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Rentlar

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  • Bitter Trump feud cools as Elon Musk eyes handing GOP 'huge boost' for midterms

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  • It doesn't have to be that way. On the west coast the Seattle mayor election went to Katie Wilson, a staunch progressive.

  • More Canadians head to Mexico for winter getaways

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  • Bye Trump, ¡Holá Presidenta!

  • Here We Go Again: Internet Age Verification and Website Blocking Bill Reintroduced in the Senate (With Some Changes)

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  • So, People's Party of Canada it is /s

  • ‘I didn’t vote for this’: A revolt against DOGE cuts, deep in Trump country

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  • Vote Republican if you want someone to represent you that runs away from accountability.

  • First AI implosion: Oracle just lost $35 billion in market cap. In 48 hours

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  • It takes 0.0 GW to say you're going to build a gazillion data centres to juice stock prices. Big tech has taken enough money from people to dump it wherever they want or package it in deals to keep hyping equity value. The hard part is actually doing the builds that are promised.

  • More redistricting bad news for Republicans: Texas may not net five GOP seats like they planned

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  • I think that Donald Trump doesn’t need to convince people that he feels their pain, but I think he does need to make the case that Democrats are too weak to fix it.

    The GOP pollster/strategist is correct. Democrats cannot rest on their laurels and grin at this news hoping to sail through the midterms. These potentially Democratic voters have to be presented with real solutions to the issues of affordability and getting rid of authoritarianism, and candidates with real conviction to do that.

  • In-N-Out Officially Removes Number '67' from Its Ordering System After Viral '6-7' Trend

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  • Not that it's hard to implement, but neat that it is already being practiced in tgese systems, similar to noticing floors 4, 13 or 14 being skipped in a building.

  • Are canadians friendly to people from other countries?

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  • In Toronto you'll find Canadians that are all sorts of colours names and sizes, and a restaurant somewhere that serves your home country's cuisine. Most people in the city don't care.

    The closer to the urban centre you are the less you are likely to be judged for looking foreign, though that chance is very small to begin with. If something racist gets shouted at you in public here, people are going to look down and walk away, look with disgust at the person making that remark, or tell them off.

    Outside of the city, bigots are still the vast minority, but there may be more subtle ways you could be looked at differently, well-intentioned but largely due to the unfamiliarity with outside cultures.

  • In-N-Out Officially Removes Number '67' from Its Ordering System After Viral '6-7' Trend

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  • Interesting that numbers can be excluded from the ordering system like that. I wonder if other numbers considered unlucky or meme numbers have been excluded before...

  • Whatever happened to the days when shit just...worked?

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  • Things never just worked all the time and I don't expect they ever will.

    My preference is that I don't need perfection, but if something doesn't work, I'd like some kind of indication why and what I as a user or someone of advanced competence can do about it. (See Linux vs. Windows for example)

    The issue you are facing about lagging and not responding tech is threefold:

    1. Microprocessors can do so much more than electromechanical parts of old, for much cheaper and take up far less space. The downsides are that they are embedded on a board and can't be replaced without specialized tools, and second is that some companies (looking at you, Apple) bar the chip manufacturers from making replacement parts or put onerous software blocks so that independent technical experts cannot repair it themselves even with the skills and know-how.
    2. Personal appliance device makers, to save money, use the cheapest processors they can get away with, which are slow compared to the software they are expected to run. So they lag, and they need multiple taps to respond.
    3. Software makers tend to have high end hardware for developing and testing, though some product makers will have test devkits to emulate hardware. Like the makers of an app for Google TV don't have every specific model of TV. When they update they have to make assumptions about hardware performance, or they just don't care and ship something unoptimized.

  • Online Piracy Can Boost Box Office Revenue, Study Suggests

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  • This literally happened for me with the movie(s) Wicked. I didn't watch the first part just to have it end half way through the story and be told to wait until next year. Then the second half comes out, and after the opening weekend where a couple downtown theatres had busy double feature special events, Part 1 was playing in theatres literally nowhere in my city. And no way I'm signing my life away for Bezos BS just to watch this. (Does a stream even earn the movie studio anything significant? The theatres get nothing...)

    I only bought a ticket to watch Part 2 because I viewed Part 1 by other means. The theatres missed out on an opportunity for me to watch the first one in succession with the second. And if I didn't watch the first, then I wouldn't have watched it at all and the theatres and publishers would have missed out on a sale.

    If the copyright industry calls missed sales "stealing", the theatres and publishing licensors steal from themselves by making it difficult to view the full story.

  • Air Canada wins court battle to quash $2,000 payout to passenger for delayed luggage

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  • Yeah, the latter is lost baggage insurance offered by premium travel credit cards or airline affiliates.

  • Poilievre in Political 'Death Spiral' After Another Floor Crossing: Political Scientist

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  • Carney's managed to get PP whine about him discussing Alberta's oil pipe dreams of all things... Canadians are catching on that Pierre will not be happy even if Conservatives get stuff they have presently or previously campaigned for.

  • New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people | CNN Politics

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  • I'm sure Bubba is talking about his mouth.

  • Another Conservative crosses the floor, bringing Liberals 1 MP shy of majority

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  • (Beat me to it!)

    Anyway, what's immediately interesting to me is Markham-Unionville is where incumbent Liberal candidate Paul Chiang dropped out from the race in April over translated comments that appeared to suggest turning an opposition candidate to Hong Kong authorities for a bounty.

  • Proton getting big encourages centralization

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  • Last time I checked there was no way to use their mail service with mail client of ones choosing, for example. That's the golden cage

    I looked before and IMAP is still supported for any paid plan, you are limited to webmail and 1st party apps if on a free tier.

    I understand the argument against centralization, it's part of the reason I like the Fediverse and I'm on Lemmy to begin with. But are there any other core parts of Proton that is exclusive to itself that they are needlessly locking in a walled garden?

  • A new ‘solution’ to student homelessness: a parking lot where students can sleep safely in their cars

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  • Not bad but I'll call it a "stopgap" rather than a solution.

    Safe places for homeless people need to be offered more widely, secure parking lots could help others as well in the short term.

  • The Windows 11 Crisis

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  • Microsoft is making Windows 11 for AI to use, so I guess only AI will use it in the future.

    macOS is good enough for people who want to be spoonfed an experience.

    Linux is built by people for people who desire freedom in computing.

  • Proton getting big encourages centralization

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  • There's a lot one can knock Proton for but having a comprehensive suite of features is not one of them on its own.

    The set of features is not unique, e.g. Nextcloud can do much of what Proton offers.

    If people distrust Proton solely for the fact that they are trying to have the same feature set as Google and Microsoft, then that kneecaps any potential competitor against this duopoly. If the ideal way is to pay for a VPN provider, cloud storage, email and document editor all separtely or self-host each, it's not really accessible to many either financially or in terms of technical knowledge.

  • Boycott US @lemmy.ca
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    76% of Canadians say they’re boycotting American products

    cultmtl.com /2025/04/76-of-canadians-say-theyre-boycotting-american-products-us-united-states/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

    www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney
  • New to Lemmy @lemmy.ca
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    A warm welcome to the latest Lemmy newcomers! (+FAQ)

  • Cities: Skylines (1 & 2) @lemmy.world
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    The main thing I was missing from C:S1 is now in C:S2 (Route view)

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    PeerTube - Oh The Urbanity!

    Here’s What Happens When You Prioritize Kids Over Cars

    video.canadiancivil.com /w/6Wj3SGDJSYGr5JQ8eZzcSg
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
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    Mastodon Follow Packs

    mastodonmigration.wordpress.com /2024/11/18/mastodon-follow-packs/
  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ca
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    How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) - Not Just Bikes

  • Videos @lemmy.world
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    Why Do LED Bulbs fail? An Autopsy! - The Doubtful Technician

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    How long it takes 200 people to reach the front of the line with 5 modes of transport

    mastodon.social /@cragsand/113028715934480716
  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Clipboard Copy Paste History Function I Accidentally Encountered with Fcitx

  • Fuck Subscriptions @lemmy.world
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    Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2024/08/smart-sous-vide-cooker-to-start-charging-2-month-for-10-year-old-companion-app/
  • Lemmy Shitpost @lemmy.world
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    Van City

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.world
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    19:15

    What Project 2025 Means for Our Cities - CityNerd

  • pics @lemmy.world
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    Gastown Alley

  • FreeCAD @lemmy.ml
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    FreeCAD gets a logo upgrade

    blog.freecad.org /2024/05/22/freecad-gets-a-logo-upgrade/
  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    FUTO funds Immich with 3 year commitment: the best image gallery software

  • Games @sh.itjust.works
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    Stop Killing Games Canadian Petition - Now Open For Signature

    www.ourcommons.ca /petitions/en/Petition/Details
  • Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Trimet MAX LRV in Portland, OR

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    When to Choose Trains over Buses? A Complete Guide - Reece Martin

    video.canadiancivil.com /w/dYHDQMQEV2xzPLMwRamRTe
  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    Rentlar @lemmy.ca

    In your area/country, did you have a word or phrase to describe the static white noise on a television set not tuned to a channel?