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It’s frustrating that the trends are concerning, but there’s not a lot of information on what they should do about it, said Coun. Sam Austin (Dartmouth Centre).

Vision Zero would like a word. If we can’t rely on cops to enforce speeding on our roads, then the roads should be designed to enforce it themselves. Narrowing streets, making them curvier, daylighting intersections, lowering speeds, modal filters is what they should do. Prioritizing funding for cycling upgrades and enhanced public transit so that people that shouldn’t be in a car don’t need to be.

So Amazon bad, Costco good?

The two companies are super different in their corporate practices, to their customers, to their suppliers, and to their employees. There is a material difference despite them both being American multinationals. I’m also buying local Canadian foods from them. Grocery chains in Canada are an oligopoly as well, so just moving to Loblaws, for example, would only be a marginal improvement in my view. It’s important to have some nuance in this discussion, and I’m changing my habits a bit at a time.

Yes it is has been difficult to replace it all. I review once every few months what I’m subscribed to and whether it’s worth it. (Airline gift cards alone offset the cost of membership for me). It’s also been tough to keep track of if a Canadian brand got bought by the US in the last few years, or if a US brand produces stuff at a Canadian factory. I’m not perfect, but I don’t think I’m the only Canadian who evaluates their consumption choices and look for alterantives where available. That’s the whole point for me being transparent about where I still am tied to US companies in my last comment, so thank you for raising it.

Yeah I love New York, LA, Boston, Chicago, Seattle and Portland and all the other wonderful cities and natural icons of the USA, but the problem is to get there I’d have to go through the Trump gestapo’s border control. Trump and his cronies have been saying they don’t need Canadians, so we’re respectfully showing what happens when we you take us for granted.

Oh and yeah, Americans are welcome to visit us anytime. We’ll provide you with our hospitality as usual.

Yeah. It’s tough, probably the only other thing you could do is lead by example.

I’ve not ordered anything from Amazon since September last year… cancelled Prime in 2025 to boycott USA. [email protected]

Small electronic components, random plastic doodads, SD cards - Aliexpress, Amazon sells the same stuff at a markup, so all I need is a tiny bit of patience to replace my biggest Amazon spend category. In Vancouver there’s no competition outside of Lee’s, but in Toronto I go to Sayal Electronics.

Computer equipment - Memory Express (your local PC parts chain).

Big purchases - from manufacturers’ website or brick and mortar retail.

Groceries - From the grocery store. Costco for local cucumbers, milk and cereal, and the local grocery store for BC grown other food

Books - Indigo, or the random roadside book shop on Vancouver Island or one of the many bookstores. Or, the public library. Digital books: the high seas. Audio books: plenty of digital storefronts online.

Are there categories I’m forgetting Amazon is used for?

Well just ask what their plans are over the next year, if there’s anything new they wanted to try, even just like a pet project not even a job.

Lazy is a label people paint others or themselves with. It’s not an innate character trait, it can be gained or lost.

Little nudges and brainstorming are fine but I don’t think anyone wants someone else’s vision of their life pushed on to them. What’s more valuable is if you could support them with things they’ve expressed they want to do.

Well, uh, try training your AI with the lessons learned, and hope it doesn’t instantly pretend it never happened the very next day.

The one value proposition for juniors is that though they screw up a lot, they learn by screwing up. High turnover and curtailing your junior experience using AI are major technical mistakes on management’s part.

It really shows what a great life that we on the Fediverse are living, by making our tech independent to a degree from the largest tech providers.

I do expect operational savings from this optimization, but my guesstimate would be a 2-5x savings rather than the reported 9x savings when looked at over a fixed time period.

It should be noted, how much will that affect the lifespan of those GPUs running double-dutyx8?

AI’s still replaceable but it will emulate human-like burnout.

You get $60, and you also get to be stuck in traffic for another 10 minutes or more a day! You’ll spend hundreds more a year in gas and insurance! You’ll get to breathe in more emissions and lose months to years of your life from direct and indirect environmental effects! It’s simply all worth it for $60.

I heard this perfectly in my head to the theme tune.

Maybe as a Christmas gift to myself. My current one is an EIE pro that came with my guitar second hand. The linux “driver” only sort of works.

And it’s not likely to be the last.

If you want to delay your switch to Linux, there are scripts to enroll in the ESU, but unfortunately the local account script stopped working on the one I used. Have not tested massgravel’s. Other options are to get Win 10 LTSC, or keep your system disconnected from the Internet.

An aside: My main desktop is Linux but I am currently trying Winboat to get the last piece of my hardware dependence off (my 20 year old DAC and rocksmith 2014) to work. Then, I can finally nuke Windows off of my secondary laptop because I’m sure as hell not giving it Win 11.

The penalty of doing it wrong needs to be higher than the cost of doing jt right.

I don’t get it? Why can’t car companies just release software updates that get deployed with the regular service interval, like once every year or two? That way the repair service or dealership will be close by if problems arise.

You can! Here is someone that made a wireless computer setup!