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Well, (potential) customers do care about quite a few completely useless metrics, or ta least meaningless ones. Exactly like they do with their photography gear. Marketing departments need those things to sell new device, right? ;)

Why most reasonable US citizen won't leave the US now that the orange dude is in charge, free to spread his terrible ideology? Probably because they can't leave the country (their job, their family, their friends...). The same goes for most media, they need to reach their audience and a lot of their audience is still on X. Edit: and because they refuse to leave the country in the hands of the Orange dude, too.

Papers like The Guardian are able to take risks, because they don't rely on ads revenues but on subscriptions and because they also know some of their audience (hi, guys) aren't on X anymore ;)

I am interpreting Mordor as a fascist society. Power hungry leaders. Blind followers. Too many rules and commands. I can imagine some kinds of people enjoy that.

A few of those people even had a huge party yesterday, or so I heard. Just not in Russia ;)

That's not a dumb question.

If you have no prior experience on how you experience pleasure it's hard to tell what is normal but I would say that should be near the average (a little over). To make it last longer (keep in mind I don't have that much experience with other men myself) what matter is to learn... to play and have fun and not rush for the sexual act itself, and how one can make it so to last longer. Also, if it's your first relation, you learn a lot of stuff don't be surprised if things change.

Should your question be labelled NSFW? Maybe. I have no issue reading this kind of question but that's just me. What's sure is a more detailed answer would most probably need to be classified as NSFW ;)

after I backup my Windows of course.

Your data, sorry to insist but Windows itself should be easy to download and to reinstall. Your personal files (photos, texts, passwords, and so on aka your data) not so much. Once they're gone you can't download a new copy. Installing Linux should go fine but there is always a real risk something goes wrong, even more so as a complete beginner.

I use it for gaming most of the time.

I don't game much myself but the first thing I would is check if the games I like to play run on Linux.
Also, I have no idea how realistic it is to play in a virtual machine? Maybe you will have to install Linux alongside Windows in a dual boot configuration not as a virtual machine (you can search info about 'dual booting'), but not before you have made a backup of all your data on the Windows installation (worth searching more info about that too)

Thank you :) I think I feel a bit more comfortable now.

You're welcome.

It will feel uncomfortable for a while, that's the point, but as long as you're ok to accept that it's unavoidable nut normal and that it should not last that long you should be ok ;)

• Do you have a spare computer? If yes, install Linux on it. Don't touch your main PC for the moment. If not try Linux in a virtual machine (you can search about that).
• What version of Linux? There are plenty choice. I would suggest Linux Mint, because... it's the one I am using (50+ years old, not a geek that switched after 35+ years only using Apple ;) and it works really well out of the box (heck everything was configured without anything to do on my part, even my Airpods that I never managed to get to work on other distributions).
• Don't try to learn everything at once. In the end it's just a computer that do computer stuff only with a lot more freedom and respect for the user, aka us. What do you use your Windows computer for the most? Do the same thing under Linux and see how well it goes. But...
• Be ok with the fact that you will need to change habits. Apps may be different, menus maybe differents, and also Linux is not a copy of Windows (or macOS), it's its own thing. Habits are hard-wired into our brain and can be very difficult to change, like really. It's not Linux's fault. It's not even a fault, that's how human brain works.

Edit (I forgot the most important!): Hi and welcome ;)

I would do almost nothing, I would impersonate Wal-Mart in some way and announce a 69% discount on everything for the next 5 hours only, on as many social media as I can (if I was feeling less lazy I would also post a picture of some supposed mega-deal I would just have snatched myself), and then I would pour myself a cup of tea, sit somewhere and watch the large crowd that would already be gathering around the mall do its braindead-crowd thing when there are huge promotions to be had and a very limited availability.

Nasty, indeed ;)

Slice bread from a distance?

50+ here. I recently started.

Some paper, a pencil. Later, I added some watercolors and switched to fountain pen instead of the pencil and that's about it. OK, the truth is that I also enjoy trying new materials just for the fun of it but, really, all I use is the fountain pen, a set of watercolors and some nice paper.

I watched (too) many YT videos but did not learn much (probably a me issue, mind you, but I considered there was too many repetitive content, too much talking heads, too much 'wow' and way too much focus on gear instead of actual sketching/painting content). Then, I purchased Proko's beginner class (whether you're analog or digital, it won't change a thing). I'm still following the course as of now (I'm real slow learner because old me regularly needs to spend a lot of time not drawing and not moving much at all, for that matter) but it's an excellent course. It's focused, entertaining and, well, it's highly competent. Worth every cent.

My only regret? Not having started much, much younger has there is no shortcut to practice and practice takes time, a lot of it. So, stop hesitating and start. Don't be afraid as you can only get better ;)

Also, the older one gets, the slower one learns... but I plan on keeping learning and sketching for as long as I can.

Also, just in case that would worry you, I have no issue at all knowing I'm not a skilled artist and never will publish a book or make an expo or whatever. I don't care. I enjoy doing sketching because it's fun, relaxing and because it feels great... even when it's frustrating, btw. It's a positive frustration, one that pushes me to try to do better with the next sketch and one that makes rejoice every time I manage to do exactly that (better) ;)

Sorry I didn’t used PKMS as keyword :/

Don't be, it's not that obvious.

To answer your question… Yeah I suppose analog note-taking is probably the best, You can write without any limitation in every direction !

Will see how the conversation goes in the pkms group, but that's the road I went and I have zero (like in not a single one) regrets.

Yep, you're right. I tend to forget that... way too often. [Sad face]

Oh, thx for the clarification. That certainly would not help.

It looks to me like Google has that idea they own their viewership and can treat them like trash if they fancy doing so. The not too distant future will tell us if they were right or not.

What I can say is that they don't own me. I was a Premium subscriber fir years (I can afford it and I want to support creators) but I cancelled the day they became serious against ad-blockers. For me, it was not about them forcing people to pay a sub. It never was. It was about destroying the free Web and making it a privately-owned something a few corporations would then be able to do what the fuck they wanted with. I certainly did not want to give them a cent more of my money to achieve that.

There isn’t any community about note taking where I could post my question and no this is not a “What’s the best note taking app” question…

Here, maybe? !pkms@lemmy.blahaj.zone

A community dedicated to personal knowledge management systems.

Does anyone here has some experience and is taking notes that way? I’m really curious on your experience and maybe your thoughts if it’s feasible ? Practical ?

If you ever decide to post over there, in order to no pollute this Linux community I would happily share my own choices but they may not be the most digital solution, as I fully switched back to analog note-taking, using a Zettelkasten system (a fancy name for index cards stored in shoe boxes).

Shouldn't you be able to access YT without a Google account? So uBO correctly configured (at least on Firefox) should do a lot already. Maybe sharing with us what specific issues you're facing or what you want to be able to do may help you getting more specific solutions?

1. Do I actually need it?

+1

How do you judge which extension to install?

• I install as few extensions as possible, like Leraje mentioned already: I really consider if I need the extension or not. Because every single one of them is a potential security or failure risk. One extension may be cool; but if I don't have some real need for it, I won't be installing it. I will also consider native app solutions (I will use yt-dlp in a Terminal instead of using some web extension to easily download vids)
• When I'm interested in one extension, I consider if Firefox is recommending it or not. If not I may decided to not use it. May as it really depends how bad I need it and want to try it.
• I check the options of the extensions I'm already using

1. to disable whatever it is I don't want
2. to enable extra features that may saves me the need to install more extensions. Because, once again, the fewer extensions I have to install, the better I am.

uBO (wikipedia) is an amazing example of that. (edit: I should probably say that I use it on Firefox which supports the extension without limitations, unlike Chrome-based browsers.)

Most people know it as one of the best, if not the best ad-blocker there is. Which it is. But it's much more than that and it can also be used to get rid of cookie banners, url tracking, social media buttons removing (and their tracking), better privacy, I'm sure I'm forgetting some stuff. Heck, it can be used to easily block whatever content I may not want to see on any website. Say, I don't want to see Shorts or News crap displayed on my YT homepage? That's just two clicks away.

So, thx to uBO, I don't need install a shit ton of other extensions I would otherwise be using to get the cleaner and less intrusive web experience I wish. And it only required me to do some reading and tweakings in its settings

What’s the best alternative to Google these days?

I use Kagi, it's great (great results, no ads, no tracking, a lot of clever filtering tools) but it's paid. Free, I would use Brave Search but I doesn't give me as good results as Kagi.

Edit: added links.

Carrier Pigeon Network? 😅

Maybe (it could be fun) but I would first consider more readily available things.
Things like meeting people IRL and also snail mail... Those are much slower and much more limited in the number of people I can meet but 1) I don't need to meet millions of people 2) they''are also all usage that are protected by many laws, that are not constantly spied upon, and that are not 'enshitiffied' by marketing & businesses and their endless greed either ;) Edit: they're also much less prone to trolls and haters, or moronic ideas spreading: it's harder to lie in the face of someone, or to insult them than to do it safely hidden behind one's keyboard ;)

And like I said, I would use that full year of free unfiltered search to find alternatives that, by their nature I wouldn't know they exist already.

The issue here would be to think that the Internet is everything. It is not. It was not (in the past) and it will not be (in the future).
At least it won't be for as long as we're physical beings and not just some digital avatars of ourselves ;)

Use that year of unrestricted Internet in order to find... alternative to the filtered Internet and when it's time to give up on that tasty freedom, move away from the Internet completely focusing on and using only the alternative(s) I will have found?