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Alberta checking in. Jumped from $1.31/L to $1.52 overnight. (That’s about $3.65 and $4.25/gal USD.)

AI has been an absolute game-changer for these companies!

Now they can create an artificial supply shortage, bump the prices up, and never deal with the economic side-effects of Moore’s Law again!

Fuckers.

Come on, there’s no way you can believe that.

It wasn’t a mistake. The “mistake” was in not raising their prices as fast or as much as they possibly could, and so they just decided to not to honour it, and crank the price next time around - because they could.

This is pure greed, plain and simple.

Worthy of a class-action lawsuit.

Corsair executives should fry for this.

Yeah, DAWs are definitely one of those niche things that keep people using Windows. I’m an Ableton user as well, and it’s one of a few Windows apps that I struggle to replace.

My wife teaches post-secondary, and stays on Windows because all of the commercial CAD software is for Windows. (AutoCad, Sketchup, Pro Tools, etc.)

After dealing with the dumbnes of Macs, back in the day, I made a conscious decision that my first 16-bit computer was going to run Windows (3.1).

I’ve played with many many OSes before and since then, and still have a soft spot in my heard for OS/2. I’ve been a professional Unix/Linux sysadmin for a quarter century now, and yet my desktop is still Windows.

No more. I will never EVER install Windows 11 on a machine; and never give Microsoft a penny of my money or a byte of my information to resell.

It’s easier than you think. Muscle memory is a pain, but can be rewritten with new habits and keystrokes. Or for that matter, you can mostly mirror the exact functionality that you’re used to using.

Microsoft will not get their shit together, ever. They don’t have to! If they lose 30% of their existing OS market share, all it will effectively mean is that they’re immune from antitrust complaints, which is a net win for them.

Meanwhile, Steam is working their ass off to make gaming on Linux a seamless endeavour, and are mostly there.

Do it. Give up on the company that wants to milk you, to steal your information, to abuse your trust.

Try the early '80s. They were the first company to put their developers front and centre with pictures and names.

So, don’t buy shit from Amech.

Don’t buy ANY shit from Amech.

Ever.

We need to stop reporting what these brainless twats are saying. Just freeze 'em out.

Red Dead Redemption 2.

I picked it up a yeat or two ago, played through it, and loved it. When RDR was finally released for the PC, I immediately dove into it.

RDR was ezcellent, but it made me crave RDR2 gameplay, which was far deeper. So now I’m riding around in the epilogue, completing challenges and collecting every piece of clothing, saddle, and trinket.

I read this as "have no plans to remove any titties.’

I played through RDR and RDR2 on a 1060 and i7-4770k, and it ran fine at 1200p. Damned shame that these cards won’t ve getting updates anymore.

But they’re stable as they stand and we WILL be getting security updates, so my card is going to run another year.

I’ve got a portable DVD player, and I’m going to use it to install the original Psychonauts onto my son’s computer, so he can see what the meat circus was like before they softened it.

Go to a female stylist. Problem solved.

None in isolation.

CBC is a pretty reliable go-to although they’re more than a bit pandering these days. BBC is similar. Al Jazeera is pretty reliable for things not related to Islam and Palestine in particular (although they’re not as biased as they could be). AP is fairly neutral. Aside from that, it’s non-legacy Canadian sources like the Walrus and the Tyee, which all have their problems but are good at exposing reality.

And they’ll continue hiring and expanding, pushing the ‘churn’ bullshit to keep thrir employees scared.

Asshole company deserves to die.

A few unsalted mixed nuts from Costco, when I woke up at 2:30 this morning.

I’ve been meaning to get a Linux VM spun up for testing games. I gather that I’ll have some issues (i.e. blockers) with multi-player games and cheat-prevention, but I’d just as soon play single player games anyway.

I’ve been a Linux/Unix admin for 25+ years so I’ve no excuse other than convenience. But I’m done.

Fair warning: it’s likely that your ISP will block attempts at self-hosting a mail server at home.

I didn’t know about this. I haven’t followed Proton closely for a while, but this…wow. Kinda lousy.