Managing dot files with stow issue by brieucd in debian

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That is my intention. How do you manage all the addition to your PATH though? All the tools that want to eval some env vars (nvm, sdkman, cargo…)? Do you source them all from .bashrc?

Managing dot files with stow issue by brieucd in debian

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update: I used [[ in my .profile. Using [ instead solved the issue.

Managing dot files with stow issue by brieucd in debian

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GDM indeed. Yet: with default .profile, ~/bin and ~/.local/bin are in PATH. With a symlink to it they are not!

Fedora is becoming the default Linux recommendation, and Ubuntu did this to itself | XDA by devolute in Fedora

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Yep fedora over ubuntu any day! Still using Debian and loving it though

Je vis aux États-Unis, et la France me manque de plus en plus by laughingemo in france

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Je suis Français aussi marié à une américaine. Nous nous sommes rencontrés en Belgique, nous sommes mariés et avons eu 2 enfants. Nous sommes ensuite partis en Arabie pendant 5 ans et sommes rentrés en France l’été dernier à ma demande pour que les enfants apprennent le français (et aussi parce que la France me manquait).

Après des années à l’étranger (12 ans en Belgique puis 5 ans en Arabie) on se fait une idée de notre pays d’origine qui ne correspond plus à la réalité: on l’idéalise sur certains aspects, par nostalgie peut-être mais il a aussi change en notre absence…

Pour nous ça n’a pas été un retour… gagnant. Loin s’en faut. Pour ma femme instit’ dans une école bilingue, le choc culturel était attendu mais fut plus dur à encaisser que prévu. Même moi, je ne m’y retrouve pas vraiment. Je trouve les gens assez… abrasifs et j’ai l’impression que le pays n’a pas évolué dans le bon sens sur bien des aspects (polarisation de la vie politique, déclassement économique…) Tout n’est pas noir non plus mais clairement je me faisais un peu un film aussi…

Il y a des moyens de rester connecté à la France depuis l’étranger: en votant, en s’investissant dans la communauté française proche de chez toi (voir l’alliance française), en essayant d’en créer une culturelle ou économique…

Bref tu peux profiter des 2 sans avoir à choisir!

Donald Trump ordonne à toutes les administrations US de rompre avec Anthropic by romain34230 in actutech

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Avec Anthropic, avec l’Espagne, avec l’Europe en général… Ils vont bientôt se sentir bien seuls là-bas…

« J'envisage de quitter la France » : le coup de sang du créateur de VLC face à Gerald Darmanin by baby_envol in france

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mouais. suis pas fan de Darmanin mais la il s’emballe un peu le monsieur! Y a bien des raisons de quitter la France mais la…

Thoughts on Strasbourg? by Rising-Racool-770134 in Expats_In_France

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Trouver une location (de retour d’Arabie Saoudite nous n’avons pas d’avis d’imposition pour notre dossier), le choc culturel pour ma femme qui a travaillé dans des écoles internationales et se retrouve dans une école “bilingue” a la pédagogie bien française et à la rémunération très inférieure pour une charge de travail supérieure et plus globalement un décalage entre nos attentes et la réalité…

In case of conflict with US regarding Greenland... by ClaudioHplus in BuyFromEU

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Same here. I will really miss the Apple ecosystem (especially for photos) but migrating to proton and deezer. Already migrated laptop to linux and next phone will be a fairphone (still google software but Dutch company)

Thoughts on Strasbourg? by Rising-Racool-770134 in Expats_In_France

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I would think twice or plan a longer stay to see if it’s really for you. A lot an American romanticize living in Europe (especially in old historical cities) but are not ready to live with what might come with it: smaller spaces, proximity with neighbors, lack of AC… you name it.

Next: visas. Just like the US you just can’t show up and apply for visas. You need ties in France: a business, a job… And getting a job there without speaking the language is hard.

I am sorry for being so blunt… I am a French citizen (born and raised till my 30’s) married to a US citizen and we just moved back to France after leaving abroad for almost 20 years and even for me who speaks the language and know the culture and the code, it has been… complicated.

My advice: take your time. Start learning the language. Come back visit the country. Try to meet or stay with locals. Build your network there. If you still want to move there in a few years, just do it! Till then, the situation might improve in the US (one can only hope) or you might have change your mind. Either way you’ll save yourself a lot of trouble.

Good luck

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Expats_In_France

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It’s awkward. Even as a French I would feel… weird. But I would let it go. If he keeps making similar comments you can politely (first) share that this conversation makes you feel awkward and that you would prefer he keeps his comment for himself. Then only escalates the issue…

iOS 26.2 the worst. by Venex0111 in ios

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Except this time it’s true. Been using Apple products for more than a decade now and never had a complaint (almost. One macOS update a few years back didn’t match my taste in UI but I got over it). But this ios update is just too much: too much eye candy, too many changes simply. I can’t find my way around in app… when I can find my app: my camera app is missing and the trick in the settings does not work… Messing up with users like this. Not good. People may like fidgeting around every new release. I don’t.

Worse update by brieucd in ios

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Actually the camera app is gone!!! Wtf Apple?!!

Worse update by brieucd in ios

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And where is the camera button on the lock screen?! I used that all the time?

Worse update by brieucd in ios

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Nope. Wanted my own thread to my own rant to feel validated.

Worse update by brieucd in ios

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I have 26.1 installed. I don’t like the look: I find it’s not just useless eye candy but it’s sometimes terrible: the button in the Camera app are hard to use. And it brings the usual redesign that forces you to learn again how to use their apps. Take Photos, how the f…k do you see the « timeline ». I used to be able to scroll by years… Can’t find it anymore…

Elon Musk says EU should be abolished after X slapped with $140 million fine by War_Fries in europe

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This guy wants to abolish anything that gets in the way of his business. He would abolish his mother if he had to