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Fare inspectors in plain clothes issuing tickets on transit system: TTC
  • I'm not in Toronto, but in Vancouver I see enough fare evaders that if well-positioned I think they could pay for themselves. Especially because they're plain-clothes, so the fare evaders will go through and then have to pay the large fine as opposed to just pay for the one ticket because they saw an inspector.

  • Trudeau opposes allowing Russia to keep ‘an inch’ of Ukrainian territory
  • Only works if your adversaries also cut military spending. Unfortunately countries like Russia have shown that they'll happily attack those unable to defend themselves. This also means that increased military spending can cause less war if it deters those who would otherwise attack.

  • Plastic-eating insect discovered in Kenya
  • That only works if the carbon in the plastic originally came from the atmosphere, but we use oil to make plastics. So increased demand for plastic = increased demand for oil, and that oil was already sequestered to begin with.

  • Pro-Trump Counties Vote to Secede from Illinois, Form New Red State
  • Think of it this way - imagine nationally the election is close and how your state distributes EC votes determines the outcome. Let's further say 70% of your citizens voted for candidate A, but for candidate A to win nationally they need all your EC votes. Given that your state laws should primarily be for the benefit of said state's citizens, would you really want an outcome that 70% of your state's voters don't want? All it would take is one election where this determined the outcome before the voters would make it "winner takes all".

  • The really simple solution to AMD's collapsing gaming GPU market share is lower prices from launch
  • The big reason I switched back to Nvidia was because I wanted to play with some local AI models, and doing that with AMD cards was quite difficult at the time (I think it's improved a little, but still isn't straightforward).

  • People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?
  • That's hard for me to answer because I'm usually at home plugged in, and I set the max charge in the bios to only 65% so the battery will physically degrade slower (I don't need the charge). A few hours is really all I can say with any accuracy. Worth noting a few things -

    1. Since I bought my laptop they came out with an improved battery I could upgrade to, so you'd get a better experience.
    2. I believe(?) battery life is improved a fair bit at least with the AMD ones; less sure on the newer Intel ones.

    I will say that if long battery life is your #1 concern this may not be the laptop for you.

  • People with framework laptops on linux (nixos?) what is your experience with them?
  • I have a 12th gen Intel Framework running Arch. I love it, although as others have pointed out the battery life could be better. Early kernels shortly after release had some incompatibility issues that required specific kernel arguments to fix. Also I had to blacklist the light sensor as it conflicted with the brightness function keys.

    The Arch wiki has a page with details on Framework laptops you may appreciate looking at.

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    New legislation aims to create more small-scale and multi-unit housing in B.C.

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    Online News Act could see Google, Meta pay combined $234 million to Canadian media

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    www.reuters.com Exclusive: Meta's Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usage

    Meta's decision to block news links in Canada this month has had almost no impact on Canadians' usage of Facebook, data from independent tracking firms indicated on Tuesday, as the company faces scorching criticism from the Canadian government over the move.

    Exclusive: Meta's Canada news ban fails to dent Facebook usage
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