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Interesting, telecom in CA sounds like everything in the USA.
I don’t actually need an internet connection when it comes to my personal, outside-of-work life. In fact, I would kind of prefer to be disconnected for the most part.
So what you describe actually sounds pretty good to me. I have hundreds of books, solar power, and a guitar. I don’t need the internet except for doing any sort of work. In that case, I will drive to whatever town center is closest. That’s what I do now, I don’t have any internet connection unless I’m at a cafe or something.
In terms of relative geographical location, Canada is infinitely easier for me. These three are on completely different continents.
Canada also has less work permit requirements than any of the three I mentioned. At least in my situation.
Norway has also completely closed their immigration stuff last I checked a few months ago.
When a lot of Canadians say they hate the US (including myself) we are more so saying that we hate the government
I’m just so used to how the southern confederates act towards things like this. They’ll vilify an entire country like China, and then practically tar and feather any Korean that walks by because of it. Crazy shit.
As for businesses, I have started to use co-op a lot more especially for gas.
Are you speaking of this? https://canada.coop/en/
Looks like they have stuff pretty much all over CA, and even possibly some jobs to look into as well. Thanks for that tip! Co-ops are something I really miss about the western states. They’re practically illegal on the east.
Yea, the rich folk thing is exactly why I would expect to have issues. They do that to places, New Zealand is another good example. I am definitely not rich, though. Kinda curious, are there “vanlife” type people up there? I live in a RAV4 right now, used to live in a skoolie. I won’t take away any of your houses, I just need a water/food source and maybe a gym.
I like the sound of this Smithers town. And looking at the map, there are a bunch of peaks in the area, definitely my style. Zooming out a bit, it seems that whole general area right there is right up my alley and on a major road.
Thanks for the offer and the infos, I may just hit you up for some more insight at some point! Especially since you’ve sorta done what I want to do, although you had the benefit of being from CA originally.
Good idea on the fibre map!
I’ve experienced cold-as-shit, but I’m not sure I’ve experienced proper cold yet. Lowest was -8F (-22C) and even then it only lasted for the coldest part of that night and went just above 0F (-17C) as the sun came out.
I lived in Vermont at the time, house was heated by an oil furnace. The furnace died 2 days before this happened and didn’t get replaced until a week after 🥲
I don’t think the SPF / DKIM / DMARC stuff is overly complex nor the core of the problem.
It’s not the core of the issue, but the average joe that is a hobbyist self-hoster it will be.
IMO, the core issue is that there is no standard whatsoever. People just do whatever the hell they want with these records, pretty much. Microsoft and Google do it differently than each other, even.
The only solution for me is that we move on from email as a society.
Do you want to live and work in Canada temporarily (while orange man in power) or looking to eventually get permanent residency?
Preferably permanent eventually. I’ve been done with this country long before the fat cyst got political. Up until now, I’ve had the national parks and forests to keep me sane. That’s slowly fading, though.
If I could find a tech job in the US, then that’d be sweet to get transferred like that, but it’s been rough here in that regard. I’m also fairly stubborn in who I work for. I’ve been treated very badly in the past, and most of the companies I could work for that have Canadian offices are not on my list of “OK to work for”, at least that I’m aware of. Besides, I’d still be under the ultimate leadership of an American Capitalist. If I can, a Canadian company would be awesome, but we’ll see.
Thanks for the direct link and insight on the lawyer, I’ll definitely dig through it!
lmao, I replied way too fast! Thanks again for the other infos.
On the topic of temperature, the only nice weather in the entire country is southern vancouver island. Vancouver is ok but it’s wet. It’s cold in the rest of canada.
I meant more the temperature of how I would be received. I absolutely love cold and shoveling snow, weirdly enough. Lived in Vermont for almost 10 years.
Maple syrup in coffee? Bro that’s unhinged lmao
Don’t knock it 'til you try it! Gotta be black coffee though, no other sweeteners or cream.
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It’s really easy to not shop at any of the major big box stores owned by USA megacorps, physical or digital.
The trouble is, everyone around me is either on-board with the administration or a left-wing coward. I can’t believe people actually think a single day of non-spending is going to do anything, and part of me thinks it’s the corps pushing that idea as well.
I spent time finding the small asian and latino markets around me, and that’s the only places I buy anything in the USA. I’ve been doing this for 5 years, trying to get others to follow.
No, it will never happen and I finally see that now. Even my closest friends don’t get it, they willfully give Sam Altman and Google money every month. This place is rekt and I’m losing my mind.
I feel like I either need to find a Canadian or Mexican friend to defect to, or just go ahead and pull my own trigger.
Yea, if you are not willing to be meticulous about learning/understanding all the DNS stuff (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and plan to host this at home, don’t.
I ran this same system for a very long time on a VPS and had no problems with blacklists, but I’m also a career systems engineer that maintained enterprise systems and exchange servers.
Also note how I am speaking of MIAB in the past tense…
I think the better option is to try and avoid email as much as you can, just like SMS. Outdated tech and not secure. At that point, any ol’ existing email service is good enough.
Oh damn, I hadn’t heard of that with the Avowed thing. That’s a Bethesda/Microsoft sleezeball move right there.
I think people in general need to just default to “finding content another way”, because companies should never be given the benefit of the doubt IMO.
Case in point is Obsidian, they are supposed to be one of the good ones.
Should definitely be. My mother has the Paper White 6" and I am able to transfer all my zlib EPUB and MOBIs through USB with no issues.
Nevermind, I think I misunderstood and you meant it more like, “We’ll see how long they allow this feature”
(and for whatever reason strikethrough markdown isn’t working…)
I was ruined by What.CD, haven’t been able to find a satisfactory one since.
But also, with streaming services and smaller file sizes, torrenting isn’t as necessary. I haven’t seen these two listed, so here you go. Each site has a few options and server locations, so you just need to try the different ones until you know which one works. Some offer FLAC, some MP3 320.
For me, Lucida.to searching Amazon seems to be the most reliable.
Indeed, you are not wrong. Such is the state of many, many things.
I admit it’s easy enough to say, “let’s get rid of it”, but without a solution it’s meaningless to say and is just an ideology.