One day I installed AdGuard on a Pi and routed my parent’s traffic through it, effectively blocking ads. I thought they would love to live without ads but she asked me to remove it because the games she plays won’t progress unless she watches ads.

Oh no, not the poor car industry! Think of the jobs! Giant corporations need help! /s

Just a little bit with the direction of GTK and Gnome. Yes, I’m still salty about that. I miss GTK2 and Gnome 2 where everything could be customized and there were thousands of different themes. Of course, I switched to MATE and I’m still using it, but all my favourite GTK2 themes eventually stopped working and now my desktop looks very generic, like all the others.

Again, I know I’m free to be nostalgic as I want and install any project that wants to try to revive or keep GTK2 alive. There’s apparently a few. But I’m just a bit disappointed that it went this way. I switched to Linux more than 25 years ago because I could customize it to look like I wanted, and the more time passes, the more those features are getting hidden or removed and now everything looks the same.

There’s some hikers and campers that like to make a thing called a ramen bomb. Just instant noodle with instant potatoes. It works, for some.

This reminds me that ths US Defense Department issued a warning about the painted quarters because they thought it was spying tech.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alleged-canadian-spy-coin-deemed-harmless/

The odd-looking — but harmless — “poppy coin” was so unfamiliar to suspicious U.S. Army contractors traveling in Canada that they filed confidential espionage accounts about them. The worried contractors described the coins as “anomalous” and “filled with something man-made that looked like nano-technology,” according to once-classified U.S. government reports and e-mails obtained by the AP.

TBF I never liked Steam for the fact that I don’t own the games. If Valve vanishes, all the games people ‘buy’ are also gone.

I’m an old PC user that started with DOS and played BASIC games, and I’ve never been a fan of Valve or Steam. They did progress tremendously under Linux and brought a gaming revolution to the system, but they are still a capitalist corporation selling digitally locked products that we don’t really own.

A—Aurora Borealis? At this time of year! At this time of day! In this part of the country! Localized entirely within your pockets?!?

Sorry but this got me thinking about a punk rock song in Québécois from when I was was much younger.

Vulgaires Machins - Pop-corn

Between my teeth there is a piece

Of popcorn that is stuck

I don’t know what to do

It’s the fourth toothpick that I destroy

The third time that I vomit

I’m going straight to hell

All my friends are turned at me

Even the police is here

Security perimeter

It’s chaos

Meanwhile outside

Wondering what is going on inside

My fans are hailing me

Please no pictures

In Québec they were a bit more diverse and also named lots of places after saints.

Random fact: it’s because of a rich entrepreneur from Portland that my small native town in Québec got a railway in 1850. The first international railway was between Portland and Montréal. It still exists.

The line was proposed as a connection between Portland and Sherbrooke, Canada East, in 1844 by Portland entrepreneur John A. Poor. Portland was desperate to connect its ice-free port with Montreal, and Maine was at risk of being eclipsed by a similar proposal running from nearby Boston, Massachusetts.

Android? I’m know I’m old but the only time download managers were useful was when we used dial-up and unreliable internet connections. And Android was not around then.

I used GetRight at the end of the 90ies but it stopped being necessary when I got DSL. I never even used one on Android because it wasn’t needed.

Unfortunately yes. It’s kind of a reverse “big city” problem here. In towns and small cities a lot of stores are demanding people to leave their backpack at the front counter and grab it back when they leave. I grew up in a town of ~7000 people and everyone has a car, just like in the US. Everyone is dependent on a car. So stores don’t want backpacks because they’re associated with mischievous students. Why don’t you just leave your backpack in your car? In fact, why don’t you have a car? Why the fuck do you need a backpack?! Are you a kid or something?!

I moved to Montréal nearly two decades ago and I’m happy to be car free. But every time I go back to my hometown, I get reminded that adults walking around with a backpack is not the norm in that part of the world. In bigger cities and dense areas, there’s enough people without a car to just walk everywhere with a backpack and it becomes impossible to demand everyone to leave them at the counter. And people might protest it anyway. It’s one thing to demand teenagers to leave a backpack with a random store employee, but it’s another to demand office workers to leave their backpack containing a corporate laptop with a random store employee.

Whenever I encounter this practise, I get a bit insulted and usually refuse to play their game if I have a backpack with me.

US problem. I live in Montréal and locked items in pharmacies is generally not a thing here. We can even walk in most stores with our backpacks.

This looks like a shadow vessel from B5.

So far after about three years, it’s mixed for me. I had positive interactions on communities that I’m here for, like bike packing, bike touring, or one of the numerous fuck cars communities. The bird pictures community is nice.

But I’ve also been told I should commit suicide, or that my comments are not worth posting. So it’s mixed, and sometimes I refrain from posting comments on memes and or controversial stuff because I don’t want those replies. I’m typing this and I’m thinking about deleting it before posting.

More positive than negative overall, but lately I’ve been thinking about commenting less on Lemmy because of those few negative interactions.

That’s why I prefer to hold meetings in room 200. That way everyone finds the room without even having to read the number.

TBF this is not really about programming. You have to be knowledgeable about how computers work and their history for this one.

Just overthinking for fun.

A lock is a bit deeper though. There’s also a ladder but if the lock is being filled/emptied, some currents might suck someone under water.

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

Sorry but why would higher fuel prices induce such behaviour? Weren’t some people assholes before?

To me, in Canada, the sudden and steep increase in people driving like assholes dates from the pandemic. The price doesn’t seem to have changed much.

However I have never driven a car among traffic, only my bike when I have no other choice, so I may not be super aware of the latest rage. In fact, me not having a car and avoiding them makes the rising prices not so much of an issue for me. Food prices and everything else will increase, but I’m lucky enough not to pay directly for fuel nor mix with car drivers daily.