I moved to Canada once, did the permanent residency stuff, got a job and had a life setup. Lived there for around 5 years before moving back to the states.

IMO, its a very similar experience. Healthcare is less of a problem than in the US. Something I noticed was that the hours sunlight throughout the years were noticeably different than what I was used to in the northeast: winters are long and dark. In summer though, id have light until like 1130pm which was neat.

I moved back to the states BC thats where my family is, not a problem with Canada.

I do

Laptop: gnu/linux

Mobile: lineageos

Email/calendar/contacts on EU server: posteo.de

They support IMAP and DAV

I don’t always swear, but when I do I swear by my Stevens 301.

For me, I don’t think there’s anything I can’t do. Its a belief that’s generally been helpful in accomplishing great things.

With that said, if I had a do-over I might go into law. Would have been helpful to have an adult help me navigate that route as a youngster and I’m happy with what ive done and excited for what comes next.

On the day-to-day, I write notes in my journal for work:

• what I’m doing
• what I need to do
• things ive learnt
• things I don’t understand
• opinions about these things

Maybe not exactly what your asking about, but it is what I write

Don’t hoard cash, spend it on things with a return > 3% and you’ll be fine

I see what you mean and I make a distinction bw the Soviets and the communists. Is that valid? I think so and ymmv

I used to struggle with this. What worked for me was waking at 5am and then being active all day.

I had one maybe 6-7 years back. Power went out once and I went to my PC which was in the middle of a job and shut it down gracefully.

Nowadays, I raw dog it and structure the jobs I run to be idempotent.

Most? Probably where I was raised and my lived experiences.

Fwiw, “the communists” is what came to my mind. They shot Mussolini and captured Berlin. Difficult to imagine any defeat without the communists.

Nah, can’t afford it. Airfare is expensive and my cost of living has increased so I need to work.

if an average joe were to earn the FEDERAL mandated minimum wage of $7.25, is buying a whole weeks worth of groceries affordable with that alone (excluding rent, utilities, insurance, etc)?

Weird question. Probably, yes? If the only thing he of she is buying w earned wage is food and he or she works a full work week, then yes. However in US, rent is typically high.

Do you consider a $200 semi-fancy dinner at a restaurant (not over the top luxurious, but formal & fine dining) with family or friends “cheap” in the US whilst earning $15 (or even $30) per hour in minimum wage?

No

I run a DaaS product Trace Jobs that serves job posting data.

My expectations are pretty low and am never disappointed. Self-hosting can be pretty affordable.

Shameless self-promotion

I was annoyed w job sites so I launched a job posting data service earlier this year. Trace Jobs serves data from 38,000+ sources and ingests ~50k new records daily. The data is unmolested by “AI enhancement” and is served as reported by the source.

There’s a copy-paste command you can try and an examples page with links to fresh results. Sign up for an API key to send real queries to the database.

Lenovo M700q

Hunting squirrels

By targetting, I’m talking about serving different ads to different users. Of course when an ad is created it targets a specific audience but thats not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about collecting user data for the purpose of targeting them with specific ads.

Ie- User is a young male, so show sports betting ads vs this is an ad for a vpn, serve it to everyone

Agree and only if theres a shift. Distrowatch has had ads for decades for example