Canada’s housing and healthcare infrastructure is unable to keep up with even the current population. There are current issues with record high wait times for ERs and surgery, etc. as well as a homelessness crisis.

Not to mention the current issues with imported organised crime, such as foreign extortion gangs that are currently a huge problem in BC and Ontario. If you keep up on the Canadian news at all, you’ll know that many members of such a gang was recently arrested, all of whom suddenly claimed refugee status so that they then conveniently couldn’t be deported for their crimes without literal years of legal proceedings. And this was reported by the CBC, which is about as left-wing as a news source gets in Canada, so its not a case of the National Post or the Sun pushing right wing propaganda.

It is commendable to want to help people, but the fact of the matter is, unchecked record high immigration has led to more than a few problems over the last decade that are now coming home to roost. Canada simply doesn’t have the capacity to absorb these people without it further exacerbating domestic issues, not to mention that the Liberal Party’s record-high immigration numbers and TFW-related employment issues are wildly unpopular politically. They are a large part of the reason that the conservatives were on track to win a majority in the last election after Trudeau was forced to resign, before Donald Trump’s 51st state comments and tariffs sent a wave of anti-american sentiment through Canada (and thus, anti-anything Trump-like voter sentiment, and Trump is a US conservative) and cost them that lead - but that only goes so far.

If Canada tries to absorb all the migrants trying to go there now over the USA due to America’s current political climate, there will eventually be a large backlash that pushes Canada far closer to the current US political climate than anyone wants.

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Having just double checked with my Canadian family, and then checking their sources, nope, inflation directly affecting cost of living is not getting under control there. Food price inflation is up 4.7% for 2025, which is more than double the rate of inflation for the last year.

Meat, Coffee, Fresh Fruit, and Fresh Vegetables are apparently the worst hit categories. Also, I got to listen to a mini-rant about Shrinkflation.

So serious question, how is the US Navy chasing down and seizing these ships different from piracy?

Thats nice and all, but none of this apparent success is helping cost of living in Canada. According to my Canadian family, grocery bills just keep on rising.

That’s what the waffle stomp is for.

This is confusing. So killing a woman is now criminally worse than killing a man? That seems absurd.

Yes, they recently shot a video together.

If you care about actual functionality (accurate HR, fitness tracking, GPS tracking for runs) but still don’t want to be spied on, using GadgetBridge with a commercially available watch (Huawei/Garmin/Amazfit) is probably your best option. GadgetBridge being the controller/gatekeeper app to the watch means all your data stays on your device and isn’t going to the watch manufacturer, but you still get the benefit of the actual functionality working well (which, unfortunately with Pebble or PineTime isn’t the case right now - pebble being very old iirc and pine time just… Not being good.)

This isn’t awful advice, but used Pixel prices are vastly out of whack with used prices from just about any other android manufacturer. On Amazon I can currently buy a refurbished Galaxy S25+ for $300 less than a refurbished Pixel 9 Pro XL - when the Pixel is a worse phone by every metric but its ability to run GOS.

Also, in some markets (US I believe? I think its a company called Verizon that does this) Some pixels just cannot be OEM unlocked, at all. So that’s also a risk buying used online at least - there’s usually not a way to tell if you’d be getting one of those if you live in a market that has this fucked up “feature”.

Is this some strain of measles that avoids vaccines or something? Cause if not, all this sounds like is Darwinism in action, not a health emergency.

This applies to Apple as well.

I canceled ongoing donations to several projects based in the US and stated that my reasons for doing so was US policy against my country. It doesn’t matter if the dev or project lead supports those policies or not, I refuse to contribute to the US economy if I can at all help it.

Can this handle plugins? I use a modded DeDRM on my Kindle Unlimited books, and so require plugin support.

Royal Road has its own issues such as author groups on Discord colluding to drive up member’s “Rising Star” rankings, and drive down the stories of authors they don’t like. Also, very inconsistent moderation policies that highly favour certain authors over others who just so happen to be friendly with mods, etc.

I also don’t believe it’s open source, so I’m not sure how it’s really any “more free” than any other fanfic platform out there in the fediverse sense.

That’s stupid. Nothing stops you from just installing regular Ubuntu if you love snaps so much.

There’s Librera FD, on F-droid. It’s the open source version of Librera on the google play store. I believe it strips out the google api/cloud stuff, but its db /reading status/etc are all easily synced via Nextcloud (which is what I do). The only real negative I’ve found with it is that it’s search for text in books is slow compared to more popular reading apps like Moon+ Reader.

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Basically any Fossil / Skagen (they’re the same thing) Hybrid (meaning e-ink) watch will work with Gadgetbridge. I personally have the Fossil Machine Gen 6 Hybrid which works great. Ignore the ‘Alexa’ bit, that does nothing via Gadgetbridge (and in fact you can just flat out remove that ‘app’ in the GB app). Heart Rate and Message/Notification/Call control functions all work fine. Step tracking works, but sleep tracking does not (Fossil doesn’t have it done on the watch, it’s done in their app, so until/unless GB replicates that functionality it won’t work).

I use a Fossil Hybrid watch with gadget bridge. Works really well, though one caveat is that while you can read and dismiss messages on the watch, you can’t reply from it. This isn’t a problem for my use case, but YMMV. The couple weeks of battery life is a great plus, though. (E-ink screen)