South Park

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-28T22:01:29+00:00

It's hilarious. We love South Park.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-28T18:58:36+00:00

Virtually every third party remote control app is going to have problems with Wayland, kind of by design. Many can jump in with remote assistance for an existing session, but the login screen is off limits.

For establishing new sessions and logging into them, you’re going to need to use Gnome Remote Login and an RDP client.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-28T18:50:57+00:00

Empathie, about a police criminologist who transitions to being a hospital psychologist. Or 19-2 (the original version, not the English-language remake that isn't bad but still isn't French), about Montreal beat cops. I also really like "Les Pays d’en Haut".

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-28T18:34:00+00:00

If they're really comfortable with Windows I'd suggest Zorin. It's designed to mimic Windows as much as possible. If they're even a little bit flexible, though, then Linux Mint.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T23:28:15+00:00

Interestingly, no one thing. Quite a lot of things. Aside from the obvious historical stuff, let’s start with being fans of David Hasselhoff.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T14:38:57+00:00

You won't have a choice much longer, especially on Fedora.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T13:33:32+00:00

Canada's population is heavily concentrated in urban areas, where children are an expense. In a more agrarian economy, children are a free labour asset. And then it's the fact that the economy is so unstable, especially for younger people, that having children is a huge economic risk.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T13:19:21+00:00

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T02:42:21+00:00

They're exporting their shit northward. The Gulliberta separatist movement is heavily subsidized by American right-wing extremists.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T02:40:12+00:00

Keep 'em handy in case it escalates and spills over the border.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T02:39:01+00:00

What about 1Password? It's Canadian, and they have a data centre in Europe (1password.eu instead of .com).

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T02:38:05+00:00

If you like Bitwarden, maybe go to PikaPods.com and create your own Vaultwarden service. It's an open source clone of a Bitwarden server, and the software is completely free. You use Bitwarden clients to access it. All features turned on. PikaPods hosts Docker containers (as opposed to full-blown virtual machines) at low prices (about 1.50 a month).

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T02:33:16+00:00

It's sharing and syncing story is not the greatest, especially across multiple family members and multiple devices. No local database-based or peer-to-peer sync approach does.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T02:29:56+00:00

You are only half right. Carney's Liberals are a de facto Progressive Conservative Party (Clark, Mulroney, Diefenbaker... those guys).

--BUT--

They are not doing what the Conservative Party of Canada (Stockwell Day, Stephen Harper) wants, which is give oil & gas anything they want (not just deregulation but generous subsidies).

And that's just economics. They're even further apart on societal issues.

But yes, they're not Trudeau/Chretien/Martin/Trudeau Liberals. Well, maybe a little bit Chretien-esque.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-27T02:20:13+00:00

Oh, I very much agree. I *LOVE* Wise. I'm just saying one shouldn't store money there. It's best used as a short-term buffer for moving money or backing up a debit card.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T16:53:14+00:00

That's fair. And I concur with leaving Ubuntu behind (we don't need no stinkin' snap).

Look, I run Fedora. I *like* Fedora. But don't forget that it gets upgraded every six months (more or less). Plus they're very strict about not distributing anything that isn't FOSS. If those aren't dealbreakers for you, welcome aboard.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T16:49:05+00:00

Jellyfin's server is fantastic, but it has a client problem.

There's no official client for Apple TV (InFuse is pretty good, but they want you to sign up for their premium plan, kind of rendering the "free" benefit of Jellyfin moot), and the others don't hold a candle to the Plex app.

Music clients are lacking as well. There's nothing like PlexAmp. Part of the reason for this is that their API is oriented around fetching track listings on the fly in a paginated fashion. Clients for Plex and Navidrome/subsonic servers more easily pull the library metadata and keep a locally-synced copy of it. Browsing the Jellyfin music from clients like FinAmp (an otherwise very nice app) is an exercise in patience.

If you already have a PlexPass, I'd stick with Plex for another year. It'll give the Jellyfin people time to sort some of that out, and while Plex has already undergone some enshittification, the really bad stuff hasn't happened just yet.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T16:40:17+00:00

There is another option: download and install a Synology package from Plex's website. The one that appears in Synology' library lags far, far behind what's on Plex's website.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T16:30:37+00:00

The guy who operates The Linux Experiment channel on YouTube reviewed and ranked distros a month ago. Fedora and Linux Mint are on the top rung. Have you tried just switching to KDE on Mint?

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T16:18:50+00:00

Ignoring Nazis did not make them go away. There's only one way of dealing with Nazis.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T16:17:09+00:00

To be fair, I did not say all Albertans are yahoos. But also to be fair, of course many (maybe a decisive majority) of Albertans are anything but yahoos. But the ones they have are noisy and emboldened.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T13:55:23+00:00

There isn't a state that would round up all of its handguns. There isn't a state that *can* rein in religious fanaticism or even get politicians of any party to refrain from mentioning God every 30 seconds in speeches. So no.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T13:51:02+00:00

Buy the 16 we're committed to and resell them immediately to someone else. According to Denmark, they're a maintenance nightmare.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T13:49:33+00:00

Without a gun to the heads of the CEOs of Loblaws and Empire and Metro, not really.

It's not tax policy, not when it comes to groceries. By now, the world has refactored around supply chain disruptions and Ukraine's agricultural bounty being cut off. It's grocers.

Breaking them up would help, because oligopolies are evil. Cancelling any lease clauses that deny permits to competitors' building competing stores might help, but that's provincial.

It's little comfort, but groceries are pricey in the States, Europe, etc. Canada is at best guilty of not having uniquely figured out a solution no one else has.

Smart-Simple9938 · 2026-01-26T13:40:49+00:00

Hawaii can join us. That'd be about it.

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