Real story: I have to go to work in the next country, in a festival where friends go also but to enjoy it. i made very clear that no drugs, no anything was to be in my car since there’s a border crossing and I can’t get involved in that shit since I am expected to work the day after.

It’s my car, my job,… My rules yeah. Also that festival was pretty famous for being the open-air supermarket for everything smokable, sniffable, suckable whatever.

And of course one dude has “quite nothing really, only 2 grams hashish and a half acid”. Fuck you dude I said “nothing” not “quite nothing” ffs - so the guy said, “it’s okay, I’ll put it in my mouth and swallow if we get stopped”.

Comes the border crossing, I triple-check him. It’s in his mouth all right. And I make him so nervous he swallows when we cross (without being stopped).

He slept the entire remaining 700km, then was angry with me because it was late when we arrived and it was gonna be a chore for him to find stuff right away instead of having time tomorrow because I made him swallow.

He went his way that day, and probably got back by bus. I guess.

We’re now 57. At age 25 my SO went to work for MSF in a really remote place - like, no road through the jungle, small airfield served by derelict Russian aircraft, and in the middle of that nowhere, a huge refugee camp serving 2 warring nations.

It’s something she needed to do.

The pay was shit, but the local expenses where null, with food and accommodation being provided; her entire salary went into calling once a week for about 20 to 30 minutes (if the phone lines worked). She wrote also, same rhythm like once a week, but I would usually get them as a bunch of 3 or 4.

I couldn’t write. Dunno why retrospectively, I just couldn’t. Not getting the phone calls was nerve-wracking of course.

She was good at what she did, so in order to have her stay beyond the scope of her original mission they offered a Logistics position to me so I could join her. As it happens, in these conditions that position was untenable & she didn’t want us as a couple to establish ourselves in such a hellish place.

She came back changed of course. But mainly, when she did move across the earth again a few years later, we went together.

If you speak French… You probably saw this already : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8scIZblNats

There’s a French speaking /r/ over there that bans an @jlai.lu user and remove their post when they link to Lemmy.

Euh, oui. Pas en avion ou en TGV mais sinon, c’est des outils quoi. Le truc rouge est en effet une lampe de poche, et le multitruc marqué “gerber” a un porte-embouts de l’autre côté

(Tellement indispensable que c’est dans mes poches, carrément, pas dans un sac. Ouais, c’est un peu lourd à la fin de la journée)

RISKY CLICK OF THE DAY

Absolutely. And when bored (which is likely to happen), I’d visit Moorcock’s “Dancers at the end of times” universe, for the same carefree attitude, but in a much more spicy flavour

HAHAHAHA what the eff? Where does that come from? (I know it’s semi-old because of the vertical toolbar)

Gnome is the best UI there is IMO. Anything else is cluttered, or privacy-invasive, or both.

I am a sucker for indirect, coloured washes aiming at the ceiling

You didn’t specify a context, did you?

I mean, this is “ambient lighting” amrite?

Hm. I use it for anything, looping stuff, streams, entire album play, playlists, even audio books before I found maBooks

My only current bug is that I used to have my music on an SD card, which failed & I removed, but VLC still thinks it’s right there and fills my library with it

VLC is the goat here, no?

As available in France, tho only for €60 less.
And you pay €30 for fedora (?)

Indeed but it’s rarely available to the general public. They don’t mind selling 2000 units to a business with dedicated IT support. They (used to) totally draw the line at providing individual support to individual customers.

In my experience (France), buy it while you can because it pops from time to time & disappears without warning.

Woah! Never seen this in France, ever. You can even get it os-free!

The difference in pricing is concerning tho.

Where?

To push it a bit more contemporary: Peter Cawdron and his "First Contact " series, which is infinite variations (about 30 as of now) of making first contact with an alien sentience of any type.

It’s excellent, and despite being excellent only available on kindle / kindle unlimited because as an independent author, that’s the only way for him to publish & make a buck out if it.

Peter Cawdron is on Mastodon btw

I work them, so I never just go and attend them - the experience is so much better when you’re “in”. I love the interaction, quite love the babysitting part of it even.

Also when I enjoy it, I will tell them & and it always work because artists know that if the local tech found them good, that same dude who see so much stuff day-in, day-out, it (probably) means something.

You meet jerks, of course. You learn to provide them with minimal service, but clean and decent for the public. You meet fantastic people who fail to make it through to the audience, and that’s heartbreaking. You learn to put 200% of yourself into a musical style you don’t enjoy because the dudes on stage are killing it and the audience is loving it - who cares if Jazz Manouche is the most boring, written down and set in stone style ever.

My most stupid interaction was, at the end of a programme that included both Chopin and Steve Reich, to tell the Reich’ piece clarinetist “sometimes, Chopin is boring. Especially in regard to Reich”. The Guy was in agreement lol.