You do know why they live out in the sticks, right? They live on Reserves, i.e. land that the Government of Canada "reserved" to move native peoples onto so the government could move settlers onto that previously inhabited land.
And yes, the Government of Canada is legally required to provide services to those Reserves where they are currently located (partially because of the above actions). If the Government of Canada wants to, I wouldn't be surprised if there are opportunities for moving Reserves but that would have to be voluntarily or we'd just be replaying the sins of the past.
Also in Canada, the War Measures Act was used during the FLQ Crisis in 1970. While some may disagree with using martial law, I don't think many would say it was used in a corrupt, power-grabbing way.
I think people who think about housing critically get it, but unfortunately I don't think most Canadians get this, either on or off Lemmy. It's too easy to see "1.3 Million Vacant Houses" and think that's a solution for the Housing Crisis.
I am fully supportive of public housing and coops, but that doesn't explain how a "limit 1 house per family" rule would work or what it's intending to achieve. If you or @Sunshine@lemmy.ca want to expand on that you can even explain it in the context of a whole system, I'm happy to hear it. I am a policy wonk and just want to understand this proposal.
Many of the times I've heard this sentiment, it's been to either ban Mom&Pop landlords, or ban rental houses completely. These options seem to benefit potential homeowners by screwing over renters. I'm not sure if you mean something different?
Vacant House Taxes have been tried throughout Canada and are generally ineffective. They are just a distraction.
The main reason why they don't work is fairly obvious: Why would someone own property to keep it vacant?
Sure, there are some people with vacation homes, or second homes where they frequently visit (heck, I might have to get an apartment where my office is located now we're being forced to return to the office). Oh the Urbanity has a great video where they point out the vast majority of "Vacant Homes" are either students who don't permanently live there, in the process of a move, under renovation, etc.
Besides the privacy concerns, AFAIK I know there's no training/gradual-introduction for soon-to-be 16 year olds. That means, assuming some of them follow the rules, they'll go from nothing to full-force Social Media. That sounds like a recipe for disaster.
If you’re getting 650 Mbps, all of your hardware is definitely capable of running 1 Gbps
Just to clarify, this means there aren't any 100 Mbps bottlenecks, not that the hardware can run at 1 Gbps. When Gigabit was new, a lot of hardware was rated for Gigabit but couldn't actually get 1000Mbps. I know this is less of an issue now Gigabit is mature, but there's still a possibility something is bottlenecking just due to the hardware not being able to keep up.
Not only do I have concerns about privacy concerns of age-verification, I think the "ban until 16, then unrestricted" is a very bad policy. Yes, social media is harmful to kids, but frankly, it's harmful to everyone. If kids have no exposure to social media and no education on how to use it appropriately, it's just going to concentrate the issues to teens/young adults.
Heat pumps are great, but under -15C, they’re really, really inefficient.
I think you're working off old data, or you're misunderstanding the article where they say air-source heat pumps start to lose efficiency at ~15°C. My unit, installed just over a year ago is rated for a COP of at least 1.72 at 0°F (-17.78°C) when the inside temperature is 80°F (26.67°C). And as I said, newer units are getting better and better.
So of your using gas to generate electricity to heat homes your actually better off just burning the gas for heat.
If you don't account for the environmental impact of the roughly 2% which is lost in transit.
Heat pumps can adjust this equation during moderate temps, being more than 100% efficient at moving heat, but during cold snaps we will still ned auxiliary heat.
That only applies to air-source heat pumps, and even then, they're constantly improving.
We would need to roughly triple the electric grid capacity to be able to take up the current winter heating demand.
Source? Also, as the population and the economy grows, energy sources are going to need to grow either way, so it might as well be electricity.
When I open your link for radiotray-ng, it says, "ebruck released this 2 weeks ago." You'll also notice if you go to the Releases page, it doesn't show the year for the current year, but does for past years.
Because you’re using an external device to extend the capabilities of the port. It can’t do that without the dock, so now you have two things to carry around.
Maybe that's what the previous commenter meant, but they were bemoaning the number of ports, not dongles, etc. Even then, if you are using those ports, you are already carrying around extra accessories/dongles which might be replaced by the dock (or in my case, moving between stationary docks).
If you look at the comments on this, there are two distinct camps of people who will never agree: those who expect their laptop to be a self-contained unit that doesn’t require anything that wasn’t packaged with it to meet common use cases (which requires more ports), and those who are okay with docks and dongles and adapters.
Sure, and other commenters are pointing out that manufacturers are serving both groups.
I'm not sure why you think that's untrue, but it is true. I literally have a dock that provides power to my laptop, as well as connecting it to my monitors, keyboard, mouse, etc. all over one USB type C cable.
You do know why they live out in the sticks, right? They live on Reserves, i.e. land that the Government of Canada "reserved" to move native peoples onto so the government could move settlers onto that previously inhabited land.
And yes, the Government of Canada is legally required to provide services to those Reserves where they are currently located (partially because of the above actions). If the Government of Canada wants to, I wouldn't be surprised if there are opportunities for moving Reserves but that would have to be voluntarily or we'd just be replaying the sins of the past.