The whole interior design and staging looks cheap.

To use Wero, both the sender and recipient must have an account at one of our bank members in Germany, Belgium or France (source)

No Canadian bank or credit union offers JCB cards.

Basically the only option is Interac, but it only works inside Canada. If you want to use your Canadian debit card internationally, it’s going to go through an American payment network like Cirrus, Maestro, or the Plus network (ie. MasterCard or Visa’s network).

Super insightful, thanks. Didn’t think about any of that.

Dude you need to chill out, make friends with some women, and touch grass in the real world. You’re a left-wing incel basically, from what you’ve written, you just don’t realize it. Just unplug from the internet for a while and chill out. Whatever happens on the internet is usually not reflective of the real world, just keep that in mind.

Edit: I wrote exactly 12 words to you, and that makes you think I’m an “ignorant idealist” and have blood on my hands…?

I’ll take the opinions of this highly regarded local Ottawa resident over your bullshit anecdotes any day.

It’s deliberate social manipulation by 3rd wave feminists and conservative think tanks and they spend a lot of time and effort making sure everyone sees it all the time

You get downvoted because your conclusion is “let’s blame it on women!”

I don’t disagree with you, but you’ve put some thought into this so maybe you can help us understand your logic and rationale more.

as soon as they deem profitable

What’s profitable about losing sales of adult games?

Also, what leverage do these groups have over banks and payment processors? If you have leverage over Visa and MasterCard, some of the most profitable companies in the world, I could imagine doing way more nefarious things than this. I just don’t get it. Some random group in Australia has leverage over Visa and MasterCard - American companies - is that what we’re saying here?

Those are things that should be handled by a government in defence of the public interest of everyone

I think you might have too much faith in government. Facebook and YouTube shouldn’t be hyper-polarizing brainwashing machines either, but here we are 20 years later and governments have done jack shit to address that. If anything, we’re going the wrong direction - Governments are seeing that and the TikTok model as tools they can have at their disposal to suppress dissent. But ironically, I think YouTube and many other platforms quietly accept that if we want to live in a somewhat harmonious society, we can’t leave it to the government to make all the rules. (eg. YouTube banning vaccine misinformation and disinformation during a public health emergency.)

On a tangent here, maybe the only potential upside from this situation with Steam is that horrifically misogynistic waifu simulators aren’t going to be 1 click away from the new Call of Duty. Seriously, Steam is just full of super gross anime shit that kids shouldn’t see, but the main audience of the platform is kids. The way Steam puts that content beside everything else is really gross and they really should get called out for that.

I’ve used them a bunch of times too, always a good experience, and I plan to use them more as an Amazon replacement. They offer a lot of random knickknacks. (Their sister brand, Prime cables, is good too.)

Braun is German and my cheap Oral B electric toothbrush (same company) was made in Germany.

Beanfield owns the fibre in the ground too so they’re one of only truly independent ISPs.

This law sounds good in theory, but there’s a lot of lawful content that is really undesirable (scams, spam, deepfakes, hate speech, etc.) and platforms need to be able to deal with that. The law isn’t fast or flexible enough to keep up, and every country has different (or laughable) definitions of some of these things.

The YouTube community guidelines are a pretty good overview of whatever shady shit people are trying to pull these days: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9288567?hl=en

I’m too lazy to argue against you, but just be grateful you have a job because I couldn’t imagine any company hiring someone in IT with your perspectives. You’re missing the forest for the trees.

or… maybe it’s just diligent to have a very strong body of evidence before you go ahead and make a huge change to your country’s economic policy based on something?

running fsck is how my IRL horror movie starts somedays lol

You like half agreed with me (businesses need commercial support) and then half disagreed with me, lol. Thanks for the list of hardware vendors that ship Linux. I didn’t realize Lenovo and HP had that option on desktops and laptops, as I was only aware of Dell and the smaller vendors.

Windows is the last thing I’d ever want to run in an IT department. And believe me, I have plenty of experience. But don’t take my word for it, just look at the European places that are ditching Microsoft completely.

I do need some citations, because when you say this, I’m reminded of Hamburg’s attempt in 2003 to switch to Linux, which they gave up on after more than a decade because of high costs and user frustration. Citing one or two news headlines doesn’t make it a movement.

We can all hate Windows, but accept the reality that every large organization voluntarily chooses Windows for good reasons. You’re basically implying that every head of IT department is a moron except for you for choosing Windows over Linux for their fleet, which is some cognitive dissonance. This isn’t the year 2000, with Linux being some newfangled thing. Everybody knows about Linux.

Let’s look at running Adobe Photoshop on Windows vs. Linux. On Windows, Adobe fully supports the operation of the software on Windows, and Microsoft is committed to compatibility and ensure software applications work. This is what you get for your money - something that you can depend on working at the start of every workday. On Linux, you’ll need WINE, which introduces a third party required to make Photoshop run. However, you’re not paying for WINE, which means you’re getting zero support. So if some Ubuntu security update comes out, and breaks WINE with Photoshop, you’re up shit creek until some random community member fixes it or it happens to get prioritized. That’s lost productivity ($$$). Or, perhaps you decide to run a commercially supported WINE distribution like CrossOver then, which gives you better guarantees about software compatibility on an ongoing basis. That costs money, which is against the initial argument here of Linux being cheaper, and it still doesn’t give you as good of a guarantee as just running Windows would have. Even this Crossover vs. Windows comparison chart on the CrossOver website makes Windows look like a bargain, because the loss of productivity of a user even hitting one issue is going to dwarf the difference in price.

Yes, and we’ll see if this turns out any better than Munich’s failed attempt to do that in 2003, which specifically cited high costs as part of the reason they gave up on it after 15 years (lol).

I would love to see an age distribution for these injuries, because I see food delivery workers in Toronto every day who are riding scooters with completely disregard for their own life. It’s just non-stop the most dangerous, dumb shit, and I’m like… do they just not realize the danger? Or do they need to shave every second off that delivery and constantly cut corners to make a living wage?

Sure, OK, I think that’s a valid argument for the OS itself and Microsoft Office. But I’m sure there’s a lot of Windows-only software that they use and won’t be easy to switch. There’s a huge price just to making a change like that, including training staff on new software. You can’t just say “let’s switch to Linux” and hand waive that away.

You also need to consider that organizations need commercially supported software. Nobody in their right mind would run some community-supported distro. They would want a commercially supported distro like Redhat, and that’s going to cost money. I’m sorry, but talk to anyone who’s run IT at a company. You need great tooling and support to administer a fleet of PCs, and I just don’t think that exists on Linux.

What PCs and laptops are they going to procure? There’s only like 2 vendors that ship hardware with Linux. That doesn’t give them much choice. I’m sure they have other organizational requirements that will need to be met too.

This whole “Linux is the best and should/will rule the world” is just Lemmy populism. It seems awesome when you’re a teenager but once you have experience working at companies and start to understand what they need in order to run IT, you see why Microsoft dominates the world. There’s just simply no other competitive option. (On the server side, it’s a completely different story.)

Yes, let’s take away all the good productivity tools from our public broadcaster. That will surely help them.

Ah there it is. Knew you couldn’t post without somehow trying to undermine Ukraine and convincing us to stop spending on defense. (Look at their post history…)