It is THE e-commerce site I like to show people what I mean when I say “good UX”. It’s basically perfect. You can find the perfect part in less than 10 clicks, It’s lightning fast, no useless white space, no pop ups or cookie banners. Every site should be built like that.

Zoneminder and Frigate make it very easy to run your own security system without backdoors. It’s not hard, just takes some thought and effort to set up.

People said similar things in Japan in the 90s, and then had three decades without growth. When an asset bubble pops it’s not guaranteed the bubble will blow back up. This is a good strategy of course, but there’s no law of nature that the line always goes up. With the instability and debasement of the US economy it’s the most vulnerable they’ve been in many decades. I hope you’re right, but there’s a terrifying possibility things get even worse.

A coworker of mine specifically built a little gazebo on their deck to be a summer-office. They wired a little wifi repeater in the roof, retractable shades and curtains, a ceiling fan, and got a desk that specifically fits a comfy deck chair. Obviously all of this can be moved out of the way for normal back yard stuff, but it’s become the absolute envy of all my remote colleagues.

To be fair, it was a lot dirtier before the last couple weeks of rain rinsed off the layer of crusty salt scunge that was caked onto pretty much everything…

The hilarious irony is that if we did this, Quebec would have to change all their “Arrêt” signs to “Stop” to comply with EU signage standards

They slow it down for sure, but there’s only so much it can do… salty shmoo can still get inside doors and rocker panels, get in the trunk lid, rot around the edges of the windows, get up inside the fender liners, all kinds of nasty places that it’s difficult (not impossible) to properly rust proof. Probably worth it, but most people can’t even be bothered with winter tires at this point…

Fair enough but what choice do we have? We keep the status quo with the country we know wants to invade us, or we partner with one on the other side of the planet without the means do perform an amphibious landing at Vancouver.

Oh the humanity!

So true. I’ve never had a car die because of the engine or transmission suffering catastrophic failure, always because structural parts have rusted out. My last car, a 2000s Toyota, had 300,000 KMs and still ran like brand new but we had to scrap it because the body was so corroded the mechanic couldn’t safely put it on the lift anymore. Other place in the world have much older cars still running because they don’t use an insane amount of road salt, even other parts of Canada!

Complaining works, folks!!

The Mazda rotary dial is awesome. It does 90% of what a touchscreen does, and voice control or a passenger can do the rest. If it can’t be done with three or four clicks of the wheel or Siri, then pull over safely and use the phone.

My old car had an aftermarket touchscreen CarPlay headunit, and I much prefer the buttons and dials on the newer Mazda. Borrowing somebody else’s (usually newer) car with a touchscreen feels like a massive step backwards.

Sadly it looks like they’re also falling for the touchscreen b.s. on the ‘26 year vehicles, big L for safety.

We expect transit to be a “profitable service” which is ridiculous because we don’t expect roads (except 407), sewers, schools, parking lots, etc to “break even”

Some things are just part of the public good. Simple as that.

That would work perfectly if he listened to music consisting of a single tone of different volumes…

Only way that could make any sense would be if he was trying to make sure the speakers were in phase. If you’ve ever had one wired backwards there’s an exact spot where you can get them to cancel out, it feels bizarre. But you don’t need to adjust the cones, just wire things the right way lol.

Ah very nice, good to hear they addressed that. It was the only real deciding factor last time I moved my mail around ~2 yrs ago

Fastmail. It’s been around forever and it just works. And they don’t do anything weird with SMTP/IMAP.

mailbox dot org is also pretty good, but I wasn’t a fan of their 2FA implementation.

Same, I miss my 03 Camry. That thing was a beast. Took hard hits from some wildlife, got backed into, had branches fall on it, and still made it to 300K km and never once broke down. It was so rusty my mechanic told me to get rid of it before it broke in half. When I donated it to the kidney foundation, it drove up into the tow truck under its own power.

Sadly, Toyota doesn’t have the sauce anymore. We looked at new Corollas and they felt way creakier than the “golden age” ones. Plus their CEO is a maga chud now :(

In Ontario it took $200 of bribes from Doug, Quebec shouldn’t shortchange themselves…

Hybrids use regenerative braking for the majority of their deceleration. There are Priuses (Priui?) with 200K+ kilometres on original brakes. The dust that brake pads shed is fairly harmful, so it’s nice that they produce less.

My cat’s got the cone of shame because he kept blowing up his CVT’s.