Asking the US to do anything for us doesn’t sound like a good plan, they’re no longer reliable.

Hopefully the extra enforcement around ‘fentanyl crossing south’ in practice is used to prevent unwanted incursions in both directions, namely guns north.

Most of the continents on the fringes of the map, so far far away. What a wonderful place to be with all the drama happening round the world

Canada price is up like the US price, unacceptable.

This is a great way to make your vehicles unsellable outside the US, smart thinking

Absolute bozo move to not go for this in retrospect. They need to give this a look again asap

What are the second and third icons from the left representing?

Fedecan, ?, ?, CBC, Lemmy.ca

I personally went with Ecobee because they’re the most Canadian option I could find. Head office and I’m sure majority of product development is done here in Canada. The smart cameras were made in Malaysia rather than China too, which is a plus

Folks need banking, if people stopped using these US based banks they would use Canadian ones (or those from other countries? No idea who else has banks here). There would then be pressure on the other non-US banks to have more branches to service the additional people using their services. So theoretically same number of employed people employed, just under non-US banks.

Thanks!

Kobo via Rakuten is not owned in any way by Walmart. They merely had a retail and marketing partnership in the US

I’m definitely gonna be doing some price research across regions and pre/post Apr 2025 before buying anything from now on. I’m not purchasing product from companies who socializing the US tariff costs to other nations.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-9-9900x/23.html

Lower power use by the 9900x across the board, idle included. If your focus is lower idle use though, either are clearly not good choices

The enemy of our enemy is not necessarily our friend. This applies to China, they want to annex Taiwan for example and should be economically avoided

Good to know, Polar shall be my Garmin replacement I recommend going forward. I was otherwise also recommending Suunto

I was replying to someone who suggested removing Chinese EV tariffs.

And them cornering the market is exactly what we do not want. Because they take over the market then they have all sorts of leverage politically, it supports all the knowledge in batteries over there, and with competition reduced they could increase prices via not subsidizing down the road.

We want Korean, Japanese, European, etc because it supports our allies industry and we’d like some of them to produce parts or finish vehicles here in Canada so it also aids our own economy. Heck, wouldn’t it be great for some domestic option to show up again.

7900x is considerably less power efficient than the 9900x though, performing slower and drawing more power

Haha good ol interface confusion. I use ‘Arctic’ on iOS, looks a tonne like the Reddit style