That's me, kind of. I work in IT and it's difficult to pry me away from a computer or a smartphone. However I love cycling and camping so depending where I go, I often want to bring a computer or a second smartphone.
The laptop is usually a bad idea while bike touring and I don't use it often, so I stopped trying, unless it's a cabin. But my old phone is perfect as a second screen while I use my main one to browse lemmy and stuff like that.
I'm currently typing this from my camp site in a national park. I cycled 80 km to get here and after a short hike, I'll be back to my camp site for a small fire and chill with my phone, and probably some raccoons.
The rural region where I grew up has always been neglected by big telcos, so there were multiple local ones offering the same as the big ones, but for cheaper, or deep in the countryside.
Every village had its local phone company because Bell didn't think they were profitable enough to deserve service. Unfortunately the last independent provider, Maskatel, was bought by Bell in 2018.
There is only one left, Cooptel, and it's a cooperative. This is how my parents living on a rural road can get FTTH. If it weren't for the fact that it's a cooperative, Bell would probably have bought it too.
It's frustrating to see that big telcos won't put a cent into building a network into rural areas because they see no profit in it, but once a small local company becomes successful in doing that, they often end up being bought by big telcos.
Oh I'll continue to say it because it depends where. In this specific case it was indeed the case. However my riding had 99% chances to go to the Liberals, it did, and my vote wouldn't have made any difference.
The Magic School Bus was my first voluntary expositions to English. I grew up in Québec, in a town near the border with Vermont/NY. We didn't have cable and one of the ways for me to see more cartoons and learn English was to tune the TV to channel 57, PBS Plattsburgh, and watch some Magic School Bus. I don't know why, maybe because it wasn't cartoons, but I was not a fan of the other shows on PBS.
I never really liked Skype but seeing a major corporation buy proprietary software and its servers, then shut it down, makes me glad that I'm still using IRC with some of my friends. Try buying that.
Anyway I'm getting old now because Microsoft doing something like this just reminds me of their EEE strategy.
It varies a lot. In my mother's family it's all informal, but my father uses formal vous with his parents and grandchildren do the same.
I'm also working with the public and I'm used to vouvoyer pretty much everyone except people clearly younger than me. I sometimes pass for a bit of a pedantic asshole but that's just what I'm used to.
It was the same on the municipal level for me. I can call 311 or write to them, but it was kind of nice to be able to tweet at my neighbourhood and have people interacting with them and me on local issues.
Even right now. Look at how people have to wait in huge lines to get some gas every time there is a natural disaster, or extreme weather. After a few days, or even hours, it's mostly gone.
A few years ago I had a depression and two dreams were coming back repeatedly.
My apartment was a floating in the middle of the ocean and I had to defend it against "invaders", like my landlords, my parents, some of my "friends". They were all trying to "attack" me and invade my now lonely isolated floating apartment.
The other one is my fit coworker hunting and running after me to capture me and bring me back forcefully to my parents, from which I was running away, in my mid thirties.
I thought the reverse at some point until I realized that a couple of woodpeckers were making sounds similar to squirrels. I was laying in my tent one morning and heard those calls and thought some squirrels were "fighting", but then they started pecking at a tree so I realized what they were.
Also, the first time I went in the Caribbean I thought birds were making such a ruckus in the evening but it was actually a small frog called Eleutherodactylus martinicensis.
It forced me to learn. It took me weeks to get X configured and working correctly. I had an internet subscription and a modem but it also took weeks to get it to work on Linux. My distribution came on a CD from a magazine but some dependencies were not included, so I had to reboot under Windows to download a missing package, reboot on Linux and try again, then need to get the next dependency. We came a long long way from having to specify the vertical refresh rate of the monitor in xf86config.
Starting with a French version of Slackware was brutal but I had nothing else.
Depends on the stuff and on what you will be watching it.
TV shows that were originally aired in SD will be fine in low resolution. Cartoons can usually be pretty low quality too. Old cartoons in SD on a CRT usually look great.
However stuff made for HD will probably need better quality to be enjoyable.
I've been collecting since the days of RealPlayer and still have lots of stuff in SD. Some shows are getting difficult to watch on a giant screen but the advantage of the small files is that they can be read by a toaster.
TLDR: More in lower resolution unless it's some modern shows or movies where HD is a necessity.
In English (or French), milk can also describe a while liquid. There are six definitions for milk on Wiktionnary, and here is the second one:
(uncountable, by extension) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans
There is also something called cement milk
A watery film of a dull white or gray color often appears on the surface. This white matter is the so-called cement milk.
I was walking under a decrepit elevated expressway and there were signs saying to be careful about cement milk dripping from the ceiling. I don't think there's any mammal involved in producing that type of milk.
That's me, kind of. I work in IT and it's difficult to pry me away from a computer or a smartphone. However I love cycling and camping so depending where I go, I often want to bring a computer or a second smartphone.
The laptop is usually a bad idea while bike touring and I don't use it often, so I stopped trying, unless it's a cabin. But my old phone is perfect as a second screen while I use my main one to browse lemmy and stuff like that.
I'm currently typing this from my camp site in a national park. I cycled 80 km to get here and after a short hike, I'll be back to my camp site for a small fire and chill with my phone, and probably some raccoons.