I would say it was worth it. I moved from the Netherlands to Germany for three years for a Master’s and then to Canada for a PhD and stayed there and got a job. It’s a great way to experience different cultures (though all Western of course).

For the move to Germany, it was really easy. It’s all EU so all I had to really do was register at the Kreisverwaltungsreferat. I had also applied for a grant to study abroad so that paid the tuition as well as the rent. Tuition in Germany is very low by the way. It was also a great way to build independence since I had to rely a lot on myself, having come all alone.

I did meet my lovely Canadian spouse there, so there was the opportunity to move to yet another country. Immigration is a massive pain, even when married to a Canadian, but it all worked out with student visa, permanent resident, and finally citizen. Took years!

The downside is of course being 6000km away from my family. Especially from my parents who are not getting any younger. So it’s hard to be there for them if something happens. But overall, I would say it was worth it. The experiences have been great and I get to spread ideas that work well from places I’ve been to my new home in Canada. The lack of proper licorice here is baffling though!

Whenever I have a glass of water, he will sneak up and drink from it. We even gave him a human glass with water to drink from, but NO, it has to be mine.

Also available from Blender directly: https://studio.blender.org/blog/dogwalk-official-release/

Or Itchio: https://blenderstudio.itch.io/dogwalk

5700xt. Oh yeah, I used to have that issue. It went away. Haven’t had issues for years now. I’m on a rolling-release distro so always the latest kernel/mesa.

I’ll just put this here for what it’s worth: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/prime-minister-mark-carney-deliver-proportional-representation-for-canada

Who knows!

One can hope!!

You will unfortunately have to get rid of the lemmy.ee links since they are closing down very soon.

https://lemm.ee/post/65824884

While true regarding open source vs closed course. The risks are quite large for patients. For example, a few years ago there was a company called Second Sight that made artificial eyes so blind people could partially see again. Then the company discontinued the product and now they are stuck with an unsupported surgically implanted device that they rely heavily on but can break any time. It’s pretty risky to have something implanted if you don’t know if the company will be around in a decade or so.

This is definitely an older one, but I would like to add Cow & Chicken! Some of that stuff was pretty wild!

It seems impossible to log in right now. Emails with the verification code (valid for ten minutes) take many hours to arrive…

Good! I remember threatening to cancel my bank accounts last time they tried to charge me the NSF fee (which worked). I was fresh out of Europe and thought that was the most ludicrous thing. Payment couldn’t go through, i.e. you literally did nothing and it cost $50 or whatever? That was over a decade ago and still mad about it. A shame it’s still $10 but it’s at least a manageable amount for most people.

I recently started playing Tanks of Freedom II because it was featured at yesterday’s OnFOSS event. It’s a fairly similar idea and fun too. Comes with a campaign as well as multiplayer. Open source too which is awesome!

Banshees of Inisherin was amazing!

Sort of. I wear a camera while cycling because there are a lot of angry people in cars that have some weird hatred towards people using a bicycle.

This is great, thanks! I’ve been looking for a VPS provider to get rid of Linode and had trouble find alternatives in my $8/month price range that I currently pay.

I only have the one ZBT-1 at the moment, but like you I was also thinking about getting a second for Thread (though in the form of a HA Yellow). There’s this bit in the documentation for the Yellow about multiprotocol support and one of the things is that it’s better to have a second wireless chip in some cases which I take to mean that you can have multiple ZBT-1, one for Zigbee and one for Thread.

For large networks it is advisable to add a second wireless chip. This allows to run Zigbee and Thread each on a dedicated wireless chip and on separate channels.

(source: https://yellow.home-assistant.io/guides/about-multiprotocol/)

Same to you and all reading this! Have a lovely ending of the year!

There’s a protest coming up for this too (as well as to remember those killed and injured):

On Tuesday, October 22 join the active transportation community to remember those people using active transportation who have been killed or badly injured on Ottawa’s roads in the past several weeks, and to protest Queen’s Park’s anti-cyclist proposed bike lane law. Meet on the north side of City Hall at 110 Laurier Avenue West at 5 pm for a rally and then protest ride.

OpenSpades, very! It’s a popular game during these events. Hope you can join us! :)

Depends on which side of the exhaust you are on.