Imagine for the World Cup, hundreds thousands of tourists may already have their plane tickets and hotels reservations etc.

I’m an old coot and comes from preGUI area. My first unix experience were on 80x25 amber terminal. Then X came, I used mwm/twm/fvwm and things like this, it was very tricky to configure to your taste, mainly with config file, you wanted your xeyes, xload, xbiff, xclock etc at this place, transparent, no border, etc, very complicated. Linux didn’t exist.

Then Windows came… and kind of dominated the world with win3/95/98/etc. and at the time linux desktop were still not perfect + you had all kind of driver problems/missing.

As a lot of people I was used to windows GUI so I chose Xfce (also because France). Simple GUI, a button menu bottom left, an app bar, and systray icons and clock bottom right. Don’t need anything else.

I tried LFS, Arch, Cinnamon Mint, I tried Ubuntu, I tried tile, but nah, the simpler the better, Xfce it is.

I am using MX Linux for years now, Debian based, always up to date, .deb packages, no systemd, no snap, no flatpak.

without paywall https://archive.is/Gtl7q

I am using MX Linux (Debian based) and at install I chose FDE, just with the GUI it’s easy to have LUKS+btrfs, nothing special to do. Encryption is done by hardware, your CPU has AES instructions that can encode/decode gigabits/s and is not a bottleneck at all.

Same thing in Montréal, there is 3000-4000 empty condo, too small and too expensive.

Sure it does. I’m living close to the border like millions of Canadians. I went there one or twice a month for 25+ years, little bit of grocery/shopping for stuff we do not have in Canada, went there 300+ times by car. It stopped end of 2024, have not been there this year and doubt I will go. Acquaintances/neighbours are the same, stopped going there.

no paywall link https://archive.ph/3hXr8

Same boat, in the middle range, luckily I bought my house before the crazy price, now I would not be able to get a mortgage.

True, and Alpha are even worst, most of them never touched a real keyboard, only use 2 thumbs on a phone. Don’t tell them about windows (or/mac/linux) or what is a UI or how to use a mouse and navigate in a OS, they don’t get double click or right click, resize a window, minimize a window (OMG THE WINDOW IS GONE!!!) it’s impressive.

I have seen a lot of late Z/early Alpha who cannot make some special characters on a keyboard like " or $ or even worst using AltCar. Using Word to write a letter, using keyboard shortcuts, etc. they are completely clueless with computers.

I like awk, I started using it in the 90s in university, I’m not a pro, but this is so powerful!

Have you seen Musk balancing a fork and a spoon, mesmerizing! People around him were like at a “Musk Got Talent” show!

/s

The door to enter it is in the USA side. Canadian would need to make an opening on the wall in Canada.

Canada gov should ban X, at least for pre-election

I zoomed in but have not see musk face, it would be a good pic to photoshop it !

It looks like Canada bought a lot of DJI “drones” but USA refused to have them close to their border because it’s a chinese spy tool…

No clue, this was a weird week, 51st state, reciprocal tariff, weak army, Canadians in danger, etc and no word, nothing, from either governor Trudeau or PP or ministers of whatever?!?

I understand we have to sometimes ignore the bully, but damn, even if “x ae 12” can say to the neutered “vp” trump to shut the fuck up in front of camera, cannot trudeau at one point say to trump “no fucking way”?!?

Trudeau should put a 100% tariff on “oil from usa” so the USA reciprocal tariff will automatically put a 100% tariff on Canada oil entering USA :)

USA needs Canada especially for oil, potash, and cars and parts and others.

yup, same at federal level, even if I want Liberals/Trudeau out as fast as we can, I’d prefer Carney to PP.

yup, I did the “linux running metal” and using the same partition with a VM in Windows and it worked fine. It was years ago, certainly Ubuntu or MX Linux. IIRC the linux partition cannot be on the same drive than the linux partition, it needs to be a different drive.

I did. I cancelled Disney+, Netflix, Prime.

Seeing that after years of sanctions, Russia is still here and not as weak as we thought, I guess Canada will survive.

He knows climate change is real

lol