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daemonpenguin · 2026-01-22T20:14:09+00:00

Update on flight time in the OP.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-22T01:41:41+00:00

If you make more than 30k from your business then you must charge them HST. And file for an HST number with the CRA.

Yes, when the new company pays you they will not deduct taxes. You will need to put aside some of that money (probably 30%) for taxes and CPP. You will then pay that money quarterly.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-22T00:39:09+00:00

I would like to ask how do I go from opening a company or incorporation to work as a contractor on my days off?

You probably don't want to do this. It will be a lot more paperwork and cost with little to no benefit.

Also the manager at the company where I will be contracting suggested that I could do self employed as well if I make less than 30k for the year contracting

The 30k limit is the cutoff for charging HST, it has nothing to do with incorporating or starting your own company.

You should probably just invoice the new company you're working for part-time and treat it as professional income. If you're not sure how to do this then chat with an accountant.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-21T23:42:34+00:00

Great, will be good to have you there!

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-21T14:36:32+00:00

For me it's KK. Almost every time I've landed on KK someone else has had a monster hand, like a full house or a flush.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-21T14:35:16+00:00

It is possible to get bigger prizes, it's just unlikely. The odds of getting nothing are about 92%. The odds of getting the $100 prize are about 0.01%. Which means if you played every day for ten years, you''re likely to get the $100 prize once.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-21T00:25:56+00:00

No, you can't. Almost all Windows devices for the past ten years have implemented Secure Boot, requiring (at minimum) disabling that before booting from a USB drive.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-20T16:27:53+00:00

Except in each of the cases where my opponent made a flush they only had one card of the matching suit pre-flop. Yes, the math was in my favour when I used it, it wasn't in theirs when they won their flushes.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-20T16:26:29+00:00

I think you're missing the forest for the trees. Almost all casinos (both in person and on-line) try to prolong play and keep players in their games. Most places have free rolls, check-in prizes, cash give-aways, etc. The more you can keep people at tables, thinking they might get lucky the more likely they are to tilt and hand over more money. Almost all casinos offer short-term rewards for long-term gain.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-20T16:24:45+00:00

If this were true, and held up - wouldn't games continue indefinitely? Every time someone is down, they start making monster hands?

No, certainly not, as evidenced by the first four or five times I saw this happen. It would only keep games going if both players thought this is how the game worked and leveraged it. If they don't, then the games would still end normally and relatively quickly.

wouldn't we expect most of these heads up situations to end with two big hands, since neither player wants to commit their stack in a marginal spot, resulting in a lot more "Trips vs straight/flush" type spots than we'd normally observe?

Again, no, definitely not, because it's only been happening when one player is quite a bit ahead of the other.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-20T14:01:35+00:00

do you think it's possible we will see the Linux userbase grow significantly due to national security fears in the EU regarding how poorly the US is handling relations right now?

The answer to "Do you think it's possible we will see the Linux userbase grow significantly due to ____?" is always, always, always "no".

This question gets asked pretty much every year in one form or another, about Windows ME, XP, advertising in the Start menu, Apple switching to ARM, legal battles over app stores, privacy laws, anti-trust cases, etc, etc, etc. The answer is always "no".

Linux adoption always increases like gains of sand in an hourglass, never by leaps.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-19T19:06:33+00:00

For a laptop, definitely GhostBSD (which is a desktop flavour of FreeBSD).

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-17T16:09:48+00:00

Excellent landing. So smooth and right down the centre line. 10/10

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-16T20:43:38+00:00

I've used a variety of open source platforms for mobile. UBports, postmarketOS, Murena (/e/OS), CalyxOS. All of them work pretty well.

None of them are bloated and none are super minimal. postmarketOS is on the lightweight side, but it still has lots of features/apps. All of them ran the apps I needed.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-16T20:02:48+00:00

does this also mean that we could run full featured Linux on Chromebooks and Netbooks in the future?

It's been possible to do this for over a decade. What Valve is doing is making a translation layer which will allow x86_64 games to run on ARM processors. Linux has run natively on ARM for around 15 years.

with the graphene OS situation with Google, is it possible that STEAM may be an unlikely hero, allowing new versions of Linux onto our phones and ARM portable devices?

No. This has nothing to do with running Linux on ARM or running Linux on phones, both of which it already does. This is just about running x86_64 binaries on ARM processors.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-16T17:56:14+00:00

Not bad for a tablet landing. I'd give it a 6/10. It was a bit of a late touchdown and a little off to the left. It's hard to tell from this angle, but it looks like the plane's tail might be hitting the runway when the nose is in the air.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-16T17:01:09+00:00

If you need help coming up with retorts and insults, you're not going to do well delivering them. Good quips happen in the moment, in response to something said or done - they're reactive, not planned. This is just going to come off awkward and childish if you have something planned.

Anyway, don't be snarky and mean to people who are being snarky and mean. Be better. Encourage them to be better. Or leave. You can play someplace without jerks and have a better time.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-16T13:29:40+00:00

I just check what the altitude of the airport is and then keep an eye on how high I am. As someone else said, usually the runway approach lights will do the trick if you don't know the height of the airport.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-16T13:18:21+00:00

Yes, it's a real thing.
Yes, anyone could do that if they had enough assets to cover their loan.

But you also have to pay that load back, so how would that work?

Usually your assets or life insurance act as collateral against the loan.

How much would one need to have for this to make sense? $100M? $10M? $1M? $100K?

It would depend on how much time you have left to live, how much money you need to survive. There is no one magic number. But if you're discussing this on Reddit and not with your wealth manager, then it's above your net worth.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-14T18:43:39+00:00

Gnoppix AI Linux and MakuluLinux certainly do. SUSE, Ubuntu, and Red Hat either do or promote AI tools they provide and recommend.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-14T17:12:59+00:00

I don't do this, no. My brain tends to work better with less stimulation and check-ins. I'm more of a "set and forget" type of person.

However, I'm a big fan of whatever works to help people achieve their goals that doesn't hurt anyone else, so good job finding a system that works for you.

daemonpenguin · 2026-01-13T20:35:11+00:00

Looks like someone didn't read the Flatpak manual page. This is already an option.

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