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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 89 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

our local leftist third space.

You have no idea how jealous I am.

[–] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 29 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 hours ago

where is this? asking for a friend.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 10 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Vittelius@feddit.org 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] jestho@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

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

[–] MarieMarion@literature.cafe 5 points 9 hours ago

I need one though.

[–] communism@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours 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.