I got a Framework 13 a couple months ago - it's been awesome so far. I'm happy to support their business model & repairability - it's super awesome.

Sucks for you guys south of the 49th parallel who have to deal with (pay) all these ludicrous tariffs!

The title of the article on the BBC page currently reads:

Streeting backs under-16s social media ban as government consultation concludes

And a quote from the article:

There is no consensus among the wider scientific community that screen time overall is harmful to children.

I'd be curious how well this approach translates to multi-lingual keyboard layouts. For english users, perhaps theres another benefit to non-QWERTY layouts (e.g. Colemak or Dvorak) after all? ... and two factor authentication should remain helpful I presume. Especially physical key methods with no audible characters typed (e.g. Yubikey, Titan, etc.)

It's fascinating to me that a group of individuals in another country read some history novels and think they understand Canada and Canadians today - to the point they suggest actively interfering in the domestic politics and elections through intelligence operations and the like.

They have cause and effect backward.

Canadians generally view Americans as friends, long time allies, and we generally respect (and appreciate the differences between our countries (things like maternity leave, gun laws / safety, and public healthcare)... But, we don't generally hold hard feelings against the Americans, especially the average individual - at least until they make overt threats against us, like in this article. It's the Americans like the authors of this post causing the problem.

Can we quit the aggressive stupidity, and move forward in a respectful way to build a prosperous future for all of us?

This is indeed a good speech. I often see of critique from both sides of our political discourse about some of his actions (security, climate change, neoliberalism, etc.), but I'm proud to have a smart, thoughtful, and well respected leader representing our country on the world stage. This is a tricky needle to thread, but hopefully one that can lead to continued peace & restored prosperity for all of us.

We didn't ask for this, but we need to make the best of the current situation.

And to be clear, as a Canadian, I still view our southern neighbours as friends (excluding a few notable individuals), who are going through a difficult time. One that many of us saw coming from 1.609km away, but sometimes you can't tell a friend their love interest is a psychopathic narsicist, because they're too infatuated to listen or see it. They have to learn for themselves...

Unfortunately, in this case, we're all being dragged along for the ride.

"I didn't ask the US to interfere in the election, I just asked them to stop doing things temporarily so that we could get a certain election outcome."

It was around Sept 2023: https://futurism.com/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himself

You can also just search: "Elon Musk Twitter server move" and the terms "Sacramento" or "Pocket Knife" might help.

The post you commented on links to the video... If you need an alternate link, here's the video on NBC: https://www.nbcnews.com/video/elon-musk-delivers-remarks-at-trump-s-inaugural-rally-229787717860

Feels like this is probably aimed at climate agreements, but it’s similar to the 'sovereignty act', intended to grant broad powers without saying exactly what the law would change.

This kind of law only creates more legal uncertainty (bad for business as well!) and wastes money on court fights, when we could be doing something constructive. Like paying teachers to educate our children.

It's hard knowing that 1/4 to 1/3 of my fellow Albertans don't see value in being a part of Canada.

On the other hand, 3/4 to 2/3 do... So there's that!

There's polling from Angus Reid on this; it's not particularly popular - not enough to come close to winning a referendum, but it's still an uncomfortably high number of people who don't value Canada.

https://angusreid.org/smith-shapiro-sovereignty/

Missing the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics torch

1988 Winter Olympic Torch

I've had a pretty good experience with OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, with a pretty similar use case / criteria.

I've done my share of tinkering, and while I learned a lot, and enjoyed Gentoo, Arch, Debian, NixOS, and others (Mandrake, Ubuntu), I sometimes I just want get my work done...

With Tumbleweed, there are a few packages that you'd need to install for codecs, but that's easily done via the CLI zypper package manager with a single command.

I'd definitely recommend checking it out - its been a solid daily driver for almost 3-years now with very few issues, and lets me focus on getting stuff done. I wonder if this is due to their QA build process (OBS)?

Anyway, good luck & have fun whatever you choose!

I highly recommend taking a look through pages like this: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/platform-crunch-3-every-party-is-promising-tax-cuts-and-cash-transfers/

Its really interesting to see how the proposed changes actually benefit different income brackets. TLDR: Proposed income tax changes from the Conservatives and Liberals predominantly benefit the richest tax bracket(s). If you happen to be in those tax brackets, I can see how conservative policies might 'appeal' to that demographic.

In general, when parties propose tax cuts (unless very thoughtfully targeted), they benefit the rich - who already have ample financial resources to pay for things they might need (like healthcare, private education for their children, etc.), while those who get net benefit from taxation through services are net losers from tax cuts... Because cutting taxes necessitates some reductions in service funding to balance the books. (I'm always fascinated when low income voters vote conservative as opposed to NDP.)

I'm in an Alberta riding which is very likely to go CPC, but exercising my right to vote is also my civic duty.

So while it might not affect the outcome this time, my vote contributes to popular vote metrics, turnout, and in the case where there's lots people who happen to surprise (it is within the margin of error), my vote might in fact be the deciding vote that sways a riding.

It's a shame when people value democracy so little they can't be bothered to vote.

That would sum it up nicely; however, It'd be unfair to not mention the 77 million Americans that voted for this clown, the 90 million people who neglected their right & responsibility to vote, and the 75 million americans who voted against him.

Voting matters...until it doesn't.

Surprisingly taxation isn't hugely different, at least for average income levels, according to the latest OECD report -- and we get publicly funded healthcare!

I suspect many of these wannabe Americans would be in for a nasty surprise when they learn that the US in fact does have reasonably comparable taxes... And limited healthcare coverage, and very poor maternal leave benefits, shorter average lifespan, lower minimum wage, the list goes on...

I for one, am proud to be Canadian! 🇨🇦

OECD (2024), Taxing Wages 2024: Tax and Gender through the Lens of the Second Earner, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/dbcbac85-en.

Just checked our major urban centre in Canada, and it's around 1:450. As a comparison, that makes New Orleans (1:385) pretty well staffed.

Would be cool to find data covering major urban centres across the world for comparisons.

I just switched from GNOME to Plasma in the past week, after a long time on gnome, and Plasma 6 is great. The only thing I miss so far is viewing all my windows on the desktop when I push the meta key - alt-tab seems clunky in comparison.

Any suggestions there?

Turns out, photo radar is only "annoying" if you're exceeding the legal posted speed limit...

Its bizarre to me that the government (who is responsible for creating laws), is taking the stance that enforcing them should be optional.

Imagine if Alberta could fund fall immunization programs instead of reducing speeding fines for people speeding!