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Have you considered checking out the used market? I haven't seriously vaped since 2016 when I used it to quit smoking (and all my vape stuff got stolen in a move in 2017), but I remember that the used mod scene was pretty damn good back in the day.

I have a OBS Cube-X that's still going strong and does everything I want it to, so a used single-18650 like that might fit the bill depending on your needs and is probably way less than $100.

Volunteering is great (done some non-political volunteer work in the past) but in the re-zoning space local efforts are often de-legitimized by municipal politicians, MPPs, and MPs themselves. They don't want change; I've written to them and they've said as much, once they get through the obligatory "I understand your concerns" spiel. A lot of municipal council members are obsessed with single-family homes and are more than happy to give corporate builders exactly what they want.

Petitions are responded to all the time with empty platitudes, so I have no faith there; they're seemingly only for press attention. They learned from the UK petitions that responding with a nice sentence or two about maybe doing something later on gets the media off their back.

Until we have proportional representation at every level of government and a majority of representatives that are not also landlords, this will probably never change in my lifetime. An actual solution here won't be forthcoming, so all I have (other than complaining about how they always pull this do-nothing crap) is a tiny modicum of hope that the federal Liberals can commit to this small, incremental change and not fuck it up or water it down to the point where it doesn't help anyone and the Conservatives cut it in 5 years.

I don't think Linux as currently designed is built to be that effectively

I agree, but only in the sense that I think Linux is in its Windows 98 era and still making some things hard that should be easier. That's ostensibly because of the Linux philosophy of user choice but it also bites people in the ass sometimes.

Depends on how much knowledge you're interested in acquiring in the first 3 months and how much you like to play around. When I was a kid, I broke Windows a lot because I was learning what you can and can't do. Adults don't have that kind of time to explore and fix things that break and a lot of us aren't intellectually curious about technology.

If you're a tech person at all and like solving problems (or you have someone in your household who would admin your system), I think it's ready for you. But if you're an end user who wants every Windows feature and more on Linux and can't/won't fix things by searching, it's not ready.

I don't really see how I can be helpful here since I'm not a municipal official or an elected representative, complaining is really all I am able to do as an average person.

I'm tired of being promised change only to be met with half-measures that get scrapped by the next party in power. Aren't you sick of every policy being a version of "we'll commit to making things slightly better over the next 10 years, when we're no longer accountable for our failures"?

I'm tired of mediocrity being celebrated because the alternative is societal regression. So yes, I'm complaining. Oh no, how terrible.

A lot of very online gamers are absolutely vehemently against anything they don't personally find value in. I've seen Windows users on Reddit get smug like this because they're operating on the assumption that the limitations on Linux from 10-15 years ago were never overcome and, thus, "Linux sucks because it can't run games."

To me, it's just another version of the Android vs. iOS cope for users who think their choice to use a specific ecosystem makes them superior. The reason I shill for Linux is because it's free, I like supporting underdogs, and most Linux desktops are ready for daily use including gaming, not because I think Linux is objectively better than Windows.

Is willingly going on a week-long trip with a stranger human trafficking? No.

You weren't forced into anything and could freely leave at any time. It could have been dangerous, and for some who do this I'm sure it is, but that doesn't automatically make it human trafficking.

If you were forcibly kept on the yacht or taken to another place and forced into employment/servitude/captivity by the owner, then that would be human trafficking.

Would love if the government is finally going back to its strategy from the 70s and taking charge here to build affordable housing instead of waiting for magical altruist developer unicorns to swoop in and save us.

Not good enough. We need at least 1 million new homes a year. We need to force municipalities to allow for mixed-use zoning so that we don't only create single-family homes in suburbs that are largely disconnected from transit and amenities. We need to discourage urban sprawl and incentivize mass transit.

The Liberals know this because they talk to developers and municipalities and want their centrist "compromise" to be the solution. It won't be, it'll just be another half-measure that the Conservatives can point to when they want to highlight the poor spending choices of the opposition.

You're a fucking joke if you think that the last 2 months won't have ripple effects outside of the US for the next 75 years.

The earliest he could possibly have been born is 1976. Not exactly able to go clubbing during 1980-1989.

"I'm in my 40s and wasn't old enough to experience the 1980s gay social scene, but I feel confident in saying trans people weren't there!"

What a loser.

Facts don't care about your feelings, PP.

Not to mention that DOGE seems more incompetent than anything else, and intentionally evoking that comparison seems kind of stupid.

I know the idea of cutting "wasteful spending" and finding "efficiencies" resonates with conservatives, but the execution of DOGE's mandate has been complete shit and, in some instances, illegal.

Leave it to a former cop to immediately vomit fascist rhetoric to try to gain power and credibility.

Provide a framework wherein nurses must be staffed at specific rates in hospitals and LTC homes so that these places can't deliberately understaff, with penalties for not meeting the requirements.

Let foreign doctors work towards Canadian credentials instead of forcing them into another field. Recognize more foreign schools so that people can train up to meet the Canadian standard.

Those are the 2 that I've seen talked about the most.

Yeah, I didn't even know what Levitating was called (only heard it in commercials and stuff) and I immediately recognized what song it was from listening to Live Your Life. That's pretty damning.

Did these kids grow up not using computers at school? When I was in school (1999-2013) we had both Mac and Windows desktops that we used during library visits, computer lab, and art periods. Did schools just replace that hardware with iPads? Writing/editing an essay, manipulating a photo, drafting shop drawings, or learning to code on a tablet sounds like a fucking nightmare.

LXQt or XFCE if I have to pick a DE. Fluxbox or openbox if I can get away with just a WM. ;)

Why are we. Creating sentence fragments?

Why are you entering commands that you read about online without knowing what they do? There's a running joke that you need to enter rm -fr / to remove the French language from your system; it actually wipes the entire disk mounted to /.

When you know what the commands do, using the terminal is always going to be faster (i.e., more productive) and use fewer system resources than using a GUI. That's just a fact, sorry if it annoys you when people point it out. Whenever I need to move a lot of stuff around, I will always use mv instead of Thunar (my file manager) even though I prefer a GUI for most tasks.

LOL. Looks like even the people of Carleton are put off by PP and his kowtowing to Trump and ultra-conservative faux populism.

Downloading isn't the issue, it's seeding (uploading to other peers, which is considered distribution of copyrighted material).