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I doubt such a person will ever be able to realize public space is not hers and is not there for her to use as she pleases. Public space is, well, public and shared between everybody and as such must be used with consideration to others. What would that incredibly tolerant (towards herself/her kids) lady say if I was to, say, come sit right next to her and loudly fart while she is eating her sandwich?

She can let her kids splash (and fart as loudly and) as much as they/she wants in her own home. Heck, she can even let them burn her house down if she thinks it's good for them. But what will she say the day her kids get hurt doing some stupid shit like that?

Does she really need a fucking 'handbook' to understand the cosmic level of stupidity she's reaching for? That's so unbelievably clueless and egoistical. But whats so sad is to realize it's not even surprising anymore.

I will have one last thought for those poor kids, just imagining the kind of teens and young adults she's preparing them to be :(

My main Lemmy account on jlai.lu where I got all my subs, another one on another instance I only use to admin a community over there (there is less bugs when using a local account over a remote one), and one Mastodon account that I almost never use—it's just, I don't know, maybe it's an age thing (50+) but I'm not that interested in receiving constant flow of short messages, even less so when said messages are so often emotional and/or polemical (as a general rule, I try to stay away from anger and resentment).

I have a few more accounts on various platforms I tried here and there and decided to not use. So, I would say those don't count.

Dos this mean you have some kind of server running at home? (sorry if it's a silly question)

Still, I’ve been wondering. I’ve come to learn that plastic recycling is largely a myth/scam, but what about glass and metal recycling?

They recycle fine but they still need a lot of energy to be recycled. Energy is the main issue here: energy needs to be extracted/produced which has a huge environmental cost (even solar/wind turbines have an environmental cost, as well as has their maintenance). So, the best thing we can do, as consumers, everyone of us at our humble level, in our everyday live, would be to consume as little as we can of everything. To create less waste, we should buy less, which would also mean we would need to waste less energy, a lot less, to recycle whatever can be.

You're welcome. Hope you will enjoy Mint ;)

lolberts

Never thought I would one day thank a robot toaster, but than you. You taught me a new word ;)

lolberts

Never thought I would one day thank a robot toaster, but than you. You taught me a new word ;)

Also, I could probably reformat the entire laptop if I could only figure out how to replace the Google Drive for sync backup for roughly 15 GB of personal photos and videos.

If by replace you mean find a non-Google alternative that will work fine under Linux (or Windows, Mac iOS/Android), you may want to check Filen (affiliate link this matters to your specific requirements, read further).

What is Filen? It's a small German company which offers cloud with end-to-end (zero knowledge) encryption, aka what's considered best practice security and privacy-wise. They don't offer as much features as Google or other big cloud providers, it's a really small company, and their apps are kinda on the rougher edge of things but they work fine. The one real drawback for photos backups on mobile is that it's not fully automated (one needs to start the app for it to start copying the pictures) but it works fine on Mint (fellow Mint user here) ;)

By the default, their free plan is 10GB which is not enough for you but if you use my affiliate link, or anyone's else, you double that free plan to 20GB (it's a one time extra, you can't stack them up but it's really free for you to keep and use). Also, if you ever decide to upgrade to a paid plan, you would keep your free storage as an extra bonus. Finally, once you created an account (a free one is enough), you should be able to share your own affiliate link and that could get you up to max 30GB more free storage, making it a total of 50GB free storage. Disclaimer: I'm a paid user of Filen.

You may also want to consider Ente.io which is another encrypted service focusing this time only on photos. It works real well but you only get 5GB free. Since I barely do any photo myself, that was not my priority but had it be, I would have seriously considered using them (and one of their paid plans) ;)

Thoughts?

Like already mentioned if you care about your photos, or any other file, make backups (no need to use that company's services (even though they work nice) it's just a fine explanation of what a good backup strategy should be).

Those two services have strengths but they also have some drawbacks, that are more or less painful depending one's needs. If there are people out there who feel so empty that they can't stand any critics concerning a product they think is great, well, what can I say? I'm so sorry for them.

Get that shit off my eyeballs, I paid for this product.

You should try Proton, then /s

Proton constantly tries to push you to upgrade to their next plaid plan too. So much so that this coupled with still zero fucking support for Proton Drive under Linux are the two reasons I have cancelled my paid Proton plan... and I had been paying for years.

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what can be downsides?

The same that pushed you to stop using FF the browser to begin with?

I mean, if you worry about FF/Mozilla doing naughty things with your browsing data, should you not worry as much if not more about the data you ask them to sync for you and save on their very own servers?

For the time being, it's not a definitive decision as I'm waiting to see what they will do next, I've quit using FF (using Waterfox instead) and for me not using FF obviously also meant to stop using their sync feature.

Put the tea in a tea infuser thingy. Boil water in a kettle. Pour water in teapot. Let infuse required number of minutes depending the tea. Remove tea holder from tea pot. Enjoy nice tea ;)

how long then would mice be supposed to live? (squeaky noise, here)

but uh, yeah, we’re aware that our country is collapsing in front of the world in real time and it’s embarrassing to say the least, horrifying more like.

I've a huge confidence in the USA, even sick to the chore by illiteracy and by raging money-grabbing-rapacity—because it's not just capitalism anymore talking, it's something rabid and uncontrollable and so intoxicated, that doesn't rely on hard work anymore. Something without a name that you now seem to have turned against yourself, and against your allies. That should worry everyone, as should the unbelievable wave of proud idiotism (if it wasn't, it's now officially a word) that's also going on in the USA. Still, I refuse to doubt the USA have completely lost it.

That said, for the time being it doesn't look pretty at all to witness the most powerful of 'us' happily re-elect such an illiterate racist buffoon (also the instigator of a failed coup); while at the same time watching him spit in the face of most if not all of its allies (doesn't matter much if that was deserved or not); while lowering his pants in front of its enemies; while the whole country looks like its slipping into a state of quasi civil war; while a few persons of power are quickly dismantling/gutting all safeguards that were supposed to prevent any grab of power; while more and more of its population start acting like a mob of proud illiterate and ultra violent absolute idiots. Don't get me wrong, we have our own fair share of shit going on around here, its just that the USA was supposed to be the leader and role model.

Well, all that combined is not reassuring and will not help appease those unfriendly feelings expressed by so many other countries around the world. Most of them also having started to imagine a future without us, that would instead orbit around Russia and China (and India?) I imagine.

Pessimistic me thinks that, whatever is bound to happen, it likely wont be pretty.

Less pessimistic me also don't worry too much about the issue. We've already been trough some real hardship in the approx. 2000 years the 'West' has been a thing. But there is that little detail: we are in a unprecedented situation where we (not just you the USA, most of us) are insisting on electing the more incompetent people (and the stupidest ones) to deal with whatever major crisis is bound to happen, while seeking refuge and solace behind the most stupid and naive ideas being so sure we can't be wrong ever because yeah, it's us! Meanwhile, other countries seem to do the exact opposite kind of choice... and we can mock them all we want and say they're retrogrades, clueless, or whatever so far I would say they're not the ones demonstrating they're clueless, quite the contrary. And that could cost us dear.

Sorry for the rant. Sadness of an old grumpy dude talking, nothing more obviously.

Thx. I was an idiot too. I was just a pretentious and vocal idiot. I still probably am one today, just less vocal.

I know lots of married couples that would wish for such a connection.

My spouse and I have been together for almost 30 years and counting and we've gone through some real rough time that would have broken many other couples. Like with friendship, we view our couple as a privileged space where we can and should be honest, even when it hurts but at the same time as a place where we don't judge ever and when needed can forgive a lot—she has forgiven me much more than I will ever have to forgive her on that matter... She is the one that should talk about forgiving, much more than I.

Depends what discussions you're reading. I avoid like the plague politics (like I avoided it on Reddit, mind you: it was the same hateful filled shit back there as it is here) and all 'drama'.

And I can assure a large chunk of the content I participate in, or even that I simply read, is 'positive' or like I would qualify it myself: very interesting.

Edit: food for your thoughts: why did you frame your own question in such a negative way? ;)

This is a good list, many things we already do…and some things I can try…first, I’m jealous of your local baker.

One of the advantage of living in Paris is that, among (too) many industrial bakeries, we still have quite a few real bakeries (and restaurants) and I would add ours is real talented—it's rare people don't queue—willing to bet your kids would love it ;)

and my kids wont eat it, b/c sadly they’re conditioned on the soft, preservative filled industrial bread.

Yes, that's a real issue. I was already impacted as a kid, but not to the level it has reached in those last decades. Our kids are becoming overweight younger and younger. It's frightening and, imho, if our species doesn't vanish in a poof of smoke because of its own stupidity/rapacity, I'm afraid overprocessed food will be as detrimental to younger generations health as the cigarette was to my and my parents generations, as well as it was to older generations. Maybe even worse. Maybe not as dramatic as their phone addiction could be for them, that I can't tell.

and what’s not is more expensive

It is here too. We had to change our habits and reduce our spending on quite a few things.

So even our ingredients… hell even the SPICES now come in plastic instead of glass jars

Maybe there is still a place that sells them in glass jars or in bulk, alas I think it's become very difficult to be certain of that because, what not a surprise, small local business are seldom efficiently promoted by search engines instead they will put forward shit on amazon and the likes.

Like you, we're trying our best but I'm pretty sure things won't get better any time soon and our options will dwindle down. Even more so now that the EU and America are not BFF any longer (and that the rest of the world hates us) and now that our undoubtedly incredibly extremely smart leaders are competing to decide who has the biggest... tariffs—you're richer than we are and you have Walt Disney, so you obviously and easily win there but here in the EU we have the good old Parthenon and those unique French cheese so we win here and by a landslide if I dare say so myself because, obviously, our cheese are so yummy (and not plastic wrapped). Could we now be BFF again and stop that craziness? ;)

More seriously, thx for starting the thread. It's an interesting discussion. I hope others will share their ideas too.

Making friends is not easy (it can be frightening too) and takes time & patience.

Also you need to differentiate between true friendship (which is probably rarer than true love) and acquaintance. My best friend and I have been friends since we were 14 (we're well into our fifties, now). We know and appreciate a few other people, but there is only one of us for the other and that is despite meeting a few very remarkable persons in our respective lives (and living away from one another), friendship is very rare. Don't try to force it.

It also require a lot of trial and errors. Friendship is rare which means simply means that often it will not be friendship. No matter how nice the person is. And then one day, without them or you being bad persons, your relation will come to an end. They're aren't friends, that's all.

And then there is that... Remember my best friend? Our first encounter back in school where he just landed and where I was considered one of the smart-ass, we almost fight together because we were, and all those years later still are, at the complete political opposite and we both wanted to prove the others who was the smartes-ass and, surprise, we both were punished for that by the school which let us chose between being expelled for a few days (it was a strict school) or spend a couple hours locked in classroom and talk together, calmly and under distant surveillance. We decided we would talk—our teachers back then were smart and I wish for any kid to be taught by the same kind. We talked and we talked more and, despite our differences or maybe because of them, we realized we could learn a lot from the other and that we kinda appreciated the other's being there. So we kept on talking after the punition was over and... never stopped.

All of that to say, don't be afraid to try to go towards people whose company you would not think you could enjoy that may be worth a try ;)

Like suggested, hobbies are also great way to meet people. Younger, I was into model making (little planes and tanks). I met a few real nice people, a few assholes too. I was (and still am to this day) into history which was another opportunity to meet like-minded people. Any hobby will do.

Also, if you're anything like me making friends is difficult because, well, I'm so fucking shy. I will literally blush when someone I don't already know greets me (and I'm almost 60 dude, tall, bald and build like... someone that never had much to worry about roaming outside late at night). If you're timid, be fine with it. It's part of what make you who you are.

Last thing, don't think you need to be with people your age. I know it has become kind of the norm for younger generations but it was not for me and it is still not. As a kid, I was much more at ease with adults (I could talk with them like I was never able to speak with kids my age). That may be something else you may want to experiment with. The same when I was at uni.

If you read my rambling until here, thanks. I genuinely don’t know any more.

Thx for reading mine, then ;)

I regularly see younger people feeling lost and, more worryingly, ashamed or even afraid to dare admitting they don't know what to do about this or that. Be it about friendship or anything. Asking is a nice step in the right direction, if you're asking me.

Public education.

I tend to not bother much with my past and what may have happened to me personally—a few bad stuff happened to kid-me but I decided long ago they were not worth wasting the remaining of my life ruminating over them or on how unfair the world can be, that I'm fine to say.

I'm much more interested in our history, as I'm interested by our future (can't get one without the other) ;)