We (Canadians) actually have two layouts to type French characters. The modern Canadian multilingual layout, and the traditional “French (Canada)” layout. As an older French speaking Canadian, I prefer the traditional layout but both work. You can even type English words with these.

I work in IT and I have coworkers that use caps lock to capitalize single letters, like the beginning of a sentence. It hurts a bit every time I see it.

Windows is doing all this. The computer does not.

But with a dead battery you have to haul it plis your stuff, which was supposed to be there to make it easier in the first place.

And by fast charge, I mean like an electric car, that can fully cjarge in about 15 to 20 minutes instead of hours.

I pull my inflatable kayak with a bike trailer and thought about an ebike but then, I also do touring and the places I go to are beyond battery life. For example this weekend I’m cycling 90 km to my camp site and there’s no electricity. And I need to get back.

And the second issue with this is that AFAIK there’s no fast charging on most ebikes. So if I need to stop somewhere to charge it when the battery will be dead after 75 km, it will take an eternity to charge.

So in the end, for my case, as someone cycling a few thousand kilometres a year, for “longer distances”, it’s wouldn’t be very practical.

My bash scripts. They are saving me lots of time at work, performing screen scraping, filling reports and monitoring old servers.

At home they are making backups and automating repetitive tasks.

I just love shell scripting in general. I should probably own a shirt that says “go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script”.

Yeah, the others were unremarkable but the first one made an impression on me.

Cube

Edit: Apparently there’s a remake so I should precise that it’s the movie from 1997.

1. Le vélo, avec astérisque. Faire du vélo en ville et pouvoir échapper à la congestion. Pouvoir lever mon vélo/moyen de transport et marcher avec. Faire du vélo à la campagne sur les routes vertes du Québec, sur des 100aines de kilomètres, sans voitures. Et la limite de cette liberté est qu’il y a des endroits hostiles aux vélos et cyclistes, où c’est difficile de pouvoir le pratiquer sans craindre pour sa vie.

2. Ne pas avoir de voiture. C’est un un fardeau financier et mental. Pas besoin de la stationner. Pas besoin de la déneiger. Pas besoin de payer les réparations et l’entretien. Et surtout, pas de carburant à payer ad vitam æternam.

3. L’indépendance financière, ou encore… pas de dettes ou d’hypothèque. Ne pas vivre de “paie à paie”. Ce point est relativement nouveau pour moi, et vivre sans dettes, tout en pouvant se payer un voyage ou quelques semaines de vacances, ça libère de plein de façons.

4. Au niveau technologique, les logiciels libre et Linux. Les bloqueurs de publicité… Pouvoir faire ce que je veux avec le matériel qui m’appartient.

I don’t like the idea of wasting energy on inefficient things so I don’t use “AI”.

A.I. use is directly responsible for carbon emissions from non-renewable electricity and for the consumption of millions of gallons of fresh water, and it indirectly boosts impacts from building and maintaining the power-hungry equipment on which A.I. runs.

As Use of A.I. Soars, So Does the Energy and Water It Requires

Maybe you can go back in time with some kemocite and by venting warp plasma into the cargo bay and catch it at the right moment.

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Well, I mean, they certainly still pollute because of tire and brake pads wear but this is just stuff we eat and breathe. It’s not greenhouse gases so it’s all good.

/s just in case it’s needed.

But I don’t need a car to go anywhere in my daily life. My bike can bring me where I need to, it doesn’t cost gas, and doesn’t require yearly fees for a license. Public transit for the rest. Groceries are hauled with a bike trailer or I make multiple trips on foot.

Seriously, I prefer to live with 3 roommates close to work, and have access to a toilet, shower kitchen… rather than pay for a car and gas to “live in it” and get to work.

If you have a car and drive, you may see it as some sort of tool, and have some value and utility over an apartment, but for people that already live without a car, they often just seem like a burden.

I don’t want to have a 1.5 ton block of metal and need to pay gas to move it. I can move by other means.

Nope. I don’t have a car and consider it a money pit in the first place. A car costs a driving license. It also costs insurance. And fuel to move it. And it will break down at some point. Plus, winters are pretty brutal where I live and heating this thing/myself would be a nightmare. To me, a car is an anchor; a heavy ball attached to your foot.

If I had a car, and it was for a few weeks in summer, I may consider it. But I prefer have a proper place instead, and save money by not having a car.

I use it to consume huge quantities of energy because I despise the human race and life on earth.

Are you a native English speaker in an English speaking country looking for English pages?

Because as a French speaker, when I tried DDG a few years ago, it was pretty hard to have some useful results. Like, I was looking for some local results and they were nowhere to be found.

I know it got better, that it’s possible to tweak this, and that I should try it again. But because the first impression wasn’t good for me, it made me dubious about giving it another try.

The poor.

But be careful of the “smart” ones. If you have a “dumb” one that is working fine, keep it. I changed mine last year and I don’t like the new “smart” one. IDGAF about Netflix and Amazon Prime buttons or apps. And now I’m stuck with a TV that boots. All I want is to use the HDMI input but the TV has to be “on” all the times because it runs android. So if I unplug the TV, it has to boot an entire operating system before it can show you the HDMI input.

I don’t use any “smart” feature and I would very much have preferred to buy a “dumb” TV but “smart” ones are actually cheaper now.

Same for my parents. They use OTA with an antenna and their new smart TV has to boot into the tuner mode instead of just… showing TV. Being boomers they are confused as to why a TV boots into a menu where they have to select TV again to use it.

New TVs may be cheap, but it’s because of the “smart” “spying” function, and they are so annoying. I really don’t like them.

As long as it’s not à la Musk where the new versions will be inferior to the previous one because “no modern trains should rely on antiquated technology so we’re scrapping everything from before to start from scratch”.