Back in the early 90ies I would sometimes find smashed cassettes on the ground with the tape floating in the wind, while coming back from school. I’d grab the tape and splice it into another cassette so that I could hear what was on it.

I’ve never found anything more than boring music but the act of “repairing” the tape made me feel like a spy.

It’s nice to dream about investments and trains that don’t exist yet but unfortunately nothing is going to get better for actual VIA services.

I live without a car, have to use trains, and current services are either lacking or overpriced. People without cars using trains and coaches are watching all other intercity options slowly whittle down while everyone else is excited by a shiny brand new investment project that won’t move people before at the very least half a decade.

It would be an exciting project if there was a greater transit plan coming with it, like the revival or investment in regional lines. But sine it’s “just” one line, in PPP, while everything else seems to be ignored, it’s difficult to be enthusiastic about this.

Ugh. That reminds me of the Microsoft admin fanboys where I worked, dissing Linux because its all command lines, while saying that MS inventing PowerShell was a stroke of genius making their lives easier.

Don’t forget to add some claims about weapons of mass destruction to help the case.

Seeing a metalhead in the snow reminds me of this gem: The Mighty Gates Of The Couloir Bonaventure

Only members of the Inner Party can turn it off.

For a moment I thought that ‘commandName -’ was some PowerShell stuff.

Genuine. I still wonder if I pronounced it correctly every time I use the word.

Also when someone you know uses Windows 11.

According to him there is also another “new” word called affordability.

“They use the word ‘affordability,’ and that’s their only word. They say, ‘Affordability,’ and everyone says, ‘Oh, that must mean Trump has high prices.’ No, our prices are coming down tremendously,” Trump said. “They have a new word. They always have a hoax. The new word is ‘affordability,’ so they look at the camera and they say this election is all about affordability.”

#vanlife

/s

Not directly but yes, where I live some parties are proposing exactly that.

At the provincial level, there is Québec Solidaire that plainly says they want to get 30 billion a year from the 4000 richest individuals in the province (in French). They have gained some popularity in the recent years but mainly in urban centres. The general public doesn’t want them as a government because “they are woke socialists with no experience and they will ruin the economy with their pink tinted glasses”.

At the federal level, there is the NDP that recently proposed a wealth tax. It’s the party that fought and gave Canada universal health care in the 1960ies. They also recently helped us get universal dental care (apparently teeth wasn’t universal in the 60ies). Unfortunately, they also never formed a government as they are “dirty socialists that would surely wreck the economy with their irresponsible ideas like taxing the rich”.

People in my country and in my province have the option to elect a party that is proposing exactly that. They just don’t because of FUD.

Imgur has been pretty shit at hosting images for other sites for about a decade because it’s trying very hard to keep people captive on its site. They added ways to prevent hotlinking and if I paste an imgur link in a chat, starting with i., supposedly a direct link to the image, the preview will not work and the page the link sends to will always open their whole site around that image. They really really want people to stay on there, and interact, or watch ads. AFAIK they have made that change about a decade ago as they wanted to monetize.

People can also move more and not be as sedentary instead of needing electronic assistants to help them not become fat because they don’t burn the calories by sitting in a couch, an office chair, or in a car.

I’m a tech enthusiast. I worked in IT. I like computers. But technology and convenience is not always the answer.

It’s kind of complicated. I’ve used Linux since Slackware 7 and I still have issues with some drivers.

Sometimes you just already have the hardware. Sometimes the vendor says it’s compatible but it’s not, or you have to compile drivers from a CD. Sometimes it depends on the version of the kernel used. Sometimes it depends on the architecture. Sometimes conditions change and what’s supposed to be working doesn’t.

I don’t think the meme is blaming Linux, it’s just how it is for some people. Some are gonna distro hop, some are gonna compile their own kernel.

As someone that won’t drive a car and will not encourage big oil or big car, I’m also delightfully surprised by the somewhat strong presence of “fuck cars” communities on the fediverse, and I can only approve.

Le coût de la vie augmente sans cesse, pas moyen de se loger, plusieurs grèves, plein de sans abris dans plusieurs villes, fak ce qui est pressant eeeeh, c’est évidemment la laïcité.

It’s the same gender than all machines, which is obviously feminine.

There’s no fixed rule for this but if a noun ends with a consonant it’s probably masculine and if it ends with a vowel it’s possibly feminine. Again, not a consistent rule and it will not work for everything, but if you must take a guess, this might help, or not.

Now this reminds me of Sebastian Marx and his videos on French. Like this one on pronunciation.

They are UNIX systems, they don’t need an entire team to be managed once installed and running.

I’m only half joking. It’s not UNIX but I’ve been working with “legacy” systems like IBM i mainframes, and those things don’t need much to run. Sure, you have to update the system and the software once every few months, manage backups, role switches, etc., but it can mostly be done by a few people. But yeah, systems like this were (are) insanely expensive so most of his budget probably went there.

Just in case you don’t know, unless it changed last time I checked, some organizations like Comptia didn’t allow computers with dual boot to be used to pass a cert exam.