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Almost all modern chargers utilize USB-C female, at least from the major brands (Anker, Ugreen etc.)

Almost all cables have either USB-C male to USB-C male, or USB-C male to something else.

This has not been my experience. Not only does filtering work, but in multi user documents it allows you to select user specific or document specific filters, so each user can filter separately.

It's not perfect, but most of the time it feels like magic.

Gosh what a wonderful piece of tech I never knew existed. Makes me nostalgic for all the old PDAs

In Norway, they had what looked like old fashioned parking meters outside apartment buildings. What it was a combination parking meter and electric charging meter... So you could park overnight and charge on the street... And get charged for parking at the same time!

I don't understand how using phrases like "these people" doesn't bring culturism into the conversation. You clearly stated that "these people bring that problem to Canada", implying that their culture is the primary problem and that culture will be travelling with them to Canada.

As for the economy not being able to support them, I think this statement ignores the fact that every immigrant that meets Canada's criteria brings some useful skill. We immigrate farmers, doctors, nurses, engineers, lawyers. All of whom add to the economy in a way that, generally, expands the economy to support their presence.

Now, we have major policy mismatches, where trained individuals cannot work in their field due to obscure policies and regulations, but that's tied to misguided national policies that exist independently of individual immigrants.

Not sure this is true... I started working at 15 and put in an application and worked. No parental consent and definitely no school involvement. This would have been in 2005-6...

Have you met any first or second generation Canadians? Yes, people bring their culture and their traditions. And by the time you get 1 or 2 generations down, aside from a few different holidays Canada's school system has done a fairly good job of normalizing the population.

Immigration is a major source of Canadian talent and innovation... A lot of the systemic issues around larger populations aren't related to immigration, as others noted, but to short sighted, "get me elected" policies for our political "leaders".

Nope.

This gets really messy for consulting companies, where employees "work" at the client location 3-4 days a week, 2-3 weeks a month.

We had to track and report what states we worked in and what days, down to the billing hours, and then in some cases had to file tax returns in some of those states.

Also, all of the partners were required to file taxes in every state where the company earned income, which worked out to something like 46 states and 5 countries.

I'm very curious, in all of these cases, what the replacement will be and even if there will be a replacement.

I mentioned that to my wife (we're Canadian), and her response was why do we even need a head of state if we have a Prime Minister? And I'll be honest, I didn't have an answer.

Definitely disagree with don't talk money. It's an outdated stigma that only benefits the employer and leads to people getting significantly underpaid and/or taken advantage of.

Also, some retailers have just the pi out of stock, but have it in stock if you get a bundle with a case, etc. That's how I got an 8GB one a few weeks ago.

Agree with ductless A/C, we are in a 100 year old house with radiator heating and the ductless A/C cools two floors admirably.

All the climate control was in the touchscreen. No knobs, only a button that took you to the climate control screen, but you had to change all the settings on the touchscreen. (Looking at the photos, you could change the temperature but nothing else. No fan speed, A/C, etc.)

The capacitive slider for volume seems fine, until you realize it was implemented entirely in software, so if the touchscreen hadn't finished booting, or was slow because it was too cold, that experienced extreme lag. Since the steering wheel buttons ALSO didn't work until the touchscreen booted, it meant if the wife was listening to music super loud with the windows down at night, when you turned the car on in the morning it took about 10s to be able to turn the volume down.

Just a note, this is because in the 2016-2017 Honda Civic Hatchback, they went all in and buried all the physical buttons and knobs for sound and climate in the touchscreen, and got major negative customer feedback to the point where they brought them back.

Adjusting climate control, since that is now in the touchscreen, although thankfully some manufacturers are back tracking on that one.

Adjusting the radio station is the other big one.

So interesting. You could tie this to a sensor in areas that are supposed to be dry. If they get wet, they trigger the battery and a pulse or an alarm. So much potential!!

Most Asus phones are carried at Staples here in Canada.... Another place to look is potentially Swiftronics.

Sony is also very close to stock. They keep stock for most of the important apps, and only have their own apps for things like the camera.

Also, in my anecdotal experience, large dog owners end up putting in more training time because the consequences of not are much greater.

My 50lb, German shepherd looking village dog jumps on grandma? Grandma breaks a hip. My parents 3lb Shit-Poo jumps on Grandma? Cue the cooing.

Similarly with barking. Not saying it's true for all owners, but generally once you start training alot of other behaviours get cleaned up as a side effect.

This article makes me think I really need to get down to my sailboat and fix those last few things.

Another thing that hasn't been mentioned, while it doesn't directly affect the experience, is how well Costco treats their employees. Almost all of their policies are progressive and employee first, and that's something I'm also willing to support.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/costco-pay-benefits-glassdoor...

This is a very American thing. As much as our Canadian banks gouge us, and lead to a lack of choice and almost monopolistic conditions... Our banking system is so ridiculously stable compared to the US it's not even funny. I look down south in confusion because I just don't understand how you manage in your system

I used to travel with our sales people when they had to do demoes. Even with internet, they'd bring a small desktop computer, a monitor, a WiFi router, a bag of Ethernet cables, all assorted keyboard and mouse paraphernalia all in its very own carry on bag.

Needless to say, we always planned for extra time at security...

My dream is a simple, one plug extension cable about three feet long with a built in travel adapter.

Only semi related, but when Dolly Parton noticed that her home town had 30%+ highschool dropout rates, she created the buddy program. Pair with a friend, and if you both graduate, you both get $500. Drop out rate dropped to 6%.

Yeah incentives can be gamed... But if in the process of gaming, the students achieve the outcome, does it really matter?

https://dollyparton.com/imagination_library/buddy-program/15...

Just about every enterprise tool requires a proper implementation and system admins and business process analysis and change management to get setup.

A lot of enterprise tools are "crap, why would the company ever use this", and 90% of that is in the implementation (or lack thereof)

I mean, it's the driving cause behind me selling the car and moving to a VW...

Funny you should mention the Honda Civic...

I had a 2017 Honda Civic Hatchback. First year of the new model design, it had a touch sensitive volume control... After that, I think it was the 2019 and up all Honda's came with a volume knob AS A DIFFERENTIATOR because the UX was so bad without it.

I also find that many of these touchscreens are designed with California in mind. Sure, touchscreens are great when it's sunny and 22C. But when it's -25 and the car feels like a freezer, the touchscreen is sluggish and won't accepted gloved inputs, I start swearing and think about selling the car.

Any plans for discrete graphics?