I got lucky and picked one up for $200

I got lucky and picked one up for $200

Fanleas cases, no fan, no noise. https://www.monsterlabo.com/

Silent and fanless: look for a Monsterlabo case. It is all heatsink. Buy a fankess power supply, or buy a PSU that is overrates for the load and fanless under 30% load.

Its the setup I have. I can render video and other work loads and you don’t even know the system is on

Married 20 years, never thought abut cheating, got divorced , and remarried 15 years now, and never think about cheating. If you commit to somebody, they should be your one and only, IMO.

Its actually a loss for Google, they are selling a good set of secure hardware for a cheap price in hopes of gleaning your data. But yeah the notch is stupid, especially when icons fall under it.

No, its a decent phone and GrapheneOS has degoogled everything and sandboxed play store if you use it. Storage spaces are sandboxed, camera and mic off switches. Lots of other security and privacy options, and 5 years of support

GrapheneOS on a Pixel phone. Immich self host as a replacent for facial recognition and albums on google photos

Oh they didn’t make it affordable, I just meant we saw price drop in market and assessments. Prices here are ridiculous. We paid 415k for 2 bedroom apartment, now it is 575k but before the changes they were selling for 675k sight unseen, just buyers snapping them up

No there are articles about the affect upon announcement and then institution

They did drop for us in Vancouver. I’m not suggesting it accounts for the high prices everywhere but it definetly had a market affect as airbnb people dumped their additional units. One owner had over 40

We definitely need more housing across canada, but BC has been notorious for vacant homes and airbnb units, thus the ban on airbnb and the added vacancy tax out here.

All they need to do is make it so you can only own one residence, if you own a second as income property it should be taxed to the point that you want to sell it.

I was in the rental stream before and at least 1 landlord was foreign owners from mainland China–the property had sat empty for six months before us because owner was rich and didn’t care about the 2k month they were losing. Another was an unlocatable landlord, the strara paperwork showed China owner, but correspondence was coming from Korean contact info. It started to look more like shell company ownership. Also have two friends who’s Vancouver places are Asian owned. Owners moved back to China and main house was vacant for 2+ years, just single basement tennant paying utilities to make place “occupied”.

While not perfect BC has PWD, if you qualify you get some cash toward housing (not enough in BC market) and a monthly cheque. Plus dental, medicine, therapy, etc is covered. The only stupid part is the coverage plan won’t tell you what or how much is covered up front, you have to have the service provider bill for the service and get payment…and hope it falls under a covered service.

You pay into the system for 40+ years, you get a retirement benefit. If you take it early you are stretching your earned pension over more years, rather than have new tax payers fund your early retirement you just get less per year. And if you still have income you still get your retirement pension because you contributed. The GIS is meant to split people by poverty level and rich pensioners, adjust GIS if you are concerned not OAS.

We lived where there were no bears.

We had no bears in southern Ontario, still cities had restrictions. Also jerk neighbours wanted to see grass not vegetables in their neighbouring yards

Zoning laws. Some cities started to listen to advocates and allowed veg and chickens in yards for personal use

We should also promote yard gardening. Some citites try to restrict citizens from planting veg. We had a townhome with less that 10 x10 area. We planted lots of herbs, greens, tomatoes and carrots. It meant we very rarely had to go get those items during the summer and fall. It does not have to be an all or nothing solution for sustaining food supply

Smaller market maybe, but might be popular with those that don’t want ads served to them through the infotainment center like the big auto manufactures are doing. No infotainment means less bullshit. I’m ready for a simplified life.