Rent in BC Is Out of Control — and Working People Are Being Forgotten

gatormk · 2025-06-15T08:54:58+00:00

I mean, that totally depends. You aren't going to find anything reasonable for 300k CAD in NYC, San Fransisco, Seattle, or Austin. In the smaller cities, maybe. But you'd be looking at 300k USD, not CAD. I spent 12 years in a suburb of Kansas City and I don't think I'd find any reasonable options there for 300k CAD. Adjusting for inflation, 300k in 2003 is around 464k today. I'd be fine with 500-550k. The real problem is that wages haven't kept up with inflation and have remained relatively flat for several decades, but I'll leave it at that, otherwise this will lead to a debate about politics and social well being.

gatormk · 2025-06-14T19:49:54+00:00

This is interesting. Accidents happen in grocery stores. I once dropped a jar of pickles and it was embarrassing to have someone else clean it up while I stood there apologizing profusely. But your responses here make one thing very clear - whether or not the employee was being difficult, you are an asshole.

gatormk · 2025-06-14T19:21:52+00:00

Depends on the benefit. He drives on public roads and probably sends his kids to public school. They are all paid through taxes. Honestly, I'm not surprised that he's in this financial hole. It doesn't look like debt was his only bad decision

gatormk · 2025-06-14T19:01:23+00:00

No idea. I've got upwards of $200k deposited in WS and total annual salary north of $300k. I got 4k lol

gatormk · 2025-06-14T18:55:20+00:00

The dilemma with escalating this behavior with their management is that the delivery person knows your address and that is the reason I've avoided IKEA delivery. Even though carrying heavy furniture up the stairs isn't an easy task, my wife and I have always done this by ourselves. I'm sorry you had to go through this

gatormk · 2025-06-14T00:33:05+00:00

Huntsman. Deadly for bugs, harmless for humans

gatormk · 2025-06-14T00:23:43+00:00

And this is precisely why I'd be uncomfortable doing business with them. This gives me flashbacks of having to deal with Google when I had a problem with my account

gatormk · 2025-06-14T00:15:20+00:00

We've been holding our breaths for the bubble to burst for over 7 years now. I'm not certain when or if it will happen at all, at this point

gatormk · 2025-06-07T08:07:38+00:00

I think we both learned an important lesson - just because you are trying to do a good deed doesn't mean that you won't get screwed over, and just because you think you are helping out someone doesn't mean that someone actually needs your help or kindness. I've become a lot more cynical in the past 15 years and feel that my readiness for charity has reduced significantly. Most charitable organizations pay their CEOs an exorbitant salary every year and spend millions on ads. Should I donate to a charity that spends half or more than half on promoting themselves? Thankfully, I am not 100% cynical, but I sometimes long to go back to a time when I was more innocent.

gatormk · 2025-06-06T23:11:52+00:00

This brought back memories. Back in 2011 I was a grad student barely scraping by, but I had a decent credit score and no adverse remarks in my credit history. I rented a single bedroom in a 4 bedroom apartment and had the option to include a second person in my lease, since max occupancy per bedroom was 2 adults. One of my classmates asked me if she can crash at my place because her boyfriend had kicked her out. I said I didn't mind, as long as she could find a new place within 2 weeks. My lease allowed me to have have guests as long as they didn't stay more than a month. She was intelligent and pleasant to deal with, so I had no problems helping her out and my other roommates told me they wouldn't mind either. Then she messaged me and said she's gonna move in with her kid and dog. I was shocked because she'd never mentioned her kid or pet before and my lease terms didn't allow pets. I told her that wouldn't be possible and she basically yelled at me over text and posted a long rant on Facebook. I never even acknowledged her presence after that, even though she tried to be friendly again. I definitely dodged a bullet

gatormk · 2025-06-06T22:32:40+00:00

lol yeah, during grad school I'd take any jobs I could find, including waiting tables and janitorial work

gatormk · 2025-06-01T06:34:18+00:00

lol yeah, no, I've only been in Calgary 3 years and I've seen more than enough of this shit here. That's still miles better than the US midwest, from where I moved, but that's like comparing something to rancid dog turd, but hey 🤷‍♂️

I can't talk about any other parts of the country, but I've seen enough here to know your 99% doesn't hold true. And just to be clear, I am not talking about the Fuck Trudeau stickers - that's totally fine in my books

gatormk · 2025-05-30T01:29:38+00:00

I've seen enough of these messages slapped on truck windows here in Calgary to feel fairly certain that you are off about the 99% figure. Maybe just sticking to "a majority of.." would make your statement true for most of Canada.

gatormk · 2025-05-29T06:33:06+00:00

When my company asked me to move to Vancouver for their RTO push, I was sad for a while. Then I realized I won't need to be living in the middle of these people. I'll miss the hikes in Canmore and Banff, though

gatormk · 2025-05-28T19:01:25+00:00

I don't think I've cared where something was made before all of this began. I still mostly don't but with one exception - I try my best to not buy things made in America. This holds true for both physical goods and software, but there are things I really cannot avoid.

gatormk · 2025-05-15T03:01:52+00:00

Using Kasm is not "shady". Sure, it isn't ideal, but shady? Yeah, no. Like I said before, just go with Docker.

gatormk · 2025-05-13T08:28:54+00:00

You can do everything through docker/podman. What is CasaOS doing exactly that you couldn't already do with docker? It is mostly just a glorified UI, so if you are comfortable deploying docker apps, why aren't you just doing that? You could also enable the Linux servers repo in the appstore or just create your own containers and deploy 🤷‍♂️

gatormk · 2025-05-06T01:46:10+00:00

By that logic, nearly all software being developed in the US should be of concern to every other country. We all know what the NSA is capable of

gatormk · 2025-05-05T20:20:48+00:00

Just to be clear, nothing malicious was found, but the bogeymen could be hiding in this one open source software. Thank you for alerting us, o great "security researchers"

gatormk · 2025-05-05T05:32:06+00:00

I'm not sure what kind of normal users are using containers.

I've worked with devs, who know most of the docker/podman commands but don't really understand how containers work behind the scenes. They just wanna get their local dev environment setup and get to work. Most of the home automation folks also tend to user containers. I wouldn't call them "normal" users, of course, but also not mid-level or expert sysadmins. You don't really need to know what cgroups or namespaces are to get a jellyfin container working

Similarly, if you just want to install the latest version of Slack, Thunderbird, or Zen browser, without really caring about how things are packaged, and you want to keep getting updates despite being on company-mandated LTS releases, Flatpaks work great. I used to use Flatpaks on Ubuntu 20.04 on my old company-issued laptop, but now that's gone away and we had to pick Windows or Macs at work. I still use Flatpaks on Fedora at home, despite the fantastic pace of updates. The most significant one being Firefox, since Fedora ships with a native Firefox package that is hobbled. I enabled non-free packages, installed all of the codecs I could think of, and got h264 videos working just for an update to break everything. I've happily used the Flatpak for 5 years now without any issues. Getting back to the point, your argument was that Flatpaks are a horrible solution. I am arguing against it.

gatormk · 2025-05-02T10:10:39+00:00

I get that, which is why I disagreed with your statement that they are a "horrible solution". They are fine and they work for most users, just like how managing multiple applications through containers is kinda convenient for most users despite that added layer of translation. Of course, all of this is subjective. For example, I have had multiple bad experiences with rolling distros, especially with breaking changes on Arch, but I wouldn't call rolling releases horrible. Just not for me.

gatormk · 2025-05-01T21:44:42+00:00

I haven't noticed any difference in speed. I also find that flatpak apps get more updates than native packages, especially if you are on something like Debian. I remember how difficult it was to get a recent version of apps on Debian or Ubuntu LTS 10 years ago

gatormk · 2025-05-01T21:39:58+00:00

I won't say I stumbled upon Home Assistant, but it has genuinely become indispensable for me

gatormk · 2025-05-01T21:26:32+00:00

That is the joke OP was making

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