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  • Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations

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  • You like half agreed with me (businesses need commercial support) and then half disagreed with me, lol. Thanks for the list of hardware vendors that ship Linux. I didn't realize Lenovo and HP had that option on desktops and laptops, as I was only aware of Dell and the smaller vendors.

    Windows is the last thing I’d ever want to run in an IT department. And believe me, I have plenty of experience. But don’t take my word for it, just look at the European places that are ditching Microsoft completely.

    I do need some citations, because when you say this, I'm reminded of Hamburg's attempt in 2003 to switch to Linux, which they gave up on after more than a decade because of high costs and user frustration. Citing one or two news headlines doesn't make it a movement.

    We can all hate Windows, but accept the reality that every large organization voluntarily chooses Windows for good reasons. You're basically implying that every head of IT department is a moron except for you for choosing Windows over Linux for their fleet, which is some cognitive dissonance. This isn't the year 2000, with Linux being some newfangled thing. Everybody knows about Linux.

    Let's look at running Adobe Photoshop on Windows vs. Linux. On Windows, Adobe fully supports the operation of the software on Windows, and Microsoft is committed to compatibility and ensure software applications work. This is what you get for your money - something that you can depend on working at the start of every workday. On Linux, you'll need WINE, which introduces a third party required to make Photoshop run. However, you're not paying for WINE, which means you're getting zero support. So if some Ubuntu security update comes out, and breaks WINE with Photoshop, you're up shit creek until some random community member fixes it or it happens to get prioritized. That's lost productivity ($$$). Or, perhaps you decide to run a commercially supported WINE distribution like CrossOver then, which gives you better guarantees about software compatibility on an ongoing basis. That costs money, which is against the initial argument here of Linux being cheaper, and it still doesn't give you as good of a guarantee as just running Windows would have. Even this Crossover vs. Windows comparison chart on the CrossOver website makes Windows look like a bargain, because the loss of productivity of a user even hitting one issue is going to dwarf the difference in price.

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  • Yes, and we'll see if this turns out any better than Munich's failed attempt to do that in 2003, which specifically cited high costs as part of the reason they gave up on it after 15 years (lol).

  • E-scooter injuries on the rise across Canada, data shows

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  • I would love to see an age distribution for these injuries, because I see food delivery workers in Toronto every day who are riding scooters with completely disregard for their own life. It's just non-stop the most dangerous, dumb shit, and I'm like... do they just not realize the danger? Or do they need to shave every second off that delivery and constantly cut corners to make a living wage?

  • Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations

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  • Sure, OK, I think that's a valid argument for the OS itself and Microsoft Office. But I'm sure there's a lot of Windows-only software that they use and won't be easy to switch. There's a huge price just to making a change like that, including training staff on new software. You can't just say "let's switch to Linux" and hand waive that away.

    You also need to consider that organizations need commercially supported software. Nobody in their right mind would run some community-supported distro. They would want a commercially supported distro like Redhat, and that's going to cost money. I'm sorry, but talk to anyone who's run IT at a company. You need great tooling and support to administer a fleet of PCs, and I just don't think that exists on Linux.

    What PCs and laptops are they going to procure? There's only like 2 vendors that ship hardware with Linux. That doesn't give them much choice. I'm sure they have other organizational requirements that will need to be met too.

    This whole "Linux is the best and should/will rule the world" is just Lemmy populism. It seems awesome when you're a teenager but once you have experience working at companies and start to understand what they need in order to run IT, you see why Microsoft dominates the world. There's just simply no other competitive option. (On the server side, it's a completely different story.)

  • Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations

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  • Yes, let's take away all the good productivity tools from our public broadcaster. That will surely help them.

  • Canada finally reveals the results of its universal basic income experiment

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  • Ah there it is. Knew you couldn't post without somehow trying to undermine Ukraine and convincing us to stop spending on defense. (Look at their post history...)

  • ‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics

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  • every tipping point is just an arbitrary line that climate scientists draw to try to draw people’s attention to the problem

    That is completely, utterly wrong. Climate scientists are talking about the physical concept of the tipping point, which is observed in nature and also comes out of their models. In climate, it's the point at which reversing a change that originally happened over decades would take thousands of years. For example, this has been the huge concern with the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which plays a large role in the climate of western Europe: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2791639/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation

    Especially read the sections about Stability and vulnerability, Effects of an AMOC slowdown, and Effects of an AMOC shutdown.

    My point is, tipping points are absolutely not an arbitrary thing. They are very solid predictions based on the physics of the climate. We don't necessarily understand exactly how close we are, even though we're observing some effects of being close to them, but the impacts of crossing them will make climate change even worse and hence the alarm.

    Edit: If anyone reads these links and your eyes glaze over and you don't understand of word of what's written, then you need the humility to listen and accept what climate scientists have been trying to tell you. Some of the smartest people on the planet have been working on this for decades.

  • At least 11 Toronto speed cameras vandalized this week

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  • I can't even remember the last time I even saw a cop doing speed enforcement in Toronto. Definitely not on the highways. It makes total sense to automate this, and I highly doubt anybody lost their job over it.

  • At least 11 Toronto speed cameras vandalized this week

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  • Honest to god, it's not that hard to do 40 km/h in these zones. They post a sign telling you there's a speed camera coming up. You just have to go 40 for like 20 meters to avoid a ticket.

    Why should we socialize the cost of "fixing" the road design, when we can instead make the individuals who speed pay?

  • Own Your Grocery Store

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  • Karma Co-op almost went out of business in like 2019. Not sure how they survived. The article just sounds like an ad for Karma Co-op, but at least it's for a good cause.

  • Trump says he's ending 'all discussions on trade with Canada' effective immediately

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  • I've never wanted the Digital Services Tax more than right now, lol.

  • Old, inactive oil and gas wells emitting almost 7 times more methane than official estimates, McGill University says

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  • This is the laziest troll of a take, lol. We are building high speed rail. We stopped our EV rebate (for now). Immigrants and China have nothing to do with the topic or the article.

    We have plenty of carbon and methane emissions from oil and gas usage, which you could make an actual coherent argument out of, but instead you just wrote complete gibberish and contributed nothing to Lemmy.

  • Canada’s first ‘sugar tax’ shows some signs of effectiveness, but repeal is already set

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  • If the populace of voters can't remember anything that happened just a couple years ago, I don't think we can expect them to be forward thinking either. There's little incentive for politicians to make the hard, unpopular, long-term decisions that we need to battle climate change and other challenges.

  • Toronto housing market just crossed a historic milestone amid market collapse

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  • The graph of news headlines about the real estate market is the same graph lol. They recycle the same narrative every year.

  • Carney signals a welcome new approach to governing. It’s about accountability

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  • apology accepted

  • Carney signals a welcome new approach to governing. It’s about accountability

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  • It's not though, it's owned by NordStar Capital.

  • US Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs, ruling them illegal - Canada (and other) tariffs set to end in 10 days.

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  • How come half the time you write in broken English, and the other half with sweeping paragraphs of perfect English? But it always ends with Russian propaganda like the west is forcing Russia to defend itself by invading their peaceful neighbour, Ukraine. (I guess the irony of saying that in this particular thread is lost on you...)

  • US Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs, ruling them illegal - Canada (and other) tariffs set to end in 10 days.

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  • Alright that's a fair take

  • US Court strikes down most of Trump's tariffs, ruling them illegal - Canada (and other) tariffs set to end in 10 days.

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  • Overly simplistic take. We don't deal with America as a single entity at all. Look at our tariff responses and the way we target specific Republican states.

    I'm not saying you need to go out and spend all your money in the US, but let's not catastrophise here or play it up more than it is. I don't think American voters genuinely understood or expected most of what they're getting right now (even if they deserve it).