yardratianSoma

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[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Thats assuming that there won't be an end to all creative output on this planet in the next million years.

Anything past 1000 years from now is beyond understanding, IMO.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

I like where you're going with this!

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

yeah, well-intentioned things tend to go sour when exposed to the glow of anonymity on the internet. Starts off innocent, and goes downhill fast.

The creator, Sean, stating that he started this app as a reaction to the online dating scene his mother experienced, seems fine: an anti-catfishing app would be great.

To give the devil their due, the data they collect might also be valuable as data on how women discuss men online, which at a cursory glance seems to favor far more hyperbole than I see in everyday life.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

When I say things like, "Use linux, the attack surface is much smaller", people say, "well, that won't last forever", to which I say, "if a trillion dollar company can drop the ball like this, I'm taking the route less travelled because society doesn't change quickly, Microsoft isn't going anywhere in my forseeable future"

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

glad more people are using Arch-based distros! I finally installed arch (btw) without the archinstall script, and I must say, the more people that can potentially feel the sense of accomplishment that I felt when I got my display manager and window manager set up the way I wanted, the better!

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

I definitely didn't learn about it from the canada.ca website, they don't even mention the linux version! I likely heard about on reddit, or from a desperate web search.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

good on you, NVIDIA drivers are very decent these days, on wayland in particular. Glad to see someone rocking an Xeon chip, they are great chips.

And I just learned that CachyOS is based on Arch! I just began dual booting fedora (nobara) with arch, but went with river as the wayland compositor, because I heard good things. KDE is a great DE, keep learning linux, it's a lot of fun!

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

pretty cool, mangohud is great, but having parity with features already available on windows is always a plus!

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I paid for myTaxExpress as well, and it worked well for my family. I used to use a vm and used StudioTax as well, but having an entire VM and OS installed for one program used once a year was kind of suboptimal to me, so once I found myTaxExpress I was so relieved, had no idea it existed either! Their customer support is also good, solved an issue with my license pretty smoothly.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Agreed. I don't know many women who don't cry for greater safety on the road (men share this logic, but I do find the bias of safety falls to a greater amount of women), and buy an SUV just to keep up with the trend of larger vehicles on the road so they don't get demolished in an accident.

I do like this permitting system idea, maybe somewhere where you have to apply to be approved for the class of vehicle like suv, pickup truck, sedan, etc. . . Like maybe a need to justify why the extra energy and size is needed, but now we are in a situation where millions of vehicles already are on the road, so maybe a tax or new requirement would have to come into effect.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

that's awesome, non-profit organizations will treat tenants with far more respect than corporate landlords who are only focused on maximizing profit!

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I had issues with it in the past, where certain search engines would go down, so often that it was more of a hassle that just using duckduckgo. I remember bing and duckduckgo being engines with the most uptime for me, so I didn't see the point in using it at the time. Which instances work well for you?

 

I let my folks know that I'm getting rid of my drivers licence, because I don't plan on driving for at least the next 5 years.

My parents then said things like, "you're moving backwards in life", or "what will you do if you need to transport someone in an emergency?", to which I responded, "Taxi, or ambulance".

Am I a fool? Should I retain my licence for emergencies? I'm broke ATM, but should start working again soon, and my licence is expiring in a few weeks (and my wallet fell in a river a week ago, so I don't have the card anyways, not even kidding), so I'd rather not pay the $90 to keep it, if I don't have to.

What about you? Do you still keep a license handy for situations, or no? Is living car and license free possible in Canada?

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