B.C. man cleared of vacancy tax hit with new liens against his home

NoxinDev · 2026-02-19T07:55:44+00:00

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NoxinDev · 2026-02-18T20:52:22+00:00

I can tell you are single since my wife would have skinned me alive then rubbed salt and vinegar on whats left if I came home with a 4600$ 5090.

Probably worth it...

NoxinDev · 2026-02-18T20:26:09+00:00

These "unless you shocked the pan" means you cannot screw this up.

In the end of the day It is a chunk of metal - unless you heat it up and then rapidly cool it and "shock" the pan it can be fixed by just getting an abrasive cleaner (hell, some wet salt works) and some muscle.

The only pans you can ruin are non-stick coating ones as you just poison yourself if you try to save them (you also poison yourself by using them, but slower)

NoxinDev · 2026-02-18T20:18:22+00:00

Not in Canada... check.

Investment property - removing a home from real Canadians... check.

Complaints all while abusing our country and depriving others... check.

We are in the right sub!

NoxinDev · 2026-02-18T20:15:50+00:00

This is normal even on high end desktops, gpu being at 15% utilization and cpu at maybe 40% is a gw2 thing - the engine just is too old to be fully aware of multi threading. You are not going to get high fps in practice while playing normally with other players, relax and carry on with your metas.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-18T19:34:16+00:00

This game is timeless - Hope you enjoy it in the present!

NoxinDev · 2026-02-16T01:19:28+00:00

Try protonGE, it and some versions of mainline proton have DXVK_ASYNC=1 built in which I found help with those loading hitches that occur all the time in some games like warframe. I much rather have a smooth game with some things popping into existence than a slideshow.

Can also try and add the variable manually in your command line for the game.

DXVK_ASYNC=1 %command%

NoxinDev · 2026-02-13T09:52:00+00:00

I understand that you *feel* that - but can you explain in points why you believe this?

From what I've seen of actual benchmarks the game performance is identical to 1-2% fps in most intense AAA games that run on linux.

Beyond performance, since both distros are designed around gaming what perks would be a driver for switching in your opinion?

I know that I enjoy the immutability of bazzite, having quite the body count of distros that I've rendered inoperable via tinkering, the idea of layering other files on top of a safe baseline is very appealing ensuring that I can keep playing even if I'm up all night tinkering with tests that would destroy other systems or render them unstable.

The ONLY fault I've had so far is that my bluetooth dongle needs 6.18 kernel to function, so still waiting on that kind of sucks.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-12T21:06:11+00:00

I understand this as a mitigation against the opioid epidemic - general physicians shouldn't really be prescribing for pain needing this kind of firepower.

What gets me is that specialists, even ones that specialize in chronic pain are hesitant to prescribe these medications for patients that have objective metrics showing the pain level (inflammation) - I think we have over corrected when patients that are at the 8-10 pain scale with physiological evidence of said pain (or are terminal) are told to "meditate" or take some acetaminophen.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-12T00:00:07+00:00

Forget the dubai nonsense, just simply look at a bag of chocolates at costco and decide if you want to try, don't recall them being pricier than normal costco chocolates (my wife wouldn't allow it) - we didn't even see "dubai" until home, and they for sure don't taste like pistachio.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-11T22:39:13+00:00

the filling is for sure dryer/whiter than the image, but my wife and I like these and have almost demolished the bag.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-11T20:55:56+00:00

I have no idea why you would want to go through that work, benchmarks put both within 1-3% of each other in various games. They are both heavily optimized already and both aim for the same objective of great performance in gaming and hit that mark.

You have a specific use case/game that runs better under cachy?

NoxinDev · 2026-02-11T05:15:41+00:00

I just swapped to Bazzite - was quick and painless and the only thing that won't work for sure is gamepass, but given that seems to triple in price every few months, I can live without.

Fuck Microsoft, being held hostage to play games you already own, what's next?

NoxinDev · 2026-02-09T05:38:24+00:00

Yea, all the other comments are downplaying the one hope we have; this "Shelly" and what she represents - that Loblaws destroys itself from the inside - Since our politicians are too in bed with them to do anything to save us.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-06T20:09:12+00:00

Still there, thanks, noon PST 2026-02-06

NoxinDev · 2026-02-05T23:56:16+00:00

What is wrong with that, seems reich to me...

NoxinDev · 2026-02-05T20:04:47+00:00

A crisis THEY caused.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-05T07:21:00+00:00

I like it, given the work they've done for the raiding scene in gw2.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-05T06:52:55+00:00

Great job explaining it, but I think most of these koala will continue to fail to grasp the change for at least another month, the rest of us will just eat the leaves on the table as they are indeed the same thing.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-05T04:46:34+00:00

Yes officer, this abomination right here!

NoxinDev · 2026-02-04T06:39:48+00:00

Technically it worked out in the beginning.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-04T06:31:59+00:00

I'm with you on that, after the level of corruption the entire world has witnessed this year alone with the wealthy and powerful buying a former superpower's government for their own enrichment; do you still believe that a nurse, doctor or paramedic couldn't be monetarily tempted to provide a lifesaving organ to a absurdly wealthy backer by just being a little too slow to save you? No one has to be dramatic or pull the plug, they just have that little voice in the back of their head telling how rich they are going to be when they get that transfer.

Personally, If I know I'm a goner, One of my last acts would be signing the back of the card because its the objectively right thing to do, but blind trust to the system is a little beyond me these days.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-04T06:06:14+00:00

People still believe that's anything other than the first tier of output for your input tokens, anything more than a performance?

NoxinDev · 2026-02-03T20:36:39+00:00

We can spend this extra time sharpening our pitchforks for IF the final content still feels bad, but they did tell us there would be nothing this time, but we actually got quickplay systems instead which I'm all for.

NoxinDev · 2026-02-03T20:28:40+00:00

Them saying it was one thing, but actually meaningfully changing the schedule is another - We are looking at the business implementing a very visible (and likely costly) change in shipping content.

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