festus 6d ago • 100%
No. They have a trial of 100 one-time searches, but that's it.
festus 2w ago • 100%
The extended support updates aren't available to end consumers but is a paid product for enterprises that need more time to update.
festus 3w ago • 92%
The big reason I switched back to Nvidia was because I wanted to play with some local AI models, and doing that with AMD cards was quite difficult at the time (I think it's improved a little, but still isn't straightforward).
festus 3w ago • 100%
That's hard for me to answer because I'm usually at home plugged in, and I set the max charge in the bios to only 65% so the battery will physically degrade slower (I don't need the charge). A few hours is really all I can say with any accuracy. Worth noting a few things -
- Since I bought my laptop they came out with an improved battery I could upgrade to, so you'd get a better experience.
- I believe(?) battery life is improved a fair bit at least with the AMD ones; less sure on the newer Intel ones.
I will say that if long battery life is your #1 concern this may not be the laptop for you.
festus 3w ago • 100%
I have a 12th gen Intel Framework running Arch. I love it, although as others have pointed out the battery life could be better. Early kernels shortly after release had some incompatibility issues that required specific kernel arguments to fix. Also I had to blacklist the light sensor as it conflicted with the brightness function keys.
The Arch wiki has a page with details on Framework laptops you may appreciate looking at.
festus 3w ago • 100%
Relative to other countries, the US has much more competive industries and space for new entrants to grow. In Canada for instance many industries (banking, grocers, telecom, media, etc.) are each dominated by a handful of uncompetitive companies that exploit consumers.
To be clear I know that the US has this issue too to some extent, but it's better there than elsewhere.
festus 4w ago • 100%
BC United (the current opposition!) basically collapsed and stopped running. This means that there won't be vote splitting between them and the BC Conservatives.
festus 1mo ago • 98%
The police literally have 'courtesy cards' they hand out to friends and family to avoid getting them ticketed - that's a practice that absolutely needs to stop.
festus 1mo ago • 100%
Yeah I'll agree that on its own it's not a good measure because of situations like this.
festus 1mo ago • 100%
Because percent change uses the previous value in the denominator, which here was negative. (2.33- -0.5)/(-0.5) = about -5.66, or -566%. What number do you think would make more sense?
festus 2mo ago • 100%
According to that website it looks like candidates still have a few weeks to get onto the ballot; I'd be surprised if by then you still don't have a left-leaning candidate.
festus 2mo ago • 100%
Out of curiosity - what laptop maker is installing Sway by default?
festus 2mo ago • 100%
I pay for the Softmaker Office suite, it's pretty good and has Linux native versions.
festus 2mo ago • 100%
I had a few false starts before, but MS force-updating me to the objectively worse and user-hostile Windows 8 triggered my latest (and successful) switch.
festus 2mo ago • 100%
If I were to play devil's advocate, it would be that capped rent increases is to prevent predatory landlords from increasing rent more than their costs, but that if their costs go up more then they have a way to cover that without losing the property / going bankrupt.
That provision is maybe more acceptable when you're talking about families renting out their basement suite, but I have zero sympathy for investors who took a risk and lost. And even in the case of non-investor landlords, I'm skeptical that it's appropriate to make the tenant shoulder all the increased costs.
festus 2mo ago • 100%
Because they aren't overriding it - the legislation allows for these rent increases in certain circumstances. Not agreeing with the law or the decision, but the arbitrator isn't making up some new power.
festus 3mo ago • 100%
I switched jobs earlier this year for a 47℅ 'raise' - I'm absolutely loving my new role.
My understanding is that a potential sale of my previous employer fell through because I was basically the brains that developed / maintained the only innovative thing they had done in the past 15 years, and given their lack of investment in anything else there was nothing else of value for the buyer.
festus 3mo ago • 100%
Other way around - the AI is writing a letter "from" the daughter to be sent to the athlete. Still BS though, and I'm sure famous people just love getting spam fan mail where the person couldn't be bothered to draft it themself.
festus 3mo ago • 100%
Maybe the Republicans should do the same thing then and have Trump stop running.