Routhinator
@Routhinator@startrek.website
- Comment on One Angry Man 22 minutes ago:
Trainspotting
You haven’t depluralised this, you morphed it from a viewing activity to a veritable “shit-down”.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
That is how I do it yes. As much as feasibly possible. I do really miss the local PC shops and electronics stores… sadly my options for that stuff now are Staples, Best Buy and Amazon…
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
Unfortunately rich and developed countries with an iron grip on the markets by a few billionaires that control them you see. They ensure our options are limited.
Canadians have very limited choices in terms of services. Even our grocery store shelves are bought out by major corps and local options struggle to get their products on the shelves.
As another example, our banks have no interpayment systems outside the interac system, and they have no standard apis for payment services. So things like apps for managing budgets involve downloading a csv after our billing date passes and a lot of manual work. Most banks offer their own budget apps and they only work with their services.
We have effectively have 3 phone and internet providers… or little guys that resell access to the big 3.
The monopoly man won the game in Canada.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
Getting money to organizations outside Canada and the US, once you remove credit cards and paypal, is exclusive to wire transfer from within Canada. If i want to get my money to any entity outside of Canada those are my options. None of these alt payment providers exist in Canada, and we are barred from buying crypto from our accounts.
JCB seems like the Interac system here in Canada, which I doubt Steam would take payment from. Its essentially a bank transfer.
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
What country are you in? None of those options exist in Canada so I think you’re going to need to reframe your point.
Also I can state that giftcards do not exist where I live as I just went though 4 kids birthdays and check 20 different stores and wnded up having to give up on Steam cards and buy prepaid Visas
- Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition 1 week ago:
How else are you supposed to buy something on Steam? You just listed every available option.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
Yeah my wife has MS and I worry when shes late that she is having trouble. And I go hiking in the bush so its good if she has my approximate location
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
We switched to Fairphones running e/OS so we have pretty solid control of that. Im looking forward to postmarketOS being a bit more stable.
- Comment on ‘If I switch it off, my girlfriend might think I’m cheating’: inside the rise of couples location sharing 1 week ago:
Home Assistant
- Comment on Changes to Bitnami Catalog on August 28th 1 week ago:
Mostly unaffected save for some things. Emberstack kubernetes reflector opts to not make their own chart and their docs tell you to use Bitnami, so its the only chart I use that I’ll have to start maintaining myself unless Emberstack changes their stance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
🔥
- Comment on Zuck's true form 2 weeks ago:
Why you gotta do Yaphit like that?
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 3 weeks ago:
Try the Droidify app. I find it better than the main FDroid app.
- Comment on Can I lick it? 3 weeks ago:
Can we edit it?!
- Comment on Jell-OH MY GOD! 3 weeks ago:
Dessert goatse
- Comment on Signs that rhyme 3 weeks ago:
Looks like it was a combo of both, reading about it further. www.rd.com/…/americans-british-pronounce-zee/
Regional dialects at first, but then the dictionary declared it the official pronunciation and shortly after the song was produced, which would have spread the use from being regional and encouraged homogenization
- Comment on Exclusive: Rebecca Romijn On The ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ Cast Learning Show Will End With Season 5 3 weeks ago:
And at least they aren’t being cut so fast that the last episode will come out as Riker playing on the holodeck just as the show was getting into the good stuff.
- Comment on I wonder if the spice girls still get along or if that "friendship never ends" thing was just a lie. 3 weeks ago:
whistles X-files tune
- Comment on Signs that rhyme 3 weeks ago:
Americans used to pronounce Z the same as the rest of the world until someone wrote the ABC song and decided it needed to rhyme with V, and then an entire generation grew up saying it wrong and it stuck. At least that is what I’ve heard in Canada.
It’s also why there is a Canadian version of Sesame street where the last verse doesnt rhyme because up until the late 90s our TV censors used to straight up nope things that would cause kids to be confused about how things should be pronounced.
- Comment on My world is so much better because of immigrants 3 weeks ago:
Pan fried shawarma is something Im still trying to get used to. The Lebanese Shawarma places in Ottawa all stack the chicken on a stick rotisserie and it is cooked exactly like the lamb or beef kebabs, they then slice thin portions off of it just the same.
It wasnt until I moved out west that I ever saw Shawarma done any other way, and everything out here has been disappointing by comparison.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
…and yet people not only believe this crap but try to pass it off as science.
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 1 month ago:
I respect your opinion, but I lived through 90s computing and think dongles died the death they deserve and these phone manufacturers can go to hell for bringing them back or thinking that bluetooth audio is good enough.
Additionally most of the droids I have bought that have a jack are the perfect thickness in my mind. Weighted enough to stay in my hand and take a couple dozen drops without accident. Plus the headphone jack is used as an antenna and provides radio capabilities so I can listen to local news instead of whatever the tech industry wants to feed me. Which is a nice option.
- Comment on Melon-chicken-Aspic 1 month ago:
What’s for dinner tonight mom?
Unborn chicken.
- Comment on Make dinosaurs weirder 1 month ago:
Relevant. youtu.be/xaQJbozY_Is
- Comment on how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? 1 month ago:
It is, but it requires GPlay to operate and maintain your sub.
I switched to Subtracks when I dumped Google.
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 1 month ago:
I have to comtend with 70-80 year olds doing 30km in an 80 while swerving across the midline because they saw a bird across the street.
- Comment on So close! 2 months ago:
Many people have FODMAP sensitivities and confuse them for gluten.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 2 months ago:
Man I miss Webrings.
- Comment on Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites 2 months ago:
It really was a great thing. It happened natually too. Started as just a site I posted my writing to, a personal site in 1997, and friends wanted to add their stuff. By 1999 it was renamed from Routhy’s Den to the Den of Amateur Poetry, and then the domain was purchased and the site renamed to The Den of Amateur Writing.
I still remember the pre-PHP days. People would email their works to me and I would manually build an HTML page and update the site within 24 hours.
