Anything by William S Burroughs
Last exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
Anything by Charles Bukowski

On a lighter note, the Dancers at the end of times by Michael Moorcock, and any other tome involving Jerry Cornelius, its multiple avatars, or Karl Glogauer.

Spinning cube and wobbly windows is all I need (on top of 100% pure gnome).

Part of the hate campaign. Anyone following both accounts at the time was quite puzzled by the hypothesis.

And beside those who survive (and provide us with great software), let us spare a thought for the ones who didn’t, proof the opensource community can be an evil pit of haters: marcan and AsahiLina.

Both quit for different reasons, but both did it facing extremely unpleasant behaviours.

As a regular Asahi user (m2pro mbp), I literally felt the project slowing down when they quit.

An outcome of that crisis was the buildup of an organised directorial structure, with funding through the “Open Collective” organisation. That’s good, and it’s full of good people in there. Alyssa is an admin now btw.

Let us wish them all the best (and strength against all evil neckbeards).

Support them if you can!

My bad (seriously). What’s the slang now to “spend hours years fiddling with a zillion parameters so my desktop is exactly like I want it for the next 5 minutes”?

Oops, probably shows (again) my age. Is because “ricing” was ethnic something ?

Tuning / ricing is overrated. I used to spend hours years ricing my desktop (enlightenment DR16 anyone?). Screw that, Gnome it is: simple, elegant, functional.

I do add 2 very useful plugins tho: Wobbly Windows and the Spinning Cube. Shows my age I guess.

Not all of them, we were lucky I think. Yoga’s have it by their very 2-in-1 nature, nice little things, classy matte black like any Thinkpad should be.

All the best! My SO runs a T480s, the elegant one, for years now, switched to Debian after U went super-slow on her.

I went all fancy-schmancy with a Yoga x390, debian too.

Both cheap secondhand, both issue-free (and both with touchscreen!). Whish the official batteries where still available tho.

I use Open Street Map out if being …a rather old dude who contributed quite a lot to it at it’s beginning. Didn’t try the included one. I honestly don’t think you can beat google maps, and so I don’t care if I struggle a bit (or a lot) more.

I’ll check comaps tho. It’s not much traffic that bothers me, more roadworks and other perturbations.

Fairphone is in the Netherlands, Murena in France but that doesn’t say where their support service is subcontracted. Tho I’d rather think it’s due to them being relatively small outfits.

👊 With you here now, F6 and /e/OS 👊

Yeah, I had this initial knee-jerk reaction but since you don’t need as much foss apps to cover basic stuff full of shit (hello Oppo File Manager with ads displaying inside your file list), it’s probably less a worry and more about functionality.

I don’t need a calendar, I use proton. For notes taking I had an other with tons of notes on it, so I don’t want to use the og one. But I also had a gallery, a file manager, a PDF reader which I don’t need anymore. Should I persist with Open Street Maps? I haven’t tried the included one. Knee-jerk I said. I need to check them. Maybe the music app is better than vlc? The browser could be set to permanent incognito mode & I don’t need Firefox Focus.

That said, I’ll never get rid of AccuBreezyWeather or the KISS Launcher.

Tell us how it goes for you!

Oh, we hire people all summers. Pay is Legal Minimum Wage. Must speak French and agree to move about 500 chairs a week.

First day: this thing is bulky and heavy. e/OS has stupid unremoveable apps like “tasks”, “notes” and other calendar etc that you can’t get a list of and much less uninstall, feels like …android.

I once met a ranger in the Lassen Natural Park (North California). He was 100% into it on smoking holes and exotic strates and whatnot - also, he was adamant it was “the best job on Earth”.

The view from his office was nice, indeed.

I love my job. It’s stressful, it’s horrendously unevenly paced, but it brings joy and stuff to people.

Also, I have the nicest office :

Your coworker isn’t wrong if she can afford a choose in her job - yeah, you better like it, it’s so many hours of your time, so much mental space and energy.

I just ordered a fairphone last Saturday, with /e/OS.

How’s life so far? How’s the available mobile network working for you?

Apples and oranges : Ubuntu is a commercial endeavour with a huge entreprise desktop and server base (not unlike redhat), while Fedora is the testing grounds, community-side of said redhat, so inherently not made for IRL work.

I’m pretty sure a lot of people use Fedora for work (I do, on my Asahi macbook), but if you are a business you probably won’t, as you’ll look for something with available customer support.

All other merits and demerits enunciated here are valid, but the true difference is in their target audience.

The interconnection of both, where state surveillance finds in private data collection the info they aren’t legally allowed to obtain, or where state actors sub-contracts the private sector to provide data.