I dont know, lenovo seems to only support their stuff for two years before they end of life it.

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Should these not be depreciating in value, or is that depreciation just not keeping up with inflation at this point.

Well that sucks, no more paying in cash for physical cards.

Back when I used to work retail all gift cards were inside the registers only allowed to be activated once the registers opened.

This meant it was less likely for someone to either swap gift cards for counterfeit ones, or take pictures of all the cards waiting for someone to activate them and drain the balance.

But somehow bill c-22 is still on the table and has had more pushback from the public.

Almost every other week I get a email for “xyz company” saying the same thing.

“Your data has been compromised because our network was accessed by a outside third party.”

I wonder how all this information stored by companies for over a year will now be protected, it will only benefit nefarious actors, scammers, and more then likely the company selling the data to third parties like ad agencies to regain costs of storage.

Just here checking in on the narrative.

Wait, I can get someone else to pay my homes electric bill?!

How about solar, wind, hydro, battery backup.

Canada can be a major player in sustainable energy and energy storage, why do we keep backsliding to fossil fuels and unsustainable energy generation. We have the natural minerals for battery tech, let’s develop that industry.

We also have the experience people in modular nuclear reactors, let’s push that research and development further.

Fuck ICE without a doubt!

All I could say is any speed cameras, along with any of the existing traffic and highway cameras or neighborhood cameras are implemented in such a way that the city retains full ownership and accountability of collected data.

There should be strong accountability and data protection for this, but city officials and common folk generally trade convenience for privacy for most things related to tech.

I for one sure miss simple CCTV.

The issue is most of our roadways are designed like strodes.

We should design streets as streets, and design roads as roads.

Roads have no cut curbs or driveways, no parking is allowed on a road. Traffic lights and intersections are minimized and roundabouts are preferred. Roads are like low capacity highways in a sense. Trails run beside roads as opposed to sidewalks to minimize conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles.

Streets are narrow and lower capacity, sidewalks and pedestrians are common. Street parking is allowed. Curbs and driveways are common. Speeds are low and intersections are other signalized or stop signs are used.

This is a strode:

This would be how you take a strode and turn it into a actual street with proper.

Keep in mind though, the above is payed for by tax payers, i.e. all citizens regardless of if they speed or not, or have a car or not.

A camera is payed for ideally by the speeder, and any extra “revenue” should then go to the redesign of said streets, roads, and roadways.

You know speed cameras actually do reduce the speed of traffic.

On top of that they only negativity affect those that speed (with fines). Where something like a speed bump effect both speeder and non-speeder.

Streets and roads were speed cameras were installed in my neighbor actually became more pleasant to drive, walk, and cycle on. No more speeders tailgating others for example.

Now yes your point is valid that a portion of the cash collected from speeders goes to pay for said cameras, but keep in mind it’s the speeders that are paying and not non-speeders or taxpayers.

If you can, send a email to voice your opinion regarding bill C-22.

If you oppose this bill you can. Use the follow template as a start.

Email: gary.anand@parl.gc.ca

Subject: Say NO to Bill C-22!

Hello Gary Anandasangaree

I’m writing to ask you to oppose Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, and call on the government to withdraw it entirely.

Bill C-22 would require internet providers, messaging platforms, and cloud services to build and maintain surveillance capabilities inside their own systems — capabilities that create serious security risks for every Canadian. We already know what happens when governments mandate these backdoors: state-backed Chinese hackers exploited similar loopholes in the United States in 2024’s Salt Typhoon attack, compromising millions of people’s private communications.

C-22 doesn’t just replicate those vulnerabilities: it greatly expands them. It would compromise a much wider range of digital services. And it does something that compromises everyone’s safety and protection privacy both online and in-person further: companies would be forced to store a full year of metadata about every Canadian — records of where we go, who we contact, and when we did it — without us ever having been under investigation. Everything from which family members you talked to, conversations with your therapist, if you talked with your lawyer potentially exposing what you discussed.

The limited safeguards C-22 contains are both overly narrow, and are compromised by a clause that lets future governments reinterpret basic terms like “encryption” and “systemic vulnerability” by future regulations, with no parliamentary debate required. That means the very limited protections in this bill are only as strong as the government decides they are, on any given day.

Bill C-22 cannot pass in its current form. Please join me in calling on the government to withdraw it in full.

Sincerely, Your name here Your address here with postal code

Yay!!! /s

Its never been able age verification, its been about identity verification.

All this data collection is to build a verified user profile on you for tracking purposes, it’s not about protecting the kids. It’s about tracking everyone everywhere online.

Not anymore, it’s a slopp-machine.

Was talking about Google search… Lmao

Simplex, Quiet, Keet, & Sessions are some different apps that I have come across.

Also Nextcloud chat is something that you could self-host. Though if this bill does pass I guess hosting this would make you a criminal as soon as it does.

Both are the same price guys!

5*0.20 = $1