But how are we going to track Santa if we get out of NORAD? The Australian Canada over the horizon radar wont be up until 2029 at the earliest. /s

I have a pihole set up, because I do not want to feed the Google all my stuff and block ads. In short I cannot see the page.

Like many here I have almost cut all of my US things, I need Claude to just finish off my home labbing. After my firewall is setup and running I am going to drop Claude.

I would really like to see the conservatives split into 2 parties again! Then I would like to see voter election reform.

Yes but not to be replaced with PP

With any luck once Trump is out of office some of the Liberals will see that Carney is a conservative in a liberal suit and cross to the NDP, or more likely fracture and start a new party. Once the liberals do not have a majority any more I see the conservatives who do not like PP will see Carney for what he is and jump ship. I really hope to see some change in our government, especially with how close we are getting to the EU.

Oh Jellyfin and my *arr stack

This is a good resource that I did not know about, wish I had when I started my whole boycott the US stuff. Sure I have been getting off of the Google services longer than that, but I was using CUPS long before I really had any idea about FOSS (sorta, it was the early 2000’s once I had my own computer and printer I dropped CUPS for a while). I got into Google docs in the early 2010’s but was out of them nearly as fast because I felt it was easier than OpenOffice or NeoOffice or whatever it was called that I was using on my Mac. Either in some time between probably 2017 or 18 I got into pihole which helped me see my way out of Google things (minus search and youtube). I quickly started getting weird ad combos in youtube so I got premium. Trumps whole 51st state BS got me to look into what money I was sending to the US, I cancelled all my services and replaced them with Canadian things, minus youtube and search but youtube I was now using an ad blocker with. I would later switch my search engine with ecosia. Ecosia was still shilling for the Google even if they stopped using their results they where still using Google and Microslop for ads, but I moved to searXNG before Ecosia became what it is now. I was out of my home one day and needed to search for something so I went to Google just cause that was easy and I realized how much crap was on it so I was forced to get wireguard working once again. I self host Nextcloud, Immch, Pi-hole (x2), scansJS, CUPS, vaultwarden, wireguard, and other things I cannot think of off hand. I will be moving to OpenWRT soon as well.

Yes self hosting and leaving the big Tech companies behind is the way to go. Linux and other FOSS is the best option!

If you are not ready to drop Windows or Mac start self hosting your something that you can use on your LAN and than add something else when you are comfortable. Slowly you will find that you can do more easily.

If you are looking for something easy to start with but still want to keep the icky OS I would suggest CUPS so that you can detach your printer from the internet and still be able to print from anywhere on your LAN.

Yeah because neither of those companies are going to see a shock in the very near future.

-pre-IPO investors are pulling out of SpaceX CBC, even every day people are starting to move away from the GoogleSorry could not find a CBC article on it. But what gets me is this quote:

"AI is not going to replace junior bankers," Neldner said, adding that he expects junior hiring to rise each year. "Maybe it will slow the number of people we have to hire, but it's not going to stop our hiring." 

AI is already lifting productivity, most clearly in research, where the average analyst now covers 17 stocks, up from 15.

If AI is making people more efficient than you need less people, as you push the less people to do more the people who cannot deal with the more will be pushed to lower and lower positions until they are told we do not need “you anymore!”

I am not far left enough to say communism is the right goal, yet, but I am further left than saying we need socialist reforms. I am from Saskatchewan so I can see the benefits of psuedo-socialized markets (think phone and internet with Sasktel sticking it to the big 3) I just wish the rest of the province could see it to. If Saskatchewan can see it and really start celebrating it maybe the rest of Canada could as well.

Our system is better than the US’s system. By just a hair but it is better, but yes we need election reform.

It’s a good thing that the EU has the power and the will to push for this, things change globally because of it.

This yes this here

USB-c for all charging

Say hello to Big Brother! Welcome to 1984.

I have moved back to the high seas for media.

Came here to say that!

Yeah but I hear they recently decided to raise their pricing by like 30%.

Joke being 30% of 0 is still 0

Really wow, what was he doing in Mexico?