I live in Canada and about once a year Trump remembers we exist and talks about invading us. Quebec and Alberta both keep talking about separating. I don’t know where Canada will be in five years time, let alone myself.
The compensation thing drives me nuts too. It’s like if nothing in the store had a price on it and when you went up to the checkout they were like “What would you expect to pay for a can of peas?” Just tell me the number and I’ll either agree or not!
The main ones for me are the RBC app, Skip the Dishes and Communauto. But I think those might all be Canadian?
Oh yeah that’s something I’ve been meaning to look into!
Doctor Who has a bunch of them!
One of the big recent ones was the Timeless Child plotline. For people unfamiliar with the show, the basic premise is that the main character, the Doctor, is an alien who’s species can regenerate themselves when they’re about to die which saves them but they become a physically different person. This was invented back in the 60s so they could change out the lead actor, William Hartnell, when he got too old to continue in the role and it’s become a core part of the show. We’re now on about the 15-16th Doctor, although that number is a bit contentious too for reasons I won’t go into here because that’s a whole other thing.
A few years back there was a plotline where it was revealed that the Doctor isn’t just a regular alien, they’re something called the Timeless Child that just appeared in our universe from somewhere unknown, and was the one that gave their whole species the ability to regenerate themselves. This was widely hated, as it not only changed the Doctor from a sort of wandering hobo into a Super Special Chosen One, but it also directly showed that William Hartnell wasn’t the first Doctor, there had been probably dozens of other ones before him that had just never been mentioned until now.
The internal debates that I’ve seen usually aren’t people debating whether this was a good idea or not, they’re mostly about the best way to retcon it away and never speak of it again lol.
I am team…
Nano
Arch
Systemd, I don’t see what the fuss is about that TBH
I don’t wanna even touch that one lol
I like the carousel kind of things like Karousel or Niri
Gecko (Librewolf, Floorp etc.)
Zsh
But yeah I agree, everyone should just do what they want. Having lots of options is one of my favourite things about Linux.
Yeah I do mine with crypto, I just got an account number and sent money, no other info exchanged. Apparently you can also just send them cash in an envelope with no identifying information and they’ll still activate your account, but I haven’t tried that yet lol.
GrapheneOS user here! Not sure about websites but there are certain apps that don’t work properly without Google Play Services, but Graphene’s app store has a sandboxed version of it, so I just installed that and revoked all it’s permissions. Then if an app needs it, I just turn on the relevant permission, do the thing and then turn permissions off again. It’s a bit of a pain at first but I’m used to it now.
Lol, what a bunch of stupid assholes.
Zero sympathy, fuck them and I hope they lose even more money in the future by still being stupid dickheads.
Good point! Now I have to figure out some way to randomize my browser nonsense…
Yeah it had 21 data points on me, and all of them except for “Browser Language: English” were incorrect. Which I guess means my setup is doing okay lol.
For the life of me I can’t remember how we got to the subject, but once we were talking about attaching speakers to a dog and I called it “Dolby Surround Hound.” I was very proud of that one and it went completely unacknowledged.
It’s an expected feature for me too, in that I expect Microsoft to be fucking useless at everything lol
I still haven’t bought a PS5 because of this lol. At first it was too expensive and scalpers bought them all, so I thought “no worries, I’ll wait a year or two and get one on the cheap when it’s older.” And then the price kept going up over time so I just never bothered.
We had a little pirate movie ring going in college - this was in the UK in the 90s and there were certain films that were banned that you couldn’t get, like Clockwork Orange, The Exorcist, Reservoir Dogs etc. Someone somehow had access to Swedish satellite TV and so had shitty VHS copies of them with Swedish subtitles, so we had a counterfeit ring going that passed around 3rd-generation VHS copies of all these banned films.
Then DVD arrived and all these movies were just released on regular DVD so it destroyed our whole operation lol. The Exorcist was the first movie I bought on DVD.
We didn’t really have internet access when we were at school but we’d coordinate days where someone would bring in the floppy disks for something you wanted and you’d bring in a stack of blank disks and copy them on the school computers lol.
I don’t stand behind any of it. We shouldn’t even give them an inch IMO.
Also a Brit, I agree. Plus, even if the Democrats get their shit together (which they won’t) and the impeachment goes ahead and doesn’t go the exact same way as the other impeachments and even if he is somehow actually removed from the presidency (which is incredibly unlikely IMO), then what? He certainly won’t go to jail or face any other consequences and even if he did, it still doesn’t fix any of the massive, fundamental problems in the US political system that led to this situation in the first place. Russia will still be meddling with the system, Project 2025 will keep chugging forward, Fox News will still keep spewing bullshit from every available media source and someone else will just fill the vacuum.
Even if the unthinkable happened and the US somehow managed to purge every Mitch McConnell/Lindsay Graham/Ted Cruz/Peter Thiel/Elon Musk type of character out of the system (and those are just a few names off the top of my head, there are probably hundreds that would need to be removed from power/sent to prison realistically) I still don’t know if that would be enough. I can’t really think of many empires in history that reached this depth of corruption and decline and managed to rise back out of it.
And that’s just me talking about the legal ways. By which I mean, they could impeach Trump for years, finally remove him and the MAGA base could very well just be like “fuck it” and storm the capital again or something and put him back in. Nothing would surprise me at this point TBH.
It’s like magic too, because any new weird kind of package manager I add, it’s just picks it up and starts updating it. It can even update Windows apparently.
Or they just approach from this angle and go “Ah, nothing here” and move on
It’s such a shame because I really like Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, but yeah her whole era was so badly written. She’s doing Big Finish now though so hopefully she’ll get some good stuff to work with there.
The 15th Doctor era is… odd. No spoilers but RTD is back as lead writer but he makes some… decisions lol. Including putting one of the worst episodes the show has ever had right at the start of 15’s run. You’ll probably know it when it happens! But then inbetween the oddness there are some genuinely really good single episodes too IMO.