Thx a lot, that’s quite spot on :)

Sorry for the delay, I’m busy testing out https://piefed.social/u/Libb Not sure if I will be staying on Jlai.lu/lemmy or move there to be honest. Both have strengths and both have their flaws ;)

Screw us always more, why?

Same. I would have left long ago if that was not for that setting and without a careful selection of whatever community I subscribe to ;)

My only blocked content is a few people who I can’t be bothered reading again. I also have two words blocked: Trump, Musk just to make sire 99.9% of the shittiest content is filtered out.

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Sure but you still have to believe and trust Filen

Obviously, like I must trust anyone involved in the whole process of me using a computer/phone to do anything. From the maker of my device (that it doesn’t contain some spyware out of the factory, I remember an issue like that with Lenovo and another with Sony), to the app I use but also my ISP (that in France is legally required to keep all my online activities for a few years, btw) but also the maker (and the seller) of my keyboard hoping that they too did not add some spyware or keylogger.

As a matter of fact, one of the reasons I moved a lot of my activities offline is me realizing my inability to trust (corporate-owned) digital tools to actually respect my privacy. The simplest solution for me was to remove as much as possible of that tech from my workflow ;)

Depends what you use cloud storage for obviously.

Indeed.

ok, but requiring standard TOTP 2FA is one thing. that can be perfectly privately and without any real issue.

I see at least three issues: the extra cost, the extra layer of complexity it introduces, and the almost complete loss of autonomy it creates. Exactly like with public transits in many places switching to digital tickets instead of paper ones, save that it’s much worse when it concerns our ID and personal security/authentication.

but that and mandating the usage of an app with built in snitching and which refuses to work on non google-approved devices are different things.

That would not be an issue at all if there was no requirement/expectation to use any phone or device of any kind to begin with. To me, that’s the real point worth considering but it’s also a point very few are actually willing to consider because ‘technology is always the solution, never the issue’ ;)

This is not irrelevant if you just don’t want to bother with encrypting them or with having to deal with a locked folder (I think I understand what that would be, but I’m not sure). Filen does encrypt the folder(s) I tell it to encrypt and sync them to its cloud storage. I have nothing to manage once I’ve setup the sync(s) I need. Different solutions for different needs… and different types of users ;)

I use it too, as well as Infomaniak KDrive (not E2EE)

I’m not a gamer, but gamers have my entire support. That industry, like so many others, needs to be reminded they’re not supposed to be making the rules.

What I don’t understand is people need to hate it publicly and not simply just block it

Probably the same motivation as the need to promote it publicly and not alone bye oneself, wouldn’t you agree?

There are ALLOT of people

You lost me right there. ‘a lot’ is purely subjective and is not much of a fact. I mean, there are 8 billions of us on the planet. So, what is a lot? How many ‘people on the Internet who adhere to almost a religious orthodoxy to Left Wing values’ have you personally met ? 10? 100? 1000? 10000? 100000? More? And how (what criteria) did you count them?

Have you guys ever considered going an opposite direcrion?

Have you ever, and why would that be different for anyone else that is not you?

Les lunettes et les verres que j’ai sur le nez pour te répondre ont presque 5 ans. Je vais bientôt changer les verres (pas la monture) parce que ma vue change (je suis suivi de près par un docteur des yeux, j’ai juste pas eu besoin de nouveaux verres depuis ce temps): je suis passé il y a quinze jours chez un nouvel opticien qui a été surpris de voir leur état qu’il a qualifié de ‘neufs’ ;)

Le revêtement peut s’user plus ou moins rapidement, d’où l’importance de :

• Délicatement les nettoyer. Jamais avec le t-shirt ou la chemise, ou la robe ou le chemisier (ni la tenue de plongée), sauf exceptionnellement (sérieux, une exception càd pas parce que c’est plus facile comme ça). Edit: et quand tu dois vraiment le faire à l’arrache, toujours souffler dessus avant, sur les 2 faces des verres: pour enlever le max de posusière et ajouter un peu de buée
• Pour les laver, j’utilise du… liquide vaisselle sous une filet d’eau courante et je nettoye les verres doucement avec la pulpe des doigts, pas de spray ni de lingettes ‘pour les lunettes’. Le liquide vaisselle est vraiment super, je connais pas mieux.
• Les ranger dans un bon étui quand elles ne sont pas sur le nez. J’ai des étuis un peu partout chez nous (2 sur le bureau, en permanence, par exemple) et, en déplacement j’ai toujours au moins 2 paires avec moi (de près + de loin) voir 3 paires en été (une solaire pour voir de près). J’ai donc toujours soit 2 soit 3 étuis rigides (et solides) dans mon sac
• sac où je range j’ai aussi 2 lingettes microfibres neuves de réserve (sèches, pas celle livrées avec un produit nettoyant).
• Je ne lave pas ces lingettes microfibres. Après un certain temps, pas long, dès que j’ai un doute en fait, je prends une nouvelle lingette. C’est un réflexe que j’ai pris tu temps où je faisais de la photo: le risque est bien trop réel qu’une poussière ou une merde microscopique reste dans la microfibre et raye le verre, vous niqant bien profond, toi et ton optique hors de prix (ou tes lunettes). Me demande pas comment j’ai acquis une telle sagesse ;)
• Je bricole aussi un peu. Pour ça, j’ai gardé ma précédente monture et mes anciens verres qui sont encore assez bon pour ce genre de situation où ils risquent de prendre des coups.

Trump va-t-il envoyer un bombardier survoler Lyon pour (aimablement) nous rappeler que c’est les USA seules qui décident de ce qu’on a le droit de faire chez nous? Edit: ha ben non, je suis con pas besoin d’un bombardier (même aimable), quand il suffit de nous coller des taxes de douane…

Hmmm analog nudes and porno

• With another person(s), that would actually be called having a sexual relationship :P
• With pictures, well, if I recall correctly one has found erotic paintings in Pompeii (destroyed in 75 AD). So, yeah, pornography or at the very least eroticism is kinda older than your average youporn clip watched on a phone ;)

Not as old as Pompeii, not by much some could say, people used to read erotic magazines when I was kid (I knew where my dad kept his hidden) and used to watch video tapes which were like the modern youporn but offline, without ads, without tracking and without any need to use a VPN or to be able to prove your age…

You’re welcome. And happy reading in that train ;)

The default home feed: out of the box, it puts too much shit in the face of newcomers.

Once filtered out, it’s great but one must first learn to filter the noise out which, I’m pretty sure, is dissuasive to a lot of non-geek users like myself.

Merci!

Effectivement, y aurait peut-être moyen de moyenner qqe chose. Pour ce qui est de ma ‘suggestion’ (qui n’en n’est pas encore vraiment une: j’ai parlé de ça en passant, perdu dans un commentaire), y a pas vraiment eu de réactions… à part la tienne ;)

Peut-être ça mériterait un post dédié? Mais je reste persudé que bcp de monde pourrait apprécier de recevoir (et envoyer) une carte postale ou même une lettre… à l’ancienne, avec un joli timbre même. Sans rien de digital, quoi. Un bête objet… mais qui serait chaque fois unique.

J’ai pas encore trouvé de moyen (France-friendly, pour ainsi dire) de préserver la vie privée des uns et des autres. SI seulement on pouvait facilement ouvrir une boîte postale, la question ne se poserait plus trop.

Each genre has so many… sub-genre it’s hard to be specific.

Horror: a great pick would be Stephen King (the dude is both a popular author and an great author, a rare mix), a more classic choice would be Lovecraft (a lot less popular nowadays but most people hating on him have never actually read him so…). King writes both short stories and very thick novels, so you should be able to find something that will suit you. I would say: Bag of bones, The plague, It, Dark Tower (long, but impressively good… Thinking about it, I realize I would not mind rereading it soon), Pet sematary,… he wrote so many great books. Even a few of those he wrote as Richard Bachman were exciting read, at the very least. The last one I read from King was Cell, which is not his best but it was still real good read: people getting zombified and becoming enraged through their cellphones, in the hands of King it can’t be bad :p

If you like haunted house stories, I would suggest Shirley Jackson’s ‘The Haunting of Hill House’, a true classic but that still works wonders. Another woman writer I like a lot, a little more disturbing though: Lisa Tuttle.

And then there are a lot more disturbing authors but, us chatting publicly online and risking to awaken a crowd of self-proclaimed censors that like nothing more than to hate (heck, even suggesting Lovecraft is already enough to risk waking them up) and then me not knowing you personally, I would not feel confident suggesting any of those author as they can be really disturbing (like, really) and not suited to younger readers either. Which is sad, because a few of them are also amazing authors that could make anyone fall in love with great writing.

Scifi:

‘Ubik’ by P.K. Dick is my first suggestion, always is. Dick is the author that inspired so many successful movies and other scifi writers. From Blade Runner to the Matrix, also the (imho, shitty & spineless) series adaptation on Amazon ‘Master in the High Castle’. Cyberpunk as a genre is hugely influenced by Dick. Ubik is both funny and smart read, Dick uses it to masterfully play with a few of his favorite themes.

‘Dune’ by Herbert (the first volume, the following ones are, well, following ones).

Classic: ‘The cave of Steel’, by Asimov (crime story in a future world with robots, Asimov is the author of the 3 laws of robotics and his robots novels/short stories have been used in so, so many movies). Another one by Asimov: ‘Foundation’ so much more interesting than the meh adaptation by Apple. ‘Martian chronicles’, by Bradbury (such a great book, like a lot of what Bradbury wrote).

Contemporary authors: I will happily read anything by Paolo Bacigalupi or Ted Chiang to name just two. Hard science: Greg Egan is my go to.

and anything in between

A bit too vague, I’m afraid ;)

if you self-censor, probably ;)

Thx for the clarification.