I’m not sure why anybody would go out of their way to use a thorn in every instance instead of th, except to be obtuse.

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Matrix is a protocol with multiple options for front-end clients. If you don’t like Element, for example, you can try Cinny. They both use Matrix but are different apps.

I’m experiencing post-coffee gut contraction as we speak!

Journiv has got me to try journaling seriously for the first time. I’m a bit envious of those able to do so naturally, I’ve been forgetting to make daily entries more often than not

One of our recent council meetings had a developer wanting to rezone a lot to medium density but needed a variance to allow for less parking given the size of the parcel.

Council unanimously approved the rezoning citing the need for more medium density projects, but were completely divided on the vote for the parking variance. They could not fathom that a developer would know best how many parking spaces would be needed to still be functional and profitable. All they wanted was to reduce the requirement from 1.5 spaces per unit down to 1.25 spaces per unit. A decrease of like 9 spaces total.

Luckily the variance was eventually approved but not before a lot of debate and grandstanding about what people are supposed to do with their cars.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

CMHC already has programs available to fully fund non-market housing initiatives as long as you can meet certain requirements. One of the biggest issues is that nearly everybody sees housing as an investment and not simply a shelter so if there’s no money in it then they aren’t interested.

You can’t post all these in a single album?

I’ve been using Actual for a while now, probably close to a year. Before that I was on YNAB, which isn’t FOSS but does have a huge library of material for how to make your budget work for you instead of the other way around.

I got off YNAB after they kept raising their subscription fees for seemingly no reason. Actual is not nearly as feature-rich but you can’t really argue with the price.

This is the way it should be done. Instead of spending millions of dollars on a multi-year feasibility study and building hundreds of stores, just build a few and see how it goes.

I dislike Boeing as much as the next guy, but they only took over manufacturing in 1997 so this plane would have been built by McDonnell Douglas. I’m also pretty sure it’s not Boeing’s responsibility to maintain aircraft that are no longer in production.

Standing up to, or standing up for?

In short, pumpkin spice

Price of gas just went up overnight which got me thinking how silly it is that gasoline is priced by supply/demand when everybody needs it and isn’t going to buy less of it because it’s too expensive.

More specifically, we force it to undergo phase changes under different pressures, and in doing so it absorbs/releases latent heat in the air. It’s converting latent heat to sensible heat.

Which is exactly why we should have 30 km/h speed limits. The difference in survivability is massive at lower speeds.

Never ceases to amaze me how any word on new GNOME improvements brings out all the Plasma users

Having the credit card certainly helps. I get about $20 back in triangle points every month.

My Linux Mint 22 iso currently has a ratio of 11908.34 over the last year and a bit.

Edit: linuxmint-22.2-cinnamon-64bit.iso is gaining fast with a ratio of 314 in just two weeks.

You need to relink your account. Go to https://plex.tv/link Your firestick Plex app should present you with a 4 digit code.