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Yes you are right, usually linux users that are not in IT have no choice but using bad microsoft computers (or Apple for designers/upper upper management) when they are employees.

But if you are general manager, or an independant contractor, you do whatever you want, and I have been on Debian, Void since 3 years now and it is just great.

People complain that “your files are not compatible” (i.e.: their excel version can not open a moderately complex xlsx file), and you use stupidly dumb webapp for Outlook and Teams, but otherwise if you don’t need to commit for a specific software (built for windows or mac, like Adobe suite, 2D or 3D CAD softwares, some kind of old school ERP or CRM), you are all good. Basically everything done by management staff can be done using LibreOffice.

The “cloud revolution” at least has given us this good result : you can have basic business utilities solved through a webclient, hence GNU/Linux OS is ok to work with.

Yvan LeCun ?

Chess

I was just checking that yesterday, and there was the opportunity to have something equivalent to a “steam phone” with https://liberux.net/#specs , but the indiegogo failed.

One that is actually sold is the Furiphone , which is under finalization of software update., and has chroot for Android apps with Waydroid. check the links ! 😊

Problem with Wayland, is the liability of being to not able the use of some software, and not being able to foresee it.

X11 is also working well, and a lot of the “issues” people have with it is more about hearsay than real issues.

This is the reason why we have distro diversity: we can choose ! And laugh at innocent memes either way we feel about it

Antix , a debian, should be a good one for you. Base configuration is good, you may have issues with wifi connecting on startup, but otherwise it is enjoyable.

https://antixlinux.com/download/

The GNU project as a whole.

DRY SOLID KISS

Satisfying 😂

At last ! Thanks for sharing the results, it was feeling weird having to change anytime going on gnu.org or whatever

Self taught Python (and using linux OS) over the last 15 years ; the only ways I found real progress in my code/coding were while doing the following : 1/ (at start): following strictly a “school manual” with lessons and ALL exercices. It was Python 2.3 I think, a manual (in French) by Swinnen. To be honest I stopped before reaching the GUI and network programming, and guess at what I suck today in Python programming … 2/ projects, personal projects. I did pro (paid) projects on the side, but with the impetuous to deliver results to be paid, I can not progress. On personal projects I can take the time to try stuff, to rewrite functions or programs, and to “improve” existing code with new/better coding constructs.

So here I am with a rather random level of Python programming proficiency, currently being average at most but enough proficient to have workable programs.

Thanks !

Is sciencedirect.com a good source for reliable studies ? I found pertinent answers for some questions regarding pollution, and it is quoted by a few news outlet. Anyone having reasons not to use it ?

Yes and you should (good IP rating also means better hardware and assembly quality). I was using 2nd hand (refurbished) samsung, 3 months later it just failed because of summer, rain, sweat …

For anyone who is not aware: https://stallmansupport.org/

It is funny because that defeats the principle of the Internet as a shared, live, always on always available data space :-D

Tablet

“they have health insurance”. It is a given in quite a few countries. No link to being wealthy. Driving your car is not about being wealthy, dependant low wage workers have to drive to go to the factory too.

The stability of the owner class comes from the lack of necessity to labour to have spending money. You can be a wage worker like Emmanuel Macron, president of France with a current wage of net 8k€ ; but he just sold his wife inherited house for 3m€, when they got it for 1m€ (1.5m after the tax bureau caught him for under-valuating it). This is not working class.

So proud of FFmpeg and VLC project ; I want news like this everyday ! Scavenging the good stuff from AI and putting itt to good use, we need more of this ! Next time automatic translation integration from AI models and we don’t need to worry about the dredge of syncing subtitles with videos, one button compilation process and woosh ! -> in fact “on the fly” means no need for compilation, it is even better than I thought 🤩

ononoki , or any other free instance of searxng on the web.