My concern is that someone could bait violence too easily. Maybe this is not a conversation I can can be helpful in. I hope you all are safe! I hope you all take action to help you and others around you remain safe or find safety.

My concern is that someone could bait violence too easily. Maybe this is not a conversation I can can be helpful in. I hope you all are safe!

Sometimes a beacon is dim. A beacon doesn’t need to be perfect to do it’s job. I hear you

This is a very scary place to be in. Do whatever you can to keep everyone around you as safe as you can. I can’t offer anything but my hope that things will get better, I’m sorry, because that means next to nothing.

I’m watching, and the rest of the world is watching. What’s happening is not right.

That’s a pretty important point, I think, thank-you.

• If Trump can enact the insurrection act if there’s violence… then he will encourage violence
• I’m worried that outside actors would easily decide to do this, and this shouldn’t be a decision made by non-americans.
• I deeply hope that the united states maintains its presence (it is a beacon)

Educate me. I mean this with no hostility, and I’ll be honest about the fact that I’m not an American and am seeing this from the outside. I’m not attacking anyone and I’m not defending any one stance, because I’d like to be educated and I’m not confident my news is giving me the whole picture.

Educate me.

Here’s what I hear.

• American troops (including marines) have been deployed without the governor’s consent (this sounds terrifying)
  • This has been temporarily suspended because it was a hasty move and requires the governor’s consent
• If this turns violent then it can be considered an insurrection (or meet whatever terms required to be considered) and the insurrection act can be invoked (this sounds terrifying) (why would you encourage violence in this circumstance?)
• I get how pacifism can be the wrong move in some circumstances, but this post sounds like it came from people wanting to stir the pot. And that’s exactly what Trump would want, right?

Please spell it out for the rest of us. And how can I help?

Isn’t this exactly what Trump would want? I may be missing the point here, and as an ally I don’t mean to take anyone’s energy away from far more important efforts.

Please educate me (if you can). Please fight for your rights!

What’s with all the NDP hate here? They gave many Canadians free dental and many other (left-leaning) things through their coalition with the Liberals. I take issue with the premise of this post. Yes, the NDP are going to lose votes this election, but it’s not specifically because they screwed up. It’s because a lot of us are in a situation where the anti-vote for CPC pushes voters to vote Liberal when they would otherwise vote NDP.

I don’t know if this is a trend that will continue. But if the Liberals had changed our voting system (like they promised) to something other than FPTP, no one here would need to cast anti-votes or strategic votes anymore. Or at least less often.

I’m lucky that in my area, my anti-vote, strategic vote and heartfelt vote all land on the same party. But most Canadians aren’t.

What I don’t understand, and maybe somebody can explain. If this is the case, why wouldn’t there be torrents of every paper whose authors would be genuinely delighted to share?

Not being skeptical here. I’m really curious.

And maybe there are, and they’re just not well advertised for understandable reasons?

28 Days Later. I win!! 😂

Be careful with that thinking though. I agree that there are many cases where people would be better off with a Linux distro, but after that switch EVERYTHING that goes wrong on that computer (small or big, due to the switch or not) will be pinned to the switch itself.

More than likely, you are signing yourself up for more computer responsibilities, not less in the foreseeable future. If you and your parents are ready for that, then now is a great time to switch.

In my opinion everything after Windows 7 progressively got worse. Windows 7 (with some exceptions) was about as good as Windows got.

If their computer is secure and they’re still happy with it, I’m not sure I would poke that bear. I’m glad that newer versions of Windows aren’t a consideration.

Good call! I already did this… wasn’t sure if there was a better way other than installing steam on the vm and logging into my steam account to see which ones were installable. I suppose this doesn’t tell me how well they’ll play though does it… 🤔

A NAS is exactly what I’m considering doing with it. Good call!

I’m building a new PC because my current one is quite old. I won’t retire it though, and have yet to figure out what I’ll do with it (probably stick another Linux distro on it too 😆). I’m hoping to take advantage of having a brand new setup as an opportunity to be done with Windows completely.

Thanks for the distrochooser link. It was helpful and pointed me to Fedora 😀

I know a guy who used to run one of these businesses. He pivoted to something else because of the expenses, and hardware wasn’t the biggest. The monthly license fees for games are outrageous when you want to provide them to the public. Which means you have to constantly bet on which game’s demand will outweigh its cost on a monthly basis.

Before COVID, his place was very busy. I went many times and it was a lot of fun. His business was profitable, but because of the cost of games still not super successful.

I agree that the expense of paying someone to run the spot would quickly outpace the cost of hardware, but in his case he was running the whole thing himself. Even with nobody to pay for their time, his margins were never great.

Then COVID came along. That really killed it. No one wants to wear a VR headset that was just worn by a sweaty stranger minutes earlier during a pandemic.

A single remote that turns on my PC and TV

We’re not drinking today! 😁

This is a great idea. My day just started (in Canada). I haven’t had a drink in 2 days now (which is sadly, a big deal for me). I’m not drinking today either.

😃

I’ve been using a MacBook for my work for years now (not voluntarily). I’ve always had a Windows desktop as my main machine. Your experience is completely different from mine. I’ve found that it’s easy to use the MacBook, so long as I want to do things the way Apple dictates. With Windows, I can discover and tweak my own processes to work the way I want to. With Apple I feel entirely boxed in.

All that being said, I think the whole discussion can get ridiculous. It shouldn’t bother anyone one way or the other which product someone prefers, and most of the time, it sounds like a Pepsi vs Coke argument to me.