festus @ festus @lemmy.ca

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He sat in the middle seat and still lost his shirt.

Ugh my dad did that with my parents' cat. I absolutely love and adore her and she's a great cat but she doesn't understand that scratching and biting us hurts us.

I really like the positioning of the Incan and Korean one, as to me it really has the vibe of Gandalf blocking the way yelling "You shall not pass!"

I've seen some comments that amounted to Oct. 7th denialism, that claims of sexual assault are lies, etc.

I don't think their Linux support is bad, but it's not Linux first. If Windows users had to run a command to fix a display bug it would have been held back until it was fixed. With something like System76 you get a laptop with Linux preinstalled that just works, no commands necessary.

Keep in mind I called them Linux-conscious / Linux-second. They still focus on making it a fantastic machine for Linux users, but I think it's a little less than some other shops provide for Linux.

Just want to add that Framework isn't quite Linux first, more like Linux second / Linux conscious. With some tweaking it works great but there are sometimes little issues that crop up, especially if you're using the newest machines.

For example, when I got my Intel 12th gen Framework last year, X was super laggy (opening a terminal and typing a few characters might take several seconds). You'd have to end up disabling some kernel power management setting. That was fixed in later kernel releases and was because it was new hardware, but their focus pre-release was making sure Windows worked well on it, not Linux. Technically even now there's some kind of conflict between the ambient light sensor and the screen brightness keys and the fix has always been to disable the light sensor, so I've never actually used that feature on my laptop (unsure why Windows is unaffected).

It's still a great laptop and I absolutely love them, but I think other shops like System76 should get credit for their top-tier Linux support.

You're both arguing over different things. US crime is lower than it was 30 years ago, but to show that you need an article that doesn't compare just 2023 vs. 2022 like the NBC article did.

I'm going to address your question in two ways it may be read.

The world is worse than it was

I completely disagree, I think the world has never been better. Look back even 70 years and you have the threat of cold war, other wars (Korean War, conflicts in Vietnam, Cambodia, Middle East, ...), much more poverty, starvation (China's Great Famine), illiteracy, a lot more nasty pollutants that we've since moved away from.

To go a bit more US-centric, although much of this is mirrored elsewhere to varying degrees, you had much, much higher crime rates (possibly due to lead in gasoline), women could be raped by their husbands and had minimal rights, gay people were persecuted, black people were killed for fun (lynchings) along with other deplorable treatment, etc.

Right now you live in a world where practically all information is available at your fingertips at minimal cost, where most people will at least tolerate your presence even if you don't fit neatly into their ideal world, where we've made a lot of progress on limiting and reversing environmental damage (ozone layer). We have more medical cures & treatments, longer lifespans, greater nutrition, more education, incredible entertainment options (Netflix, Steam, YouTube, etc.).

The world is better than it ever was, but the pace of improvement has slowed / gone stagnant

Yeah I get the anxiety, things do seem more unstable than they were 10 years ago. I'm super thankful to be living in our so-far-the-best age but I don't take for granted that it can stay wonderful. Much of the benefits we now enjoy were hard-won victories that required hard work, and I suspect that to keep making the world a better place it'll require us to pay it forward by also working hard. But don't take it for a given that we're due for pain and conflict; human events are too complex to follow simple narratives and it's possible in 5 years we'll all be relaxed and thankful that these current problems fizzled out.

It's because there are numerous factors at play. Low interest rates combined with investors (some of whom are foreign), Airbnb hotels, along with record high immigration and minimal supply expansion all contribute to the problem. All play an aggravating role, but that means that there isn't a single silver bullet to solve the problem.

It's frustrating to me when people argue about whether it's a supply side issue or a demand side issue - it's both! There aren't enough homes for people AND it didn't help that people had to compete with investors with below-inflation interest rates.

I know, that was my reaction at first too. But I tried it for a month and honestly it's an amazing search engine. If it helps you to know, when you search they also use the (paid) search APIs of other search engines and aggregate the results in a way to get something better than any individual engine - so your searches actually have a decent marginal cost for them.

Do you have a link to them? I tend to need to replace mine every couple of months and it's infuriating.

• Tabletop Gold (Pathfinder 2 play through)
• Not Another D&D Podcast (D&D play through)
• The Ezra Klein Show (NYTimes opinion columnist, has super interesting guests and experts)

So... why exactly does the government even have the power to control what varieties farmers grow? I'd understand if the potatoes were diseased or something, but banning farmers from growing something simply because it's hard to harvest? That seems completely absurd and (knowing no more about this than this story) suggests to me that maybe those government departments have too much regulatory power.

That's not how the Canadian law was written. Google providing a link, even with no headline or preview, would still have to pay.

Total speculation on my part - the Liberals are terrified of the polling numbers and the NDP have been a little more aggressive with their criticisms of the Liberals that the Liberals are worried the NDP will drop their support and we'll have a spring election. By dragging their feet on these NDP priorities they're trying to keep the NDP from withdrawing support.

Commenting here to add that there's actually two versions of the TFW program, one for high wages and one for low wages. I guess I'm arguing for eliminating the low wage stream as I take issue with the idea there's a labour shortage - it's more a question of what price you want to pay.

I think people are upset because the temporary foreign worker program is often used not for specialized skilled labour (like the manufacturer is claiming) but instead for low-skill, low-wage jobs to just reduce labour costs.

I think there's a simple way to fix the program and make it work for its original intention - set high minimum wages for temporary foreign workers (TFW) above the median Canadian income (ideally you could set this by industry and skill level, but then it's less simple). So now your local Wendy's isn't choosing between hiring locally at $20/hr vs. a TFW at $15/hr, but rather hiring locally at $20/hr or a TFW at $25/hr (numbers made up). If there's an actual shortage they'll still have access to workers, but they'll be incentivized to hire locally first.

This works especially well for hiring skilled and specialized workers you can't find in Canada - like the manufacturer is claiming. Because they're so skilled and specialized they'll likely already be receiving a good wage, which means that the minimum wage threshold is already being met. A rule like this would essentially keep the program available for its legitimate cases while eliminating the abuses where it's used to save a quick buck.

They said they tested using the version of Windows preinstalled by HP, as (presumably) HP would have fine-tuned it for the machine.

It's discussed in the firefox sub (link)

EDIT: There are some claims that this is related to anti-adblock.