Verre d'eau, suivi d'un café (ou deux).
Thé en journée.

That was barely more than a room I rented when I was a student. It was barely large enough to fit a bed and a table (and an easel, as I painted a lot), and the walls separating the 'apartments' were paper thin and I mean real thin paper: one could press with a finger and the so-called wall would bend :p

It was a pain to live there because you can imagine there was no such as privacy. But it was also great because we were all very young (save one 'old' dude... that was younger then I'm today), and being young and being forced to knew each other and live so close to one another, well, a few of us learned to knew each others a lot more and we shared a lot of good time.

So, to answer your question: that was the undisputed worst place I lived in. It was also not the worst memories ;)

It depends the podcast and how much I enjoy it.

• If it's a podcast with a single theme that will be treated across all episodes, say something about Ancient Egypt or Greece for example, I will start at the first episode and slowly move my way up.
• If it's just people chatting, or something that doesn't require some kind of progression, I will listen to whatever episode is available.
• But if after an episode or two I think it's a podcast I think I will particularly appreciate, I will start over from the first episode.

A, this is why magic isn’t real

I don't think the question is about magic vs reality, we're talking vampires here, right?, but to know how if vampires were a thing, it would be possible (or not) for a vampire cop to enter a house without being invited by the home owner, even with a warrant.

B, the law can say whatever the fuck it wants it still can’t bend reality.

The law doesn't need to bend any reality, it never does. Law is not about scientific laws, it's about human behavior. At least modern laws as some older ones may have tried, and maybe some particularly stupid modern ones too, but their ability to bend said reality to their will is still to be demonstrated :p

The law is a contract, with a sanction of some sort when it is broken. Be it to pay a fine, or to be prevented to do certain activities in the future, or be forced to do some other ones, or to go to jail. Up to the death penalty, in some places.

The law is about making the citizens bent to its will, not the reality.

That will is, in theory at least, is the expression of the common will, also known as the agreed upon desire of all the citizens. Citizens don't define laws of physics (which would deal with 'reality') and no matter how hard they may want, the also can't alter them.

Speed limit is not about enforcing a certain speed over which the laws of physics would suddenly (and magically) crumble. It’s about punishing people not respecting that agreed upon speed limit. That’s also why it’s very possible to have different speed limits in different places. Physics doesn't change, our expectations do.

We will drive faster on a highway than, say, next to a school despite the car being the same, with the same driver and with the same laws of physics applying, why? The place is different and also how we are expected to behave in such a place which, near a school, should obviously be to slow down so we the drivers (aka old/adults enough to have our driving license and act responsibly) can compensate for kids being… kids, aka not always being attentive to what’s going on around them, or being silly.

A warrant, for example has nothing to do with giving its carrier some magical power to enter a place (say by moving through a closed door or through walls, or by teleporting there) but it has all to do with punishing the owner of the place for not letting the warrant carrier enter their house, even if they don’t want to.

So, all I was saying is that in that ‘fantasy’ world where vampire cops would be a thing, the law may as well be written so it makes it a ‘mandatory welcoming' for the home owner to let in the vampire-cop, any refusal to comply to said 'forced invitation to enter' being sanctioned by a more or less severe punishment… Which, btw, is not far from what a warrant is supposed to be doing in our (this time, real) world ;)

But couldn't the law be written so that a warrant once seen by the home owner must legally be considered a mandatory invitation, making the cop legally allowed to enter the home?

But it has kings and queens and knights, armies of pawns and thick towers to defend them during merciless battles. It also has bishops, but I much prefer the French name: les fous aka the crazy ones ;)

Neither Tuta or Proton will neatly integrate with Apple Mail if you want to send/receive encrypted messages. At least the last I checked it required for Proton a separate client that was not bug free (can't remember for tuta).

If you don't care about encryption, you may want to consider the Swiss Infomaniak.

They have a cloud offer which includes cloud storage (1to base), calendar and email, plus the online version of MSOffice, all being hosted on their Swiss servers.

I may have missed something, here so to make sure:

1. Do you want a wiki specifically, or are you looking for a tool that would allow you to easily create and manage some worldbuilding bible, be it a wiki or not a wiki?
2. Isn't LibreOffice able to export to MediaWiki (Wikipedia)? I have not checked, and never used it, but I think it's there somewhere.

the best thing it can do is just make a document look good,

It can also help you write the actual book, worrying about the document 'look' aka its formatting is optional (and if done properly, using Styles, it's almost 100% automated) ;)

Wouldn't a word processor do trick? you can add links, images, refs, notes,... and have as many pages as you need (edit: and search them, add a table of content, and so on). LIbreOffice is most certainly already installed on your Linux distro and is also available for Mac and Windows.

C'est pas hyper technique mais est-ce que vous connaissez un logiciel (ou un site) pour dessiner le plan d'un appartement facilement ?

Un crayon et du papier + une photo/scan avec le smartphone? Tu pouuras même annoter le plan, sans changer de crayon, pour le rendre encore plus informatif ;)

Imho, any kind of fiction is imagination, dream, escape, and is without limit. The setting and the 'reality' it's based upon may change in one form of fiction compared to another but that doesn't make them different (or less daring) anymore than, say, me changing clothe.

So to answer your question, I think fantasy like most other literary labels is mostly a term coined to allow a few people to shine a little more than they would otherwise do, and maybe to help publishers create/manage more niche markets. And since it works quite well, it started being used by readers to feel assured that they would get the kind of 'imagination' they're used too.

I love reading fiction a lot more than I care about reading any genre... despite having my own favorite genres too, don't get me wrong. My bookshelves are a mess of various type of books and genres and the only semblance of order one will find in it is how much I appreciate one author compared to the others ;)

What are you looking for in such a guide? Like suggested, Mint installation guide is great to... install it and I needed not much beside that myself (but I was a Mac user, not Windows) ;)

Imho, what most people need is the willingness to give Linux a chance. And that, I'm afraid, no guide could give them.