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Snowbirds rush to sell Florida homes as loonie tanks
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Just wait until you hear about toonies
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Snowbirds rush to sell Florida homes as loonie tanks
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Just wait until you hear about toonies
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What are the best public domain books you've read?
Not a book suggestion, but I cannot recommend Standard Ebooks highly enough as a source of public domain ebooks. Professionally typeset, with consistent standards, all while being free and volunteer-driven!
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F-Droid exploring to include paid apps, in-apps, subscription, and ads in app
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Well, some members of F-Droid's central board resigned nearly a year ago, citing issues that had been ongoing for a long time prior. Statement posted to Gitlab.
I've been slowly moving my app installations over to Obtainium ever since, and have been using NeoStore for the remaining F-Droid/Izzy installations.
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Finally—my transformation beyond the bounds of flesh is complete!
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Alright, hit me with your folk punk recommendations
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Dox Ice rule
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Excuse me, this is actually esteemed musician Benn Jordan
(they are the same person)
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A guide to switching your Audiobook App to move away from Google and support smaller and more ethical businesses
You can host your own audiobook streaming/download service with Audiobookshelf.
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Discussion: How often do you clean up your app lists and what have you recently removed?
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But I'm going to use them eventually, I swear!
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If I ever got a Canada Goose jacket, I'd take the badge off.
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Anyone know if we've got some kinda brandless/debadging community in the Fediverse? Seems like the sort of place one would thrive, but finding communities isn't very straightforward to a newb like me.
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MTGZone 1,000 subscribers giveaway!
As an extremely casual commander player, I always feel like a noob even though technically I've been playing MTG for over half a decade at this point. My commander decks have all been precons and I've mostly just got cards through drafting with my friends, but this year I've been trying to build my own deck from scratch and it's... exciting but frustrating.
Does anyone have any tips for taking a (commander) deck from the "theoretical pile of cards" stage to a functioning deck? By that I mean, I've done the preliminary research (scryfall searches, EDHREC most used cards for the commander, etc) to find possible cards, and I've read some high level theory stuff about deck building (ramping, threats, etc) to categorize my possible cards... But can't really find any articles/videos showing workflows to actually build the deck.
Currently I'm trying to use tags on Moxfield but it's mostly a confusing mess as I try to trim down ~200 possibilities into a lean, functioning deck.
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I judge all superhero media against Worm.
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Deck Building: Making your theoretical deck playable?
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Oof if building up is better I'm going to have to completely change the way I go about building decks, as my mindset has been to take the EDHREC "average deck" for a commander/style and think of it as, essentially, a precon that I then modify.
In the 8x8 theory, what does it mean by "choose 8 different kinds of effects you would like to see played"? Scratch that, I'm assuming they mean the card packs that are in the #8x8 tag on the blog. The first page was all Q&A stuff so I missed that
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Recommendations for some easy to read 'feel good' fiction books?
I'll second Small, Angry Planet. It's not always a happy series (one of the books takes place in the aftermath of a catastrophic disaster) but it is always a hopeful series, utterly unlike the sci-fi I usually go for. It's an indifferent universe full of very different people who will ultimately pull together and support each other, and that kindness prevails.
Howl's Moving Castle trilogy was very gentle and got me through one of my darkest times, so I'll always recommend it to people seeking a chill, comforting series.
For something a bit more modern the Legends & Lattes series has proven to be quite cozy, with a healthy dose of adventure mixed in. (It's mostly coffee & pastry porn).
Would you say the first Stormlight arc ended at a good spot? I'm eager to start the series but have been staying away because it's unfinished...
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Independent Canadian Media Directory
I checked all the news sites against mediabiasfactcheck.com, and the only ones (that have results) that don't reach the highest standard are Canadian Dimension, The Maple (whoops), and Ricochet. Here are the results:
(I am not a bot or AI, I'm just like this.)
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Rich "people" rule
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Honestly, this is the only thing I miss from Reddit.
But the community was so pleasant that it seemed like a fluke it existed at all.
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What are some useful apps that are only found on F-Droid?
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Simple Gallery Pro and OsmAnd+ both follow this methodology as well.
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What are the best public domain books you've read?
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Unfortunately, they don't accept non-English books... but they do provide all the tools and guidelines they use for their books, so if someone wanted to make & release non-English books elsewhere I don't imagine there'd be problems.
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Deck Building: Making your theoretical deck playable?
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Hey, thanks for the super detailed and useful response, Cloaca! My own attempts to deck build seem to be following similar steps, so I'll definitely be referencing this. The deck snapshots at various points of completion are super helpful. Are those different decks or does TappedOut have a history feature? (That's something I didn't know I wanted until now).
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Where does Carney stand on Canada's 2030 climate targets? It's not clear
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I'll be voting for Davriellelouna in the next election
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what are some SMS alternatives as QKSMS is having troubles
QKSMS hasn't been updated since 2021, but Quik seems to be an active fork.