Again, stop giving them devices that they have full control over. They either shouldn’t have a smartphone or they should have one that you control.

Right, so use them to your advantage? Don’t allow unfettered internet access on the device you give your child. Use MDM/Parental controls to lock its internet access to a proxy or VPN that blocks adult websites, as well as other anonymizers. Business have been doing this since forever.

It’s not on you to know every single website and what it does. All major security providers maintain a classification database of websites that they use to filter the internet. Most major corporations subscribe to those lists, as do schools (I think by law). All you would do is buy one of these services and the blacklist would be managed by them. They’re not 100% perfect, and you child will be able to find a picture of boobs if they try hard enough, but that has always been the case.

One quick and easy way is to change your DNS to 1.1.1.3, which is a public resolver Cloudflare runs which filters out adult domains. This doesn’t scale if you’ve given your child a cellular device that can connect to other networks, but in that case you shouldn’t have done that, or should secure that device with a security solution that can enforce polices across the OS.

Personally I think it should be easier for parents to be able to do this kind of thing without having to learn too much about the tech, but deciding how to raise your child and what to shelter them from is your responsibility. These products have existed for decades. Instead of forcing OS manufactures to confirm ages and identities, we should focus on making sure parents have access to easy to use parental controls.

You’re so close. It’s like you read 1/2 of the detective novel, thought you knew who did it, then got bored and closed it without finding out you were wrong.

It was disingenuous to infer that the minor tax increase you linked to above had any meaningful impact on affordability.

If your second link is accurate then your bigger beef is with the provincial liquor boards as they are levying a tax that is certainly notable.

And then to blame immigrants for unaffordability with the old debunked “taking our jobs” argument is just sad. I hope you eventually step out of your conservative bubble and see that it’s capitalism and class inequality that are the problem, not government and your fellow man.

Charlebois predicts the tax will increase the price of a single beer by one cent, while the finance ministry told Global News in a statement that the amount would be three-quarters of a cent.

Oh no? Even in the worst case the taxes are clearly not the issue.

Beer Canada said since the tax is a production tax imposed on the brewer at the point and time of production, “it is then magnified by other fees and taxes imposed by distributors, retailers, and provinces, including sales taxes,” making the impact on a 12-pack likely closer to 20 cents.

And all from natural gas. Literally a 24/7 365 burn. The environmental community never could have predicted the regressions of the last few years. There’s no hope anymore.

My mistake, it always allowed PHEVs in Canada and I made the assumption it was similar elsewhere as a full blown EV mandate is a really though sell. Thanks for clarifying.

While battery degradation is real, one thing people often overlook is that most of these mandates include PHEVs under the umbrella of electric vehicles. PHEVs have way smaller batteries which make them lighter, cheaper, and they aren’t subject to range anxiety. The only downside is the extra cost and the continued maintenance required of an ICE (but ICE buyers are used to it and don’t care about that).

Windows itself already does this type of tracking to determine your time zone.

Totally different. Go take a look at one of these things. Many of them aren’t even GPUs you can slot into anything, they’re totally custom and integrated into the main board which expects special cooling and interconnects. Like I said, if youre the mad scientists type that has a dedicated space for loud enterprise server racks, yeah, I’m sure you could figure out something. But this isn’t going to be like a bunch or RAM and GPUs that you or I can use.

I wouldn’t knock it until you’ve tried it. I would never get an EV without 1 pedal drive. The only downside is it takes a few days to get used to, which isn’t great when test driving and coming from 2 pedal. It feels weird at first.

I know you put /S, but for other people that read this it will not be an option. These only work in specialised servers that you will not he able to run at home (unless you’re a mad scientists type).

It’s not even ECC RAM that’s the issue, it’s that they’re not making DDR ram at all, it’s HBM RAM which is totally different. That and the GPUs are custom solutions that slot into specialty liquid cooled server chassis with proprietary connecters and everything. It’s simply not for anything except for it’s current purpose in a server.

I know how you feel, it’s too bad this is impacting Valve. I really want their new controller which won’t be hit by this, but I expect they’re still going to wait and release it with the other products.

The problem is it’s manufacturing capacity that is being bought. They’re going to use that capacity to build HBM modules and data centre GPUs that cannot run outside of specialized servers. There will be a lot of high end gear gathering dust, but nothing you or I can use.

Maybe if you’re a large business/enterprise you could get some hardware on the cheap during the crash, but it’s not ot like those things are full of DDR5 DIMMs and RTX GPUs.

It’s more that Vivaldi is just Chrome under the hood.

Good for you! I got fed up with Chrystler and I’m never buying from them again. From now on I’m only buying Dodge!

/s

I have a really good career here, but if that were to change for some reason… yeah I don’t see why I would stay. I would seriously look at moving because Alberta seems determined to get worse.

Look, as much as I think people should be taking transit and bikes as much as possible, for the developer not to provide a single parking lot for a building that size is silly.

Edit: I meant to say “single parking spot” not lot.