Reannlegge

joined 5 months ago
[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Yes I use that app as well and have found out to do it.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Thank you, yes I did find it. I to use voyager, I tried out several different apps before picking it out as my choice.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Cool beans, I to am using voyager and have done a little more digging thank you I have tagged them!

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 days ago

Just to make you feel rough and the feels I am going to tell you a little about my cognitive and neurological issues. When I was 12 I received a massive brain injury, I was not supposed to wake up from my comma let alone finish grade 8. Much later in life Epilepsy would become part of my life, I got an MRI done as I was walking into the neurologists office there was an intern looking at my MRI they quickly closed it and said “oh I must be looking at the wrong file.” I laughed and said yeah probably not.

I have the cognitive faculties to get a Bachelours degree and to have a vague understanding of what my brain looks like with my MRI. The most recent fMRI I did I got to see my squiggly lines over the course of 48 hours and had the mental ability to have a very basic understanding of what the lines meant. I have the ability to ask when I do not know something and not to be insulting to someone when they are asking questions about how to do something.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (12 children)

I am curious what app are you using that you can tag someone? Or is it just a mental tagging, where you will just ignore them? After reading the article and this response and some of their other comments I think I would like to tag them, but I cannot seem to find a way to do this on voyager.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would love to see the Bank of Canada do something similar, or some alternative to Mastercard, Visa, AMEX, and I think there are a few others that are Canadian to pop up.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Yes I have as well been trying to get my technical thingy on and have come across Reddit posts as well. I however refuse to look at the “front page,” because I know it will get me into reading something which will turn into doom scrolling which will lead me into signing back on to see what is up locally.

I am a recovering addict of some rather powerful pain meds so I no longer take anything synthetically or genetically related to that drug let it be over the counter or script based, which makes things a little difficult for me when talking to a doctor about pain management but that is besides the point.

What I did for my Reddit addiction was wean myself off; First I removed myself from all but the local groups but I told the groups why I was leaving and where I was going, some of the US people are just idiots in the more active international groups not realizing how screwed they really are. Then after a while I logged off and uninstalled the app from my phone and iPad and Vivaldi (the web browser I am currently using). I still have the account just incase something happens and I need the power given to me by the amount of time I have been a member but that thing will have to be something major, even more major then Canadian airports being simultaneously being shut down do to bomb threats.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago

I am Trans I am well aware of the struggles.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 33 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That is sad that you have to do that to feel safe.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago

What do you mean by this? I think you are misunderstanding the definition of state in this context, but I could be wrong this is why I ask.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

So this whole thing is BS, we as Canadians should not be paying for cable as all Canadian cable basic packages pay for US networks and we should not be paying US networks. I will admit that I could be wrong about the French basic networks. Canadians should pay for the Canadian channels if they want them. The shows I want to watch I can still watch on Global TV, CTV, CityTV, or CBC apps the day after the only channel I pay for is CBC because I wanna occasionally see the news. I am seriously considering paying for TSN cause I occasionally want to watch Canadian or international sporting events. I did have some very basic streaming service from my ISP for basic cable viewing but when the boycott started I called them up and I cancelled it, as soon as they started their attempt to keep me I told them that I simply was not going to pay for a service that I needed to pay for US things when there was alternative ways to not pay for them.

To be fair I do not really pay for the US shows offered on the CityGV, CTV, or Global the day after they are aired because I use a pihole to block the ads!

But more to the point of the title of this article Tells, Bell, and Rogers are a freakin duopoly that work together. The proof of of this is in Saskatchewan, the only place they have real competition where they have to act competitively with Sasktel.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

I cut Amazon, almost entirely, as soon as the boycott started. It took more time to get things off of AWS, I am really hoping everything I use is off of there.

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Pi-Hole (infosec.pub)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Reannlegge@lemmy.ca to c/buycanadian@lemmy.ca
 

Once upon a time there was discussion about the DNS servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 and how we need to move to a Canadian one. The one passed around was 149.112.121.30, CIRA (protected).

I had said something about going a step further and just using your own via Pi-Hole and Unbound. Someone I do not remember who as that is why I am posting here said yes but the pi still has the DNS server you set it up with, they said they would look into it further at a later date If they did look into it and post something I am truly sorry as I cannot find it.

I have gotten into using less US internet things and I recently got to find out that I needed to figure out my VPN setup a little better. This lead me into a deep valley of infosec and I am trying my darndest to strip things away. Anywho I was looking into something and there was mention of apps possibly falling back to system DNS so I found /etc/resolv.conf where I changed my DNS system on my 3 currently operational pi’s to access DNS like this.

Edit: I fixed some editing and hopefully made the commands more clear

This was bolded (I guess putting the comment marker first in the line makes it bold) but inside of the conf file at /etc/resolv.conf I changed it from,

Generated by NetworkManager

nameserver 9.9.9.9 To

Generated by NetworkManager

nameserver 172.16.1.50 # Primary Pi-hole

nameserver 172.16.1.52 # Secondary Pi-hole

nameserver 149.112.121.30 # Canadian DNS (CIRA Canadian Shield: Protected)

I also needed to add this to the end of /etc/unbound/unbound.conf.d/pi-hole.conf

This is for Canadian and psuedo-Canadian backups.

forward-zone:

name: "."

forward-addr: 149.112.121.10 # CIRA Canadian DNS

forward-addr: 9.9.9.10 # Quad9 Canadian (with filtering)

forward-first: no

I get into computer projects and find ways to one up myself, I wish I could say I crash tested everything the old fashioned way but I have used ChatGPT to crash test things. Only because I do not have a computer with a strong enough graphics card to run a local LLM and breaking one thing could set me back hours or even days.

 

So someone on here suggested calling Amazon and closing your prime account and getting your whole year back, $109 for me. So I got curious what other services have I just cancelled but maybe I could get money back, turns out if you call Disney+ they will cancel and refund your account I paid through Apple so they will have to do their thing first but hopefully I will get refunded for that. I saw that I was also paying for Trilogy+ but I have cancelled that and have asked Apple to refund that.

Then I thought about what other services have I forgotten about, or are just set to not renew. I had transferred my domain to hosthero so that I could get a .ca address so I thought maybe I should check out wordpress, it has been cancelled but after getting past the dumb artificial intelligence I got a full refund!

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I did a democracy (reannlegge.ca)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Reannlegge@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca
 

I should add this is an open letter for people to copy and send off their MP.

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