Interesting article let's read through...
In fact, according to odds on FanDuel, the Tories are favoured to win the next election at -143 while Trudeau’s Liberals sit at +110.
Ahhhh, Toronto Sun back at it again with the hard hitting journalism. Disgusting and disingenuous crap, glad The Star avoided the Postmedia merger
Wealth gap gets bigger and bigger, workers feel less and less secure in their jobs and lives, and companies try to blame the people who are making them rich.
Even worse, they inspire infighting between the working and "middle" class. A person making $100K a year is a lot closer to someone making $45K a year than the executives making many millions a year.
Yeah, the total direct monetary cost of maintaining low-density car-dependant cities is extremely high: road construction & maintenance, plumbing and electrical, parking lots taking valuable space that could be used for housing or workplaces, insurance for personal and commercial vehicles, maintenance and upkeep, gas, and probably many more I've missed.
And on top of all of that, the externalized monetary costs are also high: medical costs from all the deaths or injuries due to collisions (the stats are honestly depressing), medical costs due to less physical activity across the population, environmental damage, time wasted due to traffic, slower delivery times for long-haul trucks, and probably many more I've missed.
And on top of all of THAT the intangible costs are also high: isolation from the people and communities directly around you, less customers for small businesses that rely on foot traffic and have no parking space, increasing polarization between urban/suburban/rural populations, and probably many more I've missed.
Side note for the people that still really need cars in their lives (workers in rural areas, people living in suburbs, etc.), pushing for better transit and city planning will directly benefit you. If less people have cars: gas prices will be lower (supply and demand), road construction and upkeep will be cheaper, traffic will be better for you directly, and more. I always fear that pro-transit, pro-urban planning folks (me included) come off as dismissive. There are definitely people who will still need cars in their lives. The goal is to catch the many millions of people who could probably replace their car usage if transit systems and cities were built better.
People will always do what is easiest/best for them, we need to keep pushing towards systems that make sense.
Yeah, and rental prices have skyrocketed too.
During the next federal election this will be my "single issue" that will determine who I vote for.
At this point I can ignore our insane grocery/telecom prices, even though that is still a huge issue. The housing crises has far worse ripple effects down the chain: potential buyers can't buy so they rent nicer places, potential renters can't rent the nice places so they are overpaying for the rentals they can afford, and people who can't afford any of the rental prices are scraping by with roommates or on the streets.
And these development companies have the nerve to go to court over government investigations over their shady practices.
Shameless.
I would go from the bottom up instead of top down.
Make a list of software and tools you use, and search for functional Linux native equivalents. Then find the distro that supports up to date versions of that software (through flatpak or the package manager).
You can honestly do 100% of this without even touching the command line if you choose something user friendly like Mint, Pop OS, Ubuntu, or Fedora. Don’t fall into the rabbit hole of finding the perfect distro. Go from what you need to what supports it.
keep the windows partition around for a while until you are 100% confident you can fully make the switch.
Yeah I am a bit salty about all of the whole "Opt-out" telemetry thing. I know its just a proposal but just feels a bit slimy.
Fedora is upstream of RHEL which is supposed to result in a mutually beneficial arrangement where Fedora users are essentially testers / bug reporters of code that will eventually make its way into RHEL. Its just part of the collaborative, fast, and "open" nature of FOSS. Adding sneaky/opt-out telemetry just feels like a slap in the face.
super small ex. I am a big Podman user these days, and have submitted a few bug reports so the Podman github repos which has been fixed by RedHat staff. This makes it faster for them to test and release stable code to their paying customers. Just a small example but it adds up across all users to make RHEL a better product for them to sell. Just look into the Fedora discussion forum, there is so much bug reporting and fixing going on that will make its way to RHEL eventually.
Making and arguing for "Opt-out only" telemetry is just so tone deaf to the Linux community as a whole, but I think they got the memo after the shit storm that ensued over the past few days.
But HEY one of the biggest benefits of Linux is that I can pretty painlessly distro hop. I've done it before and can do it again. All my actual data is on my home server so no sweat off my back. openSUSE is looking pretty good, maybe I will give it a try.
Yeah and I have thousands of hours in League of Legends, but have probably enjoyed only about 10 minutes
From a user perspective, Distrobox is a tool that lets you "spin up any distro inside your terminal".
You can basically create a mini Linux environment of any distro that you can access through the terminal. You can set it to share your home folder, our create a new home folder just for that mini environment.
Behind the scenes Distrobox is creating and managing containers through Podman or Docker. You could technically achieve the same thing by manually setting up Podman containers, Distrobox just makes it very easy to create and maintain those containers with the correct permissions. It also has useful tools where you could install an app in a Distrobox container, but then add that app to your host OS app list.
This makes it especially useful for immutable OSs. Instead of adding packages to your base OS, which should be kept as minimal as possible, you can just install them in a Distrobox, so your host's root filesystem is unaffected.
From my limited understanding and Wikipedia-ing I can tell a tale:
Back in the olden times (before the 1980s), some lawyers were soooo special, good, and smart, that the big boss (government) would give them ⭐ Gold Stars ⭐ (King's Counsel designation) so that they could tell everyone far and wide that they were special, good, and smart. So good that the 👑 King or Queen 👑 would trust them.
Mr. Dougie in 2023 thought "Oh, that's fun! Let me do that again and give out gold stars to some great lawyers!". To figure out who the best, smartest lawyers were, it would be good to talk to some other smart lawyers, maybe some big boss judges, or the lowly / peasant community.
But instead of doing that, Mr. Dougie and his buddies released a list of lawyers who were going to get gold stars on a website. Some of the lawyers in the list were good friends with Mr. Dougie or people Mr. Dougie knew.
Reporters who care about what the big boss (government) does were confused and asked Mr. Dougie, "Hey, we noticed that you gave out some gold stars - and some of those people are your friends! Do they really deserve these gold stars? How did you figure out who was going to get these super special stars? 🤔 Also, why are you giving out gold stars to laywers anyway? No one else gets gold stars 😡".
Mr. Dougie replied, "Ooooops 🤪. Next time we give out gold stars I'll definitely explain to everyone how we give out these stars. But trust me this list is 100% amazing and these people are the smartest, best lawyers in all of Ontarioland. That's a Dougie Guarantee ™️ "
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And that is the end of another chapter in "Mr. Dougie and the Quest to Trample our Democracy"
Sorry if that was patronizing LMAO was just bored and have too much time on my hands. If anyone knows more about this and any broader implications I would love to know tbh.
I can’t imagine being someone whose goal in life is to profit off of the housing market to such a large extent.
To be able to see the level of homelessness we have in our biggest cities, and still continue to scrape up everything you could. It should be a recognized mental condition.
Honestly, some people have so much money and so few interests.
Can we just start with a sensible policy of “if you own two properties anything beyond that will be taxed like crazy. And for-profit corporate landlords are banned or highly regulated”
Maybe these people could pivot their investment to productive ventures.
I run everything in rootless containers using systemd service files generated with podman generate systemd.
Podman Compose is a "community effort", and Red Hat seems to be less focused on its development (here is their post about it).
There are ways to get it working but I find it easier to go with podman containers and pods through systemd because the majority of documentation (both official and unofficial) leans in that direction.
I don't know how much you already know, so here is just a summary of things that worked for me for anyone reading.
Podman uses the concept of "Pods" to link together associated containers and manage name spaces, networking, etc. The high level summary for running podman pods through systemd:
podman pod create --name=<mypod>.podman run --pod=<mypod> ... and reconfigure until containers are working within the same pod as desired.Note: for standalone containers that are not linked or reliant on other containers, you ~~can~~ should skip creating the empty pod and can skip the --pod=<mypod> when starting containers. This should result in a single service file generated and that container will operate independently.
This post goes over pods as systemd services.
This doc goes over containers as systemd services.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux docs have a good amount of info, as well as their "sysadmin" series of posts.
Here are some harder to find things I've had to hunt down that might help with troubleshooting:
loginctl enable-linger <username> or else rootless pods/containers will stop when you log out of that session.[Install] section of the systemd file, see this doc page. Podman generate systemd should take care of this.container-selinux that has some useful booleans that can help with specific policies (container-use-devices is a good one if your container needs access to a GPU or similar). Link to repo
Yeah, management positions are often filled by people who:
A) Want to get a higher paying job and don't care about the product or the industry necessarily (MBA-circlejerk types).
B) Are Devs/Artists/Creatives that wanted increased compensation, and the only way up was as a manager where they have less aptitude.
Executive staff needs to better integrate management as "servant leaders" within teams, and compensate EVERYONE better