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Experience is great so far but I have send my very first help request... yesterday evening. Will see when/if I get an answer, but it's not even about any issue just a question about some stuff I could not understand ;)

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have you tried infomaniak? They also have a calendar and an online office suite... and their free plan is nice (paid user here) ;)

My English is probably lacking (for that, I apologize), but I don't think I treated like 'anything' special. I only shared my point of view on what you expressed which is, you know, the exact purpose of any discussion. Hopefully.

Not sure why you’re treating it like an attack on society.

I consider giving up on any word an attack on society, that's true, for the reason I mentioned: language should be a common good, it should not be divided between groups or communities owing each a part of it. That's all I wanted to say. By no mean I consider what you or what anyone else could say an attack on anything or on anyone.

Or are we already at that point of entrenchment where anyone disagreeing with an idea is considered an 'attack' against that idea?

I don't think being 'non-religious' mean we should give up on words used religious people.

Believers in one god or another don't own those words. Non of them. They belong to all of us. They're words that belong to our common vocabulary and language. Nobody should be allowed to claim any ownership and exclusive usage.

If we start creating different vocabularies depending one's own system of beliefs, if we start limiting the use of certain words to certain groups of people (religious or, say, related to this or that specific color), where will that end? And then what common ground will we have remaining? What common language? How will we be able to keep on discussing together if we don't share the same language?

To use a Biblical reference, do we really want to create a new Tower of Babel and... are we that pretentious we think can act like if we were a god ourselves? God damn, I certainly don't. Heck, no. Fuck that.

That's just my 2 cents, obviously.

(50+ years old talking, so you know ;)

In France we have this saying “La bave du crapaud n’atteint pas la blanche colombe” (toad’s spit can’t reach the white dove), meaning no matter how naughty someone is they simply cannot hurt you, you're so much above them and you're so pure.

1. Like others have already said: you're not a failure. You're a young man that’s just starting his adult live.
2. Be aware that some parents may have a hard time seeing their innocent little daughter dating someone. And they can make the ‘date’ pay for that.
3. There is also the fact that, no matter how old and how successful you will ever be, most people you will meet will have some idea about who you are and what you're worth as a person, even before they get a chance to really know you. We all do.
4. And then, many people are mean. They're also plain stupid (no matter how many diplomas they've hanged on the walls of their study) and most of them are incredibly coward too, like really, and impotent (not sexually, I mean it more like they lack any willingness to fight and to endure a fight). So, the moment they think they face someone weaker than them (that's what they think, doesn't mean they're right), aka someone they can bully or belittle without much risk for them, they'll show who they really are: mean assholes.

What kind of weaker person would they show that to? I don't know, say, they may consider the dude that is dating their precious daughter is rather unlikely to punch them in the face, or to tell them they should learn to behave like adults and not brats (and, imho, that dude better not do any of that) ;)

You could probably very easily outplay them at their own stupid game but, imho, the best option is to completely ignore them. You're dating their daughter, not her parents.

Don't waste any more of your time with them. You're still very young but, believe me, time is precious and it flies so fucking fast. That girl likes you? And you like her? Enjoy being together and forget about their parents being assholes (the world is literally filled with assholes, I'm sitting on one while I'm writing this ;). And maybe it's time you start considering getting a small place of your own, so you can be together without any parents to ruin your time together? That could be worth it ;)

Honestly, I never considered the way to name it, but yes why not. That said, I tend to not judge people on their job nor on how much money they earn no matter what. For me, a job is what most people do to be able to afford what they need to live their live I'm much more interested to know what they do with their free time and how they think about things ;)

Market reflects uncertainty and fear (or their exact opposite: hope and confidence) it doesn't cause them to begin with. So, no.

Could a poorly thought-out and poorly applied economical and radical geopolitical policy change bring the world closer to some kind of war(s)? Sure. It already did so in only 3 months.

For the first time in almost 80 years I see moderate people in my country, France, not radical anti-americans, real moderates, considering the USA as the real threat to our security and to world peace (and I may include myself in that count)... I would not be surprised the feeling was kinda similar, if not much worse, for Canadians, Greenlanders and, quite obviously, for Ukrainians.

Unskilled labor is unskilled not in the sense they don't have any know-how or value but in the sense of the job itself not require a lot of qualification to be done.

An experienced manual worker has a lot value to any competent boss hiring them, or then the boss is rather incompetent, but the manual work required to the job is not comparable to, say, the skills required to be able to do brain surgery, or to write some marketing bullshit to convince million people that they need to buy a new car or phone, or that they should elect the most illiterate racist asshole candidate they could ever pick as their president. Those are all 'skilled' labor but, here again, that doesn't mean they have any intrinsic better quality just that they required (a lot) more preparation/learning.

Just in case, I wrote a little more in details about my impression, what I like and don't like, on my blog (ignore the beginning of the post if you're only interested in Filen itself) ;)

that's how I understand it.

Data is encrypted during transfer and also on their cloud, using a key only you have access to.

Using them. Quite decent if a little bare bone. I wish for their notes app to be leaner to use but beside that it does exactly <hat it tells. Also, I quite like that, unlike so many clouds, I don't have to move all my files and folders to a 'filen' folder, it can sync as many folders as one needs, even on external drives.

If you can, wait for their Black Friday deals, prices are fine but they're even better then. They also offer more options for lifetime plans if you're more interested than in monthly sub.

When creating you're account, try to get an affiliate link before creating the account, as you will get double the free storage to begin with (20, instead of 10GB) and if you later decide to sub to/purchase a plan you have to keep that extra storage as a bonus. In case you need one, here is my affiliate link so you or anyone else using it can get the extra 10GB—and, nope, I won't get anything out of it anymore, as I already did get all I was promised (up to 3x10GB more free storage), and yep, I did keep them l when I upgraded to one of their lifetime plan ;)

25+ years with my spouse, not married.

We're 'pacsed' though which, here in France, is not like a civil wedding but merely a contract (it takes mere minutes to have it done). That 'pacs' helps protect the other in case something should happen to one of us since, not being officially married, we have no legal protection, no power of decision if the other was incapacitated, and no right to inherit from another at least not without having to pay a lot of taxes whereas it's zero taxes if we're pacsed and we've made a will.

Capitalists all over the world: but can we sell carbon to people?
Trump: Sure, just don't forget to pay tariffs if carbon is not made in the USA!

This strikes me as abhorrent. But most of the people here call it necessary, preferable and even desirable.

I don't and I won't 'call it necessary, preferable and even desirable'. That's a nightmare that's being build right before our eyes, with the (often unconscious) complicity of a lot of us (me included, for many years).

Here in France, certain ideas are literally outlawed from any public discussions (it's in the law, what an impressive feat from a country so proud of its promotion of free speech). But it's everywhere and at every level, even in the way we've learned to not use certain words in our everyday exchanges or to not try to understand something a little better before condemning it—we do like all the people around us, we hate what and who we're being told to hate.

That's why I steer away as much as I can from digital means of communication. And do as much as I can offline and the analog way.

Younger people have probably never experienced it but good old snail mail (as well as in-person talks) is still private by default (that too is in the law, at least here, doesn't l mean it's above the law, which is fine, but at least it's private). Also, it's not tracked or algorithmically quantified and validated by anyone.

Mandatory disclaimer (because we live in this absolute moronic age of 'either you're with us, or you're against us' angry crowds): me protesting against the growing (self-)censorship of any idea does not mean I endorse any of those censored ideas. It just means that I think censorship is a terrible way to fight any idea. As history have shown us countless times.

Don't want to deal with admin/security stuff ;)

I havent switched operating system yet due to fear of losing my data.

If you value any data, you should already have backups (plural), right? So, if you decide to switch OS you don't need to worry about your data since you have backups (plural). Hint: if you don't do backups already, start now with or without OS switch.

If i delete google play services, will my phone not work correctly?

Depends what you do with it. What OS you use. My spouse is using /e/OS and she has access to all the apps she needs, but I reckon you probably don't use the same app as we do (we're both 50+) ;)

I have been replacing my apps with open source apps, is that helpful?

Depends. It's probably a good idea but if you use open source apps to access and use non-privacy respecting services, well, they won't help much.

What vpn should i use? I have malewarebytes.

One you trust. I use Mullvad and Proton. Both are paid for.

You need better air flow.

I had the same issue as a student, when I lived in that pocket-sized 1 room 'apartment' with barely any airflow coming through a single and tiny window. The only solution I found to be working was, each morning, to lift the mattress and store it on its side with the bottom/downside face part of it not facing the wall, and let it like that for the rest of the day. The air would do its magic.

I also raised the bed frame that was very close to the ground.

I’d wrap it in a towel inside the box. Have you considered making a DIY Faraday cage? I’ve been thinking about it but my physics isn’t very good

I may consider doing that, thx.

Thx a lot for the explanation :)

I love this movie so much. First watched it as kid it made a deep impression on me. Still does, some 50 years after I first watched it.