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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • That’s why I asked the comment seemed to suggest customers.

    Here in Canada we mostly use Interac, so accepting cash doesn’t mean all you get is cash. It just helps those that don’t want evert purchase tracked by places like the superstore and aggregated with other identifiers, or also helps homeless if they need to access something and have been setup with an interaction card.

    Theres a push here to get cash accepted for billed services because they removed payment offices and only accept credit card or in some cases auto withdraw from your bank account. But because capitalism, some services were now charging a fee to take a payment via credit, and didn’t have a way to pay by cash.

    I could go on, but I think you see where I’m going.

    Think of the state of the USA right now. If cash is removed as a payment option then you become reliant on an electronic system hosted in the USA that can be “turned off” if war tensions rose. Reliance on electronics for critical basics and infrastructure are at risk during strife.











  • Nah, my wife runs NixOS. She has zero technical background or computer skill. I asked her what she needed installed and filled in the config file, did the rebuild switch. Shes been on it for 5 years now, zero issues, it all just works. She didn’t like KDE because its too much like Windows with menus and options that confused her, so I put GnomeDE on it. She’s happy, and if it dies sinces it is a 15year old laptop, I can replicate her system with the config.


  • Well China does have the benefit of just ordering the work to be done and funded by the government, rather than a random contractor dropping the ball over cost overruns or not quoting the next stage because they fear losing money. For example Rogers committed to building cell towers through the coastal mountains or rockies to ensure service on those transit routes, BC agreed to contribute a large amount to help. Rogers starts then cancels it all saying land acquisition or development is going to cost to much for the towers. Whereas if it were a government project it would just get done regardless of extra costs, and profit isn’t a factor.