This is how I do it. I may never stop actually having that gmail account in use due to the number of accounts tied to it, but I at least can use other services going forward without losing tons of stuff.

Is that the damage formula based on, uh, circumference?

Haven't actually read the book, thankfully, but I recall hearing that was a thing.

It's a bit different but provides more support for the core ideas, for sure. More about our physical, neurological reactions to digital media than about the philosophical and historical aspects. I read it a few years back and enjoyed it quite a bit.

I feel the same way regarding whether this legislation would be enforceable or good, but there are a lot of ways developers could make this work that they currently don't. That includes bot players, local multiplayer functionality, dedicated server tools, IP-based connections, etc. Many DRM and anti-cheat implementations also cause problems and would need to be either removed or only used in certain contexts.

Right now in a lot of games if you aren't playing multiplayer on official servers through official matchmaking functions with invasive kernel-level anti-cheat there's no other way to play, but that hasn't always been the case nor does it need to be the case.

Honestly, it's halfway correct, if I need to go into the office I'd rather be able to interact with people IRL. Most of my work unit tries to be there on Mondays for that reason.

The caveats are that I'd still rather not be there at all and that our office sucks so most people are at least as effective at home anyways.

Just to be clear, a majority of wildfire response efforts are provincial and CAF basically gets called in when resources are tapped out across the country. And Quebec actually did privatize their wildfire emergency response a while back, although I don't know the details on how that compares against their public agency. And lots of bits and pieces of response are either privatized or partially privatized in many provinces, such as aircraft and helicopter resourcing.

All that said: yeah, CAF just needs to be trained better for emergency response functions. It's most of what we use our armed forces for anyways. I've heard plenty of stories of CAF being deployed and then sitting around for a week because their radios aren't compatible and they don't know how to integrate into a unified command structure. These are the things that need to be sorted out, not throwing more money at more entities who can complicate things.

Yep.

If there is one part of Canadian culture that can be said to be consistent across geographic and ideological lines, it's a connection to the land and the natural world. Our country is practically built on trekking through forests and canoeing down rivers. A national park pass is one of the simplest ways to encourage people to engage with that, and if there's one thing I'd like newcomers to do here it's to engage with our culture.

Man I can't believe we're giving newcomers easier access to the truly wonderful and remarkable parts of our nation, thus giving them something to actually love about Canada. How horrible.

There are still a couple of donuts that are good despite the severe drop in quality (apparently not even they can fuck up the honey cruller) but yeah, it used to be a thought process on which of a bunch of donuts I wanted when people brought in a box, and now it's a crapshoot whether I even care.

I've tried to use daily notes in various capacities but at this point I mostly use them for random notes and lists throughout the day. The shortcuts to pop open today's note are just easier on mobile.

I use weeklies for planning meals and groceries, and will probably do the same for exercise as I get back into outdoor training, but if it wasn't for that I'd probably turn the plugin off.

Honestly, most books in the genre are not great from a critical perspective. Even popular and "good" ones. But they do a great job of being long-lasting entertainment products that get that dopamine flowing, and they engage you in a way that is hard to find elsewhere.

I haven't read a lot of western litrpg, but there's pretty heavy overlap with Japanese light novels. Arguably a good chunk of the tropes and popularity spilled over from Japanese light novels and Chinese progression fantasy/xianxia. In that genre I can recommend these pretty easily:

• Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra, which has a guy transported to a fantasy world with powers like a Civilization leader.
• Log Horizon, where a bunch of MMO players kind themselves in a world basically like the game they know but slowly uncover differences.
• Sword Art Online: Progressive, which is basically the original story filled in with the details and character development needed to make it actually pretty good.
• Konosuba, which has a lot of similarities to gamelit progression and such but is very much a comedy.

If you're into web novels, Shadow Slave and Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint are both incredible while scratching that itch. I've only read the manwha but Greatest Estate Developer also lurks around the genre while being quite good.

Nord Light was also pretty good when I tried it. I waffle back and forth between light and dark themes now and then and there's always a few good options that brighten the space without flashbanging you.

I hopped on the beta and while the default layout after I did the questionnaire was terrible, I eventually got it to the point that I like it better than before.

It makes it easier to pay attention to some stats that matter to me more, and the small graphs in the In-focus section give me some quick insights on how I'm doing in various capacities. It's definitely not perfect and maybe could have spent a little longer cooking in beta, but overall I like it.

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma⭐Ilya. I swear I'm not a pedo. I just want Ilya to be happy.

My most direct use of fzf is to search large result sets for something I can't 100% remember the name or location of, so this actually sounds nice. I've managed to get fzf to slow down a few times and... well, I'm sure as hell not organizing that folder structure.

There's been some controversy around the governance structure and culture with NixOS that has a number of people unhappy. I'm honestly not sure of the details but it's ptesumably less about the software than the people.

I only played a few hours of Dome Keeper but it was quite a bit of fun. There's already a fair amount of variety possible in the runs but not so much that this isn't appreciated.

Considering there seems to be minimal changes to the game and the graphics honestly didn't need any updates beyond what the GameCube could put out, I am still unreasonably excited for this game. I played the everliving fuck out of TTYD through my teens. Tempted to mess around with a danger Mario build for the first time in more than a decade.

I'm curious to see where they go next. A lot of modern consumer electronics have repairability and upgradeability problems, but I also wouldn't expect they'd be able to crack into the phone market as easily as the laptop market, so presumably there's some more niche target they have.