not looking to be much cooler today (Monday) either, I’m about a hour in from the west coast (France is a big place!) and there’s no wind to speak of - if there is a breeze, it’s a very warm one! The problem with living towards the west coast is the Atlantic weather particularly in winter. Here though, we are far enough away from the west coast and well protected from the “beasts from the East” by the mountains of the Massif Central also about an hour away so we are generally well protected from the worst weather phenomenon that France can throw at us.
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Migrate to Australia. Our summers are 40 deg C on the coast and 45-50 deg C inland. It lasts for about 2 months. You dont use a computer without air
conditioning. But our winters are beautiful … currently about 20-22 deg during day and falls to 10-15 deg at night. … been like that for several months and will last until August when we get cold Antarctic winds.
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sadly, in our mid 70’s now so no longer an option. OH did look at Australia in her late teens before qualifying as a teacher and getting married but - life happens…
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Same here … we are in our 80’s
There are ways to cope with heat. Eat small meals but drink,lots of fluids. Wear loose cotton clothing. Use fans to get air movement … including at night when trying to sleep. Keep sun off house windows. Wear a hat out in sun. Program activities away from the hottest hours 1.00 - 3.00 pm.
Humidity is often a worse problem than temperature, and not easily dealt with except by air conditioning.
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People are finding ways to exit systemd.
Why ?
Go naked, saves the planet no washing, ironing, drying… easy answer
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Actually bare skin absorbs more of the suns heat than when covered with clothing.
It also loses more heat when the temperature differential is reversed.
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We could start a debate on clothing or not but perhaps not the place. I just know I had to wear shorts and a tee shirt the other day to go to the pharmacy, my tee shirt was soaked when I git home after 30 mins, had to return to our pool, but thats now running at 30 ° as is the sea in our lake. No cooling anywhere
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Several years ago we upgraded to a heat pump. Three years ago we added solar panels to the roof. Air conditioning handles this week’s temps of 33. And the neighbors are grateful that I keep my clothes on. My computers are also happy (for the cooling; they don’t care about the clothes).
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I’ve changed my mind about systemd after watching this video after having taken more time to address the issues around not having the ability to place SMB drive shares on the desktop.
So, now I am content with Debian 13 GNOME DE, I am in the process of moving everything across to a new box shortly to become my new daily driver.
I was particularly interested in the bit from 11:55 in the video about where the “I hate systemd” bit came from. The great thing about about having a mind is the ability to change it - and I have.
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It takes more than that … changing of mind takes courage and humility.
Samba shares on desktop? You mean you want an icon for each shared filesystem?
Doing that for most file types seems to involve having gvfs and udisks2 installed. Shares may need more .
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In Debian 12 (and earlier versions of Ubuntu) it was possible simply by mounting the shares (from my Synology NAS) in /etc/fstab and using the GNOME extension « Desktop Icons NG (DING) » to display them on the desktop for ease of access but since Debian 13, that no longer works. It was suggested that the reason was the full implementation of systemd.
Since then, I have done quite a bit of research involving the use of other GNOME extensions but in the end, it came down to a very simple solution - creating text files for each share placed in the users ~?Home/Desktop folder then right click each one in turn and select « allow launching » so they will run. There is a specific way the text file is configured and that allows the share to have its own given name (as opposed to the smb://bla bla bla title provided by the system).
In the end, I have simply changed my methodology. Now, in Nautilus I can map to the share (since it is mounted), and bookmark it with Ctrl+D which places the share persistently in the left pane of Nautilus and I select the share from there.
Same meat, just different gravy and saves a whole load of faffing about and fretting about things that don’t really matter.
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