Yeah we have done those too. Paramount and Netflix cancelled. Canada has a free strwaming site from the CBC.

I’ve repurposed hardware with Linux to get performance back instead of CPU upgrade for Windows.

Repaired an older car instead of buying new (for many reasons).

Grocery store has brought in more Mexican and overseas products since many people stopped buying USA products.

Staycationing in our province.

So far its been easy.

Well when they attack Canadian Sovereignty, it involves cutting out anything USA made or affiliated…as much as we can.

It actually hasn’t been that restrictive, as there are Canadian businesses that we’ve ignored. The USAs tariffing has actually strengthened our internal economy.

Looks like every other country is also dropping USA based items and projects, because who knows what the current admin will force onto small businesses, or sudden cut off of services.

Their web site lists USA first…maybe that’s an American thing. Lol

Mecha Systems is a USA based company. Since USA is actively destroying relations around the globe, and threatening sovereignty , there is no way I’d buy this even though it’s a neat idea.

He moved all the way up to 0 class

What the animal’s skeleton looks like. Or How the animal’s skeleton looks.

USA? No thanks

And it is usually half right, its really a mess, unless you give it a really good rough draft outline.

I truly hope that happens, but I have doubts.

And his investors family were stabbed, and another guy relates to it had is car blow up. Random or coordinated?

Ha. Corporations. TD bank did this to my kids Savings Accounts. When in one day and accounts had been archived due to lack of deposit or withdrawal activities. Like WTF they are 8,10, 14, how many transactions did you expect they’d make.

I don’t change mine on most GNOME installs, but I do like that the light/dark mode toggle also flips the wallpaper to a light dark version of the same style

Have you read the rants, he is often spot on.

Yes they are awesome; The kind that adjusts for sitting or stnading.

We had them at a company I worked at. You sit for a while ( like and hour or two) and then feel a bit uncomfortable so pull the level and slide to standing mode. Work an hour standing, then sit. It really helps you feel less fatigue, and is better for circulation and digestion.

Its not a gotcha question though, is ambiguous to see if you ask for more information or just make assumptions.

We are losing a large account at work because a team provided a solution to a customer based on their initial issues without asking for more info on what the root issue was.

Had they just asked “why are you needing to do this particular thing?” The while solution would have been different.

Its not a trick question, its an ambiguous one. Ambiguity should prompt people to ask clarifying questions. Assumptions are often wrong.

Part of ambiguity also lies in the English language. In a general conversation 35% is information and 65% is disambiguation.

I thinks that’s the whole point, they can’t read minds so they need to ask questions to gain information. So you can makean better response.

When I’ve done support and customer says “This isn’t working I need this bug reported”

The first question I ask is “Why do you need to do that?”

Because just fixing what they asked solves their current issue, but not the underlying pain they have in their process.

100s of techs would just solve the bug, but they you never find out the deeper issue or lack of features that push the customer to using the other thing.

I had this with one of my guys. He spent a week working on something and the validation at the end wasn’t jiving.

He started showing me the complex solution and end results and so I said show me how you started and walk me through it.

It was step 1 the origin location of data was out of position.

I said if you start at this origin the rest of the numbers and data will work out.

He replied that the origin wasn’t shown measured from somewhere, so how would we know location.

So I pointed out that the data to origin wasn’t directly spelled out but if you take this measure and subtract this one that is your data origin start.

He said OMG I worked on this for a week trying to get the formulas working. I feel so stupid because you solved it in 1 minute.

I replied its not a question of smart or stupid (because my guy is way beyond me for formulae and programming) its just slowing down and following a process. And if you are confused, ask more questions, rather than just continuing.

Well you might have luck if the systems aren’t using proprietary drivers for network or GPU.

If you’ve setup the system for hibernations then it will have a swap partition sized to the memory. So that will need to be the biggest RAM machine as a start point.

There are some methods to check what kernel modules were included in your install. You would want to check if all machines have the same kernel modules for compatibility between them

In the last 5 years (in the west) it has gone from 1% to 5-6%. So instead of 1 out of 100 people you meet having a Linux aystem, 1 out of 20 might. That’s a significant change. Before trump in the white house it may not have eclipsed Windows use (even though their market share has been dropping for a decade), but with Trump threatening the world countries have seriously reconsidered dropping Microsoft Products for sovereign security. Without a Microsoft product there is no reason to run a bloated MS OS anymore.