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Canada here! Literally cancelled Netflix last week and talked to my SO about using the money instead to pay for a seedbox lol.

Also trying to do a grocery run without buying any American products is a challenge but doable! Loading up on Dr. Oetkers pizza and Romanian pasta

Yeah even if they did actually repeal it, which they won't, it's really closing the stable door after the horse has bolted at this point IMO.

Because with the current administration, you can say it's illegal to accept money from so-and-so, and they'll just go "fuck you" and do it anyway and nobody will will stop them or bring consequences, so ... yeah. This is kind of doing time, not talking time.

As someone currently living in Canada, the US is badly fucking up a lot of it's international relations too. I've heard several people here say that even if if the US unfucks itself right away (which it won't), it's still going to be a long time before things will be right again.

You don't go around threatening neighbours and allies like this and then expect to be able to just walk it back overnight.

Seems like a pretty solid update! The only downside for me was that it broke Klassy (apparently because 6.3 uses KDecoration3 instead of KDecoration2), but that's not their fault and I'm sure it'll sort itself out eventually.

In a sense, everything can fly. Just sometimes not for very long.

Something should be done about this

Uh oh.

Yeah the problem I had with Manjaro was that in trying to protect me from breaking it, it also made it difficult for me to fix it when it broke by itself. I much prefer regular Arch where you can just get in and pull all the important wires out lol.

Yeah IIRC that even applies to things like gravity as well. As in, we aren't actually orbiting around where is sun is, we're orbiting around where it was ~8 minutes ago because the sun is about 8 light-minutes from Earth.

"We gave him root access, then waited for about the amount of time it would take him to copy off everything he needs, then took it away again so its all good now."

"Applicable" doing a lot of heavy lifting there

I've been thinking about doing this too! I have a RPi 4 that's not doing anything, and I don't really have a great offsite solution for backups and I have family in another country. Maybe next time I go over there I'll see if they'll let me set one up lol.

There are also charities that take donations of old laptops and use them for things like education in places that don't have access to a lot of technology, so I guess you could recycle them in that sense.

As a European living in Canada, it seems like outside of the States there's a lot of talk about figuring out how to just carry on without America. And this is going to sound harsh, but TBH even when the US being more chill it's still kind of a pain in the ass to other countries around the world. There's always some war that they start and expect everyone else to get involved in or something like that, and for the last decade or so they've been flipping between sensible people and Trump every 4 years which makes the whole country wildly unpredictable to deal with. It's hard to get any sort of international agreement going when it takes a year or two to negotiate, and you know it's just going to get tossed out a couple of years later anyway.

Also, as a non-American if you complain about the president or say something like "You guys should vote for Harris" during an election, there's always a swarm of Americans who show up and tell you to butt out and mind your own business, but they don't seem to get that it is our business because when you elect someone like Trump it fucks up the world. I'm sitting here in Canada, wondering when the tariffs are going to kick in or if America is going to try an annex us, whether the US is going to start a war with the EU over Greenland, or if they're going to seize the fucking Panama Canal in the next couple of years, which are all things that the president of the USA has openly talked about doing. Not to mention there's an unelected ketamine-addicted billionaire Nazi running around installing servers in all the government offices with nobody stopping him, who's also talking about overthrowing the UK government and trying to get the AfD elected in Germany, so who knows what that's going to do around the world.

I mean realistically what are you gonna do, appeal to their better nature? We've been trying to do that since when... Reagan? Nixon? The right has only dug in deeper and deeper, and now the Nazis are back.

We're long overdue for some fuck about and find out time IMO.

I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out they're making a ban list for all these communities, but the 'glitch' was that someone turned it on before whatever PR move/manufactured scandal they were going to use to justify it was ready to go.

Or this was just a test fire to see how people would react.

Just as a heads up, the Hitman trilogy is absurdly complicated to purchase for some unknown reason. I own the first two and I literally cannot work out how to buy the third one.

So tread carefully I guess lol.

Art jobs are like this! Especially if management are also art people, then every day is utter chaos lol.

Two things an art job is great for:

• Developing a thick skin. Make art every day, send it off, receive a detailed list of everything that sucks about it, re-do it, repeat this about 30 times until it finally goes out, then receive death threats from the audience.
• Learning to function under chaos. A regular Tuesday at Art Job is roughly equivalent to the worst day in company history and a normal office job.

Two things an art job is not good for:

• Keeping the desire to make art for fun in your spare time.
• Being a regular functioning human.

Yeah as a non-American, it certainly does look from the outside as if a ketamine-fuelled Nazi is going around just taking over government offices largely unopposed.

I did poke around a bit more and found that I didn't have the direct mode on, so it was hopping around. Switching that on and doing a direct connection made it much better, like 50Mbps. But that's still only 25%-ish of the regular speed, whereas I thought it'd be about 50%. But way better than like 2% of the original speed which is what I had before lol.