Its somewhat homophobic in a “Hurr Durr, you are gay and like to take it up the butt” way. Plus the general stigma around men using sex toys.

My initial thought was that this is an attempt at a prank (not a very good one) between two military members.

I feel like the article could just be a recommendation for whatever Amex matches your spending (likely Cobalt) plus a no cost cashback card for the occasional place that doesn’t take amex.

I’m a big fan of spicy food, but I rarely use hot sauce and am not a fan of buffalo wings. For me I like foods that have chiles where the spice is part of the flavour that makes the dish taste good.

This post assumes way too much and gives the businesses more credit than they deserve. All the AI companies are looking for is maximizing compute per unit of rack space. They are only operating under the goal of winning the AI race to become wildly profitable and powerful. There is no consideration for any bankruptcy proceedings if/when the AI boom comes crashing down as that isn’t their problem at that point.

The GPUs used for these LLMs are simply not in a form factor that could be used for consumer devices, they fit in racks that use far more power than a home computer would be able to provide.Making them that way would be utterly idiotic.

The weird part is that that Christmas a few of us got gifted the bills fresh and uncirculated from the bank. We all joked about the maple rumor that was going around and found that some of the bills did smell like maple and others didn’t.

Companies do it because customers continue buying the products, if sales dropped significantly due to the subscription then they would be forced to change.

Personally I will not buy anything that relies on the cloud or a subscription to keep running. My only subscriptions are Tidal and a couple more independent streaming services.

If you have network issues generally best practice is to unplug everything for 30 seconds and then turn the devoces on one by one from where the internet comes into the house and let each connect before moving up the chain. So typically modem then router then computer.

CHEK is their broadcast call sign that happens to sound like a word and therefore provides handy branding.

Not saying you can’t find openly racist people in the country, especially some very rural areas, but the chance of running into people who aren’t friendly to visiting foreigners of any appearance is extremely low. Canada is quite multicultural, especially in the major cities where you wouldn’t even garner a second glance from people.

A big problem is that most denim people buy these days is “stretch” which massively reduces durability of the material. It has gotten way too hard to find classic denim in most stores.

Considering how much of Crofton is employed by the mill this is a massive blow to a small community.

I work closely with a company that uses Teams and every time I’m in a meeting that they organize I’m constantly shocked at how horrible that software is. Like I thought Google Meet wasn’t great but everything from sharing screens to the audio quality is leaps and bounds better than Teams.

I’ve always thought that BotW was a good game, but a terrible Zelda game.

I went to 4K monitors many years ago and agree there is a big difference, that said there are a lot of issues with HiDPI monitors on desktop OSs, plus it requires a strong GPU for gaming. Since then I’ve gone to 1440p and think it is an ideal middle ground for performance while looking almost just as sharp.

This is especially frustrating as a Canadian where our market isn’t big enough to have options for a lot of specific goods. I’ll look to buy something and pick what I want only to find that the choices are Amazon or a US retailer with insane shipping costs plus potential customs charges to Canada. Even if I do find a Canadian retailer that sells it, shipping is often more than the product itself.

I’ve started ordering a bit more from Aliexpress, especially for things less than $20 since shipping is usually free or a couple dollars. Otherwise larger stores in my area like Best Buy, London Drugs and Canadian Tire.

This is effectively impossible. Time in the market beats trying to time the market because it is hard to identify the dip until you have already exited it.

When, no matter how long it has been since you saw each other last it is like you saw them yesterday.

I’ve become fed up with a job I’ve had for a long time. I’m confused about what I even want to do because the changes and decisions that management keeps making has me burnt out at even the concept of my job.

I’ve known for well over a year that it is time to make a change, but that has gotten much more urgent recently. The problem is that it’s really haste to leave a well paying job for another I doubt will pay as well.

At least in BC is only came off the shelves at the government liquor stores you can still get American liquor at private stores.