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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

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.

You can read the Pathfinder book and just use the tables associated with equipment … Pen & Paper RPG is wonderful because you are not limited to one book/system, you can pick what pleases you from different sources, it does not matter for the “not metagaming” playersx

Thanks !

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 …

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 🤩

A lot of stories by Jack Vance (The Demon Princes saga, the Giant Planet, the Tschai Cycle, …) are space opera but nothing about spaceship and battles in the stories

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

Industrial grade switches (i.e.: buttons) are expensive because of very high quality control requirements, and add a lot more parts that can fail to a car. It is the same thing that happened with mobile phones. Going with touchscreen reduce a lot the number of parts to check and parts that can fail, even if usability is very bad for the end-user.

You just summarized the short “Colour out of space” by HPL

What is a better choice for python dev please ?

“amEriCA wENT thGROuGH 2 WoRld waRs” no fight on usa soil ever …

There should be an another to tell it

Belief , like the traditional cult of the ancestors in China, where you have no “priest” or “guru”, it is just a bunch of people relying on elders to mimick the rituals, but in fact nobody remember it well, it is all disorganized, and nobody is really checking for “correctness” as much as checking if the commitment is done with intent. So the opposite of having a strong vertical domination by one person (cult) or an organized institution (religion) is a weak control of the rites by anyone (belief)

Using void linux because it has no systemd init system (it uses its own “runit” init system) ; and it is a natutal development after using Debian for a long time and wanting to understand more about gnu/linux system.

Also, it is very reliable with a lot of packages. It is standard enough so using info from arch, debian or other distro works.

But the origin was I could not understand how systemd was managing the system and it felt really contrived to go around it, so I began using void and that’s the story.