Truly an xkcd #1172 situation.

Thunderbird’s Calendar supports local, off-line calendars and tasks.

It’s the best FOSS calendar I have used, even if it has its rough edges.

I have been very disappointed that Fedora stopped making changelogs accessible for years. It used to be that you could easily toggle them on in Yum, but with DNF it’s always “no info found”.

Looking again, it seems like more packages are available for the Tumbleweed stream, compared to Leap. I was testing Leap.

Oh, that’s a great idea. The whole concept of immutable OSes passed me by - I’ve read the terms before at some point, but I have no idea how they work and which problems they solve. Definitely ideal candidates for my experiment.

I gave Jami a very extensive go with family, and sadly it didn’t deliver a usable experience if your device is a mobile one or the network is not a fixed, high-speed connection.

Indeed, it appears that the open-core of LanguageTool is the only FOSS option still going. Only a couple more abandoned projects come up.

I’m going to take “favourite” at face value, i.e. that I actually like, not just that I am forced to use because the alternative doesn’t exist (e.g. my bank’s app or the post-office’s app) or isn’t viable (PDF editors on Android).

Libby, the lending library app. I could avoid it and stick to physical media and piracy, but it’s a well-designed app with a decent catalogue and given that it’s a library and not me purchasing DRMed files, I found the ethical proposition there tolerable.

This is definitely something to find out more about. My current level of understanding of their mechanism is “they dull all emotions, you don’t feel anything too strongly but that’s good because you also don’t feel too depressed”. That seems to be quite wrong.

Btw would you consider crossposting to [email protected] too? You might get more varied opinions and get people to think. (Disclosure: it’s “my” community.)

At this point I would not, but only because I want to engage with all replies actively and the amount of replies I got here was already a positive surprise but also a number that is only just about manageable for me.

What makes you feel that your current state is what you “really feel”? Who decides that?

That may be the most crucial question my therapist should ask me. The answer that’s top of mind is “this is all I ever was since I can remember, so it has to be real even if it’s bad”. I can tell how shaky the logic is but it’s convincing to me.

Thanks, you provided me with some great questions and I’ll discuss those with my therapist.

Good tip, thanks! I did read somewhere that scheduling dose increases and decreases is extremely important with this class of medication, so I’ll definitely only do it with a doctor who can observe me closely.

I hope you are able to access proper care soon.

I was an eager user of recreational drugs, and I never saw any of my drug experiences as “not real”.

I definitely think that some of my hesitations have to do with not having any experience of using chemicals that affect the mood before, so I don’t have a mental model that I can re-use for antidepressants. I definitely drink caffeine though, so it’s probably valid to say that I have constructed a fiction of me never having done anything like this, but it’s a convincing fiction.

Thanks for sharing this @[email protected].

It may be worth talking to your therapist about the fact that you may have internalized these feelings as being a core part of your identity, something that you’re afraid to lose. I promise there’s more to the things that make you who you are.

Yeah, I think you are hitting an important point and he also tried to poke at it when I told him how I feel about the suggestion.

One aspect of it is definitely that I’ve been depressed since I had a personality. At some level, I think I believed that this could never change (and that’s why I was so amazed when some of the CBT exercises started having the exact effects the theory said they would). Thinking of a potential me without all of the maladaptive patterns I developed since I was a kid is about as stressful to me as meeting a stranger.

Part of it is also that I don’t understand the chemical mechanism behind the various antidepressants though, so I’ll definitely need to talk with medical doctors about it.

Good tips, thanks! I’ll really have to be careful with understanding everything said for sure, since it will even be happening in my third language.

What I’d suggest is that you keep the suggestion in reserve until such time as the depression is kicking your ass again and then consider trying it. Its worthwhile to discuss the issue in advance with your MD and review the various options as some are more activating than others and some are more likely to produce side effects than the others.

Thanks, I think this is the path I will take for now. I’ll talk with my GP about it today and start the process to find out my options first. It might not even be something she’s allowed to prescribe anyway, so I’ll need to visit a neurologist or a psychiatrist for more consultation.

I basically take the position “you need a different, non-confusing term”. Open Code is not such a term.

My view is shaped from the cultural realm more so than the software side, but I think the concern at the centre of it is transferable: it becomes extremely messy to capture the desired acceptable uses in the legal wording of an enforceable license. The outcome is that every use will have to be individually authorised.

I was helping run and occasionally held the editor role of a leftist magazine which we decided to make Free Culture under CC-BY-SA. Content using the Non Commercial clause gave us such headache, while even though we did not charge for the magazine nor we ran adverts, we accepted and strongly encouraged donations from our readers. That money went to pay off the printing costs (the NC clause already has a problem with that, but we assumed that would still be defensible), but the rest was also invested in other endeavours like public events, or eventually helping fund a community centre.

At that point, it didn’t matter if creators with NC works released them under a supposedly free license. Our -in our opinion- non-for-profit use was still so tainted with money changing hands, that we still needed to seek their consent and get a written permission on top of the original license. At the end of the day, it was the same as working with All Rights Reserved works, where we get a special license from a sympathetic creator. The NC clause solved nothing for us.

That part is, I believe, the same with software licenses. We will end up having to get 1:1 license agreements for so many things because the new anti-commercial licenses will not be able to predict all the scenarios which are “false positives” for the anti-capitalist software developer (as in, some desirable re-uses will be blocked by the license, and individual licensing agreements will be needed often).

My focus would be to fix the loopholes that go counter to the copyleft spirit in AGPL, if such loopholes are identified, and perhaps get a more reliable organisation handle the AGPL definition in the future.

What I have to give to XMPP is that it’s one of the easiest federated services to self-host. Running Prosody is super simple.