Le fabuleux voyage de l’oncle Ernest (the translation would be Uncle Ernest’s Fabulous Journey, but I don’t think it’s been released outside of France)

I don’t remember much of the game but I loved it as a kid, around 9-10.

The game is about the traveling journal of our adventurer uncle: Ernest. From what I remember it’s like a virtual treasure hunt, trying to find clues to find our uncle. It’s a lot of minigames going through Africa, Istanbul, Borneo …

Yes, the k702.

I love my AKG Q702. I think there are almost identical to the Q701 but with a detachable cable so it can be easily replaced.

I’ve been using them almost everyday since 2020 and barely show any wear.

The only thing that wore out a bit is the elastic on the side but I don’t really notice a difference.

I have a synology NAS with all my documents and family photos. I’m using the synology drive app on Linux and synology photo on android.

All of that is backed up on Backblaze

Like this father who got his account closed because he took a picture of his toddler penis to send to their pediatrician.

The picture was automatically backed up in Google photo and flagged as child pornography.

Easy, just compress all your collection into 24kbps mp3.

You might be thinking about the movie Sunshine, there is a similar scene at the end of the movie.

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How do you tell your bank to use simplex to send you a verification code ?

Not being able to install Graphene OS

It was Guild Wars Eye of the North for me. I got it just before going in family holidays.

I spent two weeks looking at it.

I would look into the Surfaces, you can find a cheap second hand one and install Linux on it.

Ikea has a lot of chip board furniture but they also have some decent solid wood furniture for a good price.

It’s usually pine but still for the price it’s a decent quality furniture that could last for a good time in good condition.

For 3D printers I think prusa is the bramd that can be trusted with quality.

They are expensive but made in Europe and very reliable out of the box. I’ve been printing tons of parts for the renovation of my house and tools organization with no issues. I just start the print and come back once it done. Now I even do it remotely from work.

Compared to my brother who had a Ender 3, tinkered quite a lot with it but was constantly baby sitting the prints and eventually just gave up on it.

Opinel is amazing too for knives. Their pocket knives are cheap, sharp and easy to sharpen and durable.

They were also using asbestos and knew it was causing respiratory issues.

They had cloths made of asbestos that they were cleaning by throwing them in a fire. However they knew that slaves in asbestos mine were getting sick because of it

I lived for two years in Cameroon when I was a kid (around 4-5 years old), we were regularly spending time with another family who had kids and the same age.

Fast forward 15 years later, I’m 19 entering university in a totally new city in France. The first day every student is sitting in the amphitheater and they call the name of every student.

When they call the last name of the person close to me I recognize the name so I use it as an ice breaker to start a conversation saying that I knew a family with his name in Cameroon when I was a kid … He says that yeah he lived in Cameroon as a kid at the same time as I did, so here we go we found each other again 15 years later !

I think I’m on an accepting phase too.

I’ve been through a lot personally and emotionally since I started reading about collapse 9 years ago.

I had a look at this publication a few years ago, it put me in a rough place for a few days.

Recalibration of limits to growth: An update of the World3 model

Humanity will survive I’m certain of it, however our thermo industrial civilization will not and most of the people currently living in the planet will not.

It will happen whatever I personally do.

The best I can do now is to find ways to have the happiest life I can using as little ressources as possible for my family, my community (neighbors, friends …) and me. It’s a process that forces us to reassess a lot of things we were doing but it is fascinating.

Practically it means finding ways to lower our monthly expenses, try to consume local as much as possible and learning a lot of new techniques…

Don’t forget ISO216 for paper size. It does not make sense that the US is still using “letter” and “legal” paper size.

The yearly average for Spain in 2023 is 160g CO2/kWh (yellow).

25% of their electricity was produced with wind, 22% nuclear, 16% solar and 10% hydro. And also 22% of gas that brought their CO2 up.