What's with all the NDP hate here? They gave many Canadians free dental and many other (left-leaning) things through their coalition with the Liberals. I take issue with the premise of this post. Yes, the NDP are going to lose votes this election, but it's not specifically because they screwed up. It's because a lot of us are in a situation where the anti-vote for CPC pushes voters to vote Liberal when they would otherwise vote NDP.

I don't know if this is a trend that will continue. But if the Liberals had changed our voting system (like they promised) to something other than FPTP, no one here would need to cast anti-votes or strategic votes anymore. Or at least less often.

I'm lucky that in my area, my anti-vote, strategic vote and heartfelt vote all land on the same party. But most Canadians aren't.

What I don't understand, and maybe somebody can explain. If this is the case, why wouldn't there be torrents of every paper whose authors would be genuinely delighted to share?

Not being skeptical here. I'm really curious.

And maybe there are, and they're just not well advertised for understandable reasons?

Be careful with that thinking though. I agree that there are many cases where people would be better off with a Linux distro, but after that switch EVERYTHING that goes wrong on that computer (small or big, due to the switch or not) will be pinned to the switch itself.

More than likely, you are signing yourself up for more computer responsibilities, not less in the foreseeable future. If you and your parents are ready for that, then now is a great time to switch.

In my opinion everything after Windows 7 progressively got worse. Windows 7 (with some exceptions) was about as good as Windows got.

If their computer is secure and they're still happy with it, I'm not sure I would poke that bear. I'm glad that newer versions of Windows aren't a consideration.

Good call! I already did this.. wasn't sure if there was a better way other than installing steam on the vm and logging into my steam account to see which ones were installable. I suppose this doesn't tell me how well they'll play though does it.. 🤔

A NAS is exactly what I'm considering doing with it. Good call!

I'm building a new PC because my current one is quite old. I won't retire it though, and have yet to figure out what I'll do with it (probably stick another Linux distro on it too 😆). I'm hoping to take advantage of having a brand new setup as an opportunity to be done with Windows completely.

Thanks for the distrochooser link. It was helpful and pointed me to Fedora 😀

I know a guy who used to run one of these businesses. He pivoted to something else because of the expenses, and hardware wasn't the biggest. The monthly license fees for games are outrageous when you want to provide them to the public. Which means you have to constantly bet on which game's demand will outweigh its cost on a monthly basis.

Before COVID, his place was very busy. I went many times and it was a lot of fun. His business was profitable, but because of the cost of games still not super successful.

I agree that the expense of paying someone to run the spot would quickly outpace the cost of hardware, but in his case he was running the whole thing himself. Even with nobody to pay for their time, his margins were never great.

Then COVID came along. That really killed it. No one wants to wear a VR headset that was just worn by a sweaty stranger minutes earlier during a pandemic.

A single remote that turns on my PC and TV

We're not drinking today! 😁

This is a great idea. My day just started (in Canada). I haven't had a drink in 2 days now (which is sadly, a big deal for me). I'm not drinking today either.

😃

Are we talking about eating the rich? I'm hungry.

I use SourceTree regularly, but when shit hits the fan, I always fall back to the terminal.