- > Nowadays computers are almost never shared.
I find it ironic that Google TV still does not have this feature, it is the one "computer" that people probably still share regularly.
Sure you can login to multiple accounts and have different "profiles", but that just changes home screen recommendations, all the apps and their sessions are shared. So since I share it with a few roommates, we're constantly having to logout and in to our accounts in different apps to access our watch histories, our plex servers, etc.
On the other hand, my android phone does multiple accounts perfectly, why can't it work the same way on the TV?
- Yep, relevant discussion if you haven't seen it https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=37446790
Here's hoping I get to be one of those people who can relocate from Toronto next.
- Yep, for me Plex is the solution that "just works".
I eventually got annoyed that my 4 subscriptions costing $80/month only having 2-4 of the shows I wanted to watch every month, with the other 1-3 not being available to legally purchase in my country or on yet another service with an even lower hit rate.
Since Plex worked so good for these other shows, even better than my subs (e.g. crunchyroll) I decided to do away with them completely. I kept some like crunchyroll for a bit as a sort of "donation" while I used Plex for the exact same shows available on crunchyroll for the better experience.
Once I found out how little of my "donation" went to the creators of those shows I cancelled that subscription and try to make up for it by buying manga/official merch instead.
- Exactly, landlords will be working 0.5 days and renters will be working 5-6 days. So I guess they were actually right if they meant 3.5 days on average.
I rent a very basic one bedroom in an awful location which costs more than half my after tax salary, and a round trip to my office in Toronto takes 3 hours and $45 of public transit. The price of this unit has also increased by more than my salary every year for the past 3 years.
- > 2.3 cents
The exaggeration isn't even necessary, this is like a $1 fine for someone who makes $100k/yr and $30k on hand. I've had parking tickets which cost more for things which weren't even my fault (missing signage) but had to pay anyways because it's even more costly to take it to court.
- > Comparatively, immigrants don’t have the purchasing power to compete
What makes you say that? As someone who's currently dating a Chinese immigrant I have been made aware of an entire world I didn't know existed. They often have much better family support so their parents will send money from home to help them buy a house.
From her masters program at university, which was all immigrants because universities here seem to be taking advantage of the fact that this is an easy path for immigration, everyone in her class (80 people) already have a house. From my group of friends at university, only 1 of them has a house, and 1 a condo (out of the ~50 people I loosely keep in touch with, all with good careers). We would too if my parents had been willing to meet her parents partway and give us a 50k loan, but they preferred to buy a 100k luxury car for themselves instead (they also refuse to acknowledge the current housing situation).
She also found out from WeChat that there are a number of Chinese landlords in Toronto who own blocks of houses by investing money on behalf of friends and family back home to get around foreign investment regulations, and nothing is being done to stop it.
edit: I'm not sure why this was downvoted, it may be anecdotal evidence, but nothing I said here is untrue, nor did I make any claims other than there being immigrants who are able to compete in the current housing market.
- I've been on Google phones since the first nexus, with the exception of a single Samsung before swearing them off due to bloatware and awful performance degradation, despite being twice the price of the nexus, and am finally tempted to switch to an iPhone as well.
The main things drawing me to the iPhone are:
Live voicemail - don't have to deal with my carriers awful voicemail anymore, and it's way more practical than Android's Call Screen, because the Call Screen prompt is way too tedious to sit through, unprofessional if you're being called for an interview, and they know you're there. Live voicemail I can see it, optionally answer in the middle, it gets saved after, and the other party has no idea if I'm available or not.
Apple Photo Memories - My girlfriend shows me them on her iPhone, they're cohesive and actually really enjoyable to watch, they look like they were professionally done, like what you'd pay someone to make or see an social media influencer post. Google Photo Memories look like random assortments of photos in a powerpoint presentation you made back when you were only 8.
The apple watch is also better than the google watch.
I still have to see what features I care about that I'll be losing before making the switch though. I still remember having to fight my iPod where the internal music db would always get corrupted and need to reset because I used MediaMonkey instead of iTunes since it was faster and had better transcoding and library management features.
- I find it perplexing that some people can accept the 2-million-year recovery time for coral reefs, yet outraged due to Chernobyl's 24,110-year recovery [1]. If we had switched to nuclear we would be in much better shape.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
- I couldn't find anything for Greenpeace, but I did find Friends of the Earth (which like Greenpeace, also split from Sierra Club), was split off "because of the [Sierra Club's] positive approach to nuclear energy. The founding donation of $500,000 (in 2019 USD) was provided by Robert Orville Anderson, the owner of Atlantic Richfield oil company." [1, 2, 3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth
[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2019/03/28...
- > Either branch name is a fine choice. It just completely doesn't matter and pretending that it has any positive impact or meaningful change on the racism and discrimination faced by Black people in America is insulting. It's purely driven by self-indulgent white people who don't want to make material changes to their own extremely comfortable lives while pretending they're fighting the good fight.
Exactly, and I agree with this completely as a Slavic person (from which the word slave is derived). I frankly consider this insulting as well as having a great grandparent used for forced labour in the Ukrainian Canadian interment camps during WWI, and a grandparent in the German forced labour camps during WWII.
- Exactly, and the reason why they're cheaper now is because it's easier to dump their externalities on developing countries with lax environmental policy, whereas nuclear has unreasonably strict safety requirements which drive up costs substantially, along with the lost expertise in the work force by pausing it for so long.
- I agree, and personally found it upsetting once when someone who was from a relatively well off family tried shaming me for using the term slave in my code. I'm of Ukrainian descent, and my grandfather was separated from his family at the age of 12 and sent to a forced labor camp, never to see them again. No human should ever have to experience that, and we must remember that even now there are still humans being treated like literal tools, as our computers are also nothing but tools. If seeing the word slave makes you uncomfortable, then good, it should make you uncomfortable that there are humans who have been treated no better than your computer, potentially even in the supply chain of making it.
- > It's xkcd's, all the way down.
Forgot your link [1]
- Not sure if you'll see this, but I stand corrected, just received a test alert on my new pixel 7 despite having those turned off. I used to not receive those (or they were at least silent, I forget since I didn't receive any in at least a year and now suddenly with my new phone) with my og pixel, both are unlocked and not-rooted with stock android. Only other difference is I also needed a new sim card because for some reason it wasn't working in my new phone. I had that sim for over 10 years, used it in my old pixel and was still registered with bell as belonging to a blackberry.
- I wonder then if it's an error on the providers side? Because I had Extreme and Severe on, AMBER and Test off, and Vibration On (under alert preferences for wireless emergency alerts). The only other data points I have are iPhone users (bell and telus) where I am unsure of their configuration, only that they hear the alerts.
- Which provider are you with? They show up as Amber alerts for me and can be disabled from my unlocked pixel (stock os, not rooted) with bell. I have confirmed this by being with other people when an alert happened to go off. Usually though I leave them on and silenced (seems to respect my ringer volume and do not disturb settings).
- I don't know which phone you're using, but on my pixel if I have my ringer volume on silent, and the phone on "do not disturb" mode, amber alerts come in silent. I'm not sure which one, or the combination actually silences it since this is usually how I keep my phone when the alerts happen to occur.
- I'm sorry, I should have clarified that my criticism was that these sorts of tools often get recommended as a security tool that can protect you from malware/spyware. There are still valid use cases for it like what TripMode for Mac is marketed towards.
Also if you're using it to prevent an app not to phone home, you still have to trust it not to do anything more nefarious than that, or simply spawn a program like curl (which you've probably allowed) to phone home for it.
Almost the opposite, look up the "solar not nuclear" campaign by oil heat institute.
> More likely because others lobby against nuclear energy.
Exactly this. Oil companies know nuclear is their greatest threat, and that fossil fuels conveniently fill the shortcomings of intermittent renewables.
"As of 2011, a strategy paper released by Greenpeace titled "Battle of Grids" proposed gradual replacement of nuclear power by fossil gas plants which would provide "flexible backup for wind and solar power"." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_movement