cecilkorik @ cecilkorik @lemmy.ca

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Linux comes in a million flavors but most people should start with Mint. That sounds like a pun, but it's also true.

Mint is a nice, safe, up-to-date, simple, Windows-like choice that won't unnecessarily complicate the transition to an entirely different operating system. It has good hardware support and good defaults. Most things will feel very familiar and be very accessible. It is popular enough to find plenty of help on the internet and answers to almost every question you could have. It mostly just works and when it doesn't it's usually not a deal-breaker.

It's not my favourite distro, but you aren't ready for my favourite distro. Honestly I'm barely ready for my favourite distro. It's not elitism, it's just practicality. You'll learn as you go, and you'll eventually want to try other distros, but start with Mint, and keep a Mint system around for when you break everything else. Which you will if you start playing with other distros.

Careful civil disobedience is the sensible way to deal with an uncivilized government.

Has Trump ever made a truthful claim in his entire life? He's like the personification of confidently incorrect.

It's "razor-close" because of the how many individual ridings were within tens of votes. There will be tons of recounts. The result could've easily been much different, and may still be different. This was a very close election.

We still have an awful lot of work to do to fix our democracy and actually unite Canadians, despite the claims that everyone felt united by Trump's threats, this election was full of red flags if you actually look at the numbers they show we're about as far from united as we can possibly be, and it is going to be a herculean task to change that. We need to stop the flood of misinformation, especially the really toxic stuff targeting and radicalizing our youth who are going to be the next generation of politicians and voters. We are not in a healthy place, AT ALL, and my only hope is that between the Liberals and NDP they can both agree on how serious these threats really are and take serious steps to address them.

Strategic voting was just a delay tactic. Liberal gains came at the cost of the NDP and Bloc, not the Conservatives. The wolves of facism are circling and while we have kept them at bay for now, we did so by lighting a Liberal bonfire using the third parties as fuel, and it's not going to last forever.

That's exactly right. They also had managers/publishers telling them to do shit like make the rockets even wobblier than KSP1 because it made for funny viral videos that would get more PR.

Nobody who actually played the game wanted wobblier rockets than KSP1. Nobody really wanted wobbly rockets at all. Sometimes a bug can actually be a feature, but in this case, it really was just a bug. The people in charge didn't ever care about the people who actually played the game, they just wanted sales, and they made decisions accordingly. That's why it looks nice, but plays like shit.

He said "ambition" at least 3 times in his speech and I am here for it. I have always maintained that Canadians are ambitious people, but lately our governments have acted like, and to some extent convinced Canadians, that we're a minor, irrelevant backwater that has no business dealing with greater world powers, particularly the USA who it's implied we should be subservient to. This self-sabotaged foreign policy has really damaged not only our own national identity but also our standing worldwide. Just as we felt betrayed by the USA turning its back on us and threatening us, when we turned away from our international support and peacekeeping roles many in the rest of the world beyond the USA felt betrayed by us too, albeit to a much lesser, but still perceptible degree.

We are the 9th largest economy in the world and the 1st largest territory. We have a major role to play in the world, and we need to understand that and take responsibility for it. We say things like "resource superpower" but we never really believe it. I think Carney believes it though, and better yet understands it, and I hope he's going to finally make Canada believe it. Not only are we the world's 9th largest economy, I think we can be, and we're going to be, even more than that. It is time for Canada to be ambitious and stand on the world stage again. We can ride this wave of nationalism to rebuild our Canadian Forces, protect the Arctic, and return to peacekeeping and defending democracy and fundamental human rights which are so heavily under attack around the world right now. Canada should once again become a beacon for good that others can rally around.

Absolutely, in a rapidly developing corrupt oligarchy, you're going to see the people in power rapidly distill into two groups, the ideologically committed and the aspiring oligarchs, and I think you're going to find the latter group is significantly larger than the former.

I'm increasingly convinced Democratic leadership is in on it.

It's not about learning racism. It's about learning why people are choosing racism, and figuring out ways to do something about it. Nobody's saying politics has be a polite debate between equally valid positions. Politics is about finding practical ways to defeat your enemy. And make no mistake, these racists and fascists are our enemies. The ones can be turned away from it or turned to our side, should be, and the ones that can't, must be destroyed.

Being political is a civic duty. Doing otherwise just means you get to pretend you're not responsible when the government does something you disagree with. This entire country is everyone's responsibility, whether you like it or not, whether you want that responsibility or not, a citizen doesn't get to abdicate that responsibility for any reason. Even when our votes don't win the election, we are still responsible. If avoiding responsibility was as easy as voting for a party or candidate that doesn't win, or not voting at all, who would bother? If you can just say "I'm not responsible because I didn't vote for them" how are you ever going to get any control again? How are you going to avoid ending up under a tyrant? How are you going to change the status quo if you do nothing? Try something new, stop doing the same thing you always have and expecting a different result.

Take responsibility. Be political. Your success and even your survival depends on it.

That's the American spirit that I, as a Canadian, want to see! It's your country. Don't let them take it!

Goodbye, Tesla, and good riddance. Some salutes will never be forgotten.

I have been constantly asking myself why there isn't something like this, and just wondering if maybe I was missing something about the seeming immense complexity of doing this on a small scale.

Now there is something like this.

I don't love PHP, but I also don't love having dozens of separate passwords, keys, certificates and other nonsense to keep track of like I'm doing now. I don't mind using PHP to get around that if I can.

Britain, Canada and the United States have really gone off the rail.

I have been to Britain. I can honestly say Britain is probably one of the most open-minded and tolerant countries in the world.

You said both these things. They make no sense together and seem to show no awareness of the context of your comments. Are you an AI?

Speaking as a software developer, software developers should stick to their lane. There is plenty of stuff the very best software developers are stereotypically terrible at. "Programmer art" is a genuine phenomenon illustrating our lazy, half-baked efforts to create things that we are not expert at. Apparently, "Programmer politics" is another such area of non-expertise, because the tech bros ideas are a fucking stupid fantasy.

The Hilux is a perfect example of why tariffs won't work the way Trump wants them to. The Hilux is not offered to the North American market because a retaliatory tariff applied over 60 years ago due to a trade dispute involving chicken (it is now known as "the chicken tax") the original reasons for which are largely forgotten to modern consumers, yet the tariff has remained in place ever since. Rather than incentivizing the makers of trucks like the Hilux to move production to the US to bypass the tariff, instead the market for such trucks simply vanished, and manufacturers never bothered investing any effort to bring it back, because... why would they? There's no profit in it for them.

The tariff hangs over the entire product category like a sword of damocles. Nobody will import them here, because they would need to be specially customized to meet domestic regulations and customers won't pay for the tariff on the imports nevermind the redesign, so all they would be left with is a bunch of unsellable prototypes . And since there's no way to test the viability of their products in the market, nobody can make a case to invest in building them here either, because the tariff could be gone tomorrow and they would instantly be put out of business by cheaper imports of the rich variety of light cargo vehicles used throughout the world. The tariff creates an insurmountable risk/reward mismatch that no sane company can ignore.

You can argue and nitpick about economics all you want, the proof is in the economy itself. If you think tariffs work, go ahead and buy a Toyota Hilux. I'll wait. Some people have been waiting 60 years. It still hasn't happened. And it's not going to.

At least until they sneak it into VS Code's telemetry. ...only sort of joking.

Honestly I've been worrying for years that the only way the US is going to resolve this division and hostility within their country is by breaking up, possibly largely along red state/blue state lines, and hopefully not triggering a violent (or god forbid nuclear) civil war in the process.

But I can say as a Canadian, if it does come to that, and you guys can't take back your country (which I really think you can, once you start to accept what is happening and accept that it's gonna hurt and you dig your heels in anyway, I don't think there's anyone who will be able to take you down, not even Trump and crew), then we would be absolutely happy to quickly rebuild and strengthen our relationship with most of the blue states. And however you end up wanting to arrange yourselves in the end, we'll work with that. And if you guys genuinely wanted our help, our resources, our logistical support, even our protection (what little we can provide), if things were to start looking like actual civil war, I'm sure we'd absolutely be willing to figure out what sort of arrangement is actually going to work. We'd have to at least initially discuss it as equals and as partners though, I don't think we'd ask you or coerce you to give up your sovereignty, any more than we'd want you to take ours. But if the intention to join Canada was a popular attitude, I expect we'd be willing to consider it, probably after some cooling-off period though to make sure it's not just a passing fad. The progressive parts of America are the parts we've always loved. If you guys come knocking on our door needing a couch to crash on we're not going to ask how long you need to stay, we're just going to go find pillows and blankets.