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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

Or when you try to use contactless only to be asked the amount of tip to give to the cashier, before being able to pay.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 7 points 4 days ago

If I understand correctly, they do lenses locally, yes. But frames are from a monopoly.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Isn't the eyewear industry a huge international monopoly owned by EssilorLuxottica? Like, wherever you buy glasses, they probably all come from that conglomerate anyway.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

In French a computer is male.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ok then. What's the gender of Nutella?

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I had never owned a brand new expensive vehicle

You mean a pavement princess?

I have a bike that gets scratched up every time I lock it to a bike rack and meanwhile people buying expensive work trucks are melting down if there is a scratch on their WORK truck.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Writing in the dust is not vandalism. FFS!

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bah, even if you are not living in the U.S., you will have to deal with the BS of the newly self declared world king. He's threatening to invade half the planet anyway.

Otherwise, do you have suggestions of where your orange majesty might ignore?

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

I don't consider it a joke. It's obvious that reporters/journalists/the press are making things worse and motivating him by asking stupid questions over and over, like "are you willing to use military force against our allies?"

He answers something scandalous, the "news" repeats his stupid and scandalous answers, amplifies them, then escalate by asking even more potentially scandalous questions.

It's how they make a living. Things must have been very dull under Biden. Now they have people stressed and watching their stupid incessant flow of BS. It must be exciting for them.

Maybe they will soon ask him if he considers using military force against Europe if they don't do whatever the new world king wishes.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pretty sad that people that don't want to fight in a war and just go live elsewhere are forbidden to do so and kept as potential canon fodder. And only if you are a certain age and gender.

I would probably defend my country if it was invaded, even if I hate guns, violence and military organizations, but I can understand anybody that would prefer to flee. Forcing them to stay "just in case we need more soldiers" is immoral in my opinion.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I normally use bluetooth headphones so I don't use the adapters enough to have any that broke yet. I keep a pair of wired headphones as a backup, and sometimes I want to connect my phone to old speakers, so the adapter is useful in those cases.

I guess if you're using that adapter every day it might indeed break faster.

However where I live you can find them at the dollar store for something like $4.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

The profession seems to be custom made for them.

 

I've been doing some rail trails on the "green roads" (routes vertes) to visit my parents for the last three weekends and I stopped at the park for overnights as I didn't want to cycle the full 140 km in one shot and then back. It's getting greener!

The Yamaska National Park is a small park located around a reservoir in southern Québec. From there it's possible to access multiple rail trails and "linear parks" going in all directions.

More pictures in the comments.

 

The last two upgrades have broken my audio setup.

First the options for Network Server and Network Access in paprefs were greyed out and my sinks disappeared after upgrading to bookworm. I just had to create a link to an existing file and it was working again but, it's weird that it was needed in the first place. Pretty sure it has something to do with the change from pulseaudio to pipewire but I'm not very up to date on that subject and I just want to have my current setup to continue working.

Then yesterday I just launch a simple apt-get upgrade and after rebooting my sinks disappeared again. The network options in paprefs were still available, but changing them did nothing. I had to create the file ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/10-gsettings.conf and stuff it with "pulse.cmd = [ { cmd = "load-module" args = "module-gsettings" flags = [ "nofail" ] } ]" in order to have my sinks back.

I know it's not only a Debian thing, as I can see this happening to people on Arch forums, but as Debian is supposed to be the "stable" one, I find it amusing that a simple upgrade can break your sound.

 

Using Boost for Lemmy, I got an obvious political ad from the right asking to sign a petition to scrap the gun "ban" in Canada (it's a registry not a ban).

Now I understand this is an ad but I don't appreciate having propaganda from the right injected into my browsing on lemmy. Have better ads, or let us report them.

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