I have nothing to offer but some sympathy and one advice: I have two critical backups running: my personal files and the various folders containing my config files.

As I learned more or less the exact same way you just did how critical it is to backup those files too as, losing them by formatting my drive, I instantly realized they’re as personal and important as my ‘real’ files are.

I want a serious answer, how should I find people online to talk to about anything really other than politics?

You don’t.

You don’t find people online (or IRL) waiting for strangers to start a discussion on some random topic you feel like talking about. Because people, unlike trolls, are busy with their live.

What you can find is people willing to discuss with someone they find interesting or, with any luck, intriguing on whatever topic you both are interested in.

So, what are you interested in? Have you any hobbies, interests, passions? Find small communities around those topics you’re interested in, and start posting. Do the work to show you’re there and that, maybe, you’re worth discussing with.

There is a good likelihood that whoever comes after him will be a lot more competent.

CoughVanceCough. He is bright & very smart, powerful, and young. His Munich speech for example, even though too many of my EU fellow citizens (and representatives as well) dismissed it as non-sense and mean, was quite articulated (very hypocritical too, but that’s not the point) and, well, quite informative on what the USA want to do and what the USA will do.

And so is Bessent, in a less rhetorician way even though I don’t imagine him becoming a leader but that’s just my gut feeling ;)

I’m not American so have given up trying to understand the actions of a mad man.

The issue is not that it’s the action of one mad man.

The dude has been elected by a lot of people thinking that his ideas were the way to go. To me that’s the real issue. Trump himself could vanish he would as quickly be replaced by some variant with very similar ideas… And that wouldn’t change much (save maybe that this other person would be less orange and less illiterate? Maybe)

A single crispy not burnt toast (artisanal bread). Jam (strawberry, apricot or blueberries have my preference). Tea but coffee is OK too.

Rien n’est automatisé si tu veux dire programmé ou géré par une machine ou un logiciel. On a aucun appareil smart non-plus (pas même uen petite ampoule). Le truc le moins con dans la cuisine c’est le percolateur qui est programmable mais… on l’a jamais programmé ;)

Si tu parles de planifier certaines activités, je peux te dire que (ma compagne bossant bcp plus que moi, je me charge de la plupart des corvées ménagères) je fais la lessive 2 fois par semaine max, les courses tous les 3 jours car on vit dans un petit appart parisien, la place est précieuse, y compris dans le frigo (et on aime cuisiner et manger des produits frais, pas des trucs industriels). Pour les repas, c’est variable pour savoir qui s’en charge de nous deux mais on va souvent se préparer de quoi manger pour un repas ou deux d’avance. On achète/mange des trucs de saison autant que possible.

I wake up every day between 4-5AM (I like how quiet the city is this early in the morning, it’s my favorite working time), and I never needed much sleep to begin with, so I may not be the best suited to tell you how to sleep better but:

• Does it happen yearly? Change of season can do a lot…
• As other have suggested: stress is a frequent explanation.
• Have you changed anything in your evening habits? I don’t know, more screen, new food, new anything? Or stopped doing something else?

First you will need to stop having uranium for breakfast, then we may let you in.

I’ve got popcorn, anyone want some?

Yep, they even promised to move their entire corp away from the USA and to the EU the moment the orange clown in the White House would ask them to threaten or to jeopardize in any way EU sovereignty. And I would have 100% believed them if only they had thought of adding a ‘6 Free chocolate box for all EU users’.

I can’t say no to a chocolate box.

Nice try Microsoft, nice try.

But to be honest one of the reasons I like typewriters is because it’s not trendy.

My reason is mostly that, as a kid, I learned to touch type on my grandfather’s Olympia SG1 and I grew up with that one machine that stayed with me up to the university. Back at university, I already had been using using computers for quite a few years also (it was in the late 80s) but I still preferred to type all my papers on what was back then an already 30 years old or so machine. Heck, I even published a fanzine using nothing but this machine, a pair of scissors, glue and one of… the university photocopying machine ;)

This Olympia was heavy as a tank, but it was so smooth at the same time. I loved it… still I gave it away when I got my first portable Mac computer. Always regretted it.

The next day there were a bunch grandparents trying to find their typewriters in the attic.

:)

Oh no I didn’t delete them because I’m wrong, I deleted them because the quality of response is garbage, usually a few words at most, no links to stats, no interesting discussion, mostly boring garbage tier

That’s an garbage and boringness expert opinion, obviously.

In short, it’s the others (and me). It’s not you. How could it be you?
Why am I not surprised?

If you didn’t include your bit about a dog it would have been the only response I thought was actually interesting and worthy of discussion

Going to delete this in a bit as well

Unsurprisingly, I suppose.

You’re in for a fascinating life if that’s how you’ve learned to deal with not being happy with what you get from people. The world around you won’t let itself be deleted as easily as your messages.

He’s definitely american educated.

Could be, I don’t know.

I was just surprised to see his insistence in calling English Americans. It was even more surprising to see him delete all his posts later on… There is hardly any hope of him learning anything if hos reaction when being wrong is to try top delete his (numerous) wrongful comments instead of trying to discuss his motivations/reasoning in saying what he said. Whatever, let’s all get back to speaking some sort of flavored English ;)

Before rejoicing, I’ll wait to see the actual ‘reduced’ price. (saying that as an already paying customer)

i am obviously referring to american english

Your forgot to delete that one message of yours. Though you might want to know.

BTW, is that how you ‘american speaking aussies’ (did I got that correctly in your own version of world languages?) are being taught to deal with being proven wrong? Trying (and failing) to delete all evidences of you being wrong?

You as a frenchman I thought would be particularly concerned

Why is that? Should I disappear if French language was to disappear? Am I legally bond to speak only French or to keep my mouth shut?

I love French. It’s one of the nicest language I can think of but I speak four languages and I can ask my way around in a few others. So, I would not worry too much about my ability to communicate with people if my dear French language was to suddenly vanish… but why and where would it so suddenly vanish? Maybe in the vast emptiness of our soulless age? It could be that. It’s such a sad age, so ill suited for a joyful language like French.

More seriously, France is certainly not the superpower it once was, we can all agree on that (some will agree a lot more happily than other, I know that) but French is something like the 6th or 7th most spoken language on the planet if I recall well (which I may not). And even though it’s hard to date the apparition of a language, French has been officially around for more than 1100 years and the last time I checked on its label, the expiration date was not anytime soon.

Lastly, don’t forget the most essential point: we French have this unique way of speaking English that makes us so charming. So, yeah, I would not worry too much about French going away.

I don’t understand this enormous metaphor

The size of the metaphor one may step in mostly depends the dog. And the carelessness of its owner.
Some people should really care more about their dog and their metaphors.

You seem to have a hard time understand the point: languages are not owned by a country, culture, nation. They’re passed on. Your ‘American English’ comes from German (and some French, and others as well). Following your (very questionable) logic, should we not say English is mostly German and therefore that Americans are speaking a derivative of German? That would be silly.

Also, languages are a mix of others. To flirt, which is such a nice English thing to do, comes from the French ‘compter fleurette’, while to fuck, which is such an American thing to do, may come from the Dutch fokken (aka a derivative of German Ficken). So are American speaking French when they’re romantic with one another and are they speaking Dutch or German when they have sex?

Then, the English we’re now speaking around the world is neither US nor English, it’s international. Its a new mix.

Enough with that. Like I already said, you’re welcome… to keep ignoring facts that don’t suit your narrative. I’ve noticed how trendy this habit has become and I quickly learned to be OK with that, as much as I accept the risk I may step on some dog poop while I get out of my house for a walk in the city.

Have a nice day.

American as your primary language,

when I see signs written in American

You meant to say “English”, not American.

We learn English in most EU countries (alongside a few other languages). American people also happens to be speaking English, which is neat but, no matter the tariff-obsessed orange clown they recently elected, this doesn’t mean Americans actually own the English language. (hint: they don’t)

English originates from (the old English which itself originates from) old German (aka from Germany, which is in the EU as we all know).

You’re welcome.

I’ve contradictory feelings about that. On the one hand it’s great to see some promotion of what I consider a great tech. On the other hand, if this does boost sales and raises prices I also doubt it will help the slightest new actual young users get their hands on affordable models…

Fashion and trends are such a pain. I would love to see more people actually write using a typewriter, and spend a lot more of their time away from their too many screens, but I’m a lot less excited having fashion-victims artificially raise prices of used typewriters so they can put a vintage piece of low-tech on display in their Instagram feed, or whatever. That’s just silly.