I'ma call him Totoraichu.

Obviously. Don't get caught.

The high volume of unoriginal Linux content is getting old, and that’s coming from somebody who uses Linux.

I can't really complain about the content being a bit stale when it feels like the alternative is nothing. So many communities that had vibrant counterparts on Reddit struggle to get one post per week. If it's ditto-memes on Lemmy, I'll take it.

Dishwashers are actually greener than hand-washing. Do I have to link the TechnologyConnections video?

The most shameful thing is that many applications that would fail to come back with all their state after restart were Microsoft's own programs like Sql Server Management Studio -- that one does better now, but well over a decade too late.

Well he's slightly more. I mean, when the Pakistani government protested extrajudicial killings in their country by the Americans, the Americans didn't whine and retaliate politically like little crybullies, they basically said "yeah we hellfired some terrorists in your ungovernable backcountry. Whaddayagonnadoaboudit eh?"

But why can’t you take a decarbonized plane?

The high cost of a decarbonized plane (as you've rightly identified) is a good reason to focus on it filling in the shortest hop of the trip. Use high-speed rail for as much as possible, and then use the expensive flying machine full of sustainable synthetic natural gas or whatever for the last leg.

We’re already talking about an incredible luxury that only the rich are able to partake in

The most active traveller I know is a waitress. You can get a pretty decent all-inclusive week-long resort trip in Cayo Coco, Cuba for like $600CAD per person. I'm a very cheap guy, I didn't even have a data plan on my phone until this year, and $600CAD is nothing for a once-every-few-years trip. That's the difference between my yearly cellphone bill and a normal person's cellphone bill.

Here's my proposal on what to do:

1. Implement the Ontario HATF recommendations in every province. These are various recommendations on how to remove powers from municipal and provincial governments to block housing development. They're a massive project of upzoning. No more "tearing down a home to build a million-dollar mcmansion" when that lot could support a low-rise building of like 6 $400k homes.

2. Adjust processes for colleges, apprenticeships, and for immigration to get more home-building contractors like electricians, plumbers, etc.

3. Open the greenbelt, but only for transit-serviced ultra-high-density construction. You can build on farmland if you're going to build Manhattan. We have enough sprawl.

4. Create a crown building corporation that funds rental construction with a specific mandate to keep vacancies above some fixed percent in every major market, like how the BoC has a mandate to keep interest below X%. Rent is skyrocketing because there is no vacancy - every unit with a reasonable price gets dozens, even hundreds of applicants. This org would be particularly important in moments of high-interest rates when it's not as profitable for the private sector to build homes.

5. Read your Henry George. The housing analog to the carbon tax is the Land Value Tax. The idea is that people should be taxed for what the land they own is worth, not for the property they own is on it, because the land is provided by Canada itself. So if you've a vacant lot or a parking lot or a single-family-detached home in a hyper dense urban space with transit access, you've got a hard cash incentive to find the best use for the land instead of leaving it fallow. Of course, the downside is this would mean throwing Grandma out of the house she's lived in for her whole life, which is political suicide, so only make it apply to investors as an alternate to property taxes (use whichever is higher), with it calibrated that it's only a tax on investors if their land is underused. If you own a high-rise in the core or a rural house? Well, that's realistically all that area could support, pay normal property tax.

No, we're downvoting because of conspiracy theories about planned obsolescense.

Yes, it's disappointing how hardware requirements climb for minimal appreciable improvement, but Hanlon's Razor applies.

Sorry, forgot this was an international community. $100k CAD. So $75k USD. We've the same 100k bank-insurance limit here, but its $100k CAD.

Either way, I know plenty of people who make near $200k of household income and are still fucked because they didn't get into the housing market in time before the door slammed shut (average home in Greater Toronto is now well north of a $million, even with our stupid-expensive interest rates). Like, teachers and realtors make $90k CAD after a few years of experience these days, but that doesn't accomplish much when rent keeps jumping and nobody can afford to buy. Basically the only reason everybody isn't eating cat-food is they're either in a pre-rent-deregulation unit or they bought before it all hit the fan.

Also, side-note: the traditional concept of "middle class" is not the modern expansive definition of "basically everybody who doesn't own either a private jet or live in a cardboard box". That is, somebody who pays rent and has a job that doesn't require grad-school used to be considered "working class". It's just that for some dumb reason we all collectively decided that "working class" was something to be embarrassed about.

One Prius Prime I share with my wife. I commute by bike and public transit but having a family car is still very handy and my wife uses it to commute.

Yup. I helped the Quebecois cuss in French. I barely speak any French but I saw they were having trouble over by the Quebec flag because they tried to move the text to fit in by this pink furry thing.