Rob Bos

Nah. I’ll die on that particular hill.

You forgot to end your sentence with ‘lol’. At least be consistent with your bad English.

That image is 100% the academic quadrangle at Simon Fraser University. Hah.

We had taglines and bbs signatures. Those were pretty similar.

I would say no* but the asterisk has a few paragraphs involving funding sustainability, cryptobro involvement, and dubious decentralization.

I get the need for them, to pay for shared building services. Strata fees pay for exercise rooms, pools, grounds maintenance, whatever. I 100% am behind them, as long as the Strata council is responsive to needs and not corrupted, but there’s the rub.

I’d generally be happier with few services and low strata fees tho.

Yeah. I’m pretty much resigned to living in our rental until we get renovicted. No kids, double income, a lot of savings… but the mortgage payments would be way more than it’s worth to have a minor upgrade. Strata payments alone are often more than our rent!

Not Vancouver. Nothing that size would go less than 2 million until you hit Coquitlam. MAYBE.

Im assuming you’ve looped in @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca?

Former Port Alberni city council, fediverse advocate

I’ve found that changing my email address works better than unsubscribe sometimes. Just change it to a tagged address and set up a filter. Shields you against future sales as well.

All the Trump emails go rbos+fucktrump now. Probably a hundred a day. Unsubscribe did not work.

Also, Canadian. Incompetent jerks.

They have good flights but they do make a lot of noise at the waterfront. The smell of avgas is overwhelming, too. Nothing against them, it’s unavoidable, but I’m looking forward to their electric Beaver plane.

Air North is pretty good so far, but no frills and I don’t know if they do long hauls.

Yeah, chicken and egg. Unfortunate twitter has now locked down feeds so you have to be logged in, so also fuck them on that point.

It’s a tradeoff. I am so disgusted by twitter that I chose to give that up and leave.

This is a baffling comment. There are tons of people on mastodon, more than I could ever hope to keep up with. I have a couple hundred accounts on follow and never manage to keep up. Honestly it could use some sorting.

I don’t think that is necessarily out of the running yet. OS development is expensive and low profit. Commodification may be inevitable. Control of the shell and GUI, where they can push advertisements and shovelware and telemetry on you, that is profitable.

So in 20 years, 50? I predict proprietary OSes will die out eventually, balance of probability.

They also tend to have linux support. Where the AAA companies want to eat the entire mammoth and scorn the scraps, small companies can thrive off of small prey and the offal. :)

It’s true, and it’s problematic, but the plastic lining in an aluminium can is super thin, since it doesn’t need to be structural. As far as resource use goes, it’s still way better. It’s best to look for improvements, and not to let the search for perfection block you from a marginal gain.

If you’re going to re-use, use glass, where possible. If you’re not, aluminium is still the better choice.

We should have higher deposits on cans and bottles. Here, it’s been pegged at 5 cents since the 90s - it should be more like 25 cents now for cans, or a dollar for glass bottles.

Be not afraid.

Honestly doesn’t sound like a terrible idea on paper, but this spam outbreak could kill it before it gets off paper in a real way. Giving devs a bad taste will stay around a long while.

Edit: and of course the well-earned general attitude toward cryptocurrency as scammer playgrounds is automatically putting it way in the red too.