It is not the same house brands.

It was when they were owned by Lowe's, and they carried Kobalt as their house tool brand, but after Lowe's sold them, they fire saled all their Kobalt products. Most recently they've also phased out Valspar brand paint.

For buying web domains, I use EasyDNS, which is fully Canadian and has been around forever.

For garden tools and yard work stuff: Gardena, Husqvarna, and Fiskar are all European.

For power tools: Bosch is European and majority owned by a charity.

For hardware stores, Home Hardware, Rona, Canadian Tire, Atlas Tools, Lee Valley, Princess Auto, are all Canadian.

PrimeCables.ca and Shopperplus.ca can replace a lot of the random cables, electronics, and accessories that I might go to Amazon for.

For hair care, Mark Anthony products are made in Canada, and owned by a European company.

It's finally happening

Sounds like the deal includes dropping the alcohol boycott, and building the keystone xl, a massive crude oil pipeline that gives Canada basically nothing given that the refining and final sale are done by US companies.

Fuck yeah

My guess (and just a guess), is that you either a) crossed some overall file size limit... Not sure why that would make a difference but if initially you had 2GB of music and then you had 8GB, maybe it's choking after the 4GB point or something.

Other thought is that one of the files you put on there is specifically choking it... Either something in the filename or the metadata etc is causing the running android auto software to fail midway through processing all the files and that causes some to not show up.

Try again, with just the original first working batch and make sure that works, then try adding half of the new batch to see if that works, if it does, add half the remainder, and so on and so forth til you find the problem file or limit.

So you're saying mash both a bunch of times to be super sure?

Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.

I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.

The literal rest of my life will be spent trying to fuck over America and Americans. Fuck you, you selfish, coward, pieces of shit.

What is this publication and who finances it because this section is incredibly sus:

Copper use is not carved in stone. Hybrid cars, which pair small batteries with gasoline engines, need far less of the metal than fully electric vehicles.

Power grids that mix nuclear, wind, solar, and a pinch of natural-gas backup can slice the copper bill dramatically compared with battery-heavy systems.

“First of all, users can fact-check the study, but also they can change the study parameters and evaluate how much copper is required if we have an electric grid that is 20% nuclear, 40% methane, 20% wind, and 20% hydroelectric, for example,” Simon said. “They can make those changes and see what the copper demand will be.”

Like you think we can transition to an increasingly electrified world, where all power comes from electric utility lines, and you think our copper usage will be ... just in renewable power plants?

This reads like straight fossil fuel propaganda. In an electrified future the majority of copper use comes from distribution lines and products that use electricity not the type of power plants generating electricity.

Thank fucking god.

I got sick of the overhyped tech bros pumping AI into everything with no understanding of it....

But then I got way more sick of everyone else thinking they're clowning on AI when in reality they're just demonstrating an equal sized misunderstanding of the technology in a snarky pessimistic format.

The most important traits for doing well at work (in this order):

• clear, effective, and efficient communication
• taking ownership of problems
• having your boss and team members like you on a personal level
• competence at your tasks

Man, it's so wild how little we know about biology and how much we as a society spend on absolute, utter, bullshit, instead of figuring out how just the basics of us work.

I know it was never possible before modern computers, labs, and equipment, but we really should have like 1000x the amount of basic biological research going on that we do.

If it's shockingly easy to produce then just do it and then you can write a declarative headline that doesn't need to use the word "could". If you can't then I'm guessing it's not that shockingly easy.

What a fucking joke.

A 1 year prison sentence for an attempted terrorist attack? WTF IS WRONG WITH LITERALLY EVERYONE IN THIS STORY? How is everyone talking about this like the guy made a racist joke, and should be forgiven just cause he's old, and not like he literally just tried to murder 6 people because of their race?

Jesus Christ.

It's also a form free market distortion that actual economic conservatives should hate.

Rather than having firms compete for who can make the best product or service, advertising instead lets them compete based on who can best psychologically manipulate the population en masse.

It's a "rich get richer" mechanic that any halfway competent dev would've patched out for balance reasons a long time ago.

Lmao, the CEO of Salesforce is congratulating Trump and Musk on their efficiency efforts?

Salesforce is a fucking cancerous efficiency draining leach on society.

It is hands down one of the most incompetent and greedily developed platforms in the world. Literally every Fortune 500 company using it would spend far less and get far more by building the equivalent with internal dev teams.

The US isn't innovating jack shit.

The US just created a massively polarized and unequal society so that when a country creates a new brilliant researcher or innovation, an American company can buy them out.

Basically, the insane poverty and lack of government services that the average American experiences gives them enough cash to buy up innovative people, companies, and competitors.

Honest to god, EU regulators feel like the last bastion of sanity left.

PSA: Once this rolls out into the actual downloadable Windows builds, everyone should be able to do this by reinstalling Windows.

European Economic Area PCs

As noted above, some functionality is only available in the EEA. Windows uses the region chosen by the customer during device setup to identify if the PC is in the EEA. Once chosen in device setup, the region used for DMA compliance can only be changed by resetting the PC.