A typical bike-riding leftist urbanite who also happens to be a hockey-crazy Western Canadian.

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Cake day: 20. Juni 2023

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  • Corey Perry’s team has lost in the stanley cup finals 6 years in a row*. He’s back on the Lightning this season and they’re looking strong. I predict the curse continues.

    * ok technically the streak was broken in 2023 when Tampa got bounced by the Leafs, but the fact the Leafs won a playoff series at all makes that season such a historical aberration it deserves an asterisk.



  • To add a tiny bit of technical detail here, vanilla Arch enforces support for x86_64 v1, meaning all software available in the Arch repos is built to not use any cpu feature that didn’t exist in v1. Not a bad thing since it allows for support of older (64 bit) hardware, but it does leave like 20 years of microarchitecture advancement on the table.

    According to the CachyOS website, they have repos with software built for v3 and v4 which can apparently juice your rig for an extra 20% performance.







  • Alberta voted in a government who ran on balancing the budget through the magic of oil prices. Only a couple short years later, all of our public services are in crisis mode and the budget is worse than ever before because the price of oil didn’t meet their projections. But hey, at least they got rid of that annoying photo radar thing, so you can let off some steam via road rage if the O&G market has got you feeling down. Bonus points if you run over any cyclists or trans kids.

    Looking forward to 40 more years of backwards bullshit in this province.









  • Maybe not fraudulent since you are getting what you pay for most of the time. But I do agree, 99% of commerce is bullshit in some way or another.

    I recently came across a term that describes my feelings on the matter pretty well: it’s landfill-core. Our economy depends on people buying new shit, but in order to have that happen without people’s homes turning into mountains of useless clutter, we have to constantly be throwing away old shit. So it seems to me the purpose of this whole economy thing is to expend tons of energy producing and transporting all kinds of shit, so that it can take a brief detour through somebody’s home on the way to the landfill.

    Like, the majority of human productivity goes into extracting resources that just get buried again somewhere else, if not immediately set on fire.