It forced me to learn. It took me weeks to get X configured and working correctly. I had an internet subscription and a modem but it also took weeks to get it to work on Linux. My distribution came on a CD from a magazine but some dependencies were not included, so I had to reboot under Windows to download a missing package, reboot on Linux and try again, then need to get the next dependency. We came a long long way from having to specify the vertical refresh rate of the monitor in xf86config.

Starting with a French version of Slackware was brutal but I had nothing else.

Depends on the stuff and on what you will be watching it.

TV shows that were originally aired in SD will be fine in low resolution. Cartoons can usually be pretty low quality too. Old cartoons in SD on a CRT usually look great.

However stuff made for HD will probably need better quality to be enjoyable.

I’ve been collecting since the days of RealPlayer and still have lots of stuff in SD. Some shows are getting difficult to watch on a giant screen but the advantage of the small files is that they can be read by a toaster.

TLDR: More in lower resolution unless it’s some modern shows or movies where HD is a necessity.

But then you have to deal with physical media or rip it, and also deal with the anti theft protections. Skip all of this and simply download files.

Yuck, I’m not waiting for it. If possible I’d like to run away from that thing. I only associate it with corporations and work.

A word has multiple definitions.

In English (or French), milk can also describe a while liquid. There are six definitions for milk on Wiktionnary, and here is the second one:

(uncountable, by extension) A white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as almonds, coconuts, oats, rice, or soy beans

There is also something called cement milk

A watery film of a dull white or gray color often appears on the surface. This white matter is the so-called cement milk.

I was walking under a decrepit elevated expressway and there were signs saying to be careful about cement milk dripping from the ceiling. I don’t think there’s any mammal involved in producing that type of milk.

The US skipped all the other dominoes and went straight to fascism.

It works and would be understood but it would also be odd. The unwritten rule is to round up to a multiple of 5.

Time is weird. Even in the same language some people will tell time differently.

In French my parents are used to fractions while I don’t. So for me 9:45 is nine hours fourty five but for them it’s ten hours minus the quarter.

I’m sure it also has nothing to do with the fact that it’s a woman.

And they will happily vote for him again.

Fucking YouTube trying to translate everything into shitty French for me.

‘The Honey scam’ becomes ‘The honey scam’ in French (L’arnaque du miel), as in honey from bees. The “AI” can’t even make the difference between a common and proper noun.

Reddit does the same through my Google searches. The original post is in English but Google and Reddit shows it to me in dubious French. It’s quite obvious that it has been machine translated.

However bad translations unfortunately doesn’t seem to bother a lot of people, nor stop the big corps to push them as much as possible.

Yeah, the brave Canadian resistance fighters that defended Canada in Afghanistan. Or the brave heroic American resistance fighters that defended the US from the invading Iraqis, by killing and torturing thousands of civilians. So noble. Thanks for their service.

Zog!

Source: from Tom Gauld on Twitter

I know it’s more complicated than that but this post gives me this kind of vibes. The soldiers invading on the other side are being told the same thing and are willing to kill others for the same reasons. How noble their sacrifice is! All soldiers! Thanks for fighting amongst yourselves and doing little bits of “collateral damage” in order to save your country from the barbarians.

If the US ever invades my country and I somehow need to kill Americans, I won’t be a fucking hero, I’ll be a murderer, just like them. It’s nothing to be praised. Even if I just help others “defending” my country using my tech skills, it’ll still be helping to murder others. I really really can’t understand doing that willingly. If you have to, yes. But those doing this willingly are also those willing to invade other countries and take the lives of others based on what they see on their side. Again, nothing to be praised.

What? It’s just enhanced interrogation!

And Brightwell still uses a car from time to time. One reason he lives in LA is access to the mountains that border parts of the city. But when he wants to hit the trail, he goes with a friend who drives.

I unfortunately have other reasons to use a car from time to time but honestly I usually hate it because it perpetuates car dependency and reminds me of what could be, or what was.

I still need to have my parents drive me to their place from the bus terminal, but 25 years ago there were buses and trains going to their town. Now cars are the only option. I hate it because I know a car was not needed before, and now it is.

It makes me sad.

Another example, I went to St-Martin in the Carribean and was miserable for the whole trip because this little island was choked with traffic and I still needed to use taxis to go anywhere. It reminded me of Not Just Bikes’s video on this very subject in the Bahamas.

In contrast, I went to Guadeloupe and there were buses from the airport to most parts of the island. I never needed a car. It was much more sensible to me and I know where to return for a carless vacation.

In fact, that’s why I moved to Montreal, because I didn’t want a car. I love the region and I’m also glad that there’s a network of bike paths and possible transit to some national parks nearby.

For example, from Montreal you can bike or take a commuter train to St-Jerome and from there cycle a “road trip” to Mont-Tremblant National Park, using mainly a disused railway/rail trail (le P’tit Train du Nord) for the vast majority of the itinerary. It’s 100 km if you take the train.

Other parks accessible by a combo of train and/or bike are Oka with its nice beach, and Voyageur on the border with Ontario.

Then there are also two other parks accessible by dedicated bike trails, the Yamaska park, 90 km away, and a bit further Orford, which is about 130 km away.

There are also a few buses going to national parks in winter. There should also be buses to national parks in summer because not everyone wants to cycle 200 km to and fro, but it’s another discussion.

I still use cars but as I said, I really don’t like it and usually think that no alternative is a policy/infrastructure failure from that place.

Don’t worry I’m sure there will be consequences for rich people breaking the law.

Normally I would agree with the essence of the comment but I can also understand what the person you’re replying to is expressing.

I’m from a rural town in Canada and I moved away specifically so that I do not need a car in my life. In and around the city, I can pretty much use public transit mixed with my bike to cover a radius of about 100 km. I will usually take the lane and use the space I have the right to use.

However my family still lives in that rural region and it’s around 140 km away. I can use public transit and bring my bike for the first 100 km, but I have to cycle on rural roads for about 40 km and it’s always a scary experience. To the point where I simply refuse to cycle on those roads and ask for someone in my family to come grab me, or cycle the entire 140 km using a dedicated bike path.

I am very adamant on “roads should be for everyone”, but doing that in some regions of North America will just get you killed, and blamed for it.

If there is anything that life showed me at a young age, during gym classes, it’s that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.

They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.

Again, they trained all their life for this, so what’s a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?

Someone else like Canada.