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Other right-wing accounts variously reacted by describing the move as Orwellian, lamenting the death of free speech and even contemplating leaving Canada for good. Some rejected the authority of the court altogether while others questioned if the judge herself had “something to hide.”

Funny how they think free speech is dead. I’m sure the there’s a pretty decent overlap between these idiots and the people standing in front of Town Halls and region headquarters whining about vaccines, kickdowns, and Trudeau with 0 repercussions.

These dumb fucks need to stop crying about “free speech” and start crying about what it is they really want - the ability to be degenerates and knuckle draggers without any repercussions.

I openly invite all these morons to leave Canada for good. We don’t want them. Nobody wants them. Go! Move to Antarctica where maybe the penguins will put up with your dipshittery. Maybe we can set up a GoFundMe to help them afford the travel cost out of here.

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

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I don’t mind it, but I don’t really use it for any of its features. I use i3 over Unity, I think Snaps (and flatpaks, appimages, etc) are dumb as shit.l, and don’t even get me started on how garbage Nautilus is - drives me nuts trying to type a filename in to jump to it only to have Nautilus run a search instead… No idea who thought that was a good idea, but they need to fix that crap already.

I’d probably get by just fine with a full Debian setup tbh.

Disinformation is the 'threat of a generation,' but Canada is struggling to deal with it: National security adviser (theprovince.com)

AI-powered misinformation and disinformation campaigns are a “threat of a generation” but the government’s ability to do anything about it is “quite limited,” says the prime minister’s national security adviser. Article content...

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It’s even harder to combat it now that Facebook is blocking news sources.

AI misinformation can be posted at light-speed, but verifiable proof and sources to counter it? No fuckin’ dice.

It’s absolutely baffling. It’s also surprising how many people fall for the misinformation in the first place, though. They’re almost like zombies.

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What I dislike is the constant stripping of features lately - between OEMs stripping stuff like SD card support, and box contents like ear buds and wallwarts; and Google stripping core features like the ability to cat system logs… It’s getting fucking dumb.

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My earbuds were replaced before the end of my phone’s life. Also, my kids who just got phones for the first time now need to also shell out money for a wall wart and ear buds? Considering there seems to be $0.00 savings passed on to us from all the shit they’ve cut out, it’s a bit ridiculous.

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It really sucks how fucking stupid people have gotten. The complacency and supporting of companies stripping away access to things you’re selling out big money on? It’s like ownership pricing for a rental experience.

Then when nobody can repair the stuff but the OEM’s they’ll be shocked at the cost and blame the people who used to repair the items for not doing enough to push back or something stupid.

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“that’s a security risk”

My reasonse is always along the lines of “Yeah and? It’s a pocket-sized PC with PC-like specs being sold at PC-like prices. I’d like my workhorse to be functional. I can monitor my device as best I can, and vet the things I install.”

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How the fuck is that patentable?

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Lol I saw the pic before the title and I was like “Aw hell yeah, Zap!”

Remember the cutouts you could stick pennies on to make them balance?

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Mine were recycled many moons ago, but I’ll see what I can find.

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here’s a reference to them, though I don’t remember them looking like that. I’ll keep digging

Yeah, that’s all I can find. I remember mine being white and looking more like Zap than a ageneric bird

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A delicious canned energy drink from the 90s.

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That, but also the splash buff of Proton making a lot of games work for Linux outside of Steam Decks has probably helped too.

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Literally this. It’s fucking stupid that Trudeau is willing to risk his party’s chances because he’s too full of himself to step down. That kind of selfish stupidity is how you destroy the country you say you care about.

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Conservatories: “He’s just not ready”

Also conservatives: our current runner and the one previous are both the same age (or younger) than the guy who we said wasn’t ready.

Conservative voters: Blue good!

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There’s a free version and a paid version. The paid version is worth it IMO

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Of course they did, greedflation has been going strong for at least a year now… I’m surprised if wasn’t even more tbh.

Time for some new tax brackets. Let’s start swinging at those pinatas!

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Choo choo UBUNTU

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Lmao, they can have fun with that. I can’t imagine it being anything decent. A mobile phone equivalent of a DVD Player OS lol

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I’m honoured lol

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Man, these people protesting all these silly clandestine “agendas” and shit have the easiest job ever. Like, imagine protesting things that don’t really exist anywhere but your hivemind

The vanishing of the small high-end smartphone (www.smh.com.au)

Manufacturers don’t make displays under 6 inches available for purchase, with special cases (such as the iPhone Mini) being made under exclusive contracts. The best lead they have so far is to try to use displays designed for the front part of a foldable phone, but they’re yet to strike an agreement....

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And SD card support. Why TF do I want to pay a mint for storage when I could spend like $50 (or less) for the equivalent (or more) in SD form?

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This brothers me so much. It’s such an obvious cash grab - manufacturers can force you to buy a more expensive model of the same phone, cloud services can tap your wallet for additional space, and carriers can tap your wallet for a larger data plan.

It’s gross. There’s literally no consumer-friendly reason to strip it.

It's not your imagination: Companies are more willing to raise their prices now — and it's because we let them (www.cbc.ca)

Supply chains, worker wages and the price of energy has been blamed for the current bout of high inflation. But central bankers around the world are starting to clue in to something consumers have been aware of for a while — corporations just aren't afraid to raise their prices anymore.

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It’s crazy how many people refer to this shit as “inflation” I could be wrong (wouldn’t be the first time lol) but I think Inflation generally refers to cost increases due to the economy sucking shit.

This isn’t that.

This is companies and landlords and service providers gouging us everywhere they can because the government is doing nothing to stop it, and the companies are laughing in their piles of money while they watch the average idiot call it “inflation” instead of “corporate greed” or succinctly, “greedflation”.

The complacency of people to just accept this and blame it on normal inflation is bonkers. Companies are reporting record profits - how could that be possible under true inflation‽‽

It’s time to fix our broken fucking tax brackets and start swinging at the money-filled pinatas already!

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How do you fine somebody without telling them what they’re being fined for‽

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This is the only DST shit I can get behind. I get I’m not really getting a bonus hour of sleep (or hobby time), but dammit, it sure feels like it! And my body adjusts do much better to this.

It’s that stupid shit in the spring when we lose an hour that fucks me over for MONTHS. It’s not worth the “bonus” hour I get back later.

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I’d disable mine on YouTube for the sake of ripping all the videos I want overnight, then consuming them at my leisure later on.

Basically what I’m doing already, just with an extra step.

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I figure that eventually the effort will shift to ways to rip and redistribute the content.

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I don’t even get the purpose of tablets… Like “let’s buy a computer that’s slightly smaller than a laptop that isn’t upgradable and has the functionality of a cell phone, but without telephony”

Get a laptop or a cell phone… Unless you work in some niche industry where you can’t have devices with fans and need to be running Windows, it makes no sense

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Idk, I have a S23 Ultra, and prior to that a Note 10+. At best, I guess a tablet would be handy for graphic novels, comics, and magazines where a phone would be too small and an e-reader would lack a proper colour screen. There’s almost nothing I can’t do on my phone that I’d need a Laptop for, though with the “updates” (downdates IMO) to Android lately, a laptop will probably be better suited in a few more years.

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He’s never been nothing more than a greased bag of hot air. We’re in for some very fucked times if this dipshit gets in… Pro-theism, anti-science, sided with seditionists, at one point wanted people to ditch CAD in favour of BTC (couldn’t even pick a crypto coin with some promise of utility)… I have no idea how people look at this guy and think “yes, I absolutely want him in charge of the country”

🧟🧟🧟🧟🧟 🗳️

Trudeau may not be great, but he’s not nearly as hate-fueled and greasy as Poilivere.

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Huh weird, none of them are drag queens…

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I tried btop. It slowed my computer way the fuck down, so I went back to htop

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My laptop went bonkers trying to run it, maybe I have something misconfigured somewhere. I wanted to like it because it looks great, but I couldn’t because it was seemingly too resource intensive.

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I’ll have to check it out. I’ve seen kitty mentioned a few times but I’m an oldschool xterm kinda guy lol

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Oh, you might actually be right there… I’m not sure now I didn’t realize there were alternatives.

I remember trying it a while back when I found a list of fancy looking terminal apps. It was fancy, but it came at the cost of performance.

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Somebody mentioned I may have been running bpytop, so maybe this whole thing is my bad. I honestly can’t remember what I ran now - I thought it was btop

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Yup, the logic people use to call Apple phones secure would put Fisher Price toy phones at the S-Tier of security.

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Shouldn’t’ve, obviously lol

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Right? I’m thinking “who the frig would willingly choose this of all options‽” 🤣

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I might almost consider watching the ads if they were ever for things I’d want to use/buy in the first place…

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Or they could just enable settings to let you pick options, or just base it on your YouTube history

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“Introducing the X Engine (XE) - the free-speech, anti-woke gaming engine formerly known as Unity! To show our dedication to anti-wokeness we will only allow String and Long variable types, and to show my dedication to being a free-speech edgelord, functions will now be referred to as fucktions. Professional access to XE will be $420.69 monthly, with additional fees added on based on the success of the product you created.”

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I’m way outside of the loop on this as I don’t use cannabis in any form, but if I get what people are saying the dose on the edibles means that you wouldn’t eat a typical serving of candy to feel the effects?

That sounds both stupid and dangerous to me. I’d think some of the reason you’d eat the candy is for the texture and flavour, so why wouldn’t they be dosed in a way that they expect you to eat the whole bag as a snack?

I can’t imagine buying a bag of sour patch kids and being told I can only eat three of the candies out of it.

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Valid point on the “one a day” possibility. I never considered it that way.

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Wanna bet these are the same accounts creating a bulk of the comments on MSN news articles? It’s sickening how that shit is spoofed to susceptible idiots across thanks to Microsoft Edge’s (and formerly Internet Explorer’s) default blank page.

Oh right, and they added that “News and Interests” section to the taskbar too, just in case you missed the bullshit vitriol by using another browser…

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People are mad, and a lot of them are pointing fingers in wrong directions

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This has been a thing for like ever. Throws me off a lot in Windows when I just want a temporary clipboard to search something and nothing comes up.

I think PowerShell abides by it, but that’s it.

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