SapientLasagna

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[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What about the unlabelled grey "dread zone" between the pacific and midwest areas? That's accurate, right?

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Postal banking is a thing in many countries. Canada Post did banking from its inception until 1968. The major benefits are that there is a post office in every community, even really tiny ones, and that a Canada Post bank system can offer basic banking services to people who otherwise wouldn't be able to.

This is an advocacy piece, but it includes the history of postal banking in Canada: https://lindsayadvocate.ca/corporate-pressure-ended-postal-banking-in-1968-its-time-to-bring-it-back/

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

Guy tried to enlist the boss's brother in law to falsify work. "We don't have to walk all the way up the mountainside to do the work, the client will never check it". Then he went home, leaving said brother in law to do all the work by himself.

A week after getting fired, he called the boss about the performance bonus that was promised at the start of the contract.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh, that's easy. The BoC overnight rate is only one of the factors that go into the Prime Rate, which is determined by the banks themselves. The Prime Rate is also down by about half a percent.

Credit card rates on the other hand, are set by the banks based on how much they want to rip you off. The only government involvement there is that the card has to stay under the criminal interest rate, or 48% APR.

The current Government has proposed to reduce that rate to 35% APR, but we'll see.

In short, your MP won't be able to help with your credit card, because cards are issued by the banks, not the Government. Personally, I'd love to see Canada Post get into personal banking, but it's a bit of a pipe dream.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

The degens from upcountry.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on the games you like. It won't perform well at 4k, or with newer FPS titles. Most games should be playable at low-medium quality settings.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Well that's just lying be omission. Lots of people were disabled or disfigured too.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

/sbin is like /bin, but for system administrative type commands. /usr holds all the other software that isn't critical to get the system up and running.

A device file is a special file that's like a pointer to a piece of actual hardware, like a serial port or a hard drive. /dev also has some non-hardware special files like /dev/zero. When you read from that one, you get an endless stream of zeros. Or /dev/null, that discards any data that's written to it.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately, we probably don't even get to be France. We might be Austria though.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Like most of Microsoft's more odious features, this one can be turned off through GPO/Intune policy across an organization. As such, the liability will mostly fall on the organization to make sure it's off. The privacy and security impacts will be felt by individuals and small businesses.

They claim that the data is only stored locally, so far. We'll see, I guess.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But she's not telling me, is she? She's telling every man everywhere, forever. I can't do anything with that information, except wonder if she's calling for all men and women to be strictly segregated for women's safety. At which point you've gone so far into nth-wave feminism that you've arrived at Saudi society as as model.

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