Hi all!

I am a northern American gal (I know that sounds cheesy) but I visited Canada 5 months ago and I just can't stop thinking about it!! Fun fact I actually have distant relatives that are from Canada (prior to settling there were from Norway and Sweden) . I am actually very interested in the prospect of moving and settling in Canada. I am in the medical field (in the process of becoming a doctor) and really want to know the honest truths and feelings of Americans moving to Canada. It's no secret that we are a shit show. But I resent visited (only for 1 week) but I couldn't find a damn thing to dislike about the place!

If there anything to consider or opinions that I should be aware of? As much as I would like to migrate, I wouldn't want to move to a place where I would be unwanted.

BTW one of my fav bands is Fion and I CANT WAIT for them to have a concert in America so I can go.

Thank you for the honesty in advance!

Me personally? I did not care for Game of Thrones.

As of thirty-ish minutes ago ALL commercial air traffic in the US is grounded until further notice.

Anyone got any idea what’s going on? There are very free details about the situation I can find online right now.

so yeah... idk why most people buy flagships phones only to open tiktok, facebook, etc.

I mean does anyone actually game on their phone regularly? Like an entire pubg mobile gaming session on it?

Or is it primarily a camera thing.

My cars always just had a lever for how hot you want the car to get. These new cars have specific temperatures you can set. What do you set it at for heat?

Been thinking about this and want to know if it bugs anyone else.

It's crazy to me that Twitter, Reddit and Facebook all cut off API access and people just went quiet on it. There was noise and complaints but no solutions. Usually when stuff like this gets locked down a counterculture shows up around it. Workarounds, open alternatives, people who make it their thing to keep it open. Like file sharing or ad blockers.

That didn't really happen this time and I can't figure out why. With all the propaganda and fake stuff out there right now, wouldn't being able to see what's spreading be important to understand? And isn't them shutting it down a pretty large signal that it is important?

Maybe there's a boring explanation I'm missing. But the part that gets me is the other possibility, that there's some kind of suppression force we might not even be aware of.

Is that terrifying to anyone else or am I overthinking it? Just curious what people who were around for it think.

Bonus points for examples from English and bonus points for any personal stories.

there are 2 winners in my viewpoint: Peertube and Mastodon

Linus and Lucy by Vince Guaraldi. If you've ever watched a Peanuts cartoon, you've heard it, but have you ever listened to the whole thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zypc_LhnM

While I'm taking a break from gaming (at least six months), I don't want my 3080 to sit unused. If you know of other projects that are both ethical and sustainable, please do share!

I'm on the middle of my CS Degree, and seems that every assignment I need to use a LLM, or is because short deadlines or the people in your group use LLM and without critical thinking of it. Some teachers seems to be fine with that, however my experience is that we make complex essays and complex class diagrams, a lot of code, however no one seems to understand or learn form what they are making and wend defending their work only can do it by reading a resume the LLM made, that make me hopeless and unmotivated. I what is yours experience and opinions on this matter?

P.S. Sorry for any grammar error with English, is not my main language. About AI I am not fully against AI. The Local LLM installed on my machine is helpful for a few things, but the amount that we are using on CS seems too much.

Moment of clarity? Embarrassed? Lost control of an antagonistic agenda?

I am in a rare position (for me) to finally get my hands on a switch 2.

I really want to play the zelda remake on the hardware it was designed for, Hookshot has been fantastic, but I want the physical game. also, I will need a switch 2 for the upcoming pokemon games.

so I'm gonna bite the bullet, and have saved up for a good while (laughably low income) but I am at a crossroads.

Do I buy a new in box switch 2, or a cheaper used one that is on older firmware that I could jailbreak?

I have always been one of those guys, forcing hardware to do things it was never designed to do, but this is almost 6 months worth of saving, and I usually experiment on hardware that gets donated to me. I have never bought parts for a project.

So, Lemmy, Am I being stupid in my sidequest of having a jailbroken switch? should I just bow to nintendo and play by their rules for the "best" experience? or is it worth it to risk having a jailbroken switch 2 so I have full control over the system? (moving saves, dumping roms, mig card)

Edit: bought the retail one, no buyers remorse yet, thank you all for your insights

Here's an analogy: Imagine your favorite restaurant that you go quite often. It's a simple place to have a nice meal & relax in. But it often feel like you're one of the few people who knows about the place. So you begin to tell your friends & family, and then they begin to tell more people. And this restaurant becomes more & more well known & gets more customers. Happy ending, right? However, getting a table begins to get harder, the place has more rules that they didn't have before, the food isn't as good as it used to be, and it's often too crowded to even relax while enjoying a meal. The place you once go to for a simple lunch, becomes a hassle to go to.

That's the analogy I wanted to go with to explain what I'm asking.

As for my real answer: Going to Little Tokyo & a shabu shabu place around my county.

Back in High School, I used to save up my allowance to take train to Little Tokyo. I would often go shopping for Gunpla & Japanese snacks, and then stop by my usual Ramen spot (I usually alternate between Mr. Ramen & Kouraku) before coming back. However, years later, Little Tokyo (let alone the train I take to get there) became way more crowded. The model kit shop I used to go to (Jungle), began enforcing a line policy, Manraku & Nijiya Market got more packed, and I often felt like stuffed sardines whenever I walked around the Japanese Plaza. Both my favorite Ramen spots remained fine though. Otherwise, I don't go as often as I used too, because it's usually packed (that and I'm often broke)

As for that Shabu Shabu place I talked about, I often go there back in college. Back then, it was only $30 on the weekdays. And for that, I would get a choice of 2 meats, a drink, and access to the buffet. But once more people came, they constantly change the rules. Weekdays now only included Mon-Thurs, Friday being treated like the weekend (which would cost $40) and then you would have to pay for your own drink separately. Luckily, it isn't as bad as Little Tokyo, but it's such a shame for the constant changes

Many of us have heard the deprecating characterizations of many countries. Like Putin described the UK as an "insignificant little Island", and Russia has been characterized as a "mob run gas station" or Trump calling El Salvador, Haiti and African countries as "shithole countries".

Let's flip things around for a bit of fun. After a heavy night of drinking with your country's head of tourism, you have one shot to give your best self-depricating characterization of your country for a new border sign.

I'll go first:

Welcome to Canada - Enjoy world class sexual assault in sport -- Come and play!

I'm asking because I wonder if Lemmy having a left wing, progressive, socialist, communist bent means Reddit was coming down hard on those ideologies (biased if you will) than right leaning, centrist or free market Capitalist ideologies?

Side question, if Lemmy grows do you think the same will happen here?

It's always the first three quarters of the year entirely where I just do not care for its holidays. They're all boring and forgettable to me. Which is why I love the last quarter of the year where Halloween, X-Mas and X-Mas Part II reside.

New Year's Day - Wooo...just watching a ball drop and people just drinking or going to NY just to kiss on camera.

Valentine's Day - Awesome...just to be reminded how single some of us are so all of the mush of couples being shoved in our faces.

St. Patrick's Day - Just another excuse to go out drinking to most, not as if drinkers turn every other day into drinking.

Easter - Nobody can agree as to the true meaning of this holiday. It's just seen as yet another excuse to consume candy and go on dinners, kinda what Halloween and Thanksgiving both became more about. Non-religious people think it's bunny related, religious people believe it belongs to Jesus and whatever. Conflicted holiday, can't care.

4th of July - America's Birthday, yeah I've not have had a single solitary reason to celebrate America's birthday at all given the reputation it has gathered as of late and for a while. This is the period of the month where people annoy everyone with their big shopping sprees on fireworks.

I know these kinda questions get asked a lot these days, but hear me out.

I'm a junior-going-on-medior software engineer, graduated last year and have been (more or less) teaching programming for four years.

In my search to find meaning in life, I stumbled into programming and found that there was a lot to learn. I loved it. That's why I eventually chose to switch careers once I musterred enoigh resources to do so. I chose this job because I like learning and I want to keep learning for the rest of my life. I love the way how learning is an integral part of the programming community and how everyone encourages and stimulates it.

AI has changed the job of an swe, that much I understand. That is not a deal breaker for me, as long as there is still a lot of meaningful, worthwhile, marketable things to learn. I am using AI to learn things faster now, but there is an easy pittfall to actually learn nothing from AI. Some say we don't have to learn anything anymore, I don't think that is true, but then what is true?

How is AI affecting the learning aspect of this job? Is learning still an important part of the job? Is there still enough worthwhile things to learn? Is it still valuable to learn more?

I main on fingerstyle guitar, but I find my aural understanding on guitar feels impeded. Now I know music theory and how the fretboard works, but translating it is so damn laborious.

I've played other instruments, and this is what I've noticed about their impact:

1. Penny whistle. It's mostly in one key. The root will always be the same fingering and the fifth will always be the same fingering. I think this helps with making associations with sound and scale degree, as opposed to more chromatic instruments played in different keys. [Also used a transposing electronic digital instrument to the same effect.]

2. Clarinet: Having to figure out the fingerings made me painfully aware of key signatures and where the sharps and flats are. On guitar you can smoothly shift up or down a fret without much thought or just play in position, but on clarinet there is often a specific button or button combo you need to get one specific note.

3. This is the big one: Piano. You do need to bring a little theory into it to know what chords you're playing, but the actual NOTES you are playing are immediately obvious, and since I'm building all these chords myself, I know exactly where the third is and how to lower it to make a major a minor, or where to add a major seventh, so I can also very quickly ask myself, "What if went with a minor chord here instead" and almost instantly be able to play it. On guitar, there's a tendency to just memorize chords as shapes without knowing where the chord tones are because each shape has them in a different configuration (which is why eyes-closed arpeggio exercises are absolutely vital for guitarists).

[On piano it's also easier to play the same inversions over and over again, which might help you learn the sound. You can play a whole song with Root-3rd-Fifth if you want, but on guitar, the common chord shapes are a kaleidoscope of chord tones. For instance, common chord tones on root chords:

C: O-R-3-5-R-3
F: R-5-R-3-5-R
G: R-3-5-R-3-R
]

I'm curious about violin, too, because I'm betting needing to intonation just right really sharpens your ear.

What's your experience?

I mean not necessary inside the rain but just in its vicinity.

Do you have these sense of "damn, what are we even doing here" just hearing the rain, just staring out the window.

Do you ever just lowkey "flashback" to some time earlier. As if your brain kinda paused the moment, as if this is a tv show or anime plot.

Like the futher you stare into the distance, the more you feel that you've come a long way from your spawnpoint (okay but even if you never moved away from your birthplace, you still moved along on the tine axis, memories separated by oceans of time)

Why did I even post this? Idk its raining and I dont wanna do anything. Feels kinda like the typical sad scenes in media, raining is cue for something sad about to happen. Just need the sad piano music too lol.

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