my early 50s and really into it in the last few years, when I decided to actually learn to use Bash and scripts to get things done.

    It's amazingly efficient for some tasks. Heck, even some image edits (which are by nature very graphical) are much simpler and much quicker done with the CLI than using any GUI. Things like image compression, converting from one format to another, resizing, things like that. And also, obviously, batch processing said images.

    Now, considering that between younger you and older I there is most ages represented we can safely conclude that the ability to use the CLI is not age related: I’m no more an expert of the Terminal than you are. At best, I may just have started using it a few years earlier than you.

    The question now becomes this: how come most of us have never been educated to actually using CLI tools, instead focusing on GUI (like I have been) as if it was more ‘logical’? How come most of us still think of the CLI as some 'wizardry' tool reserved some 'elite' users while the mouse as natural? It is not.

    It’s mere text commands. Text being something we have all learned to read and write as very young kids. Or, at least, we're supposed to have learned that. Text commands should not intimidate us. Think about it: in order to be fluent in English how many thousand of words is one supposed to master? What about grammar? The Terminal is no different it has words and grammar.

    Now, one may want to ask schools/teachers why is that they decided to normalize the GUI instead of the text-based interface. Why go the most demanding way of doing things in terms of resources? Why, using Apple or Microsoft or even Google, pick the one tool that gives us (and kids) the less control over it?

  • Would it make sense to have a list of "Retired Questions"? - Questions asked so often and with no real change in answers that they're deleted on sight - if so, what questions would you pick?

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  • You mean, kind of like a FAQ? Most people would not read it, alas.

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    Calvin & Hobbes 2.0

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  • Nah... I'm waiting for the Freemium 3.0, coupled with its AI powered Hobbes, it will be so much better.

  • A quick shoutout to Mullvad

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  • Mullvad are like a drop of hope in humanity in a sea of shitty and shady business practices.

    Alas, VPNs are quite high on the endangered species. Largely thx to countless clueless, when they're not plain full dishonest and working in their very own interest, representatives doing their best to make our societies a much shittier place for the rest of us.

  • Dads say response to support club in Beeston is 'overwhelming'

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  • A smart idea and a smart attempt at creating something useful, wishing them the best.

  • Today is May Day, for those in the US. If you are in the US, what are you doing, today, right now, to stand up and make your voice heard?

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  • I'm only reacting (which is what commenting is about) to

    expecting crickets or apologies

    I will let anyone decide for themselves how to read that, including the OP.