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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you post a link, you can add a thumbnail image URL! In the default lemmy-ui, it should be right under where you upload an image :)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The Liberals need to run an ad around this, this made him more likable and relatable than anything I've seen about Carney.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People, basically someone calls in to talk about anything they want with the host (comedian Chris Gethard). The caller can hang up any time, the host must hang up after exactly one hour.

People call in to talk about so many different things, and Gethard is really good at getting people to open up in a very genuine yet casual manner.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Oh, I've never played CS 1.6 so I can't directly comment but the main thing I hear is how different the mechanics are.

I imagine nostalgia plays no small role, as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I honestly agree with pretty much everything you say here, good comment. I certainly don't envy any of our politicians right now, having to deal with this mess of a situation.

However I do think at this point it's starting to look inevitable that ultimately, we are going to become less friendly and inter-dependent with the United States, whether we want to or not. Trump seems intent on destroying the many years of goodwill and friendship between our two countries.

Trying to maintain stability for our citizens is a noble goal, but I'm starting to think now is the time to start planning on how we'll deal with the future instability of our relationship with the US.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're completely different games, but if you're unfamiliar with the Counter-Strike series I can see how it can be confusing.

Counter-Strike 1.6 refers to the original game in the series, which ran on the GoldSrc engine. The "1.6" refers to the final release of this game from 2000.

The next installments in the series were Counter-Strike: Source (2004) and Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (2012) which both ran on the Source engine.

Counter-Strike 2 was released in 2023, as an update replacing CS:GO. It runs on the Source 2 engine, which is to what the "2" in the name is referring.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

A provincial government with the courage to stand up to the Irvings? One can only dream...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I'm not impressed by the Holt government's reaction to the trade war so far. The article mentions things the government will "look into", (selling Teslas in the government fleet, ending government contracts with U.S. service providers) and but there has been no action since the start of Trump's tariff threats.

Holt said she was also reluctant to levy an electricity threat "just for show," an apparent reference to Ontario Premier Doug Ford's blustery imposition of a 25 per cent surcharge on his province's exports to the U.S. [...]

Holt, however, prefers a friendlier, collaborative approach to politics [...]

Not to praise Doug Ford of all people, but you have to have your head up your ass to think "friendly, collaborative" politics are going to work with a fascist at our southern border threatening our sovereignty.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I got a new job, and the group chat is on WhatsApp, so I'm looking into running a Synapse server with a bridge to it. I really don't want to have to use Meta's apps on my phone.

From what I've read so far, it seems like it's going to be the most convoluted install process I'll have encountered in my self-hosting journey. I'm excited to tackle it, but also a bit overwhelmed. Which is why I've been putting it off :P

 

New Brunswick universities are scrambling for information after the federal government announced new caps on international students, set to come into effect for the next school year.

Article en français (Acadie Nouvelle)

 

L'nouvel album va sortir le 26 avril! J'suis déjà ben hyped pis j'ai mes tickets pour le premier soir à Moncton!

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Okay I'm fully aware of how ridiculous this sounds in 2023, but bare with me.

I have a wonderful neighbour, Jackie. She's in her mid-sixties, and ever since she moved in we have become very good friends, she's like a second mom to me.

Jackie loves movies and has an enormous DVD collection. One day, she was talking about how she couldn't find a particular movie, and I said "I can probably download that for you!" Her immediate reply was "Can you put it on a DVD?" I tried telling her the many reasons it would be better to use a myriad of other solutions, but she insists on DVDs.

I did them for a while using DVDStyler on Windows, and it worked fine. But then I installed EndeavourOS on a new partition on my hard drive, tried using Brasero and Devede but it wouldn't read on her DVD player. Then I tried DVDStyler on my Linux partition, and it didn't work on her DVD player, despite saying the operation was successful on my end. I then tried booting up into Windows and using DVDStyler, and that also didn't work, not even letting me burn the disc. Does anyone have any ideas what could fix this? I've tried playing around with the settings in all these apps but I couldn't figure it out.

Apologies if this isn't the best place to ask this, but I figured a community of pirates would understand my desire to get movies to Jackie without her having to pray to find them in a pawn shop!

 

Une des choses que j'adore du français, c'est d'entendre l'immense diversité dans la façon dont nous parlons. Quel accent vous a le plus marqué? Perso, j'avais un prof du Cameroun à l'université et je n'ai jamais écouté autant attentivement dans un cours, son accent était similaire à celui dans ce vidéo.

Un autre préféré c'est l'accent cajun de la Louisiane, en voici un exemple qui parle aussi de la culture de la francophonie en Louisiane. Je suis francophone de l'Acadie (Nouveau-Brunswick) et c'est intéressant de voir les similarités entre nos accents malgré l'influence intense de l'anglais en Louisiane.

 

A new method for counting homeless people is offering a clearer look at the magnitude of the social issue, with preliminary results indicating the country's homeless population could be three times higher than current estimates.

 

Bike on a beer can on a bike.

Fun fact: Radler is the Bavarian dialect word for Radfahrer (“cyclist”)

 
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