GameGod

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[–] GameGod 7 points 2 days ago

I feel like Loblaws and the other stores they run always play stupid games with prices. They didn't really show that this was anything different than say, the same month a year ago. The article and methodology just feels kinda shoddy and empty. "We did a shit analysis and came up with weird results, now here's some experts saying random things."

[–] GameGod 2 points 5 days ago

Yikes, OK, thanks for sharing that

[–] GameGod 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Are we talking about getting a nastygram because you were torrenting? Because Bittorrent just broadcast's your IP to everyone in the swarm. Your ISP doesn't have anything to do with that. Your ISP does have an obligation in Canada to forward the nastygram to you from the copyright owner's lawyer though. Like you said though, I'm not sure that this actually still happens anymore. (how sure are you that it was just because you "visited a website", which a DNS lookup isn't even proof of?)

[–] GameGod 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

Your DNS provider used to just be your ISP, but unfortunately Chrome and Firefox's stupid DoH-by-default means an American company is your DNS provider, which is the worst possible option. (Chrome default's to Google's DNS servers - the company that makes money by tracking and selling ads. Firefox default's to Cloudflare, which is the NSA's dream.)

Those defaults make DoH worse for Canadians, so I can see an argument for using CIRA + DoH being better than the default.

However, in Canada, your ISP won't tip off the authorities for you pirating anything. That's complete FUD. If you're going to make an argument that CIRA is more trustworthy than my ISP, you have to do better than that.

I will say that the privacy policy and terms of use for CIRA's Canadian Shield DNS seem to be reasonable with regards to privacy. The main issue I see is that they both say they can change the terms at any time, with no notice to you, so basically they can do whatever the hell they want at any time in the future.

[–] GameGod 1 points 6 days ago (6 children)

How does letting CIRA spy on me give me any additional privacy over my ISP?

[–] GameGod 8 points 6 days ago

I wish I could give a shit about the Green party but after like a decade of infighting, I couldn't care less. We live in a time of global environmental emergencies and they've completely failed to capitalize on that.

I was talking to a friend and we both mentioned how we saw Elizabeth May on TV talking beside someone and we weren't sure whether it was her or the other guy who was the leader.

Are they still fiscal conservatives? What stupid combination of policies.

[–] GameGod 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

At my local grocery store, all canned soup comes from the US. There's some alternatives that are made in Canada, but they're all in different packages (Happy Planet comes in pouches, Soups On comes in these massive jars) - none available in cans.

[–] GameGod 9 points 1 week ago

This guy already can see Russia from his house. He runs our local Russian propaganda sub on Lemmy.ca lol

[–] GameGod 8 points 2 weeks ago

Maybe email the people at refurb.io and tell them to get on it. We have loads of datacenters here in Canada and I'm sure companies are liquidating old hardware regularly. I wonder where it ends up here.

 

In a nutshell, the tiers are:

  • Product of Canada - Very best - Produced here and 98% of ingredients are from Canada.
  • Made in Canada - 2nd best - "Made in Canada means the last substantial transformation of the product occurred in Canada"

Others:

  • "Roasted and blended in Canada" to describe coffee since the coffee beans are always imported
  • "Distilled in Canada" to describe bottled water that was distilled in Canada
  • "Canned in Canada" to describe a food that was canned in Canada
  • "Processed in Canada" to describe a food which has been entirely processed in Canada
  • "Prepared in Canada" to describe a food which has been entirely prepared in Canada
  • "Packaged in Canada" to describe a food which is imported in bulk and packaged in Canada

Check the link for the full details.

[–] GameGod 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Also, Canada has nice perks such as:

✅ Rule of law

The most educated workforce in the world

✅ Not having foreign and trade policy go in a completely different direction every 4 years

✅ Giving a shit about diversity, equity, and inclusion to get the best workforce possible

✅ Easier to attract foreign talent, no chance of them getting abducted by ICE for having political views the government of the day doesn't like.

[–] GameGod 2 points 3 weeks ago

Anyone tried their laundry detergent? Looking for a Tide Free replacement and the Eco-Max hypoallergenic one looks like a good fit.

[–] GameGod 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I just watched this last week and thought it was pretty decent! I mentioned in the other thread I thought the opening was memorable, short, and effective. The movie had a good balance of humour and horror bits. The acting wasn't great but good enough, and while the delivery on the comedy fell flat a couple times, it didn't detract from my overall enjoyment. I'd watch another movie by this director. Overall, it was a decent low-budget flick.

Any other good horror comedy recommendations similar to this?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by GameGod to c/[email protected]
 

I'm thinking about moving my router to be a VM on a server in my homelab. Anyone have any experience to share about this? Any downsides I haven't thought of?

Backstory: My current pfSense router box can't keep up with my new fibre speeds because PPPOE is single threaded on FreeBSD, so as a test, I installed OpenWRT in a VM on a server I have and using VLANs, got it to act as a router for my network. I was able to validate it can keep up with the fibre speeds, so all good there. While shopping for a new routerboard, I was thinking about minimizing power and heat, and it made me realize that maybe I should just keep the router virtualized permanently. The physical server is already on a big UPS, so I could keep it running in a power outage.

I only have 1 gbps fibre and a single GbE port on the server, but I could buff the LAN ports if needed.

Any downsides to keeping your router as a VM over having dedicated hardware for it?

 

Makes zero sense. The provincial government should stick to provincial matters instead of trying this dumb populist play to win rural votes by sticking their fingers into municipal matters.

 

The sole moderator doesn't even follow their own rules: https://lemmy.ca/post/22741340?scrollToComments=true

I'll just say it - it's a Russian propaganda community. Is there any reason this community needs to exist on Lemmy.ca? Is there a rule against blatant astroturfing / propaganda / misinformation? I don't think the 5 rules in the sidebar are going to be enough to stop an army of trolls:

No bigotry - including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, > or xenophobia. Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here. No porn. Use the NSFW tag when needed. No Ads / Spamming. Bot accounts need to be flagged as such in their settings.

Maybe time to get ahead of it?

 

The 2TB is on sale too. All sizes keep going up and down on price, with this being the ATL. This was on sale for this price at the start of the week, then it went up to like $95, so who knows what the real regular price is.

 

I preordered a Seasonic Vertex PX-1200 (aka. 1200P, Platinum) back in January and Seasonic told me the Vertex series would be widely available that month. It's now July and while the Gold (GX series) Vertex PSUs have been released, there's no signs that the P series ever shipped.

Anyone have any idea what's up with that? Are they actually going to ship or are they going to cancel the product line?

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