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This is why we need Exit to Community: https:/.e2c.how

I'm not a power user and don't know what half of the stuff in this article means, but it got me reflecting on how much rarer glitches and weird workarounds have become since I started exclusively using Linux in 2013. I feel a lot of gratitude for whoever the heck made that possible.

One outcome of the Deadspin mess might be instructive—a group of journalists abandoned it and started Defector, a successful worker co-op.

After Quitting Deadspin in Protest, They’re Starting a New Site https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/business/media/deadspin-s...

For more context on cooperatives in journalism, see https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/mij/15031809.0007.203?view=text...

System76 Lemur Pro, the best and lightest laptop I have ever owned. And the purchase price helps to support the development of PopOS, the smoothest Linux distro for people who want it to just work.

> In reality, amid an onslaught of Chinese competition, and falling sales, the West’s electric vehicle dream is quickly unravelling – and we need to relearn all the lessons in why grand, state-led industrial strategies never work.

That is quite an astonishing comment for a story that is actually "another state-led industrial strategy got in on the game earlier and more completely than the free-market democracies could muster."

I have written several books in pandoc and I love it. I make an easy script to output drafts in PDF, docx, odt, and epub with one command. I am very happy with pandoc Markdown for this.

There is no abundance like being able to afford housing while you are still young enough to grow a family. Chatbots and streaming services are no substitute for that.

After I started using Zotero, I found that I stopped using Calibre. Especially with Zotero's recent improvements, it serves as a decent replacement.

I am an American traveling in Ireland now now and have been enjoying this! Much better to save the excess nonsense for the end of a sentence rather than confound the meaning with it.

Tester here. After some months of working out the kinks, this phone and OS pair are working great. I strongly recommend (if you are okay with a so-so camera).

I've written three books now with Markdown (in emacs), and I love it. The simplicity makes it very easy to focus on the content and export in diverse ways (which I find important for editing). My stack is:

- Markdown mode in terminal emacs - Pandoc export with .emacs script or shell script for books with chapters in separate files - Zotero with BibLaTex to manage .bib file - Git for version control

This has worked beautifully for three trade books and one academic one. The only sad part is when we shift from writing and revising to copyediting, when I have to edit the press's track changes in LibreOffice.

I love it, and so does my mother.

Pop is generally great. Surprised it is not being discussed here more. It is Ubuntu + Flatpak + Nice UX improvement improvements

We run one at mayfirst.coop. works great. We have our own plugin to support bilingual meetings and we reduce the video quality intentionally to reduce server usage and carbon impact.

I'm working on a mod for enabling user self-governance in online games, initially with Minetest: modpol.net

We don't have this in the app, but the booklet that is featured on the website has some short case studies for each template.

Original developer here. What a nice to surprise to see this on HN! AMA if it is useful.

I've had my mom on Ubuntu for maybe 5-7 years. Mostly a great experience. She sounds like she is at a similar level as OP's. It has been nice because when she does have questions or problems, it becomes something we can work on together, because unlike solving problems on walled gardens, I actually enjoy helping her now. Even though she is not a computer person, she appreciates being in an ecosystem more attuned to her values. It also enables her to run old computers, which she is happy with.

Huge amen to that. Our favorite family activity is to spend all morning there with the kids on Saturdays.

I love this point. I had honestly never thought of the question this way before.

Is this why my Firefox window went black randomly for a few seconds today?

Great Radiolab episode on the story (pre-Snowden reveal) centered on a hotel room here in Boulder: https://archive.org/details/radiolab_podcast17crypto_zcash_c...

Feeder on Android from FDroid. It is being very actively developed and has been improving rapidly.

Only thing I wish is that it would handle a dynamically changing feed list that can be kept on NextCloud across devices, a la keepass.

I also use TT-RSS self-hosted to aggregate academic article feeds into a single one I can share with my students. But I hear that app community has become quite toxic.

Sorry to ruin the pun, but it is spelled "lede" in this context

I have used Meld very happily for years on various Linuxes. But am not a developer—use it mainly for sync conflicts on things like to-do lists and article drafts. Thank you builders! It is an awesome tool.

Thank you for your amazing work!

Librera PRO is a great PDF (and eBook) reader on FDroid. And bonus: the version on FDroid is the paid version on Play (last time I checked).

I love that Librera PRO, a fantastic EPUB and PDF reader, is a paid app on Google Play but is free on FDroid.

Other favs:

* Wallabag (read it later) * Markor (Markdown text editor) * FluffyChat (Matrix chat) * BlitzMail (email quick notes to yourself) * Noice (background noise with tons of sounds, great for putting kids to sleep)

Have seen both sides of this. I quit grad school to work, and was much happier having done so, and then returned to teach years later and was much happier than before. A few things:

* There should be much more tolerance for going back and forth. I find many colleagues who have only been academics feel a frustration I don't have, rooted in an over-identification with what the guild thinks of them. When you've had some success in other contexts, it is easier to appreciate the guild and take its excesses with a grain of salt.

* This stuff isn't for everybody. I realized I love this job because, given the choice, I would rather hide and write a paper than build a company or a product or offer a service. Thank Goodness most people in the world aren't like that, we would be screwed. I am hugely grateful for my non-academic collaborators who are not like that. It should be perfectly respectable to get an advanced degree, if you want, and then peace out. (That said, lots of people who are natural scholars get treated as if they don't belong because of their identity, background, etc. So it is not enough to simply assume the people who are in these roles are those who should or could be.)

Leaving that first time was a moment of great joy for me. I celebrate with those who leave, just as I am grateful I found my way back.

I love this idea and, as a person with a special devotion to St. Catherine of Alexandria (who persuaded all the mighty scholars of her truth, which got them executed), I love the name. But isn't it ironic that, for a project named after a woman who schooled haughty men, all the listed books have male authors (except George Eliot, who felt she had to disguise her gender)? Catherine teaches us to look for wisdom outside the canon of official authorities.