pedz

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[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You know it's not one or another, right?

I've been using Linux since 1999 and I'm a strong defender of free software. I've been rooting and installing roms on my phones for years. I've repaired them several times. I'm well aware of the issues and I still have the right not to like Louis Rossman, even if I support his cause with the right to repair.

I don't think it's necessary to tell people they are losers because they don't like him. We are not ennemies. Some people can actually dislike him, or his style, and still support the cause. But if you want to antagonize them...

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)
[–] pedz@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This guy was offered an insane salary for doing engineering for US defense contracts and turned it down because he felt like calling out bad practices and improving repairability on our devices was a better thing to do.

I guess that makes him our lord and saviour then, and we can then only take him seriously because of that. Knowing this changes everything. He is so good to help us lowly people in our quest for repairable devices! And if you just keep watching his videos he can teach you how you also can be successful like him. And by the way you can buy his tools too!

He's right on the right to repair, but every time I tried to watch his videos (and I tried a few times, I work in tech and like the subject), I always felt like I was being... patronized.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But if you just watch his videos and buy his stuff he will teach you how to repair yours!11! /s

The few times I watched his videos, he sounded like a libertarian bro, saying that if you just put the effort, you too can become successful. You just have to pull yourself by the bootstraps or something. He's showing you everything you need to know to be as successful as him! And maybe it was sarcasm and I didn't catch it but at one point he muttered something about Trump fixing the potholes of New York. That's about when I stopped taking him seriously.

He's still an important voice for the right to repair movement but you're right. I also can't stand him. Unfortunately he has very dedicated/vocal eeehm, fans, so legitimate remarks on him are often met with downvotes.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Le cul d'un âne.

No, it's for arse.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

And there is also one of those rare "railroad crossing an expressway" in St-Hyacinthe near exit 130 on A20.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

No one organism is more evolved than another

There might even be a belief that humans are somehow 'more' evolved than chimps, or any other life form, but this is simply not the case. Humans have had exactly the same amount of time to evolve since the beginning of life on earth as any other organism on earth.

https://www.earlham.ac.uk/articles/10-surprising-things-you-might-not-know-about-evolution

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

If you own your music, you can have it in a digital format and copy it somewhere else.

I'm an old millennial that started with dial-up and downloaded MP3s from IRC/Napster/Kazaa/torrents.

Eventually I started to buy what I could on CD then ripped them, then bought MP3s when possible. Otherwise I don't mind using yt-dlp.

Those MP3s have been played by a portable CD player, then a Samsung MP3 player, then 3 or 4 phones. I'm still playing that collection on my actual phone, using Poweramp.

The device that plays the files may not last but you can certainly copy those elsewhere and do what you want with them, for as long as you want.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Before this week, Canada.

In Canada eyes and teeth are not considered "health" and thus is also not covered by universal healthcare.

It was up to the provinces and employers to implement whatever coverage they wanted for those. In my place, dental care is free if you are under 18, or if you live from government assistance. The only way to get healthcare for your teeth as an adult, is to have a dental plan at work. So a young adult working minimum wage in a convenience store doesn't have dental insurance.

From personal experience, I didn't have dental insurance between 18 and 30 because I had low wage jobs.

However this is going to change a bit soon, because the social-democrats just pushed a vote to expand dental insurance to everyone that needs it. It's not universal yet but now people with low wage jobs will be covered.

[–] pedz@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Bah. I don't have a car and go to national parks "nearby" (about 100 km) using my bike and one thing that I find unfortunate is the lack of public transit to those places. So usually, what one can find at the bottom of a hiking trail, is a parking full of cars.

It's not a matter of politics but more about car culture. Like, watch any YT vlogger and most will go to their hiking trails with a car, or even a truck, exclaiming that they love nature.

Personally I have to make compromises when I invite someone hiking and/or camping. That means leaving the bike home and going to the trail or the camp site with a car. It's unfortunate but it's just how most people see spending time in nature.

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