worker was encouraging people to vote Conservative

I’d like to say that I’m surprised. But I’m not.

Is this not something that you’d go to jail for? Election interference, especially when you’re working for Elections Canada, seems pretty serious.

Worse yet, I wonder how many people will be falsely “identified”, “located”, or “accused” of something because of AI hallucinations.

With the American government doing away with due process, it’s a scary thought.

I wish I knew! On my Hero 11, I can sometimes hear it turning on by itself… Days after the last use.

Other times, I refises to then off. If you force it off, it turns right back on!

But at least you can remove the battery on that one. The mini one has no option for that.

Out of curiosity, because a lot of people sat to “vote early” as if it holds some special significance.

I guess it depends on the area.

My voting station is a local school, and it’s never been busy.

The early voting station is out of the way, and would be a hassle to get to unless I knew I could vote on election day.

That’s the difference between having an “adult child” and a “responsible adult” living with their parents.

Not every parent has the latter 😂

There are horror stories of adult children abusing their parents and basically taking over to house.

But honestly, even with a responsible adult child in the home, it’s not the same as having an empty nest. And I’m sure it works both ways with the adults living at home, feeling like they want their own space and not just shared living quarters.

You’re overthinking it.

Parents just want their lives back. Plain and simple.

OK, yeah,. Pretty standard, and understandable stuff.

I keep hearing about ordinary voters who are like “vote early” as if there’s some unique advantage.

Is there any benefit to advanced voting? I mean, it’s not busy at my local voting station on election day (at least not historically), so that’s when I plan to vote.

It honestly pains me that my values seem to match the NDP platform, but I’m forced to vote liberal because any other vote would benefit conservatives.

It killed them. They went from THE camera for active life.

I have the Hero 11 Black and their new “4k” mini one (both gifted). The mini is pretty much unusable for two reasons:

1. Their built-in battery likes to die just from being “off” for a little while. Even though pretty much every GoPro seems to have a bad problem with phantom battery drain, you can’t replace this one, so you’re losing charge cycles without actually using the camera.

2. You simply cannot use the videos out of the camera without running it through an image stabilization process (through their app, or using third-party software like Gyroflow (thank god, this is FOSS). It’s embarrassing that they’d even sell a camera without image stabilization. I have a $60 no-name gopro knockoff that produces better footage out of the camera.

If someone paid me to design a flawed product, I’d basically make a GoPro camera. Such a shame!

This speaks directly to GoPro. Fuck them and their bullshit.

You can’t even properly use their hardware without using their crippled app. And if you aren’t paying for their subscription to use the app they force you to use, be prepared to be harassed endlessly about subscribing.

They even cripple new hardware with the inability to stabilize video unless you have their shitty app do it.

Could you imagine headphones that only play music through an app that requires a subscription? That’s the level of enshittification we’re going to start seeing.

This is why I love 90s bikes.

Simple parts. Easy (and affordable) to maintain. Can easily last another 30 years. 😀

Overlap, and large jumps between gears would make a 2 x 5 feel awful.

the city confirmed that its Automated Speed Enforcement (ASE) system generated about $40 million in fines last year alone but Chow said expanding the number of cameras isn’t about fining more drivers.

Wow! If we put these systems everywhere, we’d be able to flesh out incredibly robust cycling infrastructure throughout Ontario in under a year.

Let car drivers pay for bike lanes 😂

He’s quite literally removing safe infrastructure from people who aren’t in cars, with a rule that his government can’t be sued when someone is killed as a result.

Crashes like this are a consequence of a government who doesn’t value human life.

Fucking horrific. This happens far too often, and Doug Ford doesn’t care.

Yes, but is this them being assholes, or them wanting to make sure that users aren’t making their system unreliable? I think there would be a huge distinction there.

For example, say a user wanted to create a cache drive using an SSD. But because the user doesn’t know better, they buy the cheapest crap they can find, install it, and set up caching. But because they’re using cheap shit, the drive is slow and the user reports poor performance, system hangups, and other instability.

Wouldn’t it be in Synology’s best interest to say “here’s a list of drives we know will give you the best experience.”?

Now, Synology has already done that, but users are ignoring it and continue to use poor storage drives expecting to use pretty sophisticated features. What now? Well, Synology disables those features.

For example:

De-duplication, lifespan analysis, and automatic HDD firmware updates could also disappear on non-approved drives

Um, yeah. That makes sense. If a shitty hard drive can’t reliably get firmware updates through the NAS, why on earth would they want to keep that option enabled? Same with lifespan analysis. If a crappy drive isn’t using modern standards and protocols for measuring and logging errors and performance data, Synology really can’t “enable” this to work, can they?

That’s what I think is happening. Although, this could be just greed, too. I don’t think there’s any real problem for most users, unless they say that we can’t use fairly common, high-quality NAS drives from Seagate or WD and must use their own branded drives. I’d have a huge problem with that.

Are we overreacting? Hasn’t Synology always had a list of “certified” drives for their NAS’, which end up being the same HDDs we would tend to use anyway?

I can understand that they don’t want people using any garbage storage drives, which could increase failure and make Synology NAS’ look unreliable.

Unless something has changed, this is how they’ve always done it, just like how every laptop manufacturer will say which RAM and storage works best (for reliability and performance) on their machines.

I love them so much!

I once rode 120 km by bike to visit a provincial park, and the moment I arrived at the end point (a lighthouse!), a pileated woodpecker landed on a tree overhead. I was filled with so much joy at the moment. Such a beautiful “welcome”!