libre is one word that is already popular

Least american centric lemmy thread.

Poland. It comes by default.

Check out the podcast “Sold a Story”, it is made by American Public Media and explains, or at least tries to answers why functional and general illiteracy are so high in the US.

Very good podcastz just binged it today.

Strong unions

Yeah. Very Strong…

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Pianka

Yeah, the english language has a problem with that. But not just English!

Polish does too, the translation would be “Wolne oprogramowanie”. However wolne can be understood both as free and… Slow.

Yeah, slow software lmao

If you’d like to know more about software freedom checkout the Free Software Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, of course the GNU project and some Linux youtubers like Distrotube and the like.

I forgot not everyone knows what free software means. Free as in freedom not free as in gratis. The other one has good, even great reasons for existing as you’ve said people need to pay the bills. The first one does not.

You go buddy! Us 14 year olds should stick together!

Monero is the only torelable crypto currency for communists before revolution. After it is a liability.

The qeustion would rather be, why shouldn’t software be free? Because there is no good reason it shouldn’t be.

I’d rather do that despite the costs. I like the real storage paper requires.

Ah mama’s hand written recipes, they contain more than just her recipes…

The abused paper, the fading writing, her handwriting, the smell of cocoa powder in the paper…

From a simple recipe written down quickly, it turns into a cherished family heirloom.

It also gets painful real quick, I find needing to type out long texts on a smartphone frustrating and I quickly get needlessly angry 😅

But have you considered the true reliability of paper? Really, even a tablet is a computer that can run out of battery, bug out, etc.

Paper not only has that, but it is also an art form in itself! Writing on a tablet, which can zoom in and out is for me much more awkward compared to the set dimensions of paper and the size of a nib. It also is something that has no feel to it, it’s glass.

No scratch, no feedback and most importantly no feel. Have you ever held high quality pull and pulp paper? In Polish it’s called “Papier czeprany” and I have. It’s like nothing else. Standard copy paper be damned, that thing is a joy to hold, write on and read off of.

Also, paper is different if you have different light. It really makes all the difference for me, and I love sitting under a warm light from a lamp and either writing with a pen or typing it out on a typewriter. Having light blasted onto my face by a screen annoys and tires me out a lot of the time.

It’s not just the practicality that can win out, even though paper does also win for me on that front, it has a charm to it if approached in a way different than just absolute practicality.

Is owning 7 typewriters and 2 fountain pens a yes? Because yes, I love pen and paper.

I don’t really find that a hassle to travel with a pen and notepads. I’m also quite fond of the reliability they offer me compared to electronic devices, hell sometimes I travel with a typewriter because of the joy typing on it gives me.

Computers aren’t really the same, and typing on glass fucking sucks. Really, it gets painful to type on a smartphone for me real quick.

Also there is something more authentic and real about pen and paper, something material and existing. Something which I can hold and inspect, put up in different light, look at the grain of the paper the trail of the ink. Oh and if you have a particular way of writing it gets not only transmitted by how your letters look, but also by how quickly you wrote them, the paper you wrote that on, the ink and nib you’ve used. Just so many factors in how it looks in the end.

But the process itself, oh the process. It’s just so much more restricting. And weirdly enough that feeling is liberating.

You are so much more focused on what you are writing, you have to sit down to it properly and think. Because redacting and changing anything is so difficult compared to computers, you have to be sure of what you write. You can’t just let your thoughts flow without rime or reason.

It’s truly a magical experience, something I’m not willing to give up.

I hope you decide to train your handwriting someday, being able to quickly write up a note or something is useful. But seeing how each person has unique hand writing it’s also something one can be rather proud of. And then you have the calligraphy guys, I’ll never be as good as them xd

Ooooooh, that looks nice. I think I’ll join!

More luck to ya, I wish I could say the same outside of Hexbear and Lemmygrad. Either way, I’m happy lemmy is working out, at least for others.

It’s difficult to have a respectful discussion of disagreements on lemmy.world and sometimes even lemmy.ml, especially since a lot of the users I try to engage with start of with “ewww lemmygrad” and I tend to disengage there. It’s just not productive nor is it anything worth my time.

If both parties already agree on a line you won’t find any disrespect. And this kind of interaction is one I see most often, especially when it comes down to politics over on lemmy.world…

I think Hexbear has a posting startegy, that I’ve seen countlessly now, which works well. Start of with good faith discussion, if it goes well continue on the same path, if the other party decides to be a shitty person then post PPB, troll or disengage.

Yup, Reddit culture and redditorisms have very much taken a hold in Lemmy unfortunately. Hell I remember that well since I came over here after GenZedong got quarantined. If anything I’ve seen Lemmy culture maintained only in the places that have created and fostered it for years before Redditors came over and which were actively combating Reddit culture from coming over.

Those places being of course Lemmygrad and Hexbear, I would also include lemmy.ml here if it didn’t die a painful death. I remember it being a completely different place before, now I tend to avoid threads from there rather than take part. It just isn’t what it used to be, fortunately Hexbear somewhat offsets this problem by having a completely separate and distinct culture. I like them, and I like very much that they are Reddit resistant.