[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Although the US/Aus deal scuppered a Aus/France deal for subs IIRC.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Could be argued that the US administration is more interested in making military equipment sales than bolstering NATO.

I figure you're right though. All our allies should be happy when Canada pulls it's own weight.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

I'm just honoured to be considered threatening enough to bother with interfering.

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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

No eShop? No problem! We've had a bit of luck with used games not at "collectable" prices, but we've discovered hShop and CFW.

Still have a R4 card as well, and it's great that he is able to experience some classic games on the original hardware.

With all the news around Yuzu (and Citra) recently, it just reminds me about the importance of "Piracy" in game preservation.

Thanks to this community for existing, and the extensive FAQs!

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/12911649

When I first found it, it did also give an entered building message, but I haven't managed to test it in a storm. I'm currently distracted in my Permadeath run looking for more of these ... structures?

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

When I first found it, it did also give an entered building message, but I haven't managed to test it in a storm. I'm currently distracted in my Permadeath run looking for more of these ... structures?

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Down to my last task ("Hot Blooded"). Even though there wasn't much plot in Voyagers, this was one of my favourite Expeditions the first time around. I remember the first time around, I got stuck on finding a suitably hostile world, but I think in this Redux, the "Eternal Garden" (paradise world), "Unwelcome" (hostile > 84%), "Corrosive Blood" (creature with low blood pH), and lots of others were completed in the starting system.

I figure I just need to go back to the hotter worlds and start scanning critters I missed the first pass, and I'll be done.

One thing I liked about the first run of Voyagers is that there was almost two months to do it the first time around. It was billed as "relaxing" and it was. I nearly took the full two months, but I swapped back and forth between my main save and Voyagers, until I finished with a week to go (trouble with "Unwelcome" as I recall). This Redux is 10 days, which is longer than the other Redux ones, and they seem to have strategically placed the Rendezvous to help complete, but a little bit longer would have been a little bit nicer. Or at least more relaxed.

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submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I started my save within an hour of the expedition going live. And spawned in a storm, with multiple hostile critters. I died twice in two minutes, deleted the cursed save, and tried again. Did better, but fell into a cave system killing critters (with a mining laser), and got lost… before I could build the Terrain Manipulator. After 20 minutes, I deleted the cursed save, and started again. Third time's the charm! Much better start, even grabbed some Storm Crystals for later right at the start.

Needed to get some work done, but I've gotten a couple of hours in since yesterday, steady progress, having fun stumbling around, but I can see I'm going to get stuck looking for Crystal Sulphide. I don't think I'm anywhere near the ocean, although I see 3 underwater creatures on this world so there must be some somewhere. I've got the Minotaur built, but that doesn't seem the best way to search for ocean, it's a little slow. If only I had a spaceship… oh wait, that's what the Crystal Sulphide's for.

Also, got killed again, by one of those evil teddy bears that jumped me while I was killing a couple of the crystal spider dudes. Was close to my base, but still! Embarrassing.

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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Montreal police are investigating after shots were fired at two Jewish schools.

[-] [email protected] 68 points 9 months ago

I read the article, and it seems that the YouTube channel "Street Politics Canada" is run by a company called Geek Labs, run out of Cairo, Egypt. Also, the editor, "Emily T" is presumably Emily Torjusen, an American woman who moved to Cairo and works at Geek Labs.

Of course the people forwarding these videos on Facebook don't care.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago

I'm pretty sure that most of the solid anti-war protestors would expect Ukraine to just accept Russian territorial demands, up to and including complete annexation.

It turns into a reductio ad absurdum pretty quickly though. Putin didn't seem to return Crimea or the occupied regions of Donbass and Luhansk when asked politely. Not even when asked sternly. Indeed, it would seem that when all he faced was stern disapproval he decided to come back for more.

There is no doubt in my mind that supporting Ukraine now is stopping more Russian aggression later. Besides, Putin can end this war any time. Just go back to the original borders. The only reason not to is his yearning for Imperial glory. The irony being that many of these anti-war protestors would probably proclaim themselves anti-colonialists.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago

Meanwhile I've seen this story all over Canadian Mastodon and Lemmy. I guess Meta just has to do business in India.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago

Virtualization is the key. Multiple VMs, installing, uninstalling, reinstalling.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just started the new community expedition, so first real taste of the Echoes update. I think my starter freighter crew are engaging in some light piracy on the side. My standing with the main system race keeps ticking down every so often, and I gain rep with the Outlaws faction. At least if they are going to go rogue and loot merchants, they can cut me in for a piece of the action!

Didn't see anything in the patch notes.


From @[email protected] :

@Kaymorak @Grimpen It’s a bug. Whenever another player engages civilian freighters, they gain standing with outlaws, and lose it with the local race running the system… And the bug makes ANY player in that system gain and lose. :P

It’ll hopefully be fixed in the upcoming patch, which is in test.

I've stopped this happening so much by parking my freighter in quieter systems. Without a steady supply of salvaged frigate modules I haven't upgraded my freighter much anyways. If your freighter isn't somewhere where other players and you are at the same time, it should hoist the Jolly Roger.

[-] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

What's more American than high rates of gun violence? I think we may have an answer…

[-] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Interesting reading about the "authoritarian personality" in this article. Lots of the opposition to harm reduction policies does seem to be fueled by a desire for "bad people" to suffer.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

If course I quickly acknowledged it, so my phone would stop wailing, so missed the details.

[-] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

That's because the Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit. They don't need to maximize value for their shareholders™.

Thank you Netscape for setting Navigator free!

The Enshitification cycle is a feature of for profit corporations, Google was always going to turn evil at some point.

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My old stomping grounds. Recognize some people from the article.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I hate it.

But in all honesty, this is almost like being inside a Canadian's brain. I have to translate back and forth at work all the time, and even cooking involves converting things back and forth. I have no idea how many drams to a gallon, so I'll convert ounces to mL, then scale as necessary, and then convert back to US customary because the measuring cups and spoons are labelled in American.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Look, you're being too hard on Pierre, asking what he actually believes in. I think he's been perfectly clear, he believes he'll say anything to cozy up to the regressives to fend off the People's Party.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Just got this guy for Father's Day.

Fellow Reddit refugees might remember…

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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Highway 4 is still closed near Cameron Lake. This is cutting off Port Alberni, Uclulet and Tofino from the rest of the island, unless you want to use back roads.

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