pedz @ pedz @lemmy.ca

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My landlord is a multimillion dollar faceless company that sends me offers for a reduction on rent if I refer someone else. They have partnerships with other giant businesses and send me coupons for other companies. They push tenants towards a particular ISP. They amass personal data and seem to share it.

They want to make it seem like added value, but as a tenant, it feels like you're just another consumer to be sold something. They send me so much spam...

I think he "went back" because he knows very well that in order to do electoral reforms, he would need to open the constitution and that would be extremely messy, if not the end of Canada.

Every time we even think about changing the constitution, it's endless national drama.

Apparently they are both.

How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs

The relevant part is around the 5 minutes mark.

Indeed. Never gave a second thought to the word but apparently it's the name of a young male servant. The pronunciation ends with a nasal vowel as there is no trailing "e" at the end. In IPA that's /ɡaʁ.sɔ̃/. If you say /ɡaʁ.ɔn/ it makes it sound female.

Un patron = male owner

Une patronne = female owner

As another comment points out, there is a mistake with the second sentence.

The word combination works but it does not contradict the first negation.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe = This is not a pipe

C'est une pipe = It's a pipe

What you want is to simply remove the negative "n' + pas".

Ceci est une pipe = This is a pipe

With other examples...

Ceci est un garçon = This is a boy

Ceci n'est pas un garçon = This is not a boy

C'est une fille = It's a girl

Ceci est une fille = This is a girl

Ceci n'est pas une fille = This is not a girl

Ceci est un commentaire = This is a comment

Ceci n'est pas un commentaire = This is not a comment

C'est simple n'est-ce pas? = It's simple is it not?

I'd be curious to see any numbers on that. Uber and Lyft played the card of "but it's car sharing and thus reducing trafic" but in the end, it doesn't really change much, and sometimes even increase trafic.

https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/uber-lyft-traffic-congestion-car-ownership-study/

As someone that doesn't have a licence, never have driven a car and avoids them if possible, taxis (autonomous or not) are generally useless to me. They are still cars and they keep people dependent on cars.

In a city, people shouldn't need a taxi (read, a car) to get around. In urban areas, people can walk, bike or use public transit. And if you want to go from one city to another, one shouldn't also need a taxi (car) to get there.

I'm aware that this is kind of "utopist" and requires efforts to change things but, if the solution to wanting less cars is "cars but shared!", this is not a solution. It's just proof of failed policies. It will not encourage any change, just stagnation. Things will stay based on cars.... but autonomous... and electric (oh so green)! Oh and also, now big tech knows exactly where you're going, and when.

EDIT: And if robotaxis would be "part of the solution" for the last mile, why wouldn't a normal taxi already fulfil that role? We don't have enough? So we'd need more vehicles on the road, But autonomous? Why do they need to be autonomous? How come is the last mile such a huge problem for most people? Is walking or cycling a mile that difficult for most people? Is everyone carrying a 42" TV around?

God forbid we have public transit instead of fucking cars everywhere. There's no need for buses or trains when we can spend huge amounts of energy to autonomously move two tons of metal for each and every individual that exists.

Humanity is not running to ruin. It's taking a car.

I'm the one making the comment and you're the one assuming I did something wrong because I was on a bicycle? Or is this "a lot" exaggerated and biaised?

Anyway the said rules where I live is that riding on sidewalks is illegal. Cyclists are not pedestrians and should not be mixed with them.

I was legally on a cycle path, had priority, there was no light. I was cut then slapped by the driver making an illegal move, and you're first thought is to point out that "lots of bikers blow red lights"?! What?

Then they'll block your road, get out of their fancy car and assault you for hitting that precious car.

I was on a bike path when a car driver cut me while exiting a driveway and I bumped my wheel into his back bumper. Well, he stopped, got out of his car, whined that I didn't do "my" stop and ended up slapping me twice in the face... because he cut me and I bumped into his car...

So even if you have an old car AND it's not your fault, they'l still be mad at you for existing and being in their way.

You know it's not one or another, right?

I've been using Linux since 1999 and I'm a strong defender of free software. I've been rooting and installing roms on my phones for years. I've repaired them several times. I'm well aware of the issues and I still have the right not to like Louis Rossman, even if I support his cause with the right to repair.

I don't think it's necessary to tell people they are losers because they don't like him. We are not ennemies. Some people can actually dislike him, or his style, and still support the cause. But if you want to antagonize them...

Ok fanboi.

This guy was offered an insane salary for doing engineering for US defense contracts and turned it down because he felt like calling out bad practices and improving repairability on our devices was a better thing to do.

I guess that makes him our lord and saviour then, and we can then only take him seriously because of that. Knowing this changes everything. He is so good to help us lowly people in our quest for repairable devices! And if you just keep watching his videos he can teach you how you also can be successful like him. And by the way you can buy his tools too!

He's right on the right to repair, but every time I tried to watch his videos (and I tried a few times, I work in tech and like the subject), I always felt like I was being... patronized.

But if you just watch his videos and buy his stuff he will teach you how to repair yours!11! /s

The few times I watched his videos, he sounded like a libertarian bro, saying that if you just put the effort, you too can become successful. You just have to pull yourself by the bootstraps or something. He's showing you everything you need to know to be as successful as him! And maybe it was sarcasm and I didn't catch it but at one point he muttered something about Trump fixing the potholes of New York. That's about when I stopped taking him seriously.

He's still an important voice for the right to repair movement but you're right. I also can't stand him. Unfortunately he has very dedicated/vocal eeehm, fans, so legitimate remarks on him are often met with downvotes.

So far I have been lucky.

I live in a tower heated by hot water through natural gas and they have a generator to keep the essentials running. So even without electricity I usually keep heating and hot water. And because my building often cuts water for maintenance, I also keep a few liters in my fridge just in case.

Plus, I go camping and hiking and just having some camping equipment and experience makes me think I would be okay. I have a gas stove (providing I open a window), food for meals, warm sleeping bags, emergency blankets, power banks, etc.

Losing heat for my building would be catastrophic and not my problem but at that point I would need to seek shelter from the city or family.

I like to think that I am a bit prepared and informed. However it's good to remind people about the essentials because every time an event like this happens, we hear about people that died of CO2 poisoning, or others storming stores to make last minute provisions.

It can be caused by the cold of winter, or the heat of summer, but you always have to be prepared to live a few days without electricity or running water.

Le cul d'un âne.

No, it's for arse.

Because Android doesn't support most file systems used by modern OSs. If you want to use NTFS, used by Windows, you have to buy an app on the Play store, or reformat your drive using FAT. Ext4, the defult in Linux for a while, is also not supported. The only option seems to be FAT.

It's also not standardized so it varies depending on the phone's image and manufacturer. Sometimes it just doesn't work. And if you're not a developer or an advanced Android user, you won't know what's wrong. I have 4 working Android phones with different versions of the OS, and they all behave differently when plugging in a thumb drive.

The most recent one, the Realme, is giving me the most trouble. So far I haven't been able to read a single thumb drive with it. They are detected but the default file manager doesn't show them, and the file manager that I use (Solid), asks for permissions, that I grant, but says I don't have the rights to open the drive anyway.

Thumb drives on Android are a mess. It's not the connector, it's the OS.

EDIT: Apparently some phones don't even have OTG turned on by default.

And there is also one of those rare "railroad crossing an expressway" in St-Hyacinthe near exit 130 on A20.

So if/when Spotify ceases to exist, you lose everything. Even then, they can just decide to remove whatever music you liked "because" and you now lost access to it. In a few decades when people will want to listen to the old songs they used to like on "the Spotify", they won't find them anywhere.

It's already happening for some movies.

EDIT: A friend just told me he did in fact cache some popular local albums on Spotify, and they just removed them. So those albums were accessible on Spotify at some point, but are not anymore.

It can be a bit of a challenge with Android as it doesn't support NTFS out of the box. So your experience may vary depending on the storage device and the phone.

Indeed, that's one annoying thing I miss about my new phone, as it doesn't have a micro SD card slot. Another thing about new phones and this "everything cloud" point of view is that it's becoming increasingly difficult (for me) to plug a USB drive/stick as a temporary ad-hoc storage device. So in addition to not allowing lots of space on the device itself, and removing micro SD card slots, it's also becoming difficult to just plug a USB stick in an OTG port.

However, MP3s are not that big and anyone used to streaming shouldn't bat an eye on compression. The loss on files compressed at 192 kbps is acceptable and you can have thousands of files for a few dozen of GBs. Also, when I started to "keep my files", it was mainly in SD. Those files are perfect for devices with small screens and they are still small enough to be "portable". A whole season of South Park is like 2.5 GB and my video player won't tell my it isn't available in my country. For 10 GB I can have 4 whole seasons on my phone and because the screen is pretty small, quality will still be more than acceptable. So, there's still wiggle room even if phones will not allow TBs worth of storage.