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Yes.... but what colour?

Yeah I see it (as a not American looking in from outside the country). Every time I visit the USA, the changes in things are more and more visible.

“marriage is between a man and a woman before God!

Ummm.. but what about all the men in the bible with many wives. There was no one man one wife thing in almost the entire Bible. Almost all of the people who are touted to be amazing examples of God's peopel... were polygamists... and since that wasn't enough, they would have the concubines on the side. Point that out and they run away.

It's a problem with Canonical. They stepped up and created the snaps and then abandoned them instead of maintaining them. They still maintain the core that they include with the distro... it's all the extras they created to pad out the store... and then abandoned. "Look the snap store has so many packages"... yeah... no... it doesn't.

Why would a company who makes a commercial level open source package want to add snaps to their already broad Linux offering? They typically already build RPM (covering RHEL, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, etc.) and DEB (covering Debian, Ubuntu, all Ubuntu derivatives, etc.)... and have a tar.gz to cover anything they missed. Why should they add the special snowflake snap just to cover Ubuntu which is already well covered by the DEB hey already make?

Sure, show vendors what's possible, but if Canonical stepped up to make the snaps, then they should still be maintaining them. It's not a business opportunity... its more bullshit from Canonical that no one wants.

Suddenly, sales are up 15% and traffic to the company website is up 300%.

Sounds like Ubuntu underneath your Plasma. I've had the exact same experience when using Neon, Kubuntu, and Ubuntu+KDE. I install any non-Ubuntu based distro with KDE (like openSUSE) and whiz bang everything is working again.

Kinda depends where you work.

I've been working full time in software dev and hardware dev since the mid-1990s. Through that whole time I've worked almost exclusively on (in the early days) Sun workstations, AS/400, and HPUX machines. This eventually transitioned to Linux and macOS (once it became Unix based). Over the past 7-8 years, every company I've worked for (primarily in backend software and "big data") has actually heavily restricted Windows within the company. Most have required high level approval to have a Windows machine... you had to have a damn good business reason to run Windows as your primary OS.

Windows is definitely the leader in generic desktop work, but... there are pockets out there of Linux/macOS-only. And... given the strong shift to browser based everything... Windows has lost its shininess for all but the most specific applications - eg graphics editing in industry standard tooling like Photoshop.

Thankfully the school my kids go to doesn't really give a crap what you run at home on on their laptops they used for school work as long as the kids are able to to their assignments. Almost 100% of what they do is browser based interfaces anyway, so it doesn't matter what the underlying OS is. I've made a point of teaching my kids Linux, macOS, and Windows. They've both asked to run Linux on their personal PCs... it was, and remains their choice.

If you take a typical 4L jug of milk and lay it on its side in your refrigerator without first making sure the lid is tight (right from the grocery store), it can and will slowly leak. I see this all the time. We buy a new 4L jug before the opened one is empty (kids go through a lot) and there's no room in the fridge to stand it upright.. The place we can fit an upright 4L jug is already occupied by the opened 4L jug, the applejuice box, etc.

So... it's not normal procedure to buy the new jug and just before we lay it on its side on the fridge shelf we check the lid is tight.... and no leaks.. forget and there's a small puddle in an hour or so.

The pressure on rentals has potential to become MUCH worse too if the interest rates start pushing people out of their current owned homes.

I'm a home owner. I am looking at a mortgage renewal in about 18 months. At the current interest rates I'm facing a painful mortgage payment hike. Can I manage it without extending my amortization period? Yes... painful, but yes. I can absorb the increase because I intentionally bought in a (at the time) marginally lower COL area at less than 50% of what I qualified for. Most people I know who bought around the same time went right to the max and they are screwed at renewal if rates don't drop by a substantial amount. In some cases they will be forced into extending their mortgages well beyond 30 years or forced to sell... if they sell, they have to live somewhere... they will transition to renting...

Watch your grocery shopping... it's incredibly frustrating and depressing. Everyday things like... say a flat of chicken breast from Save-On. Not so long ago that flat of meat was about $7-$8 for 1kg. Now you get 650g for $14. Every item you buy has dramatically reduced in size/weight and doubled in price.

Lived in the GVRD. Thought "this is way too expensive, everyone is saying Alberta is so much cheaper" so we put things in storage and went to Alberta. Six months in, we discovered...

• Car insurance in AB is 3 to 5 times what we were paying in BC and we get less coverage.
• Rents are only marginally lower than what we'd pay on a similar property in the Fraser Valley
• House prices were only marginally lower in the Calgary region vs where we bought in BC
• Winter in Alberta sucks big time

After six months we moved back to BC. The small difference in housing costs made so little impact to our monthly COL, that it wasn't worth it. We paid WAY more for car insurance and electricity - so much so that any savings we saw in housing costs were totally eclipsed by other expenses.

All those people have to live somewhere. Or there will be a massive increase in homelessness.

With a flood of houses on the market, they will snapped up by... people with a good cash flow... like... corporations. Who will then turn around and rent them out to you and me and all those people forced out of their homes.. at whatever rental rate they desire... while raking in the cash.

I assume you can't afford a house now and couldn't afford a house when rates were as low as 1%. Even if a house is foreclosed on and dramatically drops in price, do you think you will actually be able to pony up and pay a downpayment and manage a mortgage rate at say.. 8 percent? I seriously doubt it. A $1.8 million home (at today's valuation) isn't going to pop onto the market at $150,000 in 2 years when the renewal hits.

The reality is that the banks will do whatever they can to keep people in their houses. I checked my bank today to estimate what my mortgage renewal will look like when it comes up and they are offering mortgage terms up to 59 years. I can afford my renewal even at the new rate because I bought a bit over at 1/3rd of what they approved me for... I knew rates would go up, and I knew what I could afford at more typical rates. I'd rather pay the lower rates of course... but...