Super cool video. Thanks for posting.

I don’t know what alternate reality you live in but this is just false across the board.

Canadians absolutely do not hate “anything American”. Half the country wants to cosplay as Americans any chance they can. Our society is deeply ingrained with American hand me down values.

Sure, we’re still very different but in the grand scheme of things if you compare the cultures of the world Canada is is America Light®.

ordering American whiskey is a good way to start a bar fight

You watch too much TV.

https://grapheneos.org/

Make your next phone a Pixel and load GrapheneOS onto it. Problem solved.

This is me with watermelon.

You’re not a centrist if you’re throwing around “shitlibs”.

That’s literally the game the sim community has been begging for for ages now. What a shame.

Ontario is a boring as fuck, car-centric, anti-human shit hole. I say this as an Ontarian.

If all you want to see is how badly our urban planners have forsaken us, come to Ontario.

Go somewhere genuinely interesting like Québec, Newfoundland or BC. Hell, go to Yukon if you’re feeling particularly adventurous.

Ontario has very little in terms of natural wonder. If you come here, you’re going to Toronto for big city stuff or you’re a sucker for punishment as you’ll spend 75% of your trip driving places. At least if you go to QC, BC, or NL there’s shit to look at while you spend your trip budget on fuel and car rental costs.

I still have my library of tracks from the mid 2000s on a drive in my PC. Hell, I still have my iPod Classic.

That said, I spend 99% of my time streaming music.

That said², I never ever engage with playlists. They only serve to poison the well that is my algorithm. I have a tightly curated Youtube video algorithm and, even though Youtube Music’s algorithm is dogshit compared to Spotify, I still protect it at all costs.

You can still be an active listener on streaming services.

I’m currently three quarters of the way through Decapitated’s Organic Hallucinosis record while I clean the house. For the last month straight I’ve been mainlining Steven Wilson’s solo records as well as Porcupine Tree records. Music is not dead for the active listeners in the world. The focus should be on encouraging kids to appreciate a good album every once in a while.

Personally, I’m not feeling that same vibe. I think the solidarity against the US is a very good thing, but the sheer amount of ways Canada is just “America Light” is very depressing. Its to the point that our flag has been so sullied by absolutely shit tier movements in the last 5 years that I can’t stand to see it anymore.

Every time I see a private flag pole, bumper stickers or anything kind of patriotic merch my knee jerk reaction is “I bet this dude’s a fuckwad.” I know that I’m painting with a huge and shitty brush but I just can’t even fight against it anymore. I know it’s wrong. I just don’t care, and that makes me sad.

I live comfortably here, but given even a minutely convenient reason to emigrate I think I’d take it.

Canada is a car infested, anti-human shit hole just like America. To paraphrase Steve Harris of Iron Maiden a bit “We oil the jaws of the war capitalist machine and feed it with our babies immigrants.”

Wine is a translation layer, not an emulator so you’ll likely appear in the Linux users list.

Anything that Steven Wilson has made. Dude’s a living legend.

I only do baisc maintenance and setups for my friends now.

I’ve heard of beta blockers, but I’ve never looked into it. I’m kind of hesitant when it comes to dealing with any kind of side effects.

I worked at probably the best luthiery in North America. Got let go because I couldn’t keep up. I have tremors which makes fine dextrous work very difficult. At the time I was also going through a brutal break-up too.

Really bad time for me. Also working at this place was like playing a couple good games of beer league hockey and immediately getting drafted into an NHL team. I feel like if I took another shot at it, it would go much better second time around. But it just wasn’t meant to be at the time. No matter what, it was always going to be a massive uphill climb, but I was super dedicated to doing it and doing it well. It’s unfortunate it came to such an abrupt end, but I understand why it had to happen.

Who is this?

There’s plenty of fiction written on this premise. It only makes sense that an LLM will write something similar to what it’s already ingested.

I totally understand where you’re coming from but I also understand why people like the curated experience. When I went to Mexico for the first time, I went to a resort because in that moment all I cared about was not having to care about anything, if you know what I mean.

There’s a time and a place for both styles of travel.

Nobara is likely the best candidate for you. https://nobaraproject.org/

Not only is OP a slopper, but they can’t even come up with their own OC to prompt an AI with.

Shame.

I’ve been on Linux for a year and a half now with zero downtime.

That’s a pretty insane threshold. I say that as a die hard underground metal fan.