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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • La blague telle que je l’ai connue, on te fait marcher assez longtemps. En général plusieurs personnes qui connaissent la blague t’en font une description (d’un côté les pattes sont plus courtes pour tenir dans les pentes, ce genre de choses) , ça peut durer assez longtemps (dans mon cas toute la soirée) avant qu’on te révèle la supercherie.

    Mais je connais des gens ou la blague à été poussée à les faire sortir en ballade ou essayer de le trouver pendant une randonnée.


  • Well that’s my main issue, my rig runs an i5-6900 and I have 16GB RAM. I gave 6 to the Linux VM, and try to maintain the usage on Windows as low as possible : not having the browser running on both, a plug-in to put to sleep tabs not used, stopping processes I’m not using. KDE is a bit too much in my case, but Cinnamon, or XFCE are working fine. I’ve found a new love with i3wm but it needs some time to tinker it to your taste.

    But if you have a more recent computer, you should be fine. Upgrade the RAM maybe, if you find it to slow.



  • I tried dual booting, and I found it to be annoying as well. I always had to reboot because something I needed was on the other OS. Over a few weeks Linux was just taking space on the drive.

    More recently what I’ve been doing was to run Linux in a VM that starts automatically on full screen when opening my Windows session (easy to set up). So now I can work with both in parallel, transfer data, synchronise clipboard with Ditto, have my Windows-specific software while still using Linux as my daily OS. Even better now since I have a NAS which I didn’t have during the dual boot period, so I can mount drives for both. For that you can either use VMWare Workstation Player or Oracle VirtualBox, they’re both free.

    When it comes to swap, of course you will be able to run Windows in a VM on Linux. But transfering your current data ? I’m not sure at all. It might be doable, but I think you should save your data externally for both machines and do a proper reinstall. It will save you some time and hassle.





  • J’ai regardé Asteroid City hier soir. Je suis assez mitigé… Visuellement comme d’hab c’est sublime. Mais l’histoire m’a laissé un peu confus, j’ai eu du mal à comprendre un des derniers actes. Et j’étais un peu dérouté aussi par la quantité d’acteurs connus qui apparaissent, certains pour quelques instants à peine.

    Par contre je suis pas d’accord avec le reproche qui veut que ça ressemble à Anderson au point d’en devenir une parodie : c’est son style et on regarde ses films pour ça. On reproche pas leurs styles à Nolan ou Villeneuve.




  • Oui c’est compliqué. On se lance dedans en préparation de la rentrée du notre. On a du s’y prendre quasiment autant à l’avance pour l’inscription au centre aéré qu’à l’école. Et on nous a validé le dossier, mais conseillés si possible de trouver un autre mode de garde car les activités ne sont pas adaptées au moins de 3 ans. Et hors grande vacances, ce n’est ouvert que la première semaine. J’aimerais bien faire autrement mais le “village” pour s’occuper de notre fils n’a que deux habitants. Et on s’estime heureux car le centre est pas cher, 10€/jour et très modulable.

    Je comprends vraiment pas pourquoi on tient à garder ce modèle qui fatigue les enfants et est trop contraignant pour les parents. Tout comme je comprends pas pourquoi on a seulement 3 zones de vacances.


  • On a regardé Les Bad Guys cette semaine. Ca fait plaisir d’avoir un dessin animé qui sait faire rire aussi les adultes, qui ne tombe pas dans les gags facile (bon il y a deux blagues de prout, mais ça va) et l’histoire s’apprécie différemment selon l’âge du spectateur, sans non plus tomber dans l’extrême opposé d’avoir 12 niveaux de lecture. Bon il y a quelques ressorts scénaristiques qu’on voit un peu venir, deux-trois éléments du scénario pas très cohérents mais ça reste secondaire, c’est quand même un bon film, honnêtement venant de Dreamworks je m’attendais à pire.



  • For downloading music Soulseek is my main source. I might grab a torrent here and there for a specific release or when it’s just a mess to get with Soulseek (like the Final Fantasy OSTs).

    For managing the library and listening to it, Foobar2000 all the way. It can get a while to set it up properly but it will be tailored to your liking. It’s the most advanced player out there. And there are plenty of add-ons (called components) to add features and basically do anything you could need : play MIDI or old consoles music files, play music from Youtube, get tags from Discogs or MusicBrainz, get lyrics, UPnP server… The interface is highly customizable as well. And you can create shortcuts for almost anything, components included (although shortcuts would need a revamp).

    Oh and I didn’t told you about queries. That makes tag fields as variables. So now you could make a query on a genre, a codec, an artist… “%codec% IS FLAC” will output only FLAC files. Very, very handy to manage your library. These variables can also be used to rename or move files. You can also use queries to create autoplaylists. These playlists are auto-updated based on the query, you don’t have to maintain them. I have made a bunch for 60s to 2020s music, my favorite artists, or mixed compilations.

    A few components to install right away : Playback Statistics and Enhanced Playback Statistics, they will no only give you better play stats (duh) but also new query fields. Masstagger to make batch modification on tags, this will save you a lot of time. Also for now install the 32bits version, many components are not available on the 64bits yet.

    So yeah Foobar2000 takes a bit of time, but it’s great, highly customizable. It has saved me dozens if not hundreds of hours to manage my library. And it’s free. It’s my favorite piece or software and I could talk about it all day long.


  • That’s why I don’t play japanese rpgs despite liking them. You have to “play” for 10 to 15 hours before the game actually starts. And during this time it’s a whole lot of cinematic and dialogs with minimal gameplay. Sometimes it gets ridiculous. I can’t remember which game, but after few minutes of dialog you’d be walking for less than a minute to then have dialog again… I want to play and have fun damn it.


  • I stopped playing online competitive games a while back, the last ones were overwatch (1) and dota. Now I almost only play solo games and I have a lot of fun. Currently 110+ hours in TOTK and I’m far from done with it. It’s a category that’s far from dead and there are any flavor that could fit your tastes.

    The only online game I keep playing is MK8D because frustration never last long and there’s no ELO ranking to be obsessed with. Also Splatoon once in a while.