Duly noted!

Oh my, you’ve sold me on Prince George with that. Any group of skiiers that are that pissed it’s summer are OK in my book, lmao

Do you want to live and work in Canada temporarily (while orange man in power) or looking to eventually get permanent residency?

Preferably permanent eventually. I’ve been done with this country long before the fat cyst got political. Up until now, I’ve had the national parks and forests to keep me sane. That’s slowly fading, though.

If I could find a tech job in the US, then that’d be sweet to get transferred like that, but it’s been rough here in that regard. I’m also fairly stubborn in who I work for. I’ve been treated very badly in the past, and most of the companies I could work for that have Canadian offices are not on my list of “OK to work for”, at least that I’m aware of. Besides, I’d still be under the ultimate leadership of an American Capitalist. If I can, a Canadian company would be awesome, but we’ll see.

Thanks for the direct link and insight on the lawyer, I’ll definitely dig through it!

I was born in southern US (Georgia), but I’ve traveled around a lot and lived in almost every climate (I was in a School Bus for a while, floating between national parks and forests). Vermont was definitely the coldest, but Texas surprised me one year.

Damn, the housing bits I didn’t really know about, which means that expensive is probably an understatement.

It’s almost sounding like I may need to consider anywhere else in CA. I do love remote, though. I really love remote areas. The sound of nature does wonders for my tinnitus and focus.

lmao, I replied way too fast! Thanks again for the other infos.

On the topic of temperature, the only nice weather in the entire country is southern vancouver island. Vancouver is ok but it’s wet. It’s cold in the rest of canada.

I meant more the temperature of how I would be received. I absolutely love cold and shoveling snow, weirdly enough. Lived in Vermont for almost 10 years.

Maple syrup in coffee? Bro that’s unhinged lmao

Don’t knock it 'til you try it! Gotta be black coffee though, no other sweeteners or cream.

Damn, that’s rough to hear! I appreciate it, though. PM inbound.

Ok, so stop buying online entirely then.

If you continue to say, “well, it’s hard” then it’ll never get easier or better and will remain at status quo.

It’s really easy to not shop at any of the major big box stores owned by USA megacorps, physical or digital.

The trouble is, everyone around me is either on-board with the administration or a left-wing coward. I can’t believe people actually think a single day of non-spending is going to do anything, and part of me thinks it’s the corps pushing that idea as well.

I spent time finding the small asian and latino markets around me, and that’s the only places I buy anything in the USA. I’ve been doing this for 5 years, trying to get others to follow.

No, it will never happen and I finally see that now. Even my closest friends don’t get it, they willfully give Sam Altman and Google money every month. This place is rekt and I’m losing my mind.

I feel like I either need to find a Canadian or Mexican friend to defect to, or just go ahead and pull my own trigger.

Mmm. I like your veracity.

Unfortunately this has been going on few several months now. YT is actively blocking IPs if they think they are from data centers, VPNs, or proxies.

They’ve also been doing some under the hood cryptographic changes that cause breakages from time to time in Invidious (the backend for FreeTube)

Let’s Backtrack a little bit

You could almost play the game: “Linux Distro or Weed Strain?”

Other than my Steam Deck, I daily drive NixOS and it runs on all my servers. Can confirm the glory (hole).

Valve over here puttin’ everybody on Arch

I never really used Flatpaks until I got a Steam Deck and started doing a little game dev on it.

I now have an init script that I run after every SteamOS update to install paru and other libraries via pacman instead, lmao.

it’s an app on Flatpak called Flatseal, it’s a GUI to give flatpaks permissions and such.

I spend hours writing a bash script to automate something I know I’m only going to do once.

I see, I’ve never looked super deep into F-Droid or released anything there, I didn’t realize that a requirement for releasing on F-Droid was that they build it. Just read their inclusion criteria, interesting.

ETA: Read through the whole article, and godamn. I don’t really trust anything Android any way, but this is actually a pretty damn big WTF from F-Droid. Thanks for sharing!