Many libraries have a host of free online services. PressReader can be used to read magazines or newspapers, Libbey can be used to download/read books including textbooks and sometimes Comptia study books.
They aren't just places you go to revel in the deaths of millions of trees anymore. But it really depends on where you live, so ymmv.
I'm not sure what tools there are that I'm comfortable with federal government using. Housing seems to me to be largely Municipal problem, but Canada is also a pretty unique place. We have tons of under served communities outside our large cities that could use an influx of industry and citizens.
My fear is that federal housing could end up being like the projects in the US back in the seventies. You also have to convince people that townhouses or apartments are able to support expansion of families.
I recommended Life is Strange to a guy at work on a Friday and that Monday he came in yelling "I didn't sign on to feel things! Why did you do that to me?".
We tried to bargain 4 day work weeks years ago at a place I worked, and it was a scheduling nightmare.
Objectively, since we needed to have doors open and responders/equipment operators on site 5 days a week, it would have meant hiring something like 30% more people.
Non-ojectively, when management brought these concerns forward, our position was "that's a management problem".
Is a different paradigm. The way you do almost anything is different from windows, from updating drivers to downloading programs. It's frustrating in the same way driving in the wrong side of the road can be frustrating, or going a whole day using only your non dominant hand.
I've tried to convince a couple people over the last few years to convert, and their issues always baffle me, until my brother tried for a week and I finally understood. It's just unlearned everything they've been doing for years, to do things a different way.
Joey was my go to reddit app, and I'm really sad to read about the developer stressing out. They seemed pretty cool, so it sucks that reddit is doing this to them.
I've been dual booting on and off since 2004, but the big switch came in 2016 with DXVK making my games not run like ass.
I had enough of Windows. I had an older motherboard and the windows drivers were terrible for the sound card causing me to have to reinstall them manually all the time. Sometimes I'd leave a video transcoding and windows would reboot to update. After each update I'd spend the time to get rid of the bloat ware like King games, Xbox garbage etc. Once after an update I woke up to the windows 10 "Welcome to your computer" screen, and it decided during the night that it was going to erase my user profiles.
The most frustrating thing though, is that for all these issues I'm locked out from correcting them, or preventing them, or even checking what happened. Windows obfuscates so much in the name of "user experience" that any effort to diagnose a problem or fix a problem usually results in reinstalling being the best solution.
Also, Settings/Control Panel is a mess and really shows the lack of coherence in the OS. Linux isn't completely coherent by design, Windows is by ineptitude.
I feel the same way, but sometimes I show up and the lines for actual cashiers is so long and there's no one at self checkout. I can wait for ten minutes or I can scan my twizzlers and gtfo.
It feels counter productive, but the reality is that the less huge corporations are involved in a federation, the safer it is.
The problem with federation with Meta is that it encourages Meta to develop and contribute to the infrastructure. Which sounds great, but the record is poor on that front.
Once a company with huge money starts working on your infrastructure, they're going to make changes, changes that maybe the community doesn't agree with, but since all the money is being funneled through one of two companies, they make the decision.
Then the company decides that they don't want to keep supporting something that doesn't make them any money. Since Meta would theoretically bring millions of users from their platforms, they could decide to suddenly cut out all non-Meta instances. Now we're the odd ones out, your friends are wondering why they can't reach you anymore, you're suddenly offline.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
It happened with XAMPP, it happened with Java, CSS, most browsers are Chrome based, 'exchange' email servers, etc.
The best thing to maintain software freedom is to never open the door to huge companies.
The most shocking thing about moving to alberta was discovering that there's no rental increase cap.
I'm not renting now, but I imagine a whole bunch of people who snagged a good deal are going to find out in a year when their rent is suddenly bumped up to market rates.
This was basically the way I would describe the show.