Well, that’s my schedule packed for the week…

Do you think buddy would have a shot at convincing someone (or anyone) of his worldview if he wasn’t such an insufferable cunt in every comment and reply?

That has literally always been the default KDE experience for me. I find KDE to be a constantly buggy unstable mess. I’m glad it seems to work for everyone else, but it clearly doesn’t like me and the feeling is mutual now.

Sounds like retail to me, that industry is a breeding ground for abusive environments.

At my last job the store manager got away with smacking the assistant manager on camera in front of people. Multiple reports sent up the chain. But the assistant manager had already put in two weeks notice a week before this happened, so head office just brushed it under the rug. I had watched the security video of it happening myself so I know it’s not for lack of evidence.

The running theory was that that manager gets transfered to stores as the company’s wrecking ball when they want to clean house. She would get transfered to a store, then all of the staff would end up quitting or getting fired for bullshit reasons. We weren’t the first store it had happened to. I ended up quitting to go work at a warehouse for more money with a fraction of the responsibility.

It’s not necessarily “will” but going independant relies entirely on the good will of the two countries that would border Alberta. One of which we’ve been antagonizing for years (Canada) and the other has been threatening its “allies” left right and center. Having to renegotiate every trade deal we have after seceding puts Alberta in a fairly precarious position because of this. Fairness isn’t really a factor.

See, a problem I’m noticing is everyone seems to assume everyone will make deals in good faith. I don’t think the fact that the land isn’t owned by Alberta is as much of a “gotcha” as people seem to believe… do you honestly believe that a government that has been using every excuse it can to bypass democracy lately will respect that?

Canada would have to be willing to enforce their ownership of the land. I’m not saying it’d be a good or smart decision on Alberta’s part, but I do think they’re arrogant enough to try. Particularly if the US sticks its nose in to back Alberta.

The whole thing will be a fucking nightmare if it gets pushed through…

Ah yes, wanting all of the benefits without any commitment or obligation on their part. Sounds like Albertan logic to me!

So, if Alberta reaches the promised land of glorious independence or whatever, how exactly do they plan on trading outside their borders without being taxed to oblivion by one of two much larger bordering nations any time we try to get resources in or out?

If Alberta separates it becomes landlocked by two much more powerful nations who can then tax us into oblivion on any imports or exports, or simply shut the door and screw us entirely. Doesn’t matter how much we have if we can’t export or import anything without being at the mercy of much larger nations, one of whom we’d have just pissed off and the other has a vested interest in annexing us.

Alberta “independence” would just be becoming a territory of the US in the long run.

Tone is an absolute bitch to convey properly over text, if you don’t add indicators it’s up to the reader to determine the tone you’re using. Miscommunication causes larger problems. Using lol helps indicate a lighter tone so people don’t think I’m pissed off or grumpy when I’m not

Which card? There’s a few distros that handle installing the drivers for you (Nobara and Bazzite spring to mind)

If it’s an issue of outdated hardware it can be tricky but doable. I have an old Thinkpad with an Nvidia Quadro K2000 that I got working with MX Linux without too much hassle

They’ve been saying “maybe it’s the year of the Linux desktop” for years, mobile Linux only reliably works on a handful of specific modern devices and some fairly old ones

I wouldn’t hold my breath for it

Meanwhile in Canada, if something falls into a niche good luck finding it in person. It’s getting beyond frustrating trying to buy in person to avoid Amazon, then finding out that nowhere carries it and having to order from Amazon anyway.

That’s what we get when Canada is a handful of monopolies in a trenchcoat instead of a country.

It specifies the European market, not sure how well it’ll play with Canadian service providers. I’ll have to wait and see before dropping $1000 (before shipping) on it. VoLTE is pretty much required here and last I heard that was tricky for Linux phones

For now I have GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8 Pro, but I’ll keep an eye on this one to see if it’ll be compatible in Canada

The comments keep mentioning Linux phones, have they managed to get Linux running on mobile hardware that I won’t have to go on an archaeological dig for?

If we want the year of the Linux desktop to actually happen we need to have good GUI tools for almost everything. The second you say “command line” most people’s eyes glaze over and they say they’ll stick with Windows. Believe it or not guys, most people just want something that functions out of the box and they don’t want to mess with it.

This is the start of corporations trying to completely phase out owning your own hardware.

This needs to fail hard or it will spread to every other major vendor. But in this timeline every evil deed seems to succeed and be rewarded. Be sure to hoard your old hardware, you’ll likely need it later.

The problem is when said research runs you straight to a bunch of nasty people over and over. Really dampens enthusiasm when trying to get into something. Veganism is not something I personally want to get into (I’m not opposed, I just read threads to get other perspectives on things in general), but I observe the same behaviour in vegan threads as I do in other communities with die-hard enthusiasts for things that I am into. The same behaviour is also in Linux communities which makes me hesitate to recommend it to people, because it has a toxic shithead problem.

Kinda like when you look up a problem and the first thing you run into is a guy telling the op that they’re a moron and to just google it

Gatekeepers are the fucking worst. Every time I start reading up on something there’s always a handful of miserable condescending shitheads being nasty to people because they’re 'not ‘doing it right.’

Most vegan threads I come across usually has some of these, insulting anyone that’s not 100% on board even if they’re trying to get into it. Audiophiles are pretty much on the same level as hardcore vegans when it comes to being obnoxious (recently saw someone ask why the op was bothering setting up a music system if they didn’t have thousands of dollars to spare, for example). Linux users on support threads is a coin flip of whether they’ll be helpful or insulting.

Let people ease into things, stop demanding perfection right out of the gates!

It’s always fun when there’s a GUI tool for something (in my case, trying to set up wireguard with gnome) that just doesn’t work, and all the posts online about it just say “yeah that’s literally never worked, here’s the cli command”

Or colour profiles for your monitor in Wayland, you can change them in the gui but nothing will ever apply.

I find myself having trust issues with Linux GUI tools as actually functioning seems to be optional. But the switches sure look pretty…