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.
Not “Fully” (US brand, I’m from France but they used to have EU office but it seems to be part of Herman Miller) I’ve had constant issues with their circuitry and now with the leg mechanism jamming itself. As soon as it finally dies I will replace it with another brand.
Checking on their GitHub page (the irony…) I see that (it’s a fork of OnlyOffice) it’s a web-based app, unlike say LibreOffice.
Talking about LO, I would have liked to know the reasons why they did not decide to use the most complete, and Libre office suite, whose Foundation is already European.
I only started using it in the early to mid-80s myself, but yeah its kinda getting old… a bit like me, as a matter of fact ;)
We need to go back to these basics, considering how the big corps are tightening their noose around our neck.
I would love to see a lot of young people agree with you, but it’s already so late I’m not even sure it’s still possible to massively move back to a pre corporate-owned tech. People have been taught to expect convenience above anything else… it will be hard work to change that… which doesn’t go along very well with the idea of convenience.
BBS. My bad, I should have added a link. But I insist: I’m not that old, I’m only asking for a friend 😇
Does posting on BBS count as ‘social media’? Asking for a friend.
Whatever you say. Have a great day.
That’s a lot of words (and even more negativity) to not say precisely where and how you consider that comment has failed to meet your requirements. For someone asking for clarity, I thought that could be worth considering. Why not show the kind of useful answer you’re expecting, or at least show precisely where that comment has missed the point?
And, nope, if you’re wondering, this not an attempt at trolling you: there is not enough of us around here, so instead of spitting towards one another face, maybe explaining why one feels… disappointed could help change what may need to be changed?
Technically your example applies to basically anything any human does.
Did I say otherwise? I made a comment regarding this specific remark:
It’s not exactly the same but plenty of people make a living playing video games on twitch
Insisting that ‘plenty’ was certainly not that highway to success I think too many people believe it is, based on watching a few successful streamers or influencers… Or, at least that it is not what those two parents in the comics are imagining it is and what quite a few of those youngsters I can hear talk around me about their own future imagine. Which is something that should be a lot more worrying to us, the adults (kids are more than welcome to entertain dreams).
How many millions/billions cook food vs how many are professional chefs? How many draw but are famous artists? How many play football but become a professional well paid athlete?
Once again, I don’t say otherwise. But now tell me this: how many of those amateur cooks (or whatever) do you think imagine they will become chefs (or whatever) just because they like to cook (or whatever)? Not many… which is about right: not many will become pro.
BTW, as an amateur painter and artist I never imagined becoming a pro. I could not care less about making a business out of something I simply enjoy doing ;)
It’s not exactly the same but plenty of people make a living playing video games on twitch
“Plenty of people” is how many people? I mean, how many millions gamers are there out there and how many of them are making a living out of it? A million? A few thousands? Less?
If my question is half trolling it is half trolling only: as an old and non-gamer dude myself, I often see that kind of ideas floating around with younger people, that they could ‘just stream’ or become an influencer and stuff like that to earn a living because Such and Such are doing it already. So, my question is serious if its tone was not: what proportion of the population does indeed manage to become, let’s not even consider becoming rich and famous (which a lot of people seem to be willing to become) but manage to earn the equivalent of the minimum wage by doing that?
Depends how long is that list but wouldn’t a spreadsheet be enough to keep that kind of records? You could save it in a privacy respecting cloud too. And it wouldn’t need a powerful computer to be accessed.
LibreOffice is a Libre software (meaning its free as in free beer and free as in freedom: you can use however you wish) that comes with an alternative to Microsoft Word and one to Microsoft Excel. It works on Mac, Windows and Linux.
I have limited needs but it perfectly replaced Word and Excel for my use case.
If you don’t mind using Google products there is also their free (as in free beer) online alternative Google Docs and and Google Sheets, which work in most browsers.
They want me to be this long-haired, big-hipped beautiful woman but honestly, I kinda hate my big hips.
Depends what you’re calling ‘big hips’? Sorry for what’s probably a rude question but, as a dude and as a French speaking person, I’m really not sure if you mean you think you’re somewhat too fat or just that mother nature gave you some hips/curves that you would rather not have (fancying yourself as somehow flattish than you are, excluding any overweigth question). Depending that, you may still be able to change your… curviness, if that’s a word, within reason.
I lost so much weight myself, just by making walking into a daily habit and by eating healthier food, it’s hard to imagine.
Also:
They want me to be this long-haired, big-hipped beautiful woman
They may want whatever, we live in a free world, but you still decide based on what you want for yourself. Don’t let anyone decide who you are or what you should look like.
I lost weight myself not because I wanted to become slim or please anyone else (my spouse did not leave me the day I gained weight, nor did she leave me after I lost most of it). I did it the day I realized it was good for me and for my health. Very, very good indeed.
You forgot the ‘1’ next to the the +, in your hast to approve the previous comment. Just so you know
You’re wondering why anyone would want to visit Russia? Allow me to answer by asking you another question: why would anyone not want to? Why not Russia specifically and not, say, that other lunatic-lead country, the USA?
Also note that I said ‘I would love to be able to visit Russia’ which implies that I can’t most likely for obvious reasons, being a EU citizen myself and one of those ‘degenerate Westerners’ Russia’s elites is trying to convince its population its their god-given right to nuke (here too)…
So, beside its current elites who are not be the most… likable… persons, and beside the hostile rhetoric and idiotic anti-everything European ideologies that goes along (here again, like in the USA, what a coincidence) what should make Russia a ‘no go’ for me, in your opinion? Why do you think I would hate it?
Here are the reasons why I would love to spend some time in Russia, if I was to ever feel welcome.
I would love to spend some time in the largest country in the world, the one with probably the most varied populations (and cultures). With a history that goes way farther back in time than its ‘Russian/Slavic’ roots (you know some regions in Northern Siberia were populated by Neanderthal populations?). With a very impressive artistic and literary culture (among my 10 favorites writers, 2 are Russians. And I can easily think of 10 mores, and a few poets, I consider essentials read), not even considering music and movies.
Do I like what Russia is doing? Nope. Does that mean I should hate all of it and all of its inhabitants? I don’t think so.
Obviously that is very personal matter. Your more than welcome to disagree with me, which should come as no surprise as we already obviously disagree on the subject of France: to me, no matter how low the country stands right now (and it stands real low), it remains my country, the country I love. Here too partly because of its people (despite the many assholes populating it too)n for its artistic, literary and philosophical richness (even though armies of uneducated crowds have happily started working hard on destroying some of it). Also because it’s a beautiful country, at least wherever it remains protected from the ravage of modern urbanologists and the atrocious projects of those politicians addicted that consider their moral duty to pour concrete everywhere and that are obsessed with straight lines, and with speed. There are so many lovely places that remain untouched in France. Places to fall in love with. But enough about that ;)
I would be tempted that is a very personal thing.
Like, for example myself I have no interest whatsoever in traveling the world as a tourist to be visiting ‘exotic’ places or to take selfies to share with world. None at all. So much so that, since my spouse and I decided to stop traveling by plane in the early 00s (when we started worrying about climate change), we have not missed it once. We simply don’t care about ‘going to places’.
Meanwhile, I’m very much interested in meeting people. Even more so those people with whom I share a common space (Europe up to Asia).
I’m wondering too, why the downvotes? Question asked from the almost op-no-want France, btw ;)
Well, that’s what you would like which is quite obviously fine.
I would love to be able to visit Russia to be honest. But I would still want to live in France which doesn’t look like your most favorite place… which is fine too ;)
Beside the handful of real absolute morons/racists/haters (we have similar people in the EU too, they are far from being exclusive to Britain), I consider this an impressive scam that went somewhat completely wrong.
Those promoting Brexit never intended to really leave the EU, that was a mean to grab more power by manipulating the… lesser informed population, and they were indeed quite surprised the day those people, and then a few more with them, actually voted for that Brexit scam. Making them the proud leader of something that was probably never meant to happen. Hence their absolute lack of preparation for it and the shit show that followed for years.
It’s also a demonstration of why a failing public educative system is fatal to a working democracy. Uneducated citizen can’t vote with their brains, only with their guts. And we all know that what usually comes out of guts is not ideas, right?
Something we can also witness happening in the USA, quite obviously, but also in most countries in the EU even in my dear own France. Sadly.
Maybe UK citizen have not yet realized how badly they screwed themselves with Brexit, and they need a second shot of an even sadder reality? Or maybe they’ve just given up already?
As a matter of fact the (small French) host I’m using to host my tiny personal blog is giving me a more than generous data allowance as I’ve yet to have any issue. Or maybe it’s just that my blog is so useless that it’s not even deemed worthy of a bot’s attention?
More seriously, I had not considered that aspect. It sure is not a detail. And that is something I’ll discuss with my host to get his opinion on the question (he must be a lot more informed on that issue). That is another advantage of making business with a local company: there are actual people once can talk to, not AI-powered bots ;)
Edit: & thx for the explanation.
It seems like having a website open and available on the internet is getting practically impossible to manage,
What are the issues you’re facing?
with bots accounting for more and more traffic.
Can’t you just ignore them?
AI has gotten to a point where it can circumvent just about any form of captcha, sooooo, what?
Not sure I understand that.
Does “the internet just get abandoned in favor of some other, better technology that we hope crops up? Does it fade away? Do the real nerds start their own separate internet, and not let companies in? I donno, food for thought I guess.
Technology will not be the solution to what is partly at least already a technological issue. Or more precisely, no tech can solve the way we poorly handle tech. That needs to change first.
The living Web you mention was a curated Web. Human curation, that is.
People used to share information and to promote sites and content from other sites to their own readers because they considered it worthwhile of their time and attention. That’s good curation. ‘Read this, guys, I think it’s worth it’.
And at times, that was truly amazing. As far as I’m concerned, that was the peak ‘Web’, the one I was the most happy with and the most proud to be part of.
Then, blogging started to become trendy. Blogging was an impressive technological breakthrough, making it instantly simpler for anyone without any expertise to
Trendy bloggers started monetizing the hell out of every single bit of content they published, and the crowd of bloggers followed suit. Through ads and partnerships content publication and curation itself, that used to be about caring about our readers, became a bankable practice. That means there quickly was a demand for even more tech to make it even simpler/cheaper to publish (and also to show ads). Next to that there was also SEO growing in importance: more content and more demand required ways to optimize placement in search results so we could sell more ads, right? More tech needed.
And then social networks started appearing.
They were even simpler than blogging. Incredibly much simpler. Quickly, thx to social media, sharing content went ballistic. And then that was all that mattered: poop out as much content as possible. Even more tech was required (tech to automate it, to cross post it, to re-post, to share and to reply, and so on). Even commenting became too much work, that need to be reduced in order to be worth it, it was too slow, we started using a new tech: ‘Likes’. Almost instant. No need to write stupid words anymore, just press a button. Like or Dislike, that was all that was needed, even more so that there was so much endless content that was pushed down reader’s throat they would not possibly have any time left to, you know, write anything.
Gone were the desire to share useful or interesting content with readers, and for readers to contribute back some content through comments. Here comes the time to milk that reader, and their attention.
A reader that had suddenly morphed into a ‘follower’, the 21st century cattle (like with cattle, all that matter on social media is the number of heads/followers one owns and can monetize). The time to abuse the curation mechanism by promoting whatever shit was susceptible to generate revenues. hence the explosion of low quality posts. Quick, let’s make a 15 second video about the war somewhere, or that fact that I hate a tuna sandwich for lunch.
Soon there will not even be that left as everything, every once of content, may well be AI-made without any human involved. Content that will be perfectly and algorithmically tailored to suit every single reader/follower (happy cattle, with it s own unique tag different from all the other cows that are being being milked at the same time they are).
But the ‘living’ Web, that human-curated source of content is still available on the WWW. It survives next to those huge factories constantly pooping content that most people seem so hungry to consume from. It may vanish, rendered illegal by those poop-content factories that don’t want no interferences with their businesses, but it is still a thing today.
I doubt creating a new Internet will change that.
What need to change is… I don’t know… the way they are being educated and encouraged in being lazy as fuck? The way we consider and we use technology as a magical wand to solve all our needs and fears? Something like that.
And sorry for the long rant.
Edit: (too many) typos
For a few years I was a happy (paying) Kagi customer and like mentioned in other comments already, for me there was no going back: it works great, it’s bloat free with even a focus on small web, and a lot of cool features. Then, the new US President arrived with his team and their shitty politics. As a EU citizen I could not trust US services anymore and I was not willing to send them money either…
I went back to the French Qwant. It’s far from being perfect (they’re working on their own index but so far I think they still use Microsoft’s Bing), at least it protects my privacy from Microsoft’s (and it works fine).
Would I be US citizen, I would happily keep paying for Kagi. It’s really good. Much better than anything else, imho.