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A What if I could restart my life from scratch using a magical wand of some sort situation, or something more realistic like 'I change country/name/job'?

I’m definitely interested in getting out of my routine.

That's a great thing to do, imho ;)

Wishing you to get better soon

I’m not much of a reader, though I would like to get into the Star Wars lore. I had not even thought of that, thanks! 🙂

You're welcome ;)

Do you have any recommendations for what to read?

I don't know what you like so it's a bit like i I asked you what should I eat tonight?

Imho, if you want to give Star Wars a try that's a good starting point. I don't know now much about Star Wars so I'm probably not the person you should ask. I do love scifi though and among my favorite authors I would say Ubik, by Philip K. Dick (the guy was the inspiration for films ranging from Matrix to Blade Runner, and many others). It's fun, it's not too hard to read and it's not too long either. And it's at least as pertinent today as it was when it was written in the 60s.

That said, allow me one advice if you're not used to reading: don't be afraid to not like and not finish a book. That's OK. You have no obligation to.
I read a lot and I never hesitate to quit reading a book I don't like. Also, I know that my tastes can change (I now love books I hated when I was a kid or a teen, or even a young adult). The Ubik book I suggested is not a difficult read, but you may also not like it at all, and that's fine. Just look for something else to read ;)

/Not_a_Rant

Are you sure about that?

I don't mind people sharing their feelings about their switch, joy as well as frustration. And if I did, I would not read them... exactly like I don't read political topics ;)

There is no book you wanted to read?

It can vary a lot depending the publisher, and some will not care at all while others will use, say, tracking features or work collaboratively (they can even be using OneDrive for that, which includes MS Office in its price), or they will require the author to use a specific Word template that they have devised for Word (with the person in charge of the final layout in whatever layout application, in order to streamline or the process and save time on that part of the job), when they aren't that kind of publishers that simply do the final layout directly in Word before sending the final PDF to the printer. Also, as an author, if a publisher has asked you to use MS Word and some specific stylesheet and realize they tried to to be smarter than them... good luck with that, unless they're already one of their best-selling author.

And that's just what comes to my mind and that I have been witnessing first hand ;)

the fourth one.

I mean, come on is it that hard to at least give us some context? What you're looking for in your next phone, why you're hesitating? Stuff like that so, you know, we can at least try to guess what kind of answer you may be looking for ;)

Less content ≠ less procrastination

And?

English is not my first language (so, looking at your pseudo, by all means help me improve my grammar my dear officer) but it seemed to me the OP was looking to remove some crap from their timeline, not to procrastinate less:

It seems like no matter how I scroll I find bad news. I know lots of things are happening but I just want funny memes and interesting stories.

So I’m wondering if an upgrade is safe because

Imho that's the wrong question. Without backup nothing is safe whether you pate the OS or not. Anything can happen (the disk can die, the computer can be stolen,...) and, yes, most upgrades should go without any issue but then one won't go well and then what? You need to do backups, we should all ;)

I’m currently using Proton and still have to move to another service

I've moved to Filen (German end-to-end encrypted cloud you can rent (or buy) for a year or... a month (maybe worth the cost at least for a month when you will upgrade) and it works real nice for me on Mint 22.1

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2/ Related to the first question: I’m using a old laptop (asus zenbook from 2015 or 2016, can’t remember), so would I be find with an old hardware such as mine?

It's not that old, you should not worry much ;)

My bad. I should have understood. Even I, filtering out all the crap, have heard of that, well, that situation ;)

Isn't it the whole idea? ;)

[user banned for having an opinion that diverges from the group]

Is this something I'm supposed to react to? If so, sorry I don't get it.

Does anyone else feel this way about their Lemmy experience?

The out of the box experience is not great (neither is Reddit, if you're asking me, it's at least as depressing to see the amount of trash/low effort posts on their home page). But once I switched to 'Subscribed' only view, things were already much better since I was only seeing content I was interested in (aka no politics or drama of any sort).

As already suggested: !newcommunities@lemmy.world is good place to see what's new, also there is !communitypromo@lemmy.ca

Most importantly, Lemmy is not Reddit for many reasons but this one is more directly related to your question: it's much smaller (to give you an idea, I moderate a journaling community we recently reached... 300 members (of which less than a handful is active), whereas the Reddit journaling community is 2 Million+ ;). So, there is a lot less content posted on Lemmy. Back on Reddit, I was mostly a commenter (barely posting anything new myself) but I quickly realized that if I wanted to see stuff I was interested in on Lemmy I better start... posting myself ;)

Depends what you need. Many publishers require certain features from MS Word that are not available or are not as 'compatible' in LO Writer (not that its LO's fault ;), but for most use case I would agree. Things are a bit more complicated in the case of Excel as far as I can understand what I read (edit: I don't use much spreadsheets myself).

I've quit using MS Word a few years ago, fully switching to LO Writer. There are a few issues here and there but nothing that's a deal breaker (and Word had its own issues too), and I must quite like many things in Writer—beside the app not spying on me, I mean ;)

Like others have mentioned already, don't worry. Downvotes are to be expected.

You need to be ok with people not liking whatever you share. That's how things work, and not just here on Lemmy. You should not worry, they will do it because tgey don't like a picture, because they don't like your pseudo, or they think it's their purpose in life to downvote anything? Who knows and who cares?

It's the same people you meet IRL that may also not like something you said or shared with them. The difference is that IRL people can't click on that Down or Up arrow to let you know how they feel. They need to combine words to make sentences and then they need to talk to you which is a lot more work, often too much work for most people to even try to say anything ;)

It's up to you to decide what matters the most for you:

• The age gap which seems to be bothering you is kind of a moral dilemma (legally, they're both allowed to do what they want), am I right? So, does your principles matter more than having an opportunity to spend some time with your son and maybe get to know his boyfriend a little more than by its age? If that can help you, it's not that rare. Here in France, our very own President (Emmanuel Macron) is some 30 years younger than his spouse (something like that, I have not checked).
• Have you privately discussed what bothers you with your son? What was is opinion on the question? Do you think his judgment was blinded in anyway, or is it just you that feel not at ease with a 20+ years age gap?
• Can you be OK with not liking someone (that has done nothing wrong) but still be sincerely welcoming to them knowing it will make your son happy?
• Do you want to stay a relevant part of you son's future live? I mean, your son is now an adult and will move on to build his own live with his own family, with or without you being part of it and that's up to you. It could be with that older dude or with someone else (maybe even older, or younger? it's up to them) at 21 it's hard to say. But he will live the live he wants, and that will include many mistakes, whether you want him or not. We all have done mistakes, some more often and some more serious than others but well have done some, I'm willing to bet you did some to right?
• Is that King dude an asshole of some sort or is it just you you not liking him being older?
• If you're sure he is doing some huge mistake, do you want to still be there for him when things will turn bad? No need to lie to your son and pretend you're happy if you're not (talk to him, openly but not in a judgmental way it's all that should matter. Just share your opinion/worries and let him understand that no matter what you're OK with whatever he decides to do).

BTW, there is no right or wrong answer here (I know what I would wish to answer, but that's just me). It is the kind of questions I would ask myself if I was facing similar doubts as you are. Hope this helps.

I'm looking for one too, hope you won't mind me taking a seat and see what others may suggest because, well, the full set of the Britannica would be a tad too cumbersome ;)

I’ll avoid it as one of the manifestos mentions that we should be being kinder and look out for each other.

I won't blame you for that, quite the contrary :)

But since it's obviously one way to look at it, I thought I should mention it.

I’ve added your community to the sidebar. If you know of others that might fit, let me know.

Thx for the link.

Beside the ones I listed in the sidebar already? I follow a few that are related to old tech, others that are more into 'simple' and peaceful content. Alas, like often here on Lemmy, quite a few of them see little to no activities. Next to the journaling community I've decided to focus on the other community I would love to see grow and be active is the Simple Living one. It was one of the communities I appreciated the most back on Reddit (with great mods and great overall participants, useful content with little negativity/hatred or even drama) !simpleliving@lemm.ee

I also consider the Calvin & Hobbes community a great complement to any timeline. The humanism and the kindness that come out of every single strip of that wonderful comic is more precious than ever !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world (I happily look at the new strip posted each day, even though I own all the comics)

And then there are the others communities. Things like !vintageads@sh.itjust.works or I don't know !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works, and quite a few more.

I don't know if the full list of my subscriptions is visible when looking at my profile, here on Lemmy? Let me know if it isn't and I will send you a copy of them so you can see by yourself. Many of those communities can share content related to getting back control (on our lives/activities/the things we do and the things we use, the world we (want to) live in), and most will do it in a non-hostile way, but that is also not their main topic so I'm not sure you may want to include that many ;)

Any ideas for an icon and banner gracefully received.

• Something related to land/landscape and growing culture or stuff? Something peaceful at humane scale.
• Something related to simple/basic HTML and CSS code, like they used to be back then?
• A journal/diary page maybe? But some may suggest I'm not that objective here :p
• I try to avoid vindictive content myself but you may also consider showing the demise of that shi... corporate Web, say in the guise of some ruined ugly building/factory, and the grow of a more organic and once again fully personal Web (a tree or whatever)?

I'm no graphic designer but I made the banner/icon for our small journaling community (!journaling@sh.itjust.works). If you like it and if you think I can help you in any way contact me I would be happy to help. BTW, I also promoted your new community to our members as I think they might really be interested in what you want to do ;)

Nice! Happily joined ;)