dwazou

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[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 56 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (22 children)

Installing Linux was a good decision.

I have not gone back to Microsoft Windows.

Don't listen to people telling you it's hard. I don't have an IT degree or engineering degree. Installing it was easy. Linux is elegant, secure and powerful. I love it.

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

China is a dictatorship country with many flaws.

But for too long, Canadians have ignored the vicious American Gorilla standing up at their door.

 

This year, I gave 10 euros to Libre Office

https://www.libreoffice.org/

I gave 5 euros to VLC

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

I gave 5 euros to Qbittorent

https://www.qbittorrent.org/

I come from a low-income country. Europeans can afford to give much more.

Last year, the CEO of Adobe earned ~~20~~ 40 million dollars. He only travels in an armored SUV with bodyguards. He has been described as ''completely obsessed'' about money and power. If he could get away with it, he would probably murder open source developers to send a warning.

Are you happy that people and companies from your community are wiring money to Microsoft for the privilege to use Word™ and Excel™ ?

Are you happy that people and companies in your community are wiring money to Adobe for the privilege to use Premiere Pro™ and Photoshop™ ?

This is money leaving your country. For what?

Please support open source software developers.

With extremely limited ressources, Inkscape, Krita, Gimp, Kdenlive are doing fantastic work, offering free quality alternatives. These volunteer developers are really doing the best they can.

You don't have to donate fortunes. You could simply adopt 1 software.

If I can do it, so can you.

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

The Canadian Housing crisis has two sources.

1. Extreme population growth

In 2024, the Canadian population increased by 3%.

This population growth rate means the population of Canada is growing 2 to 3 times faster than the United States, Britain, France, Spain, Colombia, Turkey, Vietnam, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Mexico or Brazil. In fact, Canada is now growing faster than many countries in Africa.

2. Terrible city zoning rules.

Several Canadian cities have rules banning multi-storey housing from being built. Multi-storey housing is significantly more affordable than individual homes. But cities ban it. They simply don't want it. When they do accept multi-storey housing, most Canadian cities often require developers to build parking spots. "You want to build a condo tower without parking spots ? Sorry, we can not accept that". By forcing developers to build parking spots for each condo unit, they artificially drive up the cost of each unit. They basically force condo buyers to subsidize car ownership. It's insane.




The Federal Government needs to reduce the immigration rate. Look, Justin Trudeau did a lot of good things, but his immigration policy was one of his biggest failures. The current immigration rate is simply unsustainable. Canada needs to aim for 1.5% population growth instead of 3%.

But cities shouldn't be left of the hook. They are responsible for half the problem.

I mean, just look at the zoning fight happening at the Ottawa City Council :

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/councillors-spar-over-parking-and-density-as-zoning-debate-flares-up-1.7512045

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Aquafresh is owned by Unilever, which is British.

I despise funding the UK House of Lords.

But it's better than Colgate.

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Sophia Chikirou : Vu

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (20 children)

Je n'aime pas Emmanuel Macron. C'est un type arrogant et qui a fait un certain nombre de grosses conneries. Mais il n'est pas pour autant d'extrême droite.

Laisser croire que Macron = Marine Lepen, c'est n'importe quoi.

Tiens c'est pour toi :

https://www.ouest-france.fr/elections/presidentielle/presidentielle-pas-une-voix-pour-marine-le-pen-demande-jean-luc-melenchon-d46ece44-b8fd-11ec-bd14-a849d20f46a4

https://www.bfmtv.com/politique/elections/presidentielle/le-pen-et-macron-ne-sont-pas-equivalents-melenchon-ecrit-a-ses-soutiens-avant-le-second-tour_AN-202204130675.html

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (22 children)

La principale différence entre toi et moi, c'est que je fais au moins l'effort de lire le contenu que je poste..... Tu te contente de poster des liens sans même prendre le temps de le consulter.

Ton premier lien porte entièrement sur le Rassemblement National.

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Yes, we all need to collectively eat less red meat to reduce emissions enough so Felon musk can eat lunch in Paris 3 times a week

Actually, eating less red meat would also be great for our health:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-07-21-red-and-processed-meat-linked-increased-risk-heart-disease-oxford-study-shows

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/study-sheds-light-on-link-between-colorectal-cancer-and-diet-high-in-red-meat/

We need to tax oligarchs and eat a bit less red meat.

It's not one or the other.

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can't be reprimanded if they use them.

This isn't the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. Gimp has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 104 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can’t be reprimanded if they use them.

This isn’t the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. GIMP has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.

 
 
 
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