TrudeauCastroson

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[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In Canada you have to pay extra for a 5G plan even if you have a 5G phone. And grandfathered plans/plans you've been on for a while keep the low speeds.

I had a super cheap prepaid plan with 3g speeds until I switched last month because I was on it for so long.

Some prepaid plans here just cut you off data completely unless you prepay for your overage. Others let you go over and charge you like $5 per 200mb over (ridiculous).

There are post-paid monthly plans that don't do overage charges, but they throttle you so much it's not really useful.

Edit: just checked, for 50 CAD (around 40 USD) you can get 100GB of 5G a month prepaid, for a plan that gives you complete US coverage as well.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That seems like a pretty bad deal actually, you can probably find a better 4g or even 5g plan in the US for that.

Prepaid companies in Canada (who generally have worse pricing than the US because all the cell companies have agreements with each other) have 20-40gb/month for that price (depending on the limited time sales), but not unlimited w/ throttling like you have.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Now that you mention it, I see your point. The Southern cross is probably worse for being a symbol of the explorers who discovered land to be colonized than for the cross itself IMO.

Meanwhile the Nordic countries have sideways crosses because one of them started it since they had a king see a cross or something in a battle, and then they copied each other's homework. The king didn't even meet Jesus, he just hallucinated a cross. If you met the guy then at least that's a story. That's like putting Elvis on your flag because you saw him in a potato chip.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My top concern in switching to electric lawn equipment is removable battery storage in the winter, and battery degregation/range concerns.

I bought a used 4 stroke lawnmower from someone moving away, and it mows my whole lawn.

Considering the rate at which my laptop battery deteriorated, I don't think the lawn mower battery would last 2 years if I want to do my whole lawn at once.

Electric replacements for 2 stroke stuff is definitely way better, I love my electric trimmer/edger. It's easier to charge a battery than mix the oil/gas and smell all that purposely burned oil.

I hope you live somewhere you can sell that solar energy back to the grid, batteries are the worst part of electrifying stuff. I wonder if anyone's built a water tower in their backyard for energy storage. Pump it up during the day, release the water down into a cistern at night.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Israel is the "rogue state" that everyone international-community-1 international-community-2 is scared North Korea or Iran would turn into if they got nukes.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What if there were exponentially more than we thought.

  • Tianemen squared

  • Tianemen cubed

And so on and so on zizek-theory

edit: someone else made a very similar joke in a different earlier thread that i did not see. I will be paying that user royalties.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm surprised Arch is that high compared to other distros.

Also interesting that people are actually switching to windows 11, everyone I know is staying on win10 as long as possible because they're more used to the interface.

Oh shit when did that happen lol.

Time to try and get my WhatsApp group chats to Signal, even though no one else in them cares about security

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I never liked/used telegram because it needs my phone number so it's not anonymous. Idk why it's used as a discord alternative, it's not really better except for lower moderation.

If signal had group chats it'd be perfect for my purposes.

Idk what I'd use to text/have voice anonymously to other Hexbearians/feds, there's probably some IRC spinoff useful for that idk.

I wouldn't believe you because the beat/instruments are very 2000s Timbaland-y.

I now looked it up and The Neptunes (Pharrell) produced it, which makes sense because of the weird, idk, syncopation on the beat. I take back Timbaland because if he made the beat the instruments would stand out more and be more annoying (not that I'm annoyed, I just don't know how else to describe it).

I'm not music educated, so idk if my words are right.

I also feel like the singing is 2000s RnB style, but idk if that's just bias from knowing it's old, the instrumentation, or how the vocals are produced. I can't really name that many modern RnB woman singers so I don't have a good comparison frame. Compared to HER or SZA the vocals aren't that produced, Kelis is more imperfect and slightly raspy which i think would be edited more these days.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The shipping container home thing is similar to making furniture out of shipping pallets. Not functional, not aesthetically pleasing, and probably dangerous (chemically treated wood vs hot metal box that takes too much work to be livable).

If Amazon was a competent company that was better than its predecessors, then it would have kit-homes like the Sears catalog used to, and no one would bother with this container BS. But instead it's oops-all-dropshipping.

[–] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ever since the Italian semifinal vote was leaked this has kind-of been clear. I thought they bought sim cards or something, but I guess it's just the power of targetted advertising to people who probably didn't watch Eurovision Song Contest, and only voted to own the Muslims/Greta Thunberg.

Israel got >50% of Italian votes in the semis, which doesn't make sense because Ukraine only got 25% out of symptathy the year Russia fully invaded.

Israel won the most votes in too many countries compared to song popularity. They won the most public votes in Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, San Marino, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Rest of World.

They also won the 2nd most votes in Ireland which doesn't make sense either.

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