In time of crisis bikes are THE best transportation mode.

15 years !

Haha, this is clearly engagement bait !

I remember these memes from when I was at university, which was only … 15 years ago. Fuck!

Those who have taken the entire dish onto their plates, leaving others’ plates empty, and who, having taken it all, say with a straight face and a clear conscience, “We who have everything are for peace!”—I know exactly what I must shout at them: You are the first to be violent; you are the instigators of all violence!

And when, in the evening, in your beautiful homes, you go to kiss your grandchildren, with a clear conscience, you probably have more blood on your hands—unaware of it, in God’s eyes—than the desperate person who took up arms to try to escape their despair will ever have.

But let’s not fool ourselves: violence isn’t limited to weapons; there are situations of violence.

A speech from the Abbé Pierre on the national TV in France. The man itself has been accused of multiple sexual aggression so he’s not someone to admire but he did do a lot for homeless people.

English isn’t my first language so it’s hard to find the word to describe it.

It’s definitely a unique drink, very herbal. The green is not on the herbal side, the yellow a bit more on the spices like vanilla, liquorice.

The best way to drink it is to slowly sip it in a wide glass. Like a perfume, the flavor profile change with time. So the first sip will not taste the same as the second sip.

I sometime “forgot” a glass for an hour and two and when I came back it was a completely different drink, sill as delicious as the beginning.

On the expensive side, one recently seen this display in a monastery’s meeting room in France. 3m high, 5m wide filled with bottles of chartreuse, some more than a century old, some very rare editions where less than ten bottles were produced.

Any of these bottles could be sold for several thousands.

The story of the liqueur is fascinating.

To start the original manuscript was an alchemist recipe for the elixir of life, it might have been brought back from Constantinople by one of François Annibal d’Estrées ancestor.

Since it seems valuable but he couldn’t do anything with it, he brought it to the best herbalists he knew: the cartusian monks.

The monks worked on it for a while but it’s only in 1755 that he brother Jerome Maubec managed to refine the recipe to create the first chartreuse “Elixir de Santé”. The recipe was written down in a manuscript and kept secret at all cost.

A lot of events happened after that, the monk got expelled and the monastery was seized by the French revolutionaries. They came back few decades later. They created the brand “Chartreuse” in 1840.

In 1903 the monastery and the brand “Chartreuse” was seized by the French government and the monks expelled once again. This time the monks saw the wind turn in advance and moved all the production equipment in Spain to protect it and started the production there. From 1903 the Chartreuse was produced in Tarragona (Spain) by the monk.

At this period the recognition of the liquor grew internationally. In 1925 it appears in the novel “The Magnificent Gatsby”.

The monks finally regains the brand after decades of trials and the right to move back their monasteries.

In 1935 a landslide destroyed their facilities at “la Fourvoirie”. They saved what they could and moved everything to Voiron, to be close to a train station for logistic. (I have a picture of my great grandfather supervising the transportation of the barrels after the landslide, I can share it if I manage to find it again).

They moved the distillery to Aiguenoire in 2018.

The monks created a company that produce the chartreuse, all the technical steps (bottling, labeling …) are done by this company under the monks supervision but the recipe is still kept secret and only a few monks have access to it. So, despite the million of bottles produced every year, the critical steps of the recipe, the mix of plants, are still done by the monks themselves in secret.

Chartreuse can be hard to find in the US right now since it grew in popularity since the early 2010s but the monks don’t want to increase production. From what I understand their mindset is that there is no point of increasing the production for a trend that might be gone in a few decades.

This is the best one in my opinion (after the VEP, but the VEPs are in another budget range)

I don’t understand what you are asking. You don’t need a VPN since you lube in a third world country that does not care and piracy.

Then torrent movies without a VPN.

As a french and daily nixos user, this is great.

Nixos or a derivative would make a ton of sense for an administration, just load the same config on all the computers and voila! Each department can have it’s own variation of the config.

I stopped drinking alcohol.

I strongly reduced my consumption after my first kid was born and just drank less and less.

Initially I reduced my consumption because being hangover while taking care of a crying baby SUCKS! Then the less I drank the more I realized the impact of even a glass of wine to my mood and energy level.

I like Grist, it’s a step closer to a database but is still as easy to use then a spreadsheet.

Personal disaster as well.

If something happens to me and I am incapacitated, or worse, my wife or my brother can request access to my vault and without any action in my side for a week they will have access to my vault. (Emergency access feature in bitwarden)

So it does not add the stress of needing to call ALL the utility companies, bank, school … To reset passwords or request emergency access.

I saw that first hand with my brother in law who had an accident and went into a coma. We were lucky that his computer wasn’t locked and all his password accessible on it.

Fairphone 5 with android, I’m contemplating moving to e/os but I need to take the time you do it.

Moving to NixOS was quite a challenge for me. It felt like a Iot of different concepts that it took a while to understand.

I’m glad I pushed through because I take like it now. Now that I have my config everything is easy and straightforward.

Dans mon petit village de 1500 habitants c’était 3 listes qui ont fait 38%, 35% et 27%, c’est serré.

My experience is that in most cases, when asked about your nationality in a form it’s easier and normal to only give one nationality.

Like at the airport, even if I have multiple nationalities I only give one passport, I just have to make sure it’s the right passport (the one with the visa for example).

However in there case of back accounts, insurances … They ask specifically “are you a U.S. citizen ?”. In this case answering no to this question would be a clear lie.

Newpipe or tubular

Ca fait trois jours que je mange le midi dans le jardin, en t-shirt, en février !

Tout va bien.

Depuis deux ans on est lancé dans des travaux de construction est rénovation énergétique et clairement je ne suis plus concentré sur comment améliorer le confort d’été que d’hiver parce que ça va être ca l’enjeu dans les prochaines années/décennies.

I remember using Google translate that was doing that live on the phone camera and translating the text at the same time 15 years ago.

I stopped distro hoping with NixOS. It’s been very stable for me and even in the few cases I had an issue is so easy to just restart on a previous generation and revert changes that it does not matter.