I am always enjoying reading Roden issues by Craig Mod and this one made me add 2 books to my reading list

About small shops, "Miller says: "A true shop has a life, a breath, a status, set not by algorithms but by minds and hearts. And you know it.""

"Ce qui m’a frappé surtout, c’était toute cette fragilité humaine d’adultes comme de jeunes qui ne savent plus comment se parler et se relier.

Alors qu’il faudrait si peu de choses."

"On n’a pas besoin de portiques, de policiers, de contrôles et d’interdits supplémentaires, de psychologues partout et encore moins de placer les jeunes sous traitement médical… non, il faut commencer par donner la parole aux jeunes."

"One could give many examples of times when the tech-industry convinced itself it needed to respond to needs that no one ever expressed, or to technologies never requested. 3D televisions, curved screens, foldable smartphones, smart homes. Throughout all this, printing a document has remained the same frustrating experience as always."

"There are technologies that make us more free, more capable, more independent, or that simply make our lives easier. If something gives autonomy, if it allows you to do things you wouldn’t have done, if it empowers you, than it is useful tech.
Everything else should be avoided, because in the best case it's pure consumerism, in the worst case it's the surrender of another piece of independence to the usual feudal lords."

You don't need to make it complex

I have started to do that, using my ereader when I would reach out for my phone, use a transport card instead of my phone, ... as a way to disconnect from my phone

"This got me thinking that a piece of software might be outdated, replaced by a newer version and not be supported by the manufacturer anymore - but that doesn't mean it's bad and can no longer be used."

"To make a long story short: Old doesn't necessarily mean bad and useless. It can also mean good enough, no reason to change."

"Personal curation is a powerful practice to build your own content streams. And instead of seeing posts, articles, newsletters, podcast episodes piling up in your backlogs as a burden, and feeling overwhelmed by it, embrace it, embrace the content, embrace your personal curation."

That's why I do Full-Time Curious

Ne vous gênez donc pas pour retirer les DRMs des contenus que vous avez acheté; ces entreprises ne se gênent pas pour des contenus qu'ils ne possèdent même pas

Article en français sur le phénomène de merdification

“I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how.”

I love experiments around offline, low tech, and simpler tools that fits people's and not businesses' needs

Keeping in mind since I would like to switch one of my mum's PC to Linux

"Meta’s platforms are still causing harm, but the CEO has convinced the media to look at the future instead of the present" An old but still relevant post from Paris Marx from the podcast Tech Won't Save Us which I recommend

A writer POV on social media, why she hates it and what she plans to do instead of going 100% on social media. Hint : RSS and newsletter

A React developer explains why he no longer recommends React for new projects. citing three major problems.

His recommendations at the end : Vue, Svelte, or Lit for SPAs, and Astro for content-heavy sites.

I am not familiar at all with BSD so reading Stefano Marinelli's blog is a great way to learn more about it