Fairphone 6 has an IP55 rating. Some resistance to water spray but can't be submerged.

The company is Dutch but the phones are mostly manufactured and assembled in China. The company is transparent about this and discloses on their website their efforts to do this as ethically as they can.

"in four words: No to war."

Before anyone jumps on the translation error, there are four words in the original. "en cuatro palabras: No a la guerra."

Many drivers won't stop unless they're forced to by a physical barrier, and some still won't stop. Ever seen those videos from Europe of bus lane bollards that retract when a bus approaches and pop back up again after the bus passes, and the cars wrecked on them? Those are much more solid barriers than these plastic things.

The same EA that was recently sold to and is now part-owned by an investment firm owned by Jared Kushner and with ties to Donald Trump? Yeah, that's not getting kernel access to any of my systems.

As a punishment for Canadian wildfires, Trump raises taxes that only Americans pay.

Make it make sense, challenge level impossible

I hope everyone who gets one sends a letter back telling the government to get on with taxing the damn billionaires.

These memes remind me of my high school religion teacher (I went to Catholic school in Canada, "religion" was what you would call Civics) who introduced the political spectrum. He wrote the usual line across the chalkboard with left/center/right labels, and explained what they were. Then, he extended the chalk line to the right, off the board and onto the wall, and continued past the corner onto the next wall. He was about half way to the back of the room before he started writing down names of any of our political leaders at the time. I don't remember most of the names from 30 years ago, but Conrad Black was on the back wall.

Forced mass deportations. Of non-white and/or non-Christian populations whether immigrant or not, though immigration is almost always the scapegoat.

Trading primarily with the United States instead of building other trade partnerships has been our weakness since the Avro Arrow was cancelled. It's about time our leaders started trying to do something about it.

Why not set up a Polymarket bet for how Polymarket is going to handle this? Or whether they face any kind of legal repercussions at all.

In my extensive experience with Canadian GST, I can say with some authority that Americans just fundamentally cannot comprehend a value-added tax, and also refuse to try. Bonkers insane to use an American company for this.

Well, cancelling successful products is pretty on-brand for Netflix.

If you're using the dongle that came with the mouse, that's a proprietary wireless connection made between the mouse and the dongle. The device your computer sees is the dongle, which is connected to the computer via physical USB connection. It doesn't use the computer's Bluetooth radio, so turning off Bluetooth doesn't affect it.

If you want to test if your computer's Bluetooth is truly off, you can probably find a Bluetooth device sniffing app and see if it detects your computer when you've disabled it, but I don't know of one to suggest. You can pretty well trust that if you've turned it off in software, it's off.

Ahh, I remember the first time I heard the intro music to Star Control through my Sound Blaster instead of through my motherboard's piezo speaker. Like the audio version of The Wizard Of Oz switching to colour.

Big punitive settlements aren't really a thing in Canada. He probably already has to justify to the court how Google's action led to him actually losing $1.5m. If his claim for damages was unrealistic the case would just be tossed.

(obligatory IANAL)

I've been running games that advertise they run in linux for a few years, but only within the last 6 months or so started trying out made-for-Windows games, and it's really incredible just how good the Proton compatibility layer is now. All of the games I've tried are at least playable - most run perfectly, a few are a bit slow, and some you have to tweak settings but there's a big database of how to get different games to work at appdb.winehq.org. Not one of the games in my library don't run on linux at all, other than a couple with kernel anti-cheats that I don't play any more anyway.

I was dual-booting but a couple months ago I deleted my Windows partition and now I just run linux full time. If a game only runs on Windows, I just won't buy it.

You just know some exec is making a bonus from some invented metric that this supports.

Definitely not a waste to keep your skills sharp. You will be needed when the inevitable crash comes and nobody knows how to even troubleshoot, let alone code a fix.

The CEOs are earning way more than 200k. The lowest paid of the US auto CEOs earns north of $20 million.