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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

This is kinda the plot the later Callahan's books by Spider Robinson. Man-eating aliens who believe the only ethical way to slaughter is to trick the meat into slaughtering itself, and so they infiltrate humanity to encourage that.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

While that's awful that's not really a municipal issue like housing and water treatment.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 20 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Sorry we're too busy preventing you from having your own home, we can't squeeze in not poisoning you.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 9 points 5 days ago

So did did Visa and MasterCard ever stop payments to... like... Infowars? I know PayPal went after them but the credit card networks are a level even higher.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 week ago (9 children)

As much as I love their direction, i still have trouble taking their commentary seriously because they played a part in creating the gen X/Millenial bump of wierd conservatives who think they're smarter than everybody because they're "independent" conservatives.

Like their central ethos was "caring about people is for losers".

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Best to just down vote and move on.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 week ago

I can't speak for op but I tried that for 40 years Take the meds.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

Uh, meds for things like ADHD are the same here in Canada, actually. While our hospitals and doctors are on a different system from you, our meds are generally the same... I mean, from the end-user business of private pharmacies and health insurance and whatnot. There's some kind of collective negotiation with buying that I don't know about that controls the prices.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I turned it off when it failed to failover to sms when there was no data connection.

Are both me and the recipient online? Send RCS. Are either of us not connected? Send sms. How is that so hard?

Otherwise RCS is just "worse SMS for people with intermittent data connectivity".

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

I wonder if Android Wear wouldn't work as an OS basis for this - lower power requirements, probably allows black-and-white screens. The problem there is that Android Wear is absolute hot garbage that can't decide if it's stand-alone or companion to your phone.

Why is not just targeting raw AOSP instead of Google Android not considered? It seems like you could use modern hardware with that... is it the lack of Play Store that's the dealbreaker?

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 34 points 3 months ago

That's not how inflation works.

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

Yup. The game is pretty overrated, imho, but its aesthetic was amazing. No lighting system, everything was hand-shaded with textures that really got the Megaman look. One of a kind style.

 

So lemmiverse, my https://pxtl.ca domain has officially been booted off of Google Domains (welcome to the Google graveyard, Google Domains) and now has been moved into Squarespace, which is expensive.

Anybody recommend a good cheap .ca TLD domain host? One with a decent API for dynamic DNS so I can keep my home subdomain? I have a couple of pi4 servers in the house that could be tasked with pinging an API endpoint to notify the domain host of my IP.

thanks in advance.

edit: in the end I went with CanSpace as registrar, and I'm using CloudFlare to actually run the nameservers.

The transfer was kind of a PITA because since the domain transferred from Google to Squarespace to Canspace to then being hosted on CF's nameservers (but still on Canspace) the DNSSEC meant that CF couldn't actually get it connected until like 48 hours later. Was quite worried that I'd screwed up somewhere.

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