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Canada went through this a year ago. Our Liberal government was sinking under controversies of their own making and the right-wing Conservatives were on track for a big win. Then the Americans started blathering on with their 51st state bullshit and completely wiped out the Conservative lead, and their bootlicking leader lost his own seat in the general election.

If you’re using one of the clients that supports piefed (Interstellar does, not sure about others) you can use piefed’s /r/random feature to find new communities. I can’t figure out how to do it in the app, but https://piefed.social/r/random should work.

I’ve been running games that advertise they run in linux for a few years, but only within the last 6 months or so started trying out made-for-Windows games, and it’s really incredible just how good the Proton compatibility layer is now. All of the games I’ve tried are at least playable - most run perfectly, a few are a bit slow, and some you have to tweak settings but there’s a big database of how to get different games to work at appdb.winehq.org. Not one of the games in my library don’t run on linux at all, other than a couple with kernel anti-cheats that I don’t play any more anyway.

I was dual-booting but a couple months ago I deleted my Windows partition and now I just run linux full time. If a game only runs on Windows, I just won’t buy it.

Ahh, I remember the first time I heard the intro music to Star Control through my Sound Blaster instead of through my motherboard’s piezo speaker. Like the audio version of The Wizard Of Oz switching to colour.

The Chipmunks Movie, not the live action one but the animated one from the mid-80s. I had nightmares for years about a scene where their hot air balloon gets blown around by a hurricane, which I watched I guess around the same time as Hurricane Hugo.

It’s also very possible that my brain invented the whole thing.

If you enjoy the original Civilization, be sure to try out Freeciv. Basically the original game but with expanded gameplay and updated for compatibility. It’s OpenTTD to Transport Tycoon, if you’re familiar with those games. It also has multiplayer features, and there are sites that run turn-per-day MMO events.

“in four words: No to war.”

Before anyone jumps on the translation error, there are four words in the original. “en cuatro palabras: No a la guerra.”

The same EA that was recently sold to and is now part-owned by an investment firm owned by Jared Kushner and with ties to Donald Trump? Yeah, that’s not getting kernel access to any of my systems.

Many drivers won’t stop unless they’re forced to by a physical barrier, and some still won’t stop. Ever seen those videos from Europe of bus lane bollards that retract when a bus approaches and pop back up again after the bus passes, and the cars wrecked on them? Those are much more solid barriers than these plastic things.

We have those where I live. Crosswalk compliance is decent here, but these don’t get anyone to stop who wasn’t going to stop anyway, and they get stolen all the time.

They won’t last long enough to be damaged by ice before someone drives into them.

In my extensive experience with Canadian GST, I can say with some authority that Americans just fundamentally cannot comprehend a value-added tax, and also refuse to try. Bonkers insane to use an American company for this.

I’ve read the same argument in the other direction: that repeated thermal cycling of electronic components degrades more than keeping them at operating temperature constantly. I’m sure there’s some truth to both arguments and the best approach depends on particular use cases.

As far as needing to power down to reset the state of the hardware and the OS fully, that’s totally unnecessary with linux.

I pretty much only ever shut down if I need to open the case for some reason, or if the battery dies.

There is occasionally an update where things don’t work right without rebooting, but shutting down is pretty much completely unnecessary unless you’re concerned about power consumption.

This used to come up a lot in meta-fedi talk on Mastodon. The general feeling (from my own observation) is that a central authority for user accounts would defeat one of the big advantages of decentralization: that one service going down does not bring the rest of the network down with it. If all logins have to authenticate to a central service, then if that service is offline then nobody can log in anywhere.

There is capability for federated login in ActivityPub, though, it just doesn’t seem to be very widely adopted. Pixelfed has a “sign in with Mastodon” login option, where you can use your login on a Mastodon instance to authenticate to Pixelfed, and then presumably you can use Pixelfed with your Mastodon account instead of having a separate Pixelfed account. My masto instance doesn’t seem to support it so I don’t know what it looks like.

US automakers designed EVs that are really just toys for the wealthy, not a family mover or grocery getter or daily commuter. It’s not just the EVs: I’m in Canada and the market is different but not that different, and I don’t know anyone who drives a US-brand vehicle smaller than an F150. I haven’t set foot in a US dealership in maybe 30 years. US automakers are apparently baffled that they’re not selling luxury second vehicles at a time when affordability has been on the decline for 40+ years.

Meanwhile, in markets with reasonably affordable, well-built, and compact EVs available, they’re selling like crazy.

I hope everyone who gets one sends a letter back telling the government to get on with taxing the damn billionaires.

Not with that attitude