Your setup is looking sweet! Enjoy gaming on your shiny new Linux battlestation :)

Better late than never…

Embassies need to “have the freedom for flexible, quick and proactive social media to meet the challenge of making an impact in an overcrowded digital space,” argues the embassy cable from Jakarta, Indonesia.

U.S. embassies have been instructed not to create original content about the Iran war to share publicly and instead are largely limited to reposting approved messaging from the White House or the State Department headquarters online, according to a U.S. diplomat and other documents obtained by POLITICO.

Don’t forget that these departments were significantly cut, by someone who thought it fit to have his company respond to every request for comment with 💩.

One of the things I liked most from the Trudeau government that helped us get through covid: a Canadian leader that addressed problems straight on, offered a steady hand and reassurances coupled with both short and long term solutions that tackle them. This address by Carney is really on point and what we need right now.

I like the concept but where’d you get a salvage value of $300? On first order math, I think a crackhead could get more from ripping out the copper from one Toronto household’s worth of wiring and electrical distribution and bringing it to a scrapyard.

Also I think you partially misunderstand how Toronto Hydro works. The City of Toronto is not just any ol’ shareholder of Toronto Hydro, it’s more or less a sole proprietorship, the 100% of shares are owned by the City. https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-246358.pdf

Essentially the City has a financial stake but does not directly manage operations. But they can express their desires in ways they set out in their agreements and via Council actions.

Real talk: IME gas prices at pumps in Canada appear to follow about one or two weeks after the benchmark rate. Yeah they’re greedy, but wait a week or so.

What I’d like to see is if anyone can make a modern vehicle that doesn’t phone home? I don’t need OTA updates. If there’s a software recall or feature update I should be able to go to mechanic or dealer who can hook up a cord to the car and load the updates.

The important takeaway is that dark money is banned from DNC primaries, so even though the AIPAC-specific resolution failed, AIPAC can’t contribute without reporting and disclosing the amounts, and being subject to federal contribution limits and other regulations.

Yes if you’re time horizon is 10yrs, then spending 15% more for the upgrade to -70 gpu will be worth it in the short and long run and your 750W PSU will handle it just fine. There will hopefully in 2-3 years be cheaper RAM and SSDs again after the AI bubble. You will also have the opportunity to upgrade your CPU at least 2 generations forward without changing your motherboard, if you ever need to.

Looks great, what’s your monitor going to be? If you use a 20 year old one with a VGA connector it will not look good no matter how powerful your PC will be. I know you said 1440p so you probably have something in mind already, but it would be meaningless with a 768p so I’m just sanity checking for you. My suggestion for a new monitor would be a 27 inch 144 Hz 1440p IPS panel, would run under 12000 INR.

I looked carefully at the PSU since it’s a brand I’m not familiar with and it’s very important. A 10 yr warranty offer sounds very confident, and they at least have a clean record for their previous PSU offerings.

If you don’t have headphones or you live with other people and worried about noise, check reviews of the CPU cooler, case, GPU and PSU for any reports of coil whine or other annoying sounds. You might easily get used to it but it’s something to avoid getting surprised by since it’s your first build.

In another exchange the next month, an unidentified city official discussed a “need to keep the flock herded,” in reference to data center opponents. Yet another suggests residents would forget about the data center controversy as soon as they find out the city is getting a new Olive Garden restaurant.

I don’t doubt the average resident is indeed that stupid enough to become distracted, but these data centres will present real harms for very little to no public benefit which unsurprisingly keeps them focused.

Bribe money from Deutsche Bahn was on its way to Berlin, but the train was cancelled due to a technical issue.

Yep, both China and Russia are the victors of the war between USA, Israel and Iran. Russia for the short term boost to their coffers from sanction free oil, and China for having been prepared to meet the moment in renewable energy and battery tech.

Just a suggestion if you still want to feel some connection with your parents: write a letter, a birthday card or christmas card or something like that with the various wins and successes and maybe some of the tribulations you had over the year.

Give your parents the choice of if they want to be proud of their daughter or not, if their desire to know how their daughter is growing up even now overrides their antitrans bigotry. It takes a lot more effort and thought to send a reply letter than a fb post, email or just talking back at you. If they’re going to spend the time to write hatemail back then you know how far gone they are. But at least you’ll avoid the brunt of knee-jerk conservative BS.

I know of an easy way one can reset their PC…🐧

I almost always convert cash before I go, from CAD. VBCE has a decent rate even on low amounts of like 150 CAD. If your local exchange will match “any Canadian currency exchange” then check these rates and ask to match. If I didn’t bring enough, then I do a little research for no or low fee ATMs then cough up whatever it is.

If you convert from CAD to USD then EUR, you will pay forex fees twice unless you have some special card or US$ account. If you travel a lot, then a forex fee free credit card should be something you consider, unless your points or cashback program is worth more than 2.5%.

I’m not going to get upset at anyone using however many letters to describe an inclusive, group, all of them in the alphabet if they wish. Though if I were in her place I personally would just say MMIWG+, where + is other humans.

Like I think it’s bigotry when insisting on removing letters as a policy clearly motivated on exclusion, but in normal conversation, using GBLT+, 2S+, LGBTQ+ etc. for brevity when you are referring to all forms of gender expression, I also won’t get upset.

*Upon some more thought, why not just focus on the plus as the banner? Gender expression is a spectrum and unique to each of us. Gender+ (which would be inclusive of agender ppl btw) and Sexuality+ or Romance+ sound pretty cool to my ears, so we can talk about it like an upgrade to people’s life and freedom, not needing to conform to cis, binary and heterosexualism, and then we don’t have to fit people into one of a myriad of categories we force ourselves to create?

The ad-sponsor description is silly, but Boyle is a decent character and this is fine and thought provoking. He goes from a financial perspective so sure I don’t agree with him but he brings sound arguments.

Yeah no worries, I can only make assumptions about your situation when I make my estimate, without knowing everything about stuff like where you live, and to keep the math easy for myself. And I don’t think everyone could or should obligate themselves as consumers to go out and buy a new car immediately. When you’re in the market to replace (ideally before you desperately need a car when your current one gives up the ghost), that’s when you can see a used EV as a better value proposition than a ICE equivalent, or a new EV vs. a new gas car or hybrid.

https://carcosts.caa.ca/ could give you a more representative value of the cost per year of BEV ownership in your province, and compare it to your own records of car expenses.

Great list, but why the condescending opener? The question and your answer is a valuable resource for anyone looking for similar, with Google search intentionally making itself worse year after year.