n2burns @ n2burns @lemmy.ca

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IMHO, you shouldn't be able to permanently disable it. We are in a climate crisis.

As a Canadian, I read 141 and thought, "141 km/h is pretty fast, but that's not international news fast." Then I saw it was mph!

Driving that fast on a closed course while sober with complete focus is dangerous. Yet this guy was drunk and texting on public roads.

“Sometimes mistakes happen," he said. "But I’m not a bad person.”

AFAIK, no mistakes happened, those were all choices. And by making those choices, yes, you are a bad person.

My 2020 VW Golf definitely turns itself off when in park, but also has the button to disable it.

It will even require a manual restart if it's been parked long enough, which gets annoying when I spend a little too long dropping off/picking up something, and don't notice the message, put it in drive, see the message and try to start the car, but can't until I put it back in park. /rant

The dad went into the house, and when he returned to the car between 30 and 60 minutes later

This is the part that really confuses me, they were home. I get that parents sometimes need a break from their kid but:

1. You're home, so take your kid inside and then you go somewhere else.
2. 30 to 60 minutes?!? I can understand taking 10 minutes (which is still a dangerous amount of time) but WTF was going on for 30 to 60 minutes.

I know it's not the point of the article, but I'm also annoyed at the idea of someone intending to run their car for 30-60 minutes for no reason. I will admit I've left my car running just for the comfort of A/C while I'm waiting, and I don't live in Arizona heat, but dude was home.

Most modern cars have an auto-off feature. Some have a button to temporarily disable it.

I'm pretty sure that's not what autoremove does.

"uninstall" isn't an option for apt. You might be thinking of "remove" but in OP's case "purge" probably makes more sense.

I don't think the article explicitly says how the program is funded. However, the nurse they highlight "normally works in the emergency department at Windsor Regional Hospital" and they talk about the program also reducing visits to the ER. So, I doubt the WPS is paying the nurse's salary.

Agreed. IMHO, Natural Gas has a place in systems like Ontario's. Here we're mostly using it in peaker plants, and to make a smooth transition to renewables since it's fairly easy to convert coal plants to Natural Gas.

I don't have a source, but it wasn't that Netflix didn't lose subscribers, it was that their revenues grew. Part of that was charging subscribers more, but a lot of that was the new ad-supported plans netted them more money than basic ad-free plans. Which is probably why they're now sunsetting the basic ad-free plans.

Just a minor nitpick: the acronym is SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States), like POTUS.

In Alberta you can’t refuse to let someone exploit oil resources found on your property

TBF, I'm pretty sure that's how it works throughout the country. The title on my home in Ontario has easements for potential minerals/resources as well.

On that note, considering the original engines are similar I wonder if OpenRCT2 and OpenLoco have any big similarities in the code base as well…

Probably! From the About OpenLoco page:

The OpenLoco project started in early 2018 by the same group of people behind OpenRCT2.

Israel has not ratified the Rome Statute, so they're in a very different circumstance than Peru.

Can you explain? As a Mint user with really old hardware, I appreciate using the LTS kernel. However, I also appreciate them giving users other options.

Inflation isn't a tax. It wouldn't go away even if you eliminated all taxes.

I don't know what your income tax rates is but 30% is pretty high, you must make good money!

If you have new hardware, why wouldn't you use the Edge ISO?

They have a fairly new version called Edge that ships with a newer kernel (currently 6.5).

They're discontinuing it in 2026.

Which has been discontinued. They have said they'll bring back a EUV for the 2026 model year, but we'll see if that comes to fruition.