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I've been almost-ready to ditch Windows for years. Now's the time.

My new neighbor is an old-school nerd. He hosts install parties at our local leftist third space.
He's going to help me switch to... not sure yet. Probably Mint. I can't wait. It feels as good as never giving a cent to Amazon, Uber, and streaming services.

Yay.

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[-] mech@feddit.org 117 points 1 day ago

our local leftist third space.

You have no idea how jealous I am.

[-] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 43 points 1 day ago

Sometimes I look at my life and I feel jealous of myself. Tbh I deliberately moved here (the boonies, and a leftist / alt-culture hotspot of grassroot community living), and it has its cons, but... Next week a wool felter is taking me foraging wild plants to teach me basket weaving, then I'm teaching her the basics of fermenting food (for booze, taste, or preservation), while my 10yo kid is 500km away for her country-wide robotics competition. I'm happily trapped in a caricature.

[-] Teppichbrand@feddit.org 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Mince alors! If been to France multiple times, went to Burgundy last, and je parle in petit peu francais as well. You went full Braiding Sweetgrass and I really envy you! We moved to the county in west Germany and it's all conservatives here. Not that they are actually conserving anything, though.

[-] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 3 points 19 hours ago

Und ich spreche Deutsch! Been to Bavaria (I know) a few times as a kid / teen, my grandmother taught highschool German for decades, and my dad reads Goethe for fun. German was the language I actually loved. Never use it nowadays though, and it's so rusty I can't do anything with it anymore. And my traitor kid just picked Italian as her 2nd foreign language. She sucks.

[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago

where is this? asking for a friend.

[-] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 6 points 21 hours ago
[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 20 hours ago

guess i have to find a way to get accepted into europe (and finding a bunch of money)

[-] tyler@programming.dev 9 points 1 day ago

I thought it said “nerd space” not “third space” and I was like what’s that??!!

[-] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 8 points 1 day ago

I need one though.

[-] jestho@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago
[-] Vittelius@feddit.org 17 points 1 day ago

It's a term from city planing. Essentialy places that are not your place of work or someone's home.

Here is a more in depth explainer by NotJustBikes: https://youtu.be/VvdQ381K5xg

[-] bobzer@lemmy.zip 4 points 21 hours ago

Critically somewhere that doesn't cost money to simply exist in.

[-] Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago

I don't understand that explanation. Your workplace doesn't cost money to exist in, it's quite the opposite. Often a third place is a pub or something, in which you're expected to buy a drink or something.

[-] Tywele@piefed.social 1 points 17 hours ago

A city park is also a third place and that doesn't cost you money to be there.

[-] Joelk111@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Yeah, a third place doesn't have to cost money, but it also isn't a requirement that it's free.

[-] jestho@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks! I had no idea that was a term. I suggest we upgrade those places to "second place"

[-] Joelk111@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

We're sort of required to have a home to sleep and such, and a workplace to make money, so third place is the term that makes sense. Somewhere you aren't required to be, but you enjoy being.

[-] communism@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Do you live in a city? If you do, there is something of the sort in most cities; you just need to know the right people or look in the right places.

If not, yeah, rough, you could try travelling in to a city though.

Before anyone says anything, no my city is not huge, no I am not in the US. The political left is active pretty much everywhere on earth, sometimes more or less underground depending on the conditions, but they'll have some sort of spaces for themselves.

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