[-] [email protected] 2 points 15 hours ago

Why is it a bad thing?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

His personal Vietnam.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

And Greg Graffin from Bad Religion.

Graffin obtained his PhD in zoology at Cornell University and has lectured courses in natural sciences at both the University of California, Los Angeles and at Cornell University.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

HAHAHA... AAAAAHAHAHA. Banana republic.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

empêche le chef conservateur Éric Duhaime de faire son entrée à l’Assemblée nationale.

Me semble que oui. Ça garde lui et son parti en marge des autres. De toute façon on a déjà assez de conservateurs; ils sont même au pouvoir depuis 2018, même s'ils ont pas le mot "conservateur" dans le nom du parti.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Some animals are more equal than others.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 days ago

I'm sure there's other "old" people here that never stopped sailing the seas. I started to use a computer in the mid 90ies and internet a few years later. From the start, there has been attempts at streaming. I remember using RealPlayer trying to stream some video while on dial-up, only to be just a bunch of pixels in a very tiny window. So you downloaded everything, and kept it because you didn't want to spend 45 minutes to download the very same song once again.

And I never stopped this practise. I still have my MP3 collection that I started 25 years ago. I still have .rm files from movies that I captured myself. I can't believe how much bandwidth we just waste on streaming stuff again and again.

Once, the zoomer trying to sell my a data plan for my phone couldn't believe I didn't need more than a few gigs a month. No, I don't stream music. No, I don't stream movies nor series. I download them once, store them, and enjoy them whenever I want. No censored episodes, no missing episodes, no ads, just the content.

Although I do buy some of my MP3s now if possible. If I can straight up pay to download MP3 files, like on Bandcamp, I will. I wish we could do the same for series and movies, but since we're absolutely not there, I'll just continue to sail the seas and fill up my hard drives.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

I'm lucky that I can cut my own hair.

Every time I went to get a haircut, they never did what I wanted anyway. Maybe its because I wasn't clear enough, or maybe I went to cheap places, but I was never happy to pay for something that simple. So I gave up and started doing it myself. I can do a crew cut with mirrors and guides. It's okay, I think.

My other issue like this is with taxis. I already hate paying for someone to drive me around in a car, then I have to talk to them?! No thanks. I'll take the bus and silently watch outside.

This actually changed my view on vacation places. I went to St-Martin and there were only taxis. I hated it. But then I visited Guadeloupe, was able to use local buses, packed, with no AC, and I was much happier.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

If Bill Gates is involved we can be sure it's to help humanity, and not to help capitalists and rich people to get richer.

He has a very good PR team because this man was also backing the former Monsanto company, with proprietary grains, supposed to help solve famine in the world, but causing poor farmers to be sued into bankruptcy and commit suicide. Oh and the grains also commit 'suicide' so if you are not sued because the wind flew proprietary grains to your field, you better have enough money to buy new grains from corporations every year.

So I'm sure anything he does can't be bad. It's all altruistic and for the good of humanity. Surely nothing proprietary there. All open source. For humanity.

Fuck Bill Gates.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Deliciously ironic that we are warming the environment by making those blocks of ice.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Pedalling with crocs sucks. I do it sometimes when I go to my cabin and need to get back to the entrance 300 metres away. It's soft, pliable and uncomfortable.

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Spring has sprung, the cycling networks in Québec, the Route Verte and other regional or municipal paths, are now mostly open.

So it's again possible to explore or use the network to go camping, as part of touring, or just to get from point A to B.

And you should know that if you are touring or arriving on a bike, there is a program called "Bienvenue Cyclistes" where all national parks (provincial parks here) will offer you a campground for less than $10. Keep in mind you also have to pay entry fees that are around $10 too. About the same for some wood. This is also possible in some other establishments. Consult the map linked above.

You should also know that you can use public transit around Montréal to bring your bike with you. It's included in the ticket. So you can take the metro, but more importantly, the REM, and the commuter trains. There are also some exo buses with bike racks. So you can go to St-Jérôme for Le P'tit Train du Nord in a commuter train with your bike for a few dollars. From that trail you can also reach another park, Parc national du Mont Tremblant

Today I'm going to see my family from Montréal to the Drummondville region. In the other direction. The ~140 km to get there is entirely bike trails/paths. I cut the itinerary in two stages and stop in a small national park called the Parc national de la Yamaska for a night of camping.

The first part to get there is using a network of local bike trails. The first from Longueuil to Chambly is called La montée du Chemin de Chambly. Then from the other side of the Richelieu river there is a trail called La route des Champs to Granby. And from Granby to the park it's local trails. They have very nice cycling infra in that region.

Here are some pictures of La route des Champs and the local trail before the park.

Then tomorrow, I will use another trail connecting to the park called La Campagnarde. This one goes to Drummondville, entirely on small gravel, and sometimes very remote and quiet.

I do this multiple times a year so I thought I would share some tricks and adventures. And I've been encouraged to by /u/Evkob.

Have fun cycling everyone!

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I've been doing some rail trails on the "green roads" (routes vertes) to visit my parents for the last three weekends and I stopped at the park for overnights as I didn't want to cycle the full 140 km in one shot and then back. It's getting greener!

The Yamaska National Park is a small park located around a reservoir in southern Québec. From there it's possible to access multiple rail trails and "linear parks" going in all directions.

More pictures in the comments.

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The last two upgrades have broken my audio setup.

First the options for Network Server and Network Access in paprefs were greyed out and my sinks disappeared after upgrading to bookworm. I just had to create a link to an existing file and it was working again but, it's weird that it was needed in the first place. Pretty sure it has something to do with the change from pulseaudio to pipewire but I'm not very up to date on that subject and I just want to have my current setup to continue working.

Then yesterday I just launch a simple apt-get upgrade and after rebooting my sinks disappeared again. The network options in paprefs were still available, but changing them did nothing. I had to create the file ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/10-gsettings.conf and stuff it with "pulse.cmd = [ { cmd = "load-module" args = "module-gsettings" flags = [ "nofail" ] } ]" in order to have my sinks back.

I know it's not only a Debian thing, as I can see this happening to people on Arch forums, but as Debian is supposed to be the "stable" one, I find it amusing that a simple upgrade can break your sound.

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Using Boost for Lemmy, I got an obvious political ad from the right asking to sign a petition to scrap the gun "ban" in Canada (it's a registry not a ban).

Now I understand this is an ad but I don't appreciate having propaganda from the right injected into my browsing on lemmy. Have better ads, or let us report them.

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