I used Opus 4.6 Extended

Stop being cheap, OP. You clearly just need to shell out multiple billions of dollars for access to mythos /s

This song is so big in my part of the country it’s hard to believe it’s not an international hit. Good nomination!

If this is the type of person the Liberals are able to convince to join them, I shudder to think about what’s in store for us under a Carney majority.

To add a tiny bit of technical detail here, vanilla Arch enforces support for x86_64 v1, meaning all software available in the Arch repos is built to not use any cpu feature that didn’t exist in v1. Not a bad thing since it allows for support of older (64 bit) hardware, but it does leave like 20 years of microarchitecture advancement on the table.

According to the CachyOS website, they have repos with software built for v3 and v4 which can apparently juice your rig for an extra 20% performance.

Yes. In Alberta, especially in the central/northern region, the time change doesn’t serve any particular purpose. Our daylight hours are very long in the summer and very short in the winter, so changing the specific time the sun rises and sets hardly makes a difference.

Personally I prefer standard time over DST, and I think a lot of people here share that opinion. We probably would have switched over years ago if our government had any shred of competence.

*Supports Avi Lewis*

*Joins Liberals*

At least with the Conservative floor crossers, you can see how they would get the idea of Carney maybe helping advance their ultimate goals. But this does not make sense to me. The way Carney is governing is pretty much at odds with Avi Lewis-type policy.

All of this seems impossible to enforce in the FOSS ecosystem. People can just fork the software and remove any restriction they don’t like. That’s kind of the whole point of free software. Users are free to use their devices however they like, including in ways that are not intended by the devloper.

And the address space is big enough you can choose a new random address between every connection to avoid tracking.

It pisses me off how this is the second time Danielle Smith’s party is going to get bailed out by a war.

They’re terrible at running the province 99% of the time, but the moment it seems like the consequences might finally catch up – nope! The price of oil jumps and everyone says “oh yeah, I guess they’re doing fine,” and stops paying attention again.

Subscribed/New most of the time, but I check All/Active every once in a while to see if there’s any drama going on.

Sometimes I’ll hit All/Scaled when I’m really desperate.

Wow, someone should tell the City of Edmonton about this. Last year they eliminated physical parking machines in the city, and there is a QR code on basically every parking sign now. I wonder if anyone considered how vulnerable QR codes are to these imitation scams.

I assume they already have active countermeasures in place, but then again, online-only street parking seems rather ill-conceived to begin with.

I’m getting an “owner of the dimmsdale dimmadome” vibe

Maybe it’s a form of male birth control? I don’t imagine an array of IR lasers delicately roasting your nuts would benefit fertility.

Maybe not fraudulent since you are getting what you pay for most of the time. But I do agree, 99% of commerce is bullshit in some way or another.

I recently came across a term that describes my feelings on the matter pretty well: it’s landfill-core. Our economy depends on people buying new shit, but in order to have that happen without people’s homes turning into mountains of useless clutter, we have to constantly be throwing away old shit. So it seems to me the purpose of this whole economy thing is to expend tons of energy producing and transporting all kinds of shit, so that it can take a brief detour through somebody’s home on the way to the landfill.

Like, the majority of human productivity goes into extracting resources that just get buried again somewhere else, if not immediately set on fire.

So that’s the reason we don’t have an obvious #1 goalie this time around. Our national goalie factory is in Quebec and they’ve been slacking off over there.

If you’re not part of the solution…

In my cursory search of the web, it does not appear that gnome-software is available on mint, unless you fancy mucking around with PPAs and such. But there is good news!

Mint uses a desktop environment called Cinnamon, which is installable on arch-based systems and should be listed as an option in the CachyOS installer. And you can install the gnome-software package on top as well.

The joke being the word used to describe people who only speak one language is an abomination composed of both greek and latin. Definitely used as an insult, but it’s a clever one.

Although I seriously doubt OOP made that choice on purpose, so the secondary joke here is how they included a massive language blunder in the same comment as they were being a snob about languages.

“We had to make it harder for people to access preventative healthcare, it’s just too wasteful!”

We’re letting those preventable issues turn into real issues that put a constant strain on what precious little healthcare resources we do have, and it results in people dying in waiting rooms. I’m not sure how that’s less wasteful.

But hey, this a just another instance of conservatives doing and saying anything to wrest the healthcare system out of the public’s hands.

I rarely use planes, but I usually see them flying overhead multiple times a day.