This is exactly my problem with BCs stupid laws. Kids can’t be without their parents until 11.
ELEVEN!
Christ. How do they ever learn independence when they spend all of the most crucial years of their development forcibly tied to the parents hip?
I was allowed to go to the corner store at five. By ten I was completely independent and mowing lawns as an afterschool job.
This particular studio is responsible for some of their best titles.
In Canada, the only province that historically has a rate that high is Ontario, and that is because they use Nuclear power, which is more expensive to maintain, and also they have no protection laws for consumers. So residents of Ontario pay what the US companies are willing to pay for power.
The neighbouring province, Quebec, uses primarily Hydro Electric dams, and has protection laws that restrict pricing for hydro power for residents of Quebec to a reasonable margin above cost, regardless of what the US is willing to pay for the power.
When I lived in Ontario, the price was $24c/kwh, while Quebec was $8/kwh
Ontario has had new laws passed with the energy board and now it appears their price is down to $14c/kwh according to this site, but I’m willing to bet that is highly dependent on surge pricing. Getting straight answer on costs is difficult these days with all the tiered pricing.
Apparently Alberta is more expensive than Ontario now… Must be all that “freedom” they have… Did they privatise electric in addition to everything else there? I’m not familiar with how their grid is powered… Maybe its oil/coal based. Which would be unsurprising.
Lol, lost the internet because they have less DCs?
Meanwhile most of America is still on dialup or early 2000s broadband speeds.
This is a fucking shallow definition of winning.
Fireplaces have a flue. If you close it the smoke has no where to go but the house.
The whole idea still smacks of dumbfuckery, don’t get me wrong; but its not as much of a lost cause as you’re thinking.
Anyone contributing to open source either does it:
Most FOSS devs are in position two. By a large margin. They could be relaxing, or earning more money doing freelancing to make ends meet, but instead they are trying to build something they want to see happen. That requires focusing on the important tasks and that often means not having time to spend on poorly reported bugs that are actually users just not RTFM and opening issues. It wastes the devs time, and projects with too much of this have development stagnate and are frequently shuttered.
And devs that just do this to get a better job stop contributions once their new job takes over their life, and then the project suffers.
Users need to appreciate FOSS devs more because some of the most important projects we need in 2025 are developed only because they want to see them happen.
Oh, go to your DDG options and turn the AI slop off.
Don’t use Google. DDG works with keyword searches and you get exactly what you expect.
For horribly inaccurate results that sound like they were written by a $5 SEO article writer.
Ill stick with key word search and skipping over all the SEO crap for.real results.
Oh sorry, just realized we are talking app servers.
Yeah, Google apps, and linux hosted apps. Havent had a company that ran windows or MS anything in 14 years.
Mac, actually. Its a different kind of bad. At least I can use many of the same cli tools.
Its also trained on stolen data, artists work without their permission. AI training, even for the offline models, uses massive amounts of electricity and water and is currently accelerating climate around the world as well as unaffordability as demand for water and electricity cause prices to skyrocket. At the same time its accellerating the unaffordability of personal computing, including phones, and threatening to remove open PC hardware platforms by removing direct access to affordable DIY hardware.
On the other side of this, continued use and justification of LLMs existence is enabling the founding of mass surveillance and control systems that will be the foundation for totaltarian states, while at the same time enabling the rich to manipulate and control truth. And because of randomized token tie breaking, anything that comes out of it is only partially correct even when its one of the 30% of the times the reply is partially useful.
And - on top of all of that, you are nerfing your own skills and brainpower everytime you use it, in addition to having it do something for you that you could be learning yourself, which would have increased your existing skills while teaching you a new one.
AI is a horrible technology, doesn’t matter where you run it.
Lets fucking hope not.
I highly encourage avoiding Shop(ify) as the owner is trying to start a Project 2025 mimic project in Canada.
No, my name is Chris.
This is the one I’ve gotten two of for kids playroom and bedroom… They work great, old school simple tech.
https://www.amazon.ca/Westinghouse-Parental-Controls-Non-Smart-Monitor/dp/B09QXYZB3Y
I will add that you can also still get Westinghouse dumb TVs with included DVD player and USB video player, 3x HDMI and a tuner, but 1080p and Max 36"
They do, but they much more expensive than a smart TV, even though they have less components… Because a Smart TV is sold for less because its providing the vendor access to you as a product to all of their 3rd party partners.
They are called monitors, and yeah expensive but then you don’t get a “Smart TV” with tracking and bullshit.
Canada is in this boat too.