https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JA7PH_eUts - This video discusses the idea of tax resistance.

I knew that this game was overhyped and its life would be limited, but now is the time to try to preserve this game as much as possible ahead of shutdown date.

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.

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?

With CoD BO3 extensive ability to be modded and workshop support, it could be theoretically possible.

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.

This is why I’m always against auto-updates, malicious packages can get in way too easily and silently.

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.

Any symbol = warm wash and short trip through hell.

On the topic of ‘hills to die on’, I will say I have gained a significant respect for you over the last 2 years, for sticking to your principles on this and following through on them.

We might disagree on the best way to do things. I’d witnesed you in the past receiving a lot of pushback (to put it lightly) for a well-intentioned but controversially implemented project (the whole Reddit mirroring and account claiming thing you tried). If I had been in your shoes at the time, I would probably have quit Lemmy and the Fediverse entirely for something else in order to try to pursue that vision. Yet, you’ve stayed with it, with the aim to refine your ideas on how to better bring decentralized social media to the general public. So kudos to you for your resoluteness on this.

Hooray for cancer, asthma and bronchitis! Make America Healthy Again. Lung health is like Karate – black is the best!

I mean it’s interesting that it has surpassed Kilmister as the top result in some regions/contexts and is definitely more numerous.

Slowly, over the course of 3 months.

I stopped posting, then stopped commenting, then logged in every other day, then deleted Redreader and stopped going regularly.

I joined Lemmy in March 2023 on my six-year Reddit cakeday, API-calypse happened in June, swore never to write a word on Reddit again in July and I’ve since kept that vow. Now that I’m fully weaned off, maybe next year I’ll break it specifically to invite people to Lemmy [email protected]

https://creco.net/tokaido-53stations-complete-walking-guide/ (site in Japanese)

At least you can still make the pilgrimage over ~18 days.

But since even on normal speed trains it takes less than 9.5h from Nihonbashi to 3jo-Ohashi, only the most dedicated cross country hikers would be interested, or perhaps a group would for an annual or once every few years event.