Preparing food at home isn’t “fast food,” either.

It certainly is not, and that’s my whole point. You don’t need to go to a fast food to eat a burger. That said, it’s not that long and it can also be a lot of fun doing it with your spouse, like we do, our with friends. A lot more fun ;)

And if’s because of time constraints one goes fast food, one can easily prepare something (much better) at home for their next day lunch. My mom used to that for me when I was a kid, like most moms would do back then, and I have done that countless times when I used to work normal office hours and had a very busy job.

Thx a lot for sharing. I don’t know the guy but he sure is very talented. It’s also one of the greatest love declaration I’ve seen in a while. And he is quite spot on on so many points!

Most certainly, but I would also not call that a fast food, not one that serves handmade burgers. Those are true restaurants.

We had one a few block block from us, it was real excellent. When they bring the plates to our table (we don’t have to queue, and the place was nice and quiet, and comfy) it’s almost like looking at a wonderful mix of poetry and painting that’s made out of bread, with those little sesame seeds, overflowing salad, the pickles, onions, juicy and thick meat (they have true vegan alternatives) and fries that don’t look like fat squishy toothpicks. Their burgers tasted good just by looking at them, and they’re even better when you would take a bite :)

But they’re also not that fast to prepare the burger, and a tad more expensive than the nearby McDo or whatever.

Idolizing the past (and long gone) ‘grandeur’ of some European countries is not the best way to prepare for the future.

edit: as a disclaimer, I’m European from one of those once important countries.

We have not gone to a fast food in the last fifteen or twenty years, if not more. Why would we? It’s not welcoming, the food taste like… cardboard, it’s rarely a pleasant place to eat, and people are often noisy. When we want to eat a burger, we cook it ourselves with fresh food. Yep, when we want to have some, even the fries are handmade. There is just no comparison.

:P

this, or maybe take it to a repair shop to replace it’s battery and maybe the USB port as well.

yep, if at all possible that would be a better idea.

I would not keep any device with a fully exhausted battery just because a battery in a good working condition can already be a fire hazard. So, a depleted one who knows how it can reacts? I would properly dispose of it by recycling it.

The Twilight Zone season 2, and we started season 3.

And a Muppet Christmas Special, too :)

a few days ago I tried browsing the All feed from my alt account and was… quickly back to my ‘Subscribed’ only mode ;)

There was so much porn/erotic and bizarre stuff, not even mentioning low effort content. I did not remember there had been that much porn last time I checked. Don’t get me wrong, people are more than welcome to share and enjoy whatever they fancy but now even more than before I still think the ‘All’ timeline should come with an explicit and very visible warning saying that unlike with more centralized social media there is almost no filtering and no control of the type of content that is shared and that one will be exposed to stuff they don’t like.

A few people have posted in !journaling@sh.itjust.works. So, it’s not just me posting new content anymore, and that’s a huge step in the right direction. Yeah! (edit: and it’s great content, btw ;))

The subscriber count is also slowly growing (we’ve reached 280, I have not noted the base numbers but I would say we’re 50 more subscribers if not more), which is great too.

I still would love to see more activities going on. I mean more comments and new posts non-authored by me. Obviously, that would be easy for me to write more posts but I really don’t want to give people the false impression I ‘own’ the community—I don’t, I try to encourage more activities that’s all. I know Lemmy is much smaller than Reddit; in their s/journaling they have around 2 millions subscribers which is a little more than our grand-total of 282 subscribers ;) but I would say one new post a week or every couple week would be great.

A few days ago, like I announced, I replaced the old banner/icon with new ones to celebrate the beginning of a new year. Beside one person that commented on my first proposal a couple weeks ago (after which I almost completely changed said proposition) there has been no reaction beside very few likes. I even mentioned I kept the old set so I could easily put it back in case they preferred it to the new one. I’m no designer, so maybe it’s just trash and people are too kind to let me know, or they simply don’t care? It’s hard to tell without feedback.

Happy New Year !

Happy New Year to you, and everyone here :)

Hi,

I’m a Windows user of all life

I was a Mac user for 35+ years (still am, partly). It took me a little while to get used to new names/commands in Linux but that’s to be expected. And it is not much an issue anymore ;)

I am those persons that has bad times remembering names, words… imagine commands… Even after using it so much I remember some basics but I’m struggling a lot and I have to go back to notes constantly to do some basic operations. Even worst after trying multiple distro from from different upstreams that commands are … Different

What kind of commands exactly? I mean, I don’t know that ‘commands’ are different from one distro to the other’ as they all use the same apps. So, beside the name of a few specific ones (like, maybe the app installer).

What would be your recommendations to help me. Are there tools to help this issue ?

My two sole advice:

• don’t try to remember too many commands. Instead, focus on the ones you use daily or very often. After you get those memorized you can always decide to memorize more… or not memorize them at all. I don’t bother remembering them, why would I when I can easily use Ctrl+F and instantly find them the moment I need them?

How do I do? I keep a text files in which I store all the stuff I seldom use but still want to be able to find in case I need it someday. To make finding them easier, I put descriptive titles and comments with each command. And that’s what I’m searching for, not the command name ;)

• If you’re talking about Terminal commands, learn to create your own aliases they will let you remember a short name instead of full commands. I have a few lengthy commands and some scripts (for example, to compress/convert images) that I I regularly use. I don’t remember them. I’ve saved them in a .sh file that I can either call through a Terminal or simply by a right-click in my File Explorer (it’s Nemo and they’re called ‘Actions’, on Linux Mint)

I really need something fun to do that I enjoy.

You won’t know if something is fun if you don’t give it a chance. Have you tried anything already and how did it went?

so please recommend something inside my comfort zone

I don’t think you told us what was your comfort zone?

As an alternative, I can tell you what I enjoy or have enjoyed doing. For years, I was into making scale models. That was fun… because I liked that a lot (always was into war planes since I was a child). I’m very much interested in playing chess and DIY (fixing stuff, even electronics, woodworking,…). I’m also much into taking long walks (a few years ago I was barely able to walk at all. So, yeah, some activities can have life-changing effects). Learning foreign languages too (that’s how I learn(ed) English).

Above all, I’m a reader. I have been one most my life and will be one till the day I die. Do you like reading? Have you tried reading?

To put that question into perspective, I don’t think I ever really experienced real boredom in my life. It’s just alien to me. As a reader, I always have something interesting, exciting, or at the very least something fun to read with me. Like I told you, I love to take long walks but even when I go out for a walk you will never see me without a pocket book, just in case I need to wait and have time to waste. I also carry a notebook (I write) and often, I will also carry a sketchbook (I’m no artist, I just enjoy sketching stuff).

Have you checked where is located your closest public library and got your card to start borrowing books? In my country, France, they’re free for book borrowing (one needs to pay for borrowing movies and music only).

What books could you read? Well, are there some kind of stories or type of content you’re more interested in? Say, science-fiction or fantasy? Love stories? Historical or war novels maybe? Or would you find more interest in reading essays, history, sociology, or reading biographies? Whatever. If you really have no idea what light interest you, well, that’s one reason more to get your library card: most librarians are nice people who will welcome you and help you make your first reading steps, no matter if you’re a little kid that just started to read or an older dude like I’m ;)

Don’t want to go to the library and meet real people? No big deal, use their ebook borrowing service instead, you just need an account and a computer.

Robin Williams as the Bicentennial Man. The movie was okay; his performance was amazing.

+1.

I do check their profile when I receive a DM from someone I don’t know. If only, to get an idea who is trying to reach me, what I can expect, and how I should reply. My profile tells people where I’m from and how old I’m, stuff like that. So, anyone checking it will at least understand why my English can be lacking, and why I may not be that interested in stuff or questions younger people consider important. I also share my blog url in that profile but so far I don’t think anyone ever contacted me there coming from Lemmy ;)

I don’t mind a blank profile, but it won’t help me feel… connected to the person. So, my reply may not be as complete or personal as it could have been.

• Like every day, long walks.
  For the last few days, the weather was really not great and if I don’t mind the rain or the cold, everything constantly being dark and dim made my daily walks less enjoyable. This morning the sky is bright blue, there is not a cloud to be seen and the sun is shinning. Happy.
• Read more of Proust A la recherche du temps perdu.
  Seriously, after many failed attempts in the last… 30 years or so, I opened the first volume one more time this evening to give it a shot and, somehow, I was able to get into it and appreciate his prose. Being French, one would think I should be able to better appreciate his style but for some reason I never was, like the book would fell off my hands. No idea what changed this evening (and after so many years) but reading the first 40 pages I was fucking blown away by what I was reading and how well it was done.

I think instances that host certain communities have the responsibilty of setting a certain baseline for mods.

Once again, that’s something I could vouch for personally but me supporting that ideal would not make it a universal rule.

I think instances should be allowed to set their own direction but genocide denial is something I really can’t have.

That’s the reason why no one is forced to participate in any instance. I carefully select the communities I’m subscribed to and read, and then my home page only shows what’s new from those I’m subscribed to. Good luck finding any deniers content in that (or whatever else outrageous content), of they tried they would not last long… thx to the mods in those communities not being assholes and doing a good job.

And we’re back at what I was saying first, someone needs to do the work of cleaning the room. And it can be a lot of work, so not many people may be willing to do it.

In an ideal world your approach would work

I don’t think it’s idealistic, in fact I’d say it’s rather pragmatical: I say don’t try to police the whole Internet to get rid of those extreme assholes (that will never happen, no matter how outraged one may feel about their very existence). Instead, let assholes be assholes together, in their stinky corner of the web, just lets make we don’t have to read their shit content, or to breath in the same room as they do.

I may be wrong, but that’s how I consider the question.

How do you raise your voice in a community if you get silenced there?

You don’t raise your voice (making more noise rarely helps, imho). You raise everyone else awareness that something odd could be happening in regard to some people/you being silenced?

I have never considered the question (I try not to participate in communities where people abuse their power, or to discuss with people that consider a personal aggression any disagreement or diverging opinion) but the first things that come to my mind is that if you get silenced (that can’t be know for sure before trying to publicly post your question in the community), you can still post in other communities that you know members of the first community do read (or in communities created to raise awareness on power abuse, and ask for suggestions). And you can message other users directly to ask them to raise the question publicly for you since you’ve been silenced. And then you can create your own community and start posting: the public timeline is, well, public, anyone will have a chance to read your post. But, really, those are just the first few ideas I would consider if my choice would not be to avoid being in a situation like that to begin with.

but the users are being manipulated. The vast majority will never look at the mod log and never realise that the comments they’re seeing have been editorialised.

Hence, what I mentioned two times: the need to inform them by opening the discussion first.
Users don’t need to be gifted/attributed a new leader/mod. They need to decide by themselves if they need a new one, or not.

Also, if there is no clue that a comment has been removed/censored (isn’t there some default text displayed?), then that should be something to discuss with Lemmy’s devs as I don’t think deleting comments should be invisible.

The problem with the “freedom to do whatever you want” argument you’re making here is that one person (the moderator in question) has significant power and sway over what others trying to speak with similarly-minded people in that community are allowed to say. You need to use that community if there’s no other similar ones with an established & active user base which covers the topics that community is centered around.

Like i said, anyone is allowed to create a new community, that’s the whole idea. But one needs to be willing to do it ;)

Edit: that existing community one is looking to replace with a new one did not magically appear with all its members already subscribed. The mod had to make it so people were willing to participate and subscribe. So, should the creator of the new community. Like I said: one needs to be willing to do it… and put the extra work.

As such, it should be incumbent upon the moderators to strive to be as close to the ideal of “impartial” as humanly possible

That’s personal values. Values I may myself relate too but personal values nonetheless. And certainly not some indisputable truth that should be imposed upon everybody. At least, not in my mind.

It is perfectly reasonable for users to call out bad faith moderation when it happens

Indeed, exactly like I wrote earlier: if someone was ‘abusing’ their moderating power in some community I was part of I see only two reasonable options, both starting by raising the issue within the community, discussing it with other members

Then, actions can be taken. I just see no valid reason to appeal to some extra (new layer of) authority when all the power is already in the hands of the users.

Pilling up on authorities will never compensate for the lack of personal investment.