You’re so close. It’s like you read 1/2 of the detective novel, thought you knew who did it, then got bored and closed it without finding out you were wrong.

It was disingenuous to infer that the minor tax increase you linked to above had any meaningful impact on affordability.

If your second link is accurate then your bigger beef is with the provincial liquor boards as they are levying a tax that is certainly notable.

And then to blame immigrants for unaffordability with the old debunked “taking our jobs” argument is just sad. I hope you eventually step out of your conservative bubble and see that it’s capitalism and class inequality that are the problem, not government and your fellow man.

Charlebois predicts the tax will increase the price of a single beer by one cent, while the finance ministry told Global News in a statement that the amount would be three-quarters of a cent.

Oh no? Even in the worst case the taxes are clearly not the issue.

Beer Canada said since the tax is a production tax imposed on the brewer at the point and time of production, “it is then magnified by other fees and taxes imposed by distributors, retailers, and provinces, including sales taxes,” making the impact on a 12-pack likely closer to 20 cents.

And all from natural gas. Literally a 24/7 365 burn. The environmental community never could have predicted the regressions of the last few years. There’s no hope anymore.

My mistake, it always allowed PHEVs in Canada and I made the assumption it was similar elsewhere as a full blown EV mandate is a really though sell. Thanks for clarifying.

While battery degradation is real, one thing people often overlook is that most of these mandates include PHEVs under the umbrella of electric vehicles. PHEVs have way smaller batteries which make them lighter, cheaper, and they aren’t subject to range anxiety. The only downside is the extra cost and the continued maintenance required of an ICE (but ICE buyers are used to it and don’t care about that).

Windows itself already does this type of tracking to determine your time zone.

Totally different. Go take a look at one of these things. Many of them aren’t even GPUs you can slot into anything, they’re totally custom and integrated into the main board which expects special cooling and interconnects. Like I said, if youre the mad scientists type that has a dedicated space for loud enterprise server racks, yeah, I’m sure you could figure out something. But this isn’t going to be like a bunch or RAM and GPUs that you or I can use.

I wouldn’t knock it until you’ve tried it. I would never get an EV without 1 pedal drive. The only downside is it takes a few days to get used to, which isn’t great when test driving and coming from 2 pedal. It feels weird at first.

There’s actually a simpler explanation. Companies will purposefully make their products worse to keep you using them longer. By prioritizing the algorithm over your search results you’re staying in the app longer, seeing more algo suggestions, and more likely to give up on your search and click something else.

Good examples of this are Google purposefully crippling their own search, or Netflix making it impossible to see what movies they actually have. So they kneecap the product. What are you going to do? Stop using it? If the answer is no, then there’s room to make it just a little worse…

What bag? Gamer’s are so small to NVIDIA now he’s not accountable to them in the slightest. Even when the AI bubble pops it will have made some people filthy rich. Unless NVIDIA is bankrupted he’ll be a hero.

I know you put /S, but for other people that read this it will not be an option. These only work in specialised servers that you will not he able to run at home (unless you’re a mad scientists type).

It’s not even ECC RAM that’s the issue, it’s that they’re not making DDR ram at all, it’s HBM RAM which is totally different. That and the GPUs are custom solutions that slot into specialty liquid cooled server chassis with proprietary connecters and everything. It’s simply not for anything except for it’s current purpose in a server.

I know how you feel, it’s too bad this is impacting Valve. I really want their new controller which won’t be hit by this, but I expect they’re still going to wait and release it with the other products.

The problem is it’s manufacturing capacity that is being bought. They’re going to use that capacity to build HBM modules and data centre GPUs that cannot run outside of specialized servers. There will be a lot of high end gear gathering dust, but nothing you or I can use.

Maybe if you’re a large business/enterprise you could get some hardware on the cheap during the crash, but it’s not ot like those things are full of DDR5 DIMMs and RTX GPUs.

I’m apalled that the world has let Ukraine languish for so long doing the bare minimum. Anyone could see that the Russian invasion was a precedent setting moment that needed to be repelled swiftly.

It’s more that Vivaldi is just Chrome under the hood.

God forbid people “suffer” by watching a completely voluntary video of someone trying to help others. Look, I didn’t watch the video, but no matter how long it was it’s got supposedly helpful information in it and we should be thankful someone’s taking the time to post at all.

It’s not their job to put it in a format you like, just move on and don’t be an entitled ass about it. I’m sure your parents taught you if you have nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

Good for you! I got fed up with Chrystler and I’m never buying from them again. From now on I’m only buying Dodge!

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I respect your opinion, but it’s not one that will be held by average users.

That’s what sparked it here too, a 911 issue with early android phones. They were going to ban several models outright since they couldn’t confirm you did the update if you BYOD or were on custom roms, but eventually settled on a waiver that you could sign absolving them of any liability if you kept your phone.

I can see the perspective of the telcos but outright bans is just not the answer, especially since they make money from the sale of new phones. It re-enforces their monopoly and keeps everyone reliant on them for phones (which they love). The only way to fix this is through the government.