CountVon

You should be fine as long as you can refrain from wearing a MAGA hat or advocating for Canada to become the 51st state. I haven't talked with any Canadian who believes that all Americans are in favour of Trump's nonsense, so you shouldn't have any issues personally unless you start spouting some Trump-y talking points.

Do expect to see a lot of "buy Canadian" rhetoric. Don't take it personally, we're just really pissed at your president. Grocery stores in my area have started putting maple leaf symbols on Canadian made products, and most (maybe all) liquor stores have yanked US booze from the shelves. Anecdotally, I saw a lady yelp in shock and full-on hurl a package of berries back onto the shelf when she saw "Made in USA" on the label. From what I can see there is a strong, spontaneous "boycott US" movement. US produce is barely selling. Before stores added the maple leaf tags, shoppers were turning US products backwards and/or upside down on the shelves so other shoppers would know they were US-made.

The Canadian psyche is a bit different when it comes to patriotism. At a national level we've never been able to agree on what it means to be Canadian. Our identity is most firmly defined in the negative, in that we're much more likely to agree on what we are not. The absolute number one thing Canadians have historically been able to agree on? We are not American. We like and respect our neighbours to the south, but as the saying goes, good fences make good neighbours. We are adamant that the current US administration must stop trying to tear down the fence between us.

My parents are snowbirds, they have a condo in Florida. That condo is now on the market, and they're not planning to go back while Trump is still president. Maybe never, they're not sure. I only mention it because snowbird friends of theirs have experienced harassment from Florida locals. "Go back to your own country", etc., with clear hostility. I would absolutely stunned, hugely disappointed and utterly embarrassed if you were to encounter anything like that during your visit to Canada.

Holy shit, I didn't even notice the multiple abominations with electrical connections in that picture, I was mesmerized by the plumbing madness.

The PS5 uses liquid metal as the thermal interface material. That stuff conducts heat super well, which is why they used it, but it has some serious downsides. It's electrically conductive for one, and unlike thermal paste or epoxy it stays liquid and can flow over time. Most liquid metal applications use some kind of gasket to ensure the liquid metal stays between the CPU and the heatsink. Apparently it's a known issue that the PS5's liquid metal can settle over time and develop gaps, especially if your PS5 is normally kept vertical. Since your PS5 still works, it's unlikely it's leaked out entirely because if it had it probably would have shorted something and killed the unit. Check out this ifixit article for details on how to get to the CPU and reapply liquid metal. Fair warning, it looks like a hell of a disassembly.

I agree that stability, durability and ease of manufacture were the likely reasons.They probably weren't intended to be seen as webbed feet though. More likely they're meant to depict taloned claws clutching a sphere.

I switched to AirVPN about 6 months ago and I've been really happy with the service. Was previously using NordVPN, which was fine, but I was looking for a VPN provider that offered port forwarding and AirVPN does that. I don't have hard stats on this, but I do feel that having access to port forwarding has improved my overall torrent speeds since switching.

Here's the exact post that got the Proton CEO in trouble:

Maybe Gail Slater really is a great pick for Assistant Attorney General for the Antitrust Division. Frankly, I have no idea. But I won't do business with any company that carries any water whatsoever for Trump.

I'd recommend AirVPN. Here's why I'd recommend them, in their own words:

No traffic limit. No time limit.

No maximum speed limit, it depends only on the server load

Every protocol is welcome, including p2p. Forwarded ports and DDNS to optimize your software.

Be lucky if we get out of this with only a recession. The slogan might as well have been Make America Great Depression Again.

The two situations are different. In your situation, your presence or absence in the lunch room didn't directly affect other children. Unvaccinated children can put every other child in the school at risk. Vaccines sometimes don't take effect, and some children cannot be vaccinated due to other medical conditions. We need a very high percentage to receive vaccines to achieve herd immunity. If too many parents refuse to vaccinate then the only way to maintain herd immunity is to remove the unvaccinated from the herd. That's what this does. It's not about punishing the unvaccinated, it's about protecting everyone else.

Man, just don't go to the US, full stop. At this point if my employer asked me to go to the US, I would straight up refuse.

Canadians have two moods. The first is "I'm sorry", the second is "You'll be sorry."

Second mood activated.

Not the person you replied to, but I'm in agreement with them. I did tech hiring for some years for junior roles, and it was quite common to see applicants with a complete alphabet soup of certifications. More often than not, these cert-heavy applicants would show a complete lack of ability to apply that knowledge. For example they might have a network cert of some kind, yet were unable to competently answer a basic hypothetical like "what steps would you take to diagnose a network connection issue?" I suspect a lot of these applicants crammed for their many certifications, memorized known answers to typical questions, but never actually made any effort to put the knowledge to work. There's nothing inherently wrong with certifications, but from past experience I'm always wary when I see a CV that's heavy on certs but light on experience (which could be work experience or school or personal projects).