I switched to kobo only because kindle - I don’t want to be an amazon billboard. I’m 100% calibre too, tho kobo do sell some drm-free ebooks.

My PW 3g was the absolute best ereader ever. Snappy page turns, perfect soft lighting, infinite batteries… funny unlimited worldwide wikipedia. Fuck amazon.

Cats offer us mice because we are incompetent at hunting ourselves.

Wrangle out of the clutching, greedy hands of marketing departements the names “Abarth” and “Cooper”, then give them to actual performance workshops working on bettering affordable cars.

Hispano-Suiza

Avions Voisin - monocoque chassis as soon as 1923. The man behind (other) revolutionary cars as the Traction, The 2cv and the DS, Lefebvre, started there. For engineering marvels that the Voisin cars where, never forget that Monsieur Voisin graduated in …Fine Arts. Explains the bankruptcy I guess.

Yup. Lightweight, Rigid, and Classy.

The “s” suffix is for Slim, which you don’t really need if it’s used at a desk in a fixed position. S series generally are lighter, slimmer (eh) and harder to repair / more fragile. That said, when careful, these are slim, elegant professional machines with excellent Linux support.

Leïla in persian is the Lilac flower

Could you take a 50% contract, and claim 50% social benefits? These last 50 won’t be much but will help.

That’s kinda what I do here in France, but I only get short contracts, then unemployment, then work etc to about 35~55% a year.

Another thing that helps is not going 50, but like 80 - it helps a ton to have 2 afternoons a week, I have many friends who did / do that.

My mother was a nurse, I feel you. Took early retirement as soon as she could.

When my babies napped on my belly, I would fall asleep immediately. Got one hand on their back that wouldn’t move, and zzzzzzz

Discovering that I can, with measure, work a half day this morning without paying too dearly for it.

Recovery is slow, I was afraid I wouldn’t achieve it.

Classics

When I work with Ardour professionally, I always make a donation on a per-project basis, depending on budget of said project.

It is truly Pro Grade software, it deserves it.

And if the budget is small, I do i small donation, easy :)

Don’t forget that other contraption : for “those” we have “celles” + “ceux” = “celleux” (and probably celle + celui into cuielle or something)

Then let’s have fun with everybody : “toutes” and “tous” is an easy one - toustes !

Checking wikipedia on the matter, TIL that until the XII century French had neutrals “al” or “el”, and these are proposed for a comeback

I am sincerely 100% for the transformation of language towards eradication of the default masculine and the new pronouns, but changing habits is hard.

Music : Quobuz - buy it, download it, it’s yours. Books : ebooks.com - same [EDIT:] if you buy within their “DRM free” selection.

Igorrr “blastbeat falafel” - tho it’s not the only one from them that I tend to have on repeat.

Ubuntu Studio is an excellent choice to get you started busy doing your things. It’s a work of love, from passionate people, going at it for many years now.

The only drawback is that the bundle is overstuffed, for my use case there’s just too much stuff in there lol (sound eng)

Enjoy yourself, test your creativity against the available tools, and make stuff. That’s the important part: making!

Yeah, tho I’m doing the opposite : Asahi on a macbook pro. Works great while indeed hurting conviction.

So a 12.5 screen, 12Ah battery, 2kg laptop with only USB A ports available in 6 months for a starting price of 1550€ - Please excuse the slight irregularity in my eyebrow line here.

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