I never understood the excitement behind scrapping the carbon tax. Especially since it would mean that we'd just get hit with CBAM taxes when dealing with exports to the EU, and even less money coming back into our pockets. But hell yeah, industry gets to save billions while making our air more toxic! Woo!
I wasn't alive to know what it was like living under Hitler, but I wouldn't be stupid enough to vote that in.
There are plenty of articles and videos out there from when Harper was in charge and how fucked up shit was. And the governments before him. There's also contextual information by means of looking at the USA and UK among others.
Their logic is so stupid, too. "you pay $2M in 40 years and aren't getting what we pay for, so we should vote to cut taxes so we can get even less - and let's hope they cut it from education and healthcare like usual so when we're old there won't be anybody to take care of us!"
I have no idea how people with such a lack of logical and critical thinking skills end up in tech.
It's crazy to me how many zombies we have living up here. Like, how fucking stupid do you need to be to completely ignore how shit decades of global conservative politics have been? Or to go on about living your country and being against tyranny while simultaneously simping for the obvious tyrant?
Imagine how much better life would be if the Liberals were our right wing?
I was actually surprised to see some of it baked into Plasma - the jello windows, the desktop cube, the "explode the window when I close it" and a few other things.
With all the political shit going on these days, it baffles me why companies continue to use anything that stores data in cloud servers owned by American companies. I don't care where the data centres actually are, the parent company is foreign and aside from "trust me bro" I'm not sure what else is preventing them from snooping sensitive information.
The thing that used to always piss me off was when you tried to upscale stuff in Photoshop and it looked perfect. Then you bit enter and it anti-aliases the absolute fuck out of it. Like what?!
I'm not sure I follow. LibreOffice is at least as good (if not better) than Offics365 unless maybe if you're doing advanced shit in Excel, or need specifically coded macros.
Considering Microsoft's push to make everything into a webwrapped application, I think LibreOffice is only going to be a better and better alternative as time moves on.
I jumped from Ubuntu over to Arch because I was getting fed up with all the things I wanted to do being unavailable in Ubuntu, but all in the Arch repo or AUR.
I've been using Debian-based distros for like 25 years, so it was definitely a bit of a change, but it didn't take long to adjust. I'm glad I made the change.
Same though haha. I liked the ability to stick a window to the back of another window. I used to have Pidgin chats on one side, and the contact list on the other.
These days it could be handy to have a browser on side and an incognito on session on the other. Could also be handy if you launch a program from the terminal but you want to keep an eye on it, you could stick its terminal behind it.
When you recall that, as a person who knows what a browser is, you'll likely be in the global minority, you'll realize it's a tremendous deal.
And don't even pretend that running an Android phone without a GooglePlay store is easy
A big part of the problem is this constant catering to the dumbest users. I really wish companies would fucking stop that bullshit. Force people to get smart instead of dumbing down software to the point that it doesn't do much if anything.
It's intentional enshitification under the guise of "UsEr FrIeNdLiNeSs" and it's been a trend for at least 25 years now.
The other day I set up a shell script on my phone that I can hook into with Tasker. I share a YouTube link to it and I can rip the audio to my music folder, or the video to my videos folder. Basically, I can turn YouTube videos into podcasts on the fly.
I never understood the excitement behind scrapping the carbon tax. Especially since it would mean that we'd just get hit with CBAM taxes when dealing with exports to the EU, and even less money coming back into our pockets. But hell yeah, industry gets to save billions while making our air more toxic! Woo!