In other news, Lemmy stock mooned infinity% from 0.00 to 0.00 plus beans.

Is this the official plan now, and was it the same one that Russian propaganda channels were leaking?

Come visit us in Canada! And just… uh… forget that you have to return home or to work!

Tbh for me I will miss not being able to ride the Amtrak, the newly electrified Caltrain, and all those trains in NY, NJ, MA and PA…

Fewer!!

How about we bring back the wheat board? Dairy and Poultry products are the most secure industries because they are supply managed.

How about we nationalize the energy sector? Norway has a very secure energy industry because its profits go right to helping people rather than in the pockets of corporations.

On Lemmy, two’s a crowd (or a flamewar).

I was planning to go to California this month. That is now cancelled and other US trips are off the table. Mexico sounds like a more interesting place to spend my time.

Following threats of tariffs and annexation by Donald Trump, 76% of Quebecers say they’re buying fewer products from the United States. 74% say they’re also less inclined to travel to the U.S.

71% of Quebecers no longer see the United States as a friendly country.

Awfully nice of Amazon to make it super clear they are an enemy, by moving lock-step with the deranged president and coincide it with union-busting attacks on Québec.

Sad but kinda hilarious. Lemmy.ca appears to have a better succession plan in place through the nonprofit organization…

The only other thing I have tried when colours don’t work right is to modify the metacity and gtk theme files. (Save a backup first, then) modify the colours of various white elements to various ones in the rainbow until the mozc popup colour changes. Note that you have to restart every time for it to take effect.

Oh great I can copy that to my invitation list to Canada.

Yep, my effective downtime is zero because when lemmy.ca goes down I use one of my two alts to browse the rest of the fediverse, and if one of the popular ones happens to go down then I just browse locally more. It only sucked a bit when a big piece of Canadian news happened (PM Trudeau resigning) and there was an unscheduled outage due to shitty OVH hardware and support. Thankfully our admins migrated off that server.

In contrast, when I remember Reddit was 500-ing all you could do is sit, refresh and wait.

Before:

After:

(1st photo: JD Vance at a September 2024 campaign stop claiming that a dozen eggs is $4, when the sign behind reads $2.99 for a dozen)

(2nd photo: A NYT graph showing the average price for a dozen is $5.29 as of Jan 18, 2025)

It has to be something that is nearly fully outside your control but is affecting you, there are probably milder problems as examples but I think this apt.

In the metaphor, half of the answers are asking you to do a useless workaround, blame you and/or are irrelevant to solving the problem. Hence the leak, where the answers are telling you to try running your taps for 10 minutes, put a bucket under the leak, telling you that there is no leak and that’s actually a water fountain, etc.

I do worry about putting up public servers that other people might rely on because there’s something I might not realize making it vulnerable.

So far I have pubkey root login only on the VPSs I’m messing around with, but my ol’ reliable private key from 6 years ago might be beginning to fall behind on encryption standards.

Excellent résumé.

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The important thing is this: has a rental agreement been signed? If yes, you are protected against BS fees and extortion. Ideally, the lease agreement is in this standard form, and then you can see in section 10 if this is a refundable key deposit or Section 6 for details on utility fees if something is required upfront. You need to read through it carefully regardless, it will save you confusion.

If you have NOT signed but you are moved in based on a verbal agreement or agreement in principle, then this is what you do: take screen captures of the listing if it is still up, save as much info on this as you can, and get advice ASAP from tenant unions and free legal resources other commentors have mentioned. And do not forget that you cannot be discriminated against for your need of a prosthetic limb.

If you figure out it’s a legit ask such as for the reasons I described above, and not just because they can abuse or scam you, I can donate some to you. I know it’s stressful but I’m not willing to donate to the landlord to simply appease them. Also check out my reply from your post yesterday.

Well it is more like your ceiling is leaking from the apartment above and your landlord ain’t doing shit. Installing Linux would be like moving out to another apartment or home. Even if it doesn’t fix the leak the problem is now gone for you.