Courantdair

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What is your most important tool? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I think the knipex pliers wrench is my single favorite hand tool, it can really do anything that involves screwing or unscrewing with so much ease

Over the past month, I've put Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" on 4 machines and all the owners are happy (with one of them being me) in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PM me your email or something and I'll try to send you that tomorrow!

Over the past month, I've put Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" on 4 machines and all the owners are happy (with one of them being me) in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I organized it in a third place (not sure about how it's called in English, "tiers-lieu" in french), they did most of the communication. I also gathered e-mails of people interested on foss and related subjects during other events and I send them e-mails everytime I throw an event.

There are some initiatives like End of 10 which gather local organizations that might throw install parties, that can help being visible. There are probably others but it depends on where you are.

On the practical level, we prepared a quick slideshow that we run in the beginning to show people why they'll love linux (talking about free software philosophy, and why proprietary is not a good idea) and then we have half a dozen Linux mint keys that we share with everybody and we all run the install at the same time.

We also bring a couple more keys, like a gparted and/or debian live just in case we need to do some recovery.

Most of the people completely switch from windows to Linux but we had a couple of dual boot. We also had one impossibility due to the person wanting a dual boot and their PC using a weird RAID controller preventing us to repartition the disks, or install grub, I don't remember.

Anyways, it has been a lot of fun and I recommend anyone competent to try, it's really nice to bring linux to more people!

Can anyone recommend a privacy respecting 4K streaming device? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago

I went the same path and I second the Vero V, very nice little machine! It can also do Dolby Vision, which is why I chose this one.

Over the past month, I've put Linux Mint 22.2 "Zara" on 4 machines and all the owners are happy (with one of them being me) in c/foss@beehaw.org
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 8 points 2 days ago (6 children)

You can organize Install Parties! I held two of them and I expect to hold one more in the beginning of the year, I had a lot of fun and people were happy to install themselves and learn a new way to use their computers.

Rootin Tootin Oil Producin in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Drill baby drill

Linux players on Steam hit an all-time high for November 2025 in c/linux@programming.dev
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 11 points 2 weeks ago

2026 is definitely the year

'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022 [404 Media] in c/technology@beehaw.org
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 29 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist

I still see a lot of crap though, I guess it's hard to keep up with the huge slop wave

I hate it when Windows wants me to wear a suit. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 7 points 3 weeks ago

I miss a whatisthiscar community... Isn't there one?

Approximately 1 in 25 Pixel users run GrapheneOS in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

1 in 4% is a very odd way of saying 25

Tempus v4.2.4 android subsonic client release in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago

Okay, thanks! I'll definitely try it as I liked Tempo a lot

Tempus v4.2.4 android subsonic client release in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

What are the differences between Tempus and Tempo?

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About to throw my first install party, any tips? (jlai.lu)
 

Hi there, I'm about to organize an install party for my local community with the help of two other Linux enthusiasts. Has anyone ever done that here? Do you have any tips on which distro to install or what people absolutely need to know before leaving the room?

On the distro side I'm thinking fedora or Linux mint buy I have no experience with the latter, it just seems very beginner-friendly.

I'm also planning to start with a quick presentation on what is linux and the basis (distribution, package manager, root, ...).

Also, I don't know how much time we need (I guess it depends on how many people show up but we'll certainly limit to 10 or so per party).

Thanks for your help 🙂

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Today I saw hope (jlai.lu)
 

In my local community, we have a WhatsApp group for mutual help and services / goods exchange, the rule is no money, so it's mostly populated by leftists more or less open to understand the problematics of internet privacy (for context). There are a bit more than 350 persons.

Today, someone sent a message telling everybody that he's leaving Meta products for good, thus this group. A few other persons complained about meta, then I suggested that we could all leave WhatsApp and go on Signal and I briefly explained the network effect by saying that if no one uses signal because nobody is on it, then no one will ever use it if nobody takes the first step.

And this argument worked because an admin just created a signal group! More than 50 persons already switched!

Obviously the WhatsApp group will not be abandoned right away, but it has been decided that both groups will be used for now, then we'll see at the end of the year which group we abandon.

I really see hope in that kind of events, because if I managed to make more than 50 people switch, a portion of them will do the same for their other groups and family / friends.

I plan on hosting little conferences with this group on the libre culture and the attention economics, so hopefully I'll convince all of them that it's the right thing to do!

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