[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 15 points 48 minutes ago

Yeah seems legit, "party of family values" - let's rent some women for your photoshoot. I wonder if they consulted Mike Pence's binders to find them.

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submitted 51 minutes ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/torontocycling@lemmy.ca

Just put it on the side streets - Doug Ford's gaslighting compromise might work in some cities like Montreal and Vancouver but aren't well suited for Toronto and its suburbs.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

We need stickers that say "ad paid for by Uber/Lyft instead of paying drivers and tax" to slap on these signs.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 hours ago

Can someone over in Ontario, Canada please show this video to Doug Ford? Thanks.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 14 points 20 hours ago

Your use of Liberation Serif will not go unnoticed.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 38 points 20 hours ago

President Biden deserves way more credit for getting what he's done this term despite the GOP's best efforts to hamstring it in every possible way.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 20 hours ago

I can't deny that Steam has a large marketshare over the digital video game distribution market, and that it could abuse its position, and that the 30% distributor cut is steep. All true. Is it currently abusing its position? Arguably yes and no.

Looking through the evidence document provided in the video, the alleged link between decreased % of multihoming indicating the enforcement of a PMFN is weak IMO. Steam's support for Linux, its own Steam Deck, good customer service, return policy, family sharing and remote play are major reasons to be a Valve patron, not always about price.

The evidence at 9:05 in the video that suggests Valve says they "stop selling them altogether" was in response to a Steam Key inquiry. The other quotes were related to removing it from the front page and sales feature pages (not delisting but not there unless you search for it). That's not delisting but perhaps it is anti-competitively deranking it. I'm not sure what the rules are though, like a grocery store doesn't have to put a product at the front of a store when a rival has a steeper sale for it, but they could ask for the same discount while offering to make it similarly visible. Overall it's not nearly as serious as OOP makes it seem.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 23 hours ago

The 2 reasons you provide are actually why games that offer an offline mode functionality (more specifically that the seller cannot revoke access to after the transaction, which includes making the digital good available at the time of purchase for permanent offline download to an external storage source to be used without a connection to the internet) are exempted from needing to follow this law.

I don't think this is a preemption of the SKG campaign but actually one of the realistic goals of that campaign. I don't think the ability to rent software for a limited time is an issue, but tricking people into thinking they can use something they purchased forever, to have it unilaterally taken away due to 3rd party licensing, decommissioning servers or other excuse is the problem.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

That's amazing, I'm so happy for her. Hot pot is delicious.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, the concerning thing for me is less the hack as much as this connected system having these capabilities in the first place. A dealer should not be able to open and start my car without my keys (or a copy of them), a physical lock pick or a pry bar...

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 39 points 1 day ago

This is an important first step in the right direction. Given the state of consumer law saying "anything goes if you agree to it" this may be the best initial way to start discouraging the practice of always online everything, helping preservation and being honest with consumers.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 day ago

Definity a fake post. The small text says the cost of the check deducted from the employee's payroll.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 90 points 1 day ago

Putting the entire story in a tag is the most tumblr thing ever

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submitted 2 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/steamedhams@lemmy.ca

Mmmm. Roasted ham.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/usa@midwest.social

This is a site that has summarized and cited points from the Project2025 document (with assistance from Google's Gemini AI algorithm along with manual fact-checking) categorized by topic.

If you want a concise and accessible set of reasons on why a Trump/Republican presidency would be bad for the US, to help explain important issues to friends and family without sounding like a conspiracy theorist or a political savant, this resource may help.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/rail@feddit.uk

Shadow Great British Railways created as legislation to end private operating contracts makes progress.

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submitted 3 weeks ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca

Hey everyone, just a reminder in case you hadn't seen it or forgot from months ago, the Canadian official e-petition is at this link as part of the Stopkillinggames.com campaign. Maybe we can get some clarity from our government on what our rights as consumers are when buying access to video games.

Signature collection ends at 9:30am ET/6:30am PT on Thursday 5 Sept 2024.

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submitted 1 month ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/quebec@lemmy.ca

L'enquête par ISDE Canada sera ouverte jusqu'au 26 septembre 2024.

Les Canadiens peuvent envoyer leurs commentaires à l’adresse suivante : https://form.simplesurvey.com/f/s/RTR?lang=FR

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submitted 1 month ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

I figured that right to repair is a topic many of us are interested in. The survey below by ISED Canada, a department of the Government of Canada, is open until September 26, 2024.

Canadians can provide their input at the following link: https://ised-isde.survey-sondage.ca/f/s/RTR

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submitted 1 month ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/fuckcars@lemmy.world

Video shared from a Mastodon user.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Some Lemmy user at one point had asked about a "multi-paste" feature, if there was a way to use keyboard shortcuts to display multiple clipboard items and copy/paste them out at will (this user mentioned similar to RTS games they like to play). ~~If someone can find that post, can you notify them and direct them here, please? I'm having trouble locating it but I recollect that it was within the last 3 months.~~ Edit: I found the post!

Somehow this was stuck in my mind when I accidentally pressed a keyboard shortcut, that showed my last 5 copied items. This isn't exactly what the user was looking for but I thought I'd publicize it here.

If you use Fcitx (because you need multi-language input) from the fcitx5 packages, then you may already have installed the clipboard add-on. You can use fcitx with just one keyboard layout. By default, it's activated by Ctrl+semicolon and shows the 5 last entries, but the number can be configured.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/canada@lemmy.ca

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27490241

CN and CPKC locked out employees across Canada on Thursday 22 Aug 2024, due to a labour dispute between them and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.

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submitted 1 month ago by Rentlar@lemmy.ca to c/trains@lemmy.ml

CN and CPKC locked out employees across Canada on Thursday 22 Aug 2024, due to a labour dispute between them and Teamsters Canada Rail Conference.

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