Hey there is real competition with the big three, checks notes, sorry no I mean there is only quasi-real competition in Saskatchewan for the big three!

Really, they are going to call someone who uses windows a hacker?

If he wants to see US booze for sale in Canada all he needs to do is come to Saskatchewan where our intoxicated joke of a premier put it back up, or go to Alberta where Smith wanted to help the drunks out.

There was this whole thing several years back where the air force put out “bids” to the one company to update our fleet of jets. The order has been cut down to I believe only these 16 jets and than changed to substantially more griphens

There are things like duckdns if you cannot get a static IP, but there are also things like wireguard.

Did not know, or care, they were still around.

Hey, we got the grocery rebate a few days ago, he is trying to fix capitalism! /s

Seriously capitalism is broken, and it needs to be replaced.

Brave is chromium don’t be thinking it ain’t calling home somehow. First thing I do when I install a distro is make sure nothing Googlely is on there.

Just like the digital sales tax was going to be retro actively charged before Carney came in and said to the tech companies here you do not need to raise your prices again, you can just keep your over inflated prices as is.

I am not sure of all the terms, but I do not see an ad blocker. Sure VPNs can do some of the work but get yourself a good DNS level ad blocker.

Touché, it does make it harder for them and anything they sell on you you wont see in search results, and yes turn off google 100 times yes turn off google!

Also use a pihole, or some other non commercial DNS ad blocker.

Be an even bigger pirate self host searxng and do not let big tech see or sell you!

Fairly sure north every where burns all year round, maybe I should say smoke season.

I use wireguard for all that, it is self hosted and I do not have to have accounts elsewhere, once I have my OpenWRT up and running and my static IPs running to it I will move wireguard there. I have QR codes setup so that I can give people a taste of pihole for a short period of time when I am away from my LAN, of course when they are on my guest wifi they get pihole the whole time.

Just a side note for any 2FA I use vaultwarden.

The Earth goes through cycles, once it kills us it will do another ice age and stuff will return.

Just remember we are a cancer to the universe, and it wants to kill you!

Let’s say the next few months and every summer from now on, we got forest fires season now!

That’s capitalism for you baby

Clippy, did they not learn their lesson in 95?

Yes, yes, and yes. Microslop has shown they will “accidentally” leak stuff if you threaten to move so governments should move.

RBC “do you want that in cash or cheque?” “Cash you say well let me look between the couch cushions.”