August 2017 – Homo Ludditus

Archives for August, 2017

Guessing the weather forecast

August 28, 2017 Guessing the weather forecast2017-10-28T19:56:13+01:00 Technical

Weather apps: a tricky topic; most people wouldn't understand my obsession with weather apps and widgets. But I had to move the section about weather apps out of my post…

Finding happiness in simple gizmos

August 3, 2017 Finding happiness in simple gizmos2017-12-07T23:11:27+01:00 Technical

Every now and then I read reviews of Bluetooth speakers, and I'm baffled how a same device can have both eulogistic and vilifying reviews. I know that any other kind of…

jamsol on The Last Sleep of the Civilization Part IILes civilisations sont comme les marées, elles vont et viennent... et s'enrichissent mutuellement. Alexis (De) Tocqueville et d'autres avaient bien
Béranger on COVID-19: Winning the War, but Losing All the BattlesTHIRTY-THREE: A relaxed approach is responsible for the current situation in India that could lead to millions of deaths.
Béranger on I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?Just tried Fedora 34. GNOME 40 is very nice, and totally unusable. dnfdragora is slow like molasses, but yum is
Béranger on Looking for purity in Arch LinuxProblems in Arch-land: Pamac is causing an excessive amount of requests to aur.archlinux.org: Today we had an incident where aur.archlinux.org
Béranger on I Wish Me LuckSorry, Vaya con Dios doesn't make me sickly nostalgic. UPDATE: I've split the Deezer playlist in two, because the widget
camil on I Wish Me LuckLuck, a miracle, an epiphany -- Vaya con Dios.
Béranger on I Wish Me LuckBing's wallpaper of the day: Adélie penguins diving off an iceberg in Antarctica.
Béranger on The Mental Retard In Linux Is RealI wasn't a huge fan of KDE3 either. 3.3 was still prone to crashes; 3.5 wasn't bad though. However, there's
David on The Mental Retard In Linux Is RealYou could try Q4OS, based on Debian stable, with the Trinity Desktop environment (based on KDE3). I used it for
Béranger on COVID-19: Winning the War, but Losing All the BattlesTHIRTY-TWO: Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt, from the European Media Director of Human Rights Watch.
Béranger on Looking for purity in Arch LinuxArch started to be supported with Ventoy 1.0.23. The flash drive I used for about 6 months was having Ventoy
Béranger on I tried to understand GNOME, and I failed at COSMIC tiling too; could I have some MATE again?Added a bit of MATE/GNOME2 nostalgia... or more than a bit.
Béranger on COVID-19: Winning the War, but Losing All the BattlesTHIRTY-ONE: New and refurbished conspiracy theories.
Béranger on Looking for purity in Arch LinuxThanks for the historical clarifications. Nonetheless, everything without a decent installer is elitist. Why doesn't Arch adopt Calamares? Oh, because
Béranger on Looking for purity in Arch LinuxOh, endeavouros-2021.04.17-x86_64.iso boots correctly from Ventoy. It might have been an older version of Ventoy I used (with older versions
Ford Prefect on Looking for purity in Arch LinuxArch Linux coming without an installer is not by design. In the early years, Arch Linux had an installer not
Béranger on Looking for purity in Arch Linux1. All Arch derivatives have failed on me to properly boot via Ventoy, so I had to copy them dd-like,
dave brown on Looking for purity in Arch LinuxAll Arch derivatives are built with Archiso, which is why they’re incompatible with Ventoy and must be dd‘ed on a
Béranger on COVID-19: Winning the War, but Losing All the BattlesTHIRTY: Common sense and McGill University against the Doomsday COVID-19 Prophecy of Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche.
Béranger on COVID-19: Winning the War, but Losing All the BattlesTWENTY-NINE: AZ, J&J and Rep. Jim Jordan.

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Giorgio de Chirico. Immagini metafisiche

Giorgio de Chirico. Immagini metafisiche

by Riccardo Dottori

Questo libro di complessa analisi e interpretazione dei dipinti di Giorgio de Chirico è unico nel suo genere, e fortunatamente anche come e-book (non necessariamente per Kindle; l’ePub costa 9,99 euro all’IBS) comprende immagini di buona…

Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? [nouvelle édition]

Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd? [nouvelle édition]

by Pierre Bayard

Après avoir lu « La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres » et « L’affaire du chien des Baskerville » (lu en anglais : Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles), je suis définitivement persuadé que la rigueur…

Histoire de la Chine : Des origines à nos jours

Histoire de la Chine : Des origines à nos jours

by John King Fairbank

Une bonne introduction à l’histoire de Chine.

The Eighth Detective

by Alex Pavesi

What eighth detective (or what eight detectives, in the UK edition)? You’ll understand towards the end of this unusual book which mainly consists of 7 stories, which per se are not that bad, so if one would only read the odd chapters fro…

Marseille Une ville sous influences

by Pierre Boisserie

Assommante comme histoire et très médiocre graphiquement, cette BD demeure assez instructive pour ceux qui ne connaissent pas Marseille. Mais ça, seulement si le prétexte d’une balade à travers la Marseille qui engendre une discussion en…

La Vérité sur Dix petits nègres

by Pierre Bayard

J’avoue n’avoir pas encore lu « Qui a tué Roger Ackroyd ? » (c’est pour bientôt), mais j’ai été séduit par « L’affaire du chien des Baskerville » (que j’ai lu en anglais : Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the…

L'homme de l'année 1989 - 16 - L'inconnu de la place tiananmen

L’homme de l’année 1989 – 16 – L’inconnu de la place tiananmen

by Jean-Pierre Pécau; Gin

Cette aberration est de la propagande pure. Je sais que cette collection n’est pas censée décrire la réalité, mais au sujet des évènements de Tiananmen, un peu plus de discernement s’imposerait.

En admettant qu’il s’agisse d’un massacre…

Le Trésor du Cygne noir

by Guillermo Corral

Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber - Mais où est Kiki ? N/B

Tif et Tondu de Blutch et Robber – Mais où est Kiki ? N/B

by Robber

On ne peut nier ni l’effort ni le talent, mais après avoir lu la version en couleurs dans Spirou, cette version noir et blanc, complètement redessinée par rapport à celle en couleurs, ne me satisfait nullement.

Les Spectaculaires Prennent l’Eau

by Régis Hautière

Les Spectaculaires Dépassent les Bornes

by Régis Hautière

The Killings at Kingfisher Hill

by Sophie Hannah

I dare say it’s only with the fourth "New Poirot" that Sophie Hannah finally managed to reach a cunningness comparable to that of the Grande Dame of Golden Age’s Crime. The first three attempts were of unequal quality in my view: I rated…

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