The article says that they say it only affected customers that check out as a “guest”. Presumably most customers use an account when making a purchase.

That said I saw the people reporting it initially saying you didn’t even need to submit the form to be affected so I don’t know how they can tell how many customers were affected.

Its somewhat homophobic in a “Hurr Durr, you are gay and like to take it up the butt” way. Plus the general stigma around men using sex toys.

My initial thought was that this is an attempt at a prank (not a very good one) between two military members.

I’m a big fan of spicy food, but I rarely use hot sauce and am not a fan of buffalo wings. For me I like foods that have chiles where the spice is part of the flavour that makes the dish taste good.

The weird part is that that Christmas a few of us got gifted the bills fresh and uncirculated from the bank. We all joked about the maple rumor that was going around and found that some of the bills did smell like maple and others didn’t.

If you have network issues generally best practice is to unplug everything for 30 seconds and then turn the devoces on one by one from where the internet comes into the house and let each connect before moving up the chain. So typically modem then router then computer.

CHEK is their broadcast call sign that happens to sound like a word and therefore provides handy branding.

Not saying you can’t find openly racist people in the country, especially some very rural areas, but the chance of running into people who aren’t friendly to visiting foreigners of any appearance is extremely low. Canada is quite multicultural, especially in the major cities where you wouldn’t even garner a second glance from people.

A big problem is that most denim people buy these days is “stretch” which massively reduces durability of the material. It has gotten way too hard to find classic denim in most stores.

Agreed, no matter what comes out Trackmania is the game that has me coming back day after day.

Considering how much of Crofton is employed by the mill this is a massive blow to a small community.

I work closely with a company that uses Teams and every time I’m in a meeting that they organize I’m constantly shocked at how horrible that software is. Like I thought Google Meet wasn’t great but everything from sharing screens to the audio quality is leaps and bounds better than Teams.

Xbox controllers can be a bit unreliable on Linux in my experience. I’ve got an 8BitDo Ultimate 2C wireless that I quite like. They are way cheaper than an Xbox controller, have hall effect joysticks, and low measured latency.

I’ve always thought that BotW was a good game, but a terrible Zelda game.

This is especially frustrating as a Canadian where our market isn’t big enough to have options for a lot of specific goods. I’ll look to buy something and pick what I want only to find that the choices are Amazon or a US retailer with insane shipping costs plus potential customs charges to Canada. Even if I do find a Canadian retailer that sells it, shipping is often more than the product itself.

I’ve started ordering a bit more from Aliexpress, especially for things less than $20 since shipping is usually free or a couple dollars. Otherwise larger stores in my area like Best Buy, London Drugs and Canadian Tire.

This is effectively impossible. Time in the market beats trying to time the market because it is hard to identify the dip until you have already exited it.

When, no matter how long it has been since you saw each other last it is like you saw them yesterday.

I’ve become fed up with a job I’ve had for a long time. I’m confused about what I even want to do because the changes and decisions that management keeps making has me burnt out at even the concept of my job.

I’ve known for well over a year that it is time to make a change, but that has gotten much more urgent recently. The problem is that it’s really haste to leave a well paying job for another I doubt will pay as well.

At least in BC is only came off the shelves at the government liquor stores you can still get American liquor at private stores.

Dual booting is easy as long as you have a second drive or can shrink your Windows partition to provide space for your Linux install (this can be done within Windows). Your distro installer should have a couple options during install, one of which should allow you to install it on a specific partition without touching your Windows partition. After you select that option it should install everything including a bootloader like GRUB or systemdboot that will allow you to select Windows or Linux on startup.

A warning about dual booting though, Windows doesn’t like to be installed alongside another OS, it may realize this and fuck with your bootloader resulting in a system that won’t boot into your linux install. You need to boot up a live CD and do something called “chroot” into your sytem to reinstall your bootloader. Its not actually that difficult but can be a pain to figure out the first time. https://discovery.endeavouros.com/system-rescue/arch-chroot/2022/12/