nbailey

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[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Complaining works, folks!!

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

We expect transit to be a “profitable service” which is ridiculous because we don’t expect roads (except 407), sewers, schools, parking lots, etc to “break even”

Some things are just part of the public good. Simple as that.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago

That would work perfectly if he listened to music consisting of a single tone of different volumes…

Only way that could make any sense would be if he was trying to make sure the speakers were in phase. If you’ve ever had one wired backwards there’s an exact spot where you can get them to cancel out, it feels bizarre. But you don’t need to adjust the cones, just wire things the right way lol.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Ah very nice, good to hear they addressed that. It was the only real deciding factor last time I moved my mail around ~2 yrs ago

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Fastmail. It’s been around forever and it just works. And they don’t do anything weird with SMTP/IMAP.

mailbox dot org is also pretty good, but I wasn’t a fan of their 2FA implementation.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Same, I miss my 03 Camry. That thing was a beast. Took hard hits from some wildlife, got backed into, had branches fall on it, and still made it to 300K km and never once broke down. It was so rusty my mechanic told me to get rid of it before it broke in half. When I donated it to the kidney foundation, it drove up into the tow truck under its own power.

Sadly, Toyota doesn’t have the sauce anymore. We looked at new Corollas and they felt way creakier than the “golden age” ones. Plus their CEO is a maga chud now :(

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

In Ontario it took $200 of bribes from Doug, Quebec shouldn’t shortchange themselves…

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago

Hybrids use regenerative braking for the majority of their deceleration. There are Priuses (Priui?) with 200K+ kilometres on original brakes. The dust that brake pads shed is fairly harmful, so it’s nice that they produce less.

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

My cat’s got the cone of shame because he kept blowing up his CVT’s.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 months ago

OM-5 of Panasonic G100 would probably be great for what you need. Can also get used/older micro 3/4 gear for pretty cheap as the other commenter said.

I like to walk around with my GX-85 (sadly discontinued now) and a 14-150 zoom, it’s a very good combo. 12-100 is better, but more $. Even the kit 12-32 is a surprisingly good lens.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I run iptables on Debian, on a cheap aliexpress minipc with dual NICs. Been using more or less the same config for about five years. It’s simple, boring, and works great.

[–] nbailey@lemmy.ca 47 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Laws like this are enforced selectively, by design. If they were serious about privacy, they’d be issuing citations to everybody with a ring doorbell. Not just because the videos always face public areas, but because the recordings are stored insecurely on US datacentres.

 

Highlights of the new strategy include plans for the federal government to lease and build on underused public lands to make housing more available and affordable.

Oops, it’s all privatization!

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/15916255

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