A 50-something French dude that’s old enough to think blogs are still cool, if not cooler than ever. I also like to write and to sketch.
Are we supposed to shed a tear? The only thing I’m looking for is some alternative to my iPhone, even very basic and very feature-limited, preferably made in the EU, that would let me ditch that last piece of Apple tech I own… while still being able to easily access the banking and security apps I do need.
Have you had your health checked recently? If there is nothing wrong, maybe you’re like me: I was getting bald at a relatively young age and then my hair started greying out.
Instead of fighting it, I decided to assume it and make it simpler to live with for me. I shaved myhead and have not looked back since then ;)
Easy: destroying the world out of sheer stupidity and greed.
Writing things down, using the pen and paper I always carry with me. Doing so, I don’t try to make literature or to sound smart, I just write things down as they come. Later on I’ll read them back, that’s quick, and decide if they’re worth using or if I strike them out and forget about them.
I would not be able to work as efficiently without the simple but so powerful pen and paper.
Like the others: jam.
No worries, I just wanted to make sure there was not some mistake. Here is my edited reply:
Two things:
Hope this helps.
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…27 year old mother with a 12 year old kid equals 15
Thx a lot… captain obvious. I wished for the op to answer the question themselves.
Edit: at what age did you have you kid?
Sorry for the edit, I just realized your son and your age and it raised some questions… I will put back my answer once this has been clarified ;)
I too am quite surprised so few people seem to have been reading that book. I’m not even American but I’ve read it.
So much of what has been happening recently is explained in it.
I meant: the warrant would equal an invitation to enter one’s home, an invitation decided by the judge to which, as a law abiding citizen, the place owner would be forced to comply with.
But couldn’t the law be written so that a warrant once seen by the home owner must legally be considered a mandatory invitation, making the cop legally allowed to enter the home?
Being bored is not a bad thing. If by being bored you mean ‘not doing something’ and not being ‘busy’ because then it means one can start thinking by oneself. Something that seems to be severely lacking in our so modern and so constantly busy societies.
If you want to know what are my usual activities, beside welcoming boredom, I would say: read, write, paint, go out for a walk (that’s amazing too, for the body as well as the mind), spend time with my spouse, making stuff with my hands.
But it has kings and queens and knights, armies of pawns and thick towers to defend them during merciless battles. It also has bishops, but I much prefer the French name: les fous aka the crazy ones ;)
It’s a beautifully deep game, and it’s refreshing to be able to pour time into something with staying power that people of every age play all over the world.
So much this :)
Would chess count?
I mean chess is not not popular by any stretch of the mind, a lot of people around the world are playing it every single day and that won’t go away anytime soon, but I’m always surprised to see so much more excitement going on around a new version of This or That video game that people will play for a little while before switching to a newer version than for chess. Despite its apparent simplicity (and lack of visual effects), chess has remained a challenge for the smartest among us, and will keep on being so no matter how much better computers can be playing it.
Neither Tuta or Proton will neatly integrate with Apple Mail if you want to send/receive encrypted messages. At least the last I checked it required for Proton a separate client that was not bug free (can’t remember for tuta).
If you don’t care about encryption, you may want to consider the Swiss Infomaniak.
They have a cloud offer which includes cloud storage (1to base), calendar and email, plus the online version of MSOffice, all being hosted on their Swiss servers.
I may have missed something, here so to make sure:
the best thing it can do is just make a document look good,
It can also help you write the actual book, worrying about the document ‘look’ aka its formatting is optional (and if done properly, using Styles, it’s almost 100% automated) ;)
Wouldn’t a word processor do trick? you can add links, images, refs, notes,… and have as many pages as you need (edit: and search them, add a table of content, and so on). LIbreOffice is most certainly already installed on your Linux distro and is also available for Mac and Windows.
Thank you. It’s your ‘FFS’ that triggered the whole discussion ;)
The answer should also take into consideration the place of extraction/growth of the raw material (and the cost of getting it and storing it, using whatever tools are required), its shipping to the pencil manufacturing plant, how it should be handled and processed maybe. And a few other things like that but, yeah, I would not be surprised if plastic was not the best choice there was.
I would not have thought about asking AI myself because, well, I’m not much into using them. partly because, I don’t like the world their owners are trying to make a reality, partly because they consume so much energy.
A well deserved +1 for a much more polite reaction than the one I had reading the title.