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Je suis au Canada et je visite la famille. J'ai vu des pubs, des pubs et encore des pubs...

Depuis 2006 j'habite en France et je ne regarde pas la télé en directe. Rentrer au Canada c'est maxi best of pubs et télé-réalité.

Exemple : mon fils regarde la chaîne pour les enfants

• 3 minutes de pubs
• bande annonce pour l'épisode suivante
• 3 minutes de pubs
• générique d'ouverture
• 3 minutes de pubs

Quand j'étais petit c'était un peu pareil mais au moins les épisodes duraient 22 minutes. Là les épisodes de 7 minutes (Teen Titans Go!) ont tellement de pubs que seulement 2 passent sur un créneau de 30 minutes.

Et chaque truc est une serie télé-réalité : contruire des maisons, détruire des maisons, acheter des trucs, vendre des trucs, mariage, divorce, cuisiner, accidents de voitures...

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/20250425/ also has a good list of grievances

Bonjour

Je suis prof d'anglais (anglophone natif) pour une grande école. Je peux donner des conseils.

This fella should check out stats on labour productivity. Make me work 996 and you'll get MRE at best or I'll quit and be a stay at home dad.

Staten Island est rouge, les 4 autres buroughs sont bleu...

(C'est aussi le burough avec l'accent le plus chiant)

I wrote and deleted an entire personal anecdote but then remembered this isn't reddit.

This "trend" is garbage marketing. Dumb idea. Racist rage bait. Awful.

I'll take a Decepticon-purple electric cab over. That thing looks awesome.

Not entirely positive that this happened. I mean the Americans beating pickpockets. I'm sure it could have happened, but I live in France and was here and never heard about this...

There is a Medium post (https://scribe.rip/the-bad-influence/americans-in-paris-ready-to-rumble-with-pick-pocketers-f62b169abccd) but there isn't a single French news source (that I can easily find) related to this ever happening.

I live in France. For a time we had loads of poke places, still do. Insane that people pay €14 for a bowl of rice...

The biggest up-and-comer now is smash burgers (€15 burger prepared in 5 minutes anyone?), but might be tied with fried chicken which is also everywhere.

Prior to this we had a wave of French Taco joints (which are not tacos at all!).

I don't live in a very large city though, so perhaps Paris, Marseille, and Toulouse have trends I haven't seen yet.

Oh for sure, they can be aggravating but I haven't watched any of their vids in over a year. I wouldn't take their advice the same as how I wouldn't want anyone to take my advice. Just because someone says they work in IT doesn't mean they do, right? I used to work in a pharmacy and people would ask me for medical advice when they saw me in town, but I didn't work in the dispensary. I knew the answer to their question, but I was not going to risk it.

I was about to watch when I realized who it was. To be honest, many of the Linux YouTubers have turned me off for different reasons, but I never enjoyed this guy's videos and I'm not the only one...

I guess I should watch this to give a decent opinion. Other distros are just as political and decisions reflect their stance (like how Alpine doesn't include Xlibre for reasons). As it stands, I'm fine with that.

I am unaware of the particularities surrounding the Debian situation, so I'll still need to play catch up.

I don't have any of these devices, but Android devices do have lockdown and stolen phone protection if you use a Google account. Same, there is anti-phishing FIDO, etc..

The alternative ROMs for Android devices are based on Android, but there are users that do no want any Google in their phone and that takes away a few functions (like find my phone stuff [correct me if I'm wrong here]).

GrapheneOS is the strict option and locks the bootloader. e/OS can relock the bootloader on official builds. An unlocked bootloader is a security risk.

Different ROMs have different issues when it comes to banking apps or biometrics.

I don't use an alternative ROM, but I use an Android phone without a Google account. The most concerning missing function is find my phone, but there is an app for that.

If someone has your phone and it isn't locked, they can potentially connect it to a computer and extract info. A locked Android device, like a locked iPhone, increases friction for whoever is trying to access the device. Relying solely on what I've read, iPhones are far more annoying to gain access to.