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This is an old )i7-9700k) desktop PC running Win10 22H2. No chance of (or desire to) upgrade to Win11.

Today it had some patches and needed a reboot, same as usual. However, the mouse is stuttery and laggy as hell now.

Task manager is showing typically low use of CPU/GPU/RAM/IO, nothing obvious there. However, it feels like something is hitting 100% CPU across all cores. If I move the mouse too quickly, it will stick, stutter, and then catch up. If I try to drag something too fast, it unselects it.

Something broke badly in this last update. Any suggestions?

Seriously, do it. Go get your Jack (bleah), your Aviation gin, your California wines, whatever you want.

Every store with those items on the shelf has already bought the products from AGLC. They can't ship it back, and they can't recover their costs except through sales.

The AGLC is no longer buying booze from the US, which means every bottle available is money already sunk - and for small stores, it can be a lot of money.

So go to your local shop, buy what you want, and tell the owner that you know it's not on them to throw away their purchased inventory.

So I've got a Ducky One RGB Tenkeyless keyboard, and the doubleshot caps are pretty much worn out. (the homing bars on F and J are undetectable by feel).

I'm looking for a pudding version of the same. Namely:

• OEM profile
• 87 key ANSII TKL layout
• double-shot PBT
• black-capped pudding
• Works with Cherry switches (cherry red, FWIW)

As an added bonus, I'd like to replace the Windows key with something fun - maybe Tux the penguin or Lemmy the lemming, a motorcycle, something other than "We are the Microsoft Borg."

Best I can find so far is the enormous (145 key?!) set from Ducky, which is out of stock everywhere.

We had some Amazon gift cards to use up before my Prime membership expires, so we got a Dyson cordless stick vacuum. The amount of dirt it picked up was both horrific and satisfying.

In response to the US going off the rails, I'm seeing lots of push to buy Canadian products as much as possible and I love it.

But it's never that simple, is it?

Easiest case: You can buy leather bags and wallets from Adrian Klis. These are made in Canada, by a Canadian company, from Canadian materials (Buffalo hide leather).

Unfortunately, neither manufacturing or ownership are that straightforward most of the time.

• Creemore Springs is a small brewery in Ontario, using local product and brewing locally. AND they're owned by the Molson Coors Beverage Company - a cross-border multinational.
• Likewise, Canada Goose (winter jackets) is now owned by Bain Capital in the USA.
• A lot of us use Melitta filters in our drip coffee makers. Melitta is a German company that manufactures in the USA. (FYI, Technivorm filters are manufactured and headquarted in The Netherlands.)
• Coca Cola is unabashedly American, and has backed militant extremists in other countries; but the bottle of coke you buy in the store likely came from one of their five bottling plants in Canada, bottled by a Canadian.
• Aylmer's soups are Canadian through-and-through. Everything other than soup under the Aylmer brand and logo is now owned by Conagra.
• Everyone knows that Costco is American, but they've also got a long history of paying above average, giving better than average benefits, and standing up to the excesses of capitalism and fascism.
• Of course, "Canadian" is no guarantee of "good" either for products or for companies. Loblaws has spent decades gouging customers (often illegally) and Shopify's executives are advocating for a Canadian DOGE.

I'm not suggesting for a second we throw our hands up in the air and give up, but I'd like to see a bit more clarity on all of the "Buy Canadian" lists.

• Country of manufacture.
• Country of components.
• Company headquarters.
• Ultimate company ownership.

None of this is going to be as easy as "buy the thing with a maple leaf" but we need to be more aware of how we're supporting the US or other economies, either deliberately or inadvertently.

Many people think of A&W as an American chain, but they have been separate companies for many decades. More to the point, they have been an actual Canadian company since 1995.

A man convicted and sentenced to nine months in jail for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was arrested in Whistler, B.C., four years to the day after the riot.

Rather than reporting to jail in the U.S., Antony Vo headed north to seek asylum in Canada.

He told CBC News last week that he was hoping U.S. president-elect Donald Trump would pardon him.

Had an appointment for my sore knee this morning. They say it's just a combination of cartilage damage and arthritis, and I might need surgery.

Cleaned out the smoker retorqued and inflated the winter tires, and am now going for a haircut.

This is called eventful.

“Municipal governments, don’t ever let them bullshit you, are bursting with cash, and they’re wasting it all”

I mean I was down on the floor, scrubbing the grout and wiping the wall behind the toilet. The stuff that normally gets missed.

Feels good.

CBC has chosen their 15 best Canadian albums of 2025. What do y'all think? What albums would you add to the list?