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Per the fun graph in the article, we might even assume your age (Though Canada seems to buck the trend re: dropping cash so completely). Which I thought was pretty amazing (the gra…

I can see if being considered unfair if it's a single business, but I do think that it's at least a little funny, considering we have penny rounding (to the nearest nickel) here in…

The first example given is for a liquor store - where a clerk is very likely to ask for one piece of ID, and in some locations, two - one photo ID, one with the customer's name emb…

> What's so special about 2004? Ubuntu's first release, IIRC

The bill the end user receives being zero doesn't change how telecom billing is set up. The fact that it's "Free" and costs are hidden from the user in America isn't exactly uncomm…

> non-standard (say parking cameras... Those are, and have been legally required, for several years in Canada because cars have gotten so big, and visibility so bad, people kept hi…

Isn't this in part because so many cities need all the cash they can get to fund individually-insolvent infrastructure? [0] If the goal is to be able to maintain roads that can't p…

In case it's helpful for anyone else having the issue: mmv [0] means you only have to run the command once to rename every file. It's pretty fantastic. [0] https://ss64.com/bash/mm…

> Plex which seems to have stagnated Besides a pointless re-arranging of the UI, which we all hate, what should they be doing? I'll grant you "Bugs to be quashed", but fewer featur…

Little late, but I think I see how we have such different experiences. Assuming other comments are right, and Reddit's pulling pretty much entirely from cache, you probably just sc…

To be clear: You mean you have timeouts and failures using Reddit's own "new and improved" web UI and mobile client? Because using RedReader, old.reddit.com, and other third-party …

Good call - I'm sure the next private company won't eventually treat their users like garbage.

> no one is ramming pronouns down anyone's throats? From TFA: "...the correspondence indicates the company insisted on completing the gender field on Scharf’s employee profile, rat…

> the worse dystopian case (see Russia and a lot of the third world) > a pretty smile you get off with a warning, but if you're black with resting bitch face then you'll get a tick…

Hell, I currently don't even have gigibit fiber and self-host a Mastodon instance at home. Currently hosting Plex (meaning content-sharing with friends and family), Mastodon, Matri…

Why would Discord want to do that? I get why we, as people, want that; I do not get why Discord, as a company, would want their platform less sticky. "You have to have an account w…

> Most people outside... like cars and their convenience Everyone loves [the first order effects of] cars. Climate control, directly to where you need to go, whenever suits you, fo…

High gas prices are explicitly why I take transit and avoid driving. I have a car, but it works out to $10 CAD every day to drive to work - so I make the effort to get up a little …

Appalling what that says about Google, or what that says about the average search user?

Sounds like it'll be the new drivers license. Instead of waiting to take the test and get a car, which has fallen out of vogue in many circles, some will impatiently wait for their…

The third and fourth requests even de-Googled (Qualcomm) phones make is to download the GPS almanac. You don't have to wait because it downloads over wifi or cellular, which have g…

Respectfully, I think you might have gotten used to the sas state America has ended up in. I'm in a reasonably sized city, and have fresh groceries less than half a mile away. My p…

> You have that backwards, at least for some companies Absolutely I do - my overall (and apparently poorly communicated) point was more about Apple pulling in data from OSM to impr…

> Then again, Apple Maps started getting sorted out around then too iirc. And we assume completely coincidentally? Not that Apple Maps, like Google Maps, pulls in data volunteered …