yannic

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[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago

Yes. A few bad apples spoil the bunch.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No port forwarding, which is needed for ensuring your Linux ISO files are getting out there.

They used to be the perfect choice.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm all for what you're suggesting about software, but the training and I.T costs alone make me question the savings.

Information technologists adept at supporting users of Microsoft products are a dime a dozen. Anything outside of that, and you're paying the big bucks and/or have a much smaller hiring pool.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

He's asking them to propose ways of cutting spending. Spending is different from funding. They can cut operational funding and still get earmarked funding for certain projects that wouldn't have otherwise got off the ground.

Government loves to make funding announcements that turn out to have 'small print'.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I specifically remember seeing "Product of India" on jars of their pickles. I guess that's only the cucumbers themselves?

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago

Your friend is a vampire.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 months ago

Shasta gold.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago
[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On that note, as someone from a commonwealth nation, I was deeply appalled during the height of the pandemic when kettles couldn't be purchased here as they weren't considered 'essential items'.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

Canadians write cheques. Americans deposit checks.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

There was so much fear mongering about that tax.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

In my case, it was that our local HVAC shop literally only sold one solution. I couldn't even talk them into a more powerful A/C despite having both a grow op (at the time) and server farm in the basement.

Our A/C struggles to cool the house on room-temperature days, but that's beside the point. Heat Pumps will really take off when the small time dealers start stocking them.

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