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by 29083011397778 2y ago
Per the fun graph in the article, we might even assume your age (Though Canada seems to buck the trend re: dropping cash so completely). Which I thought was pretty amazing (the graph, that is): older Americans I can see hanging onto what th
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by 29083011397778 2y ago
I can see if being considered unfair if it's a single business, but I do think that it's at least a little funny, considering we have penny rounding (to the nearest nickel) here in Canada since geting rid of the penny. Now it&#x27
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
The first example given is for a liquor store - where a clerk is very likely to ask for one piece of ID, and in some locations, two - one photo ID, one with the customer's name embossed or printed on it.
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> What's so special about 2004? Ubuntu's first release, IIRC
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
The bill the end user receives being zero doesn't change how telecom billing is set up. The fact that it's "Free" and costs are hidden from the user in America isn't exactly uncommon.
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> non-standard (say parking cameras... Those are, and have been legally required, for several years in Canada because cars have gotten so big, and visibility so bad, people kept hitting (typically their own) toddlers.
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Isn't this in part because so many cities need all the cash they can get to fund individually-insolvent infrastructure? [0] If the goal is to be able to maintain roads that can't pay for themselves by enabling revenue generation,
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
In case it's helpful for anyone else having the issue: mmv [0] means you only have to run the command once to rename every file. It's pretty fantastic. [0] https://ss64.com/bash/mmv.html
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> Plex which seems to have stagnated Besides a pointless re-arranging of the UI, which we all hate, what should they be doing? I'll grant you "Bugs to be quashed", but fewer features to fill, fewer devs on the payroll, and
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Little late, but I think I see how we have such different experiences. Assuming other comments are right, and Reddit's pulling pretty much entirely from cache, you probably just scroll longer than I do - long enough to run out of the f
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
To be clear: You mean you have timeouts and failures using Reddit's own "new and improved" web UI and mobile client? Because using RedReader, old.reddit.com, and other third-party apps, I don't actually recall the last t
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Good call - I'm sure the next private company won't eventually treat their users like garbage.
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> no one is ramming pronouns down anyone's throats? From TFA: "...the correspondence indicates the company insisted on completing the gender field on Scharf’s employee profile, rather than it being an initiative initiated by Sc
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> the worse dystopian case (see Russia and a lot of the third world) > a pretty smile you get off with a warning, but if you're black with resting bitch face then you'll get a ticket or maybe even some K9 action Per your own
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Hell, I currently don't even have gigibit fiber and self-host a Mastodon instance at home. Currently hosting Plex (meaning content-sharing with friends and family), Mastodon, Matrix, Airsonic, Wireguard, PiHole, and more. Everything ru
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Why would Discord want to do that? I get why we, as people, want that; I do not get why Discord, as a company, would want their platform less sticky. "You have to have an account we can track before we let you get an answer" is al
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> Most people outside... like cars and their convenience Everyone loves [the first order effects of] cars. Climate control, directly to where you need to go, whenever suits you, for a high upfront, but low ongoing cost. Everyone fucki
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
High gas prices are explicitly why I take transit and avoid driving. I have a car, but it works out to $10 CAD every day to drive to work - so I make the effort to get up a little earlier and take the train when I can. "It's reg
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Appalling what that says about Google, or what that says about the average search user?
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Sounds like it'll be the new drivers license. Instead of waiting to take the test and get a car, which has fallen out of vogue in many circles, some will impatiently wait for their 13th birthday to join their friends in the forever-onl
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
The third and fourth requests even de-Googled (Qualcomm) phones make is to download the GPS almanac. You don't have to wait because it downloads over wifi or cellular, which have gotten pretty quick. There was a recent kerfuffle about
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Respectfully, I think you might have gotten used to the sas state America has ended up in. I'm in a reasonably sized city, and have fresh groceries less than half a mile away. My parents live in a suburban, approaching rural area - and
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> You have that backwards, at least for some companies Absolutely I do - my overall (and apparently poorly communicated) point was more about Apple pulling in data from OSM to improve their product. They (and others) do contribute back,
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> Then again, Apple Maps started getting sorted out around then too iirc. And we assume completely coincidentally? Not that Apple Maps, like Google Maps, pulls in data volunteered by the OSM community (both corporate and personal members
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
(Regarding Uber, not Lyft, but...) It would also make perfect sense to predict which customers are investigators in areas Uber is illegal, and avoid them. Which they did [0]. I would be shocked if they weren't giving more profitable
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
I paid more in rent than she does, in Red Deer, Alberta. It was not a large city; suffice to say, rent is too high everywhere . Focusing on the city is a bit misleading, IMO.
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> I would not call the Redmi Note 5... "terribly slow", instead I call it "perfectly useable". The software you use plays a rather large role in how the hardware performs. Some people here like to live on the OEM-desi
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> I don't know what Google does with a longstanding account that breaks TOS in this way Pretty much nothing. I've had my main account for... 15 years or so? I moved away from Google several years ago [0], and use the account al
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
Only if it's evenly distributed. Canada has a population of ~39 million, but most immigrants are settling in one of two major areas.
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by 29083011397778 3y ago
> What's not to like? > on-demand E2E encryption for those who want it. E2E is only available as a one-to-one, not a group. It must also be switched on for every chat. Part of the allure of E2E is that an individual who needs it

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