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.
Welcome onboard ;)
Excited to get something other than an iphone as my next phone when the time comes too.
That was the last piece of Apple tech I replaced too. I would have loved to buy an e/OS/ phone but it was too worrying to not be able to find reliable info regarding the compatibility of those very few specific apps I need. So, I went with a stock Google android... and since I tend to make the device I own last as long as possible, it seems it will be my phone for at least the coming 7 years ;)
Indeed, Europe have high value industries (and not just our respective countries, France and Sweden ;). We would not lose much quality-wise. Europe has only stopped being autonomous after WWI and WWII, we're not doomed to remain like that. But we need the willingness to change that, no matter how painful.
My old laptop was very slow and laggy. I wiped it clean from Windows and installed Linux Mint. Now it’s like it’s brand new, I’ve come to rely on shortcuts and features that don’t exist in Windows and I love how all the unnecessary resource draining bloat is gone.
I did not wipe clean my old desktop running macOS, also I was not suffering much from bloat on macOS (I suffered of the lack of repairability). After 40+ years being an Apple customer, realizing they would not come back to selling upgradable/repairable devices, I just stopped replacing my Mac by a newer Mac and instead purchased a (much cheaper &) used Mini PC (HP ProDesk something) on which I installed Linux Mint and came to the same conclusion as you.
That was 6+ years ago and I did not miss the Mac once. My only regret? Not having made that switch a few years earlier...
- My Search engine is the French, like me: Qwant. It works nice (but it's also still relying on US search engines for now) but I consider it less good than what I used prior: Kagi (which to me was the best search engine ever, worth its price (yep, it's paid for) but, alas, being an US product their own POTUS made it clear last April and forward that as an EU-citizen I should not be relying on it or on any other US tech/services). A few months ago Qwant announced they had started working with (Ecosia) on building our very own EU-based search engine... I've yet to hear about nay progress being made.
- My Cloud is a mix of the Swiss (and cheap) Infomaniak KSuite and the German (and E2EE) Filen.io
- I also quit using all streaming platforms (but that was a few ago, already) moving back to physical media that I can fully own and control. And it has been great.
- After having been using Firefox for all my online life (I started using it when it was still called... Mosaic) my default browser for almost 2 years has been a UK-fork of Firefox that is privacy respecting and AI-free: Waterfox.
- My backup and chrome-based browser is and has been for years the EU-based Vivaldi. Also it is privacy respecting and non-AI soiled.
I feel like I’ve been subject to some psychological fallacy where I’ve assumed that the most popular alternative is the best and it’s been eye-opening to realize it’s simply not true.
I can share that feeling but I also feel like I also have way too lazy, personally, all those years by not bothering considering 'local' EU alternatives and sticking to US-based tech out of a lifelong habit of using them. In that regard that sad election and the (unsurprisingly) pitiful shit show that followed had a real positive impact by forcing to stop relying on as much US-based products as I could, and to check in my own part of the world what was available.
Side note regarding that dangerous laziness, probably also a very naive note: as a French, I hope our German friends will realize their government could very well be as lazy, at this very moment. How so? By insisting on keeping on purchasing an other very specific type of US tech instead of European-made alternatives (and yep, disclaimer, that alternative could include my very own French tech): US weapons.
The EU should question that choice which hurts real bad, and is only made in the hope of maybe preserving something that I think is already gone, for good. Something that will hurt the EU even more long term by weakening our key defense industries and any hope the EU can one day stand its ground against the US absurd demands and can one day stand alone. Maybe the US and the EU countries can remain partners, and members of NATO, I would see no harm in that, but we can't rely on the US anymore and certainly not on something as critical as rearming ourselves. I mean, we should not rely on them even after (if ever) the Trump is replaced by another POTUS because, as we witnessed, there was barely any opposition from any US institutions or persons in power against his shit show and his wreckage of our 80-years old alliance which means we should take it as a fact that the US don't give a fuck about our alliance, and we should stop hope for the good old times to come back. Those times are gone.
directement influencer l’information en faveur qui que ce soit
J'ai corrigé ce qui me semblait trop restrictif, et +1 aussi
Depends what you mean by data sharing and what exactly you expect to get out of it (E2EE?) but in most case I would also suggest Infomaniak Ksuite. It's really good and not expensive.
En fait, je me disais surout que j'avais pas besoins d'apps... Du coup, je me dis qu'il faut peut-être que je remette à plat tout mon projet...
C'est ce que je comptais faire, d'où ma démarche de chercher des tuto mais j'ai été surpris par le niveau de complexité des solutions proposées
parce que je suis allé jusqu’à l’étape du tatouage sur la fesse moua !
Et comment tu feras le jour où tu passeras à Arch, btw? :)
Encore une voix pour Yunohost... Diable! Mais des apps? Désolé si c'est une question bête mais j'ai besoin d'apps pour faire quoi?
Je ne peux malheureusement pas t’aider je suis encore moins compétent que toi. Je viens juste de me faire un petit serveur proxmox
C'est déjà mieux que moi :)
Tu parle de chiffrement ça marche comment ? On peut chiffrer un disque dur externe par exemple ? Le brancher. A un mini pc et lui donner l’accès ?
Oui, comme sur mon PC: mes disques USB sont chiffrés (vie l'utilitaire 'Disks' en mode graphique dans Mint, il utilise Luks pour le chiffrement)
Toi aussi tu me conseilles (une alternative) NextCloud... je commence à me dire qu'une partie de ma confusion pourrait venir du fait que dès le départ je n'ai pas bien compris l'usage d'un NextCloud ou de ses alternatives? Je vais me renseigner sur ton Seafile! Et voir ce qu'est un Yuonhost (je cherche pas à créer un truc en ligne, je dis ça uste pour qu'on soit sûr d'être la même longueru d'onde)
Je ne sais pas si j'aurais besoin d'un Next Cloud? j'ai regardé vite fait, c'est une alternative à OneDrive et iCloud, en gros une suite bureautique te du partage de fichiers? Ou j'ai raté quelque chose... ce qui ne me surprendrait pas de moi: je vais aller regarder de plus près ;)
Je n’avais pas besoin d’être convaincu du plaisir de la lecture à l’époque mais cette professeur a su gagner mon cœur. Adulte, j’ai relu le parfum et aujourd’hui, j’étudie l’allemand pour le plaisir avec l’espoir d’un jour atteindre un niveau suffisant pour lire le Parfum en version originale.
+1, à défaut de pouvoir voter davantage, car c’est +1 aussi pour ceci:
Pour leur donner envie de faire l’effort, il faut leur montrer le résultat. Les livres audios et la lecture offerte sont une très belle porte à la littérature hélas pas assez mise en valeur.
Pendant les 1ères années, j'étais la bête noire du prof de français. Je n’étais pas un mauvais élève ni une petite crapule qui aime rien tant que foutre la merde (je n’étais pas calme, cela dit) mais j’étais allergique aux ‘classiques’ qu’on nous donnait à lire qui me faisaient chier, tous, et je ne me privais jamais de le lui dire. Un jour, nous avons bu arriver un nouveau prof, un tout jeune dont nous fûmes la toute première classe. Sa première initiative a été de nous emmener... voir une pièce de théâtre jouée par une petite troupe locale, basée sur le dernier livre, une pièce donc que nous étions censés lire dans le programme officiel.
Au début, en chemin vers et aussi une fois installé dans le théâtre, je ricanais comme j'en avais l'habitude, mais quand les trois coups ont retenti et dès que les comédiens ont commencé à jouer j’avais cessé de ricaner. Ils m’ont emporté, ces acteurs et Molière derrière eux, et m’ont gardé scotché jusqu’à la toute fin suite à quoi j’étais debout à applaudir à m’en exploser les mains. Excité, amusé, enchanté, ravi et séduit par cette pièce, par le théâtre, par la langue française. Sur le chemin du retour vers l’école, le prof est venu me parler, me demandant ce que j’avais pensé de la pièce (là non plus, je ne me suis pas privé de le lui dire). En classe, il nous a demandé d’écrire un commentaire sur la pièce (j’ai bien dû écrire un mini roman, tellement j’avais de choses à dire). Ensuite, il nous a demandé de lire la pièce que nos venions de voir. Et pour la première fois, je me suis retrouvé à lire un classique avec plaisir.
« Le misanthrope » de Molière fut pour moi l’équivalent de ton livre audio : une porte qui, enfin, s’ouvrait en grand sur la littérature.
Depuis, j’ai lu beaucoup d’autres livres. Des classiques et pas des classiques, du théâtre et pas du théâtre.
Mais, à ce jour, à peu près 50 ans plus tard, je considère toujours Molière un des plus grands auteurs de théâtre, que je le place au minimum à égalité avec Shakespeare et Racine dans mon Panthéon des auteurs, une petite poignée de tragiques Grecs, et ce cher Aristophane. Quand je suis à mon bureau, il me suffit de tendre le bras vers la gauche, même pas besoin de regarder, pour immédiatement mettre la main sur leurs œuvres complètes, rangées à côté de quelques volumes de poésies, une poignée de romans, et une sélection de dictionnaires. C’est un régal aussi, de bons dictionnaires : aucune honte à avouer que feuillette souvent un des volumes du Littré par pur plaisir de savourer quelques mots de la langue française.
Donc oui, les livres audio méritent sans doute plus de place… le texte performé derrière un micro ou sur scène (ou sur un écran, aussi) méritent toute leur place.
Mais je pense que ça doit rester un moyen, génial, dont la finalité ultime doit être de donner le goût de la lecture, de l’acte de lire un texte imprimé, aux enfants... dans leur propre intérêt. Pas par dévotion ou par fétichisme envers une forme spécifique (parce que le texte écrit ou le livre imprimé serait « mieux ») ou pour une époque (« Ah, la France c’était mieux avant ! ») : on se fiche de l’un comme de l’autre. Ni parce que lire serait une technique parfait (c’est loin de l’être… déjà dans l’Antiquuité, l’ami Socrate était hostile envers l’écriture et la lecture, c’est dire et nous n’aurions jamais rien pu lire de lui si son élève Platon n’avait pas décidé de transcrire les ‘dialogues’ de son maître), mais parce que apprendre à bien lire (c’est-à-dire avec facilité et autant que possible, avec plaisir) reste le meilleur moyen de développer certaines capacités dans nos petites cervelles. Et, peu importe toutes les innovations high-tech dont nous sommes abreuvés : à ce jour cet outil reste sans alternative capable de le remplacer.
Ensuite, il y aurait aussi les raisons sociales ou sociétales que nous devrions considérer vraiment très sérieusement pour encourager (le développement de et) le goût de la lecture chez les plus jeunes à la place, donc, de la consommation de contenus via un écran (ou même de son écoute audio), mais là ça devient un tout autre débat. Et, en attendant, encore une fois : oui, il y a plus d’une façon de tomber dans la littérature. Les livres audio en sont une toute légitime :)
Situation de départ, le décor et les personnages principaux :
- Deux vieux (surtout moi, qui me charge de tout l’aspect technique) : ma compagne et moi qui vont bientôt emménager dans leur prochain appartement et qui se disent que ce déménagement serait une bonne occasion pour enfin nous installer un serveur de fichiers dans les règles de l’art.
- Moi-même, donc, chauve et pas si geek que ça (je sais écrire un script bash quand j’en ai besoin et parfois même pour le plaisir) mais qui utilise quand même Linux depuis quelques années : Mint, par choix, après avoir utilisé Arch et Debian (dont j’aurais pu me faire tatouer le logo sur la fesse gauche, tant j’en étais fan).
- Le serveur : sera composé de vieux matos de récupération tout à fait correct (i5 avec 16go de DDR3, plus quelques disques durs, et un SSD pour le système), sera connecté au réseau via un câble Ethernet.
Objectifs :
- Un serveur de fichiers sans prise de tête pour stocker nos fichiers perso (fichiers plus musique et video, pour l'essentiel) et y accéder depuis nos autres machines qui tournent toutes sous Linux (sauf une, le PC Windows que doit utiliser ma compagne pour son boulot mais n’est pas si important que ça).
- Pas d’usage pour un serveur ‘multimédia', Plex ou autre. Disons qu’on est assez vieux pour n’avoir besoin que d'un explorateur de fichiers classique dans lequel nous serons heureux de juste pouvoir double-cliquer sur le fichier, le film ou la musique qui nous intéresse.
- Pas besoin de streamer vers notre smart TV non plus : on a pas de TV.
- Les disques seront chiffrés LUKS (en cas de cambriolage, au moins nous serons tranquilles que nos données resteront privées).
- J’aimerais que ce serveur puisse être éteint et rebooté chaque jour (et que les disques chiffrés soient automatiquement montés) car on essaye de gaspiller le moins d’énergie possible et ce serveur ne nous servira à rien pendant que nous, nous dormirons.
- Pour les disques, je voudrais quelque chose en RAID (je ne sais pas encore lequel) pour avoir la sécurité et, là encore, la tranquilité d’esprit.
- Ca m’intéresserait aussi de pouvoir utiliser ce serveur pour y faire les sauvegardes depuis nos autres machines, sauvegardes que je fais actuellement à coups de rsync sur des supports externes en USB.
Comme tout bon citoyen de l’Union en ce début de XXI siècle, j'ai donc regardé quelques videos YT mais, entre celles qui me recommandent des solutions clés en main (ou d’utiliser du hardware assez récent pour disposer du UEFI) et celles qui me proposent de configurer des dockers ou des 'kubernetes' ou je ne sais quoi d'autre encore... je me sens complètement perdu et impuissant car j’ai aucune envie d’apprendre à utiliser des Kubernetes, containers et autres théières high-tech.
Ma question : si vous connaissez un lien vers un tuto qui expliquerait pas à pas une procédure abordable et qui n’exigerait pas que je me transforme en ingénieur système, je serais preneur :)
Disclaimer: I hope you won't mind that lengthy reply, if you do by all means feel free to not read it. It's just something I consider both fascinating and essential, more than worth sharing and discussing ;)
It's also that France historically has always been both a very self-aware Nation/population (grossly simplified: the Francs, since Clovis approx in the year 500) and a very diversified/rich and oftentimes very conflicting collection of smaller groups of very different populations, with very different cultural backgrounds and values. Groups whose interests and objectives predictably were not the same.
Half seriously, but still half seriously, I would say one of the best representation of that French 'type' and how deeply it is is part of our ‘nature’ to constantly be fighting one another, can be found in the ‘Asterix’ series of comics. I’m only considering the original Uderzo/Gosciny collaboration here, as I have very little interest for the contemporary remakes.
I don’t think there is a single album in which there is not at least one strip showing some kind of violent dispute happening in-between the villagers themselves while the country is being invaded and their own village is being besieged by the powerful Roman armies. More often than not they’re fighting one another about absurd things, like the (lack of) freshness of the fish sold by the fish seller or the (lack of) quality of the music of the bard or some other non-sense like that. But at the same time, there is not a single album that doesn’t end up in a joyful reconciliation, around a banquet, celebrating our unity through our differences (which I always considered the true magical potion, to be honest) after they managed to teach a good lesson to the all mighty Roman armies if not directly to Caesar himself. One album after the other.
But like often, looking history is the most fascinating way to realize how nuanced (and rich) realty is.
Before France became the republic it has been since 1789, it was a monarchy. I would think most people with basic notions regarding France’s history and its monarchy will know that monarchy for two things: the ‘absolute monarchy’ or the ‘divine right monarchy’ (an undisputed king that has been put where he is by god himself) and ‘Louis XIV, le roi soleil’, the ‘sun king’ and his Versailles palace. This king being the legit the epitome of the ‘absolute monarchy’.
That would be correct but at the same time that would also give zero idea of the incredible variety, and the constant internal fights and changes that were going on.
At the very beginning of the kingdom of France, sometime after the collapse of the Carolingian empire and the troubled times that followed, the first ‘king of France’, Hugues Capet was… elected. So much for the 'divine right monarch' ;)
He was one of the aristocrats owning the lands of the various provinces of what was not yet looking anything like what the country of France would one day look like. And if Hugues Capet himself was already powerful he was far from being the most powerful aristocrat, his fief was not even the largest one back then (the amount of land owned back then was the equivalent of the amount of dollars and/or aircraft carriers a country owns today). It’s only slowly (it took centuries) through smart alliances, manipulations, treason and diplomacy, constantly going on (with their unavoidable setbacks) that this first election led to the undisputed powerful divine right monarch that Louis XIV incarnated centuries later. Undoubtedly a very powerful monarchy but one that also very collapsed very quickly after Louis XIV passed away: he died in 1715 and it is in 1789 (less than 75 years later) that France declared itself a republic (and in 1793, they beheaded his grandson, the last king of France).
The idea is that France was a very diversified and complex nation, whose impressive monarchy was built upon constant compromises and constant disputes.
Nowadays, this variety tends to fade away as there have have been a lot of work done to… standardize the population through a Nation-wide standardized education system. But even there, it took a lot of time: Richelieu created L’Académie Française in... 1635, as a mean to impose the French language to the very many regions and provinces who insisted on speaking their own regional languages and in doing so were putting themselves out of reach from the central monarchist power (and were claiming their right to self-determine). It also had to standardize units and measures for the same reason.
If today even the mere knowledge of that very rich and conflicting past tends to vanish, as history is barely being taught anymore nowadays to the general public and to our kids, and the little that is still being taught is being done in overly simplistic terms, like really it’s frightening. No matter what, French people still have that natural tendency to not back away from constant arguing, it’s what we are. I sincerely doubt any amount of ‘standardized reeducation’ will be able to change that.
:) or maybe I can even say <3? As a safe fallback allow me to say 'thx'.
We met online some 25+ years ago. We met by accident, while we were discussing with other people about some topic. We then started chatting just the two of us, through email and phone and after a (short) while we decided to meet (just to have a drink and diner). We met and that went quite well. So, we met a few more times and one day, rather quickly to be honest, we decided it would be a lot simpler for both of us if we just started living together not planning on anything special or anything long-term, no commitment... 25+ years later, we still live together ;)
Is there any place in the constitution
Of what Nation? You know that there are a few other countries outside your own and that they all have their own constitution? ;)
France, my own country, in the second article of its 'Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme' (1789) reads « Le but de toute association politique est la conservation des droits naturels et imprescriptibles de l’homme. Ces droits sont la liberté, la propriété, la sûreté et la résistance à l’oppression. » Which roughly translates as : “The aim of any political association is the preservation of the natural and imperscriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.”
Not only does this text states what the purpose of any legit government must be but in doing so it also let it be understood that any government who is not actively working at protecting those fundamental rights stops being legitimate (and then it becomes the political/moral duty of citizens to oppose it).
The text is not mentioning violently overthrowing said government nor is it targeting specifically tyranny or monarchy (even though it was written against them) but it's making it a legit reason to stop obeying and to oppose any form of government that fails to protect those fundamentals rights… without fixing any 'acceptable' limit to the form said opposition could take.
And said limit can and were quite... high, back then. That is not something people like to consider nowadays but violence was part of the Republic’s DNA since its inception. Not even mentioning our own national enthem (la marseillaise) which is everything but friendly to whoever dares threatening our Nation, the most well known symbol is the beheading of the king and queen (and many other aristocrats) and then, in the name of its own safety, the new born French Republic turned itself into a literal mass murderer, culminating in what was later described as 'The Terror' (1792-94) during which, in the name of its own preservation, the Nation (that was indeed directly threatened by European monarchies and by internal dissents) massacred their own population (and also its own leaders). That Terror was a nightmarish blood bath, but I don't think the republic would have stand much of a chance without at least some of that extreme violence.
Violence set aside, I sincerely think France’s 'Déclaration’ is a wonderful text that is more than worth reading and meditating over and over again, today probably more than ever: La déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen , plus its official English translation: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
I suppose your from the USA? Then, your own Declaration of Independence (1776) states that "whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends (protecting the people's fundamental rights), it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government"
Please do note that they take a stance against 'any Form of Government' that is abusing its power and stops respecting people’s fundamental rights, not just against monarchy or tyranny.
Sure, back then they wrote it against what they considered abuses from the British monarchy but those people were smart enough to make sure that this essential text could be used against abuse of power from any form of government... including democratic ones.
Depending how one interprets it, this could also be one of the reasons why that young USA republic has deemed it necessary to have the 2nd Amendments (1791) say that: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” But I will let US people discuss that particular US notion. Still, as a foreigner I consider it another key text that is worth reading over and over again:
It's also worth remembering those people were highly educated and valued education in the citizen. As far as I can tell, as a mere foreigner, the US constitution does not talk about education of the people but one just needs to refer to Jefferson’s, Adams or Franklin’s own work (edit: and the work of some of their contemporaries) to brush aside any doubt: education and culture was considered a way to protect the republic from any ‘elite’ taking hold of it.
Education is something whose essential importance in protecting and strengthening our democracies we may have dangerously neglected for the last few decades. Here in France too, btw.
Oddly (?) this is probably one of my least favorite in all of his work. It's just that, well, it lacks something that is always present, or that quite abruptly it gives too much of something else?
There is only one other comic that made an even more negative impact on me (this one, I read it as a child and I never read again after that). It was one of those (many) French comics kids could buy for cheap back in the early 70s, whose name completely escapes me after 50 years. It was telling the sad story of a dog calmly lying on the grave of its recently deceased master, waiting to peacefully die. Some of the villagers weren't happy about that and tried to chase the dog which did not agree. Frightened, they gathered a crowd and did exactly what crowds excel at: acting like a braindead asshole and that nice dog ends up being killed.
Reading those few pages, I cried my soul out and I was so angry at that unspeakable injustice that I just witnessed I threw the comic in the trash bin after tearing it apart in tiny unreadable parts.
All those years later, I still somewhat regret my lack of control and my inability to refrain from blaming the book and its author for my emotional reactions to it. In my defense, when all that happened I was 7 years old, at most. Edit: well I was almost the age of Calvin...
That is certainly not the same emotion/reaction I feel looking at this strip but I really do feel like it is saying something sad about Calvin & maybe about the terribly absent Hobbes would I also be tempted to note. Or maybe old as I'm today, I'm just still too emotional? Or, since I'm sick as a dog today (no pun intended) I may just have some fever going on clouting my judgment?
Edit: To make sure no ones gets me wrong: thx a lot for sharing this strip.
Jamais lu. Mais bon, je ne suis plus tout jeune non plus ;)
Je me souviens il y a quelques années d'avoir jeté un coup d'oeil sur une sélection de titres de la série Goosebumps de R.L. Stine, et de m'être dit que c'était logique que ça plaise aux jeunes lecteurs que l'auteur cible (Stine connaît vachement bien son métier, de toute évidence). Dans un registre un tantinet différent, j'imagine que cette collection c'est le même type de produit très codifié et encadré?
Par contre, tu es certain que ce n'est pas ce gentil petit chien qui est progressivement transformé et ainsi cruellement condamné à devoir expérimenter toutes les phases et toutes les 'crises' de ce misérable état d'existence humaine qu'on appelle l’adolescence ? ;)
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Oui, j'avais pensé à NFS (j'ai été surpris qu'il ne soit pas intégré par défaut, d'ailleurs). Pour les droits d'accès, je ne sais pas encore clairement quels risques sont plausibles sur un petit serveur de fichiers domestique quye personne n'aurait d'intérêt à piller... mais je ne prendrai aucun risque.
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