A friend suggested me Sailfish OS, sadly it only supports Xperia, and Sony does not make phones that attend the frequency where I live.

My next "phone" will be a pocket computer with a data chip. For the last 20 years, I only received phone calls from solicitors/scammers.

If you don't mind old hardware, get it refurbished from Amazon. You can get pixel 7 for 400 CAD, sometimes less. Amazon quality control is better than ebay, so was the support.

My biggest problem is with the camera of all mobiles, the photo looks good because there is a lot of processing in the background, and it becomes very apparent how the hardware is bad when you take pictures with an aftermarket OS.

Those metrics are bollocks.

For Denuvo, you don't need their data. Plenty of games let you play a week before release, then add Denuvo, wait a few months, then remove. During Denuvo days, there is a flood of poor reviews associated with performance.

For the 20%, they just invented a number, there is no real base for that, at least not a solid one. I wonder if Denuvo takes in account the number of games returned because of them.

A long time ago, a game distributor was a guest lecturer to a class I was taking, and I learned a bunch there. For piracy, it seems that their company navigate the seven seas to count downloads and estimate black market sales, multiply by the game price, and assume that was lost revenue caused by piracy. It was very weird, as some games piracy numbers were 100 times bigger than the amount sold and sounded like they were losing billions of dollars in revenue per game because of that. I asked if they really think they would sell that number of games if there was no piracy, if the people pirating games would buy/could afford the full price they took in account - they went from a well-formed teacher to straight red face mouth foaming dogma discourse. There is a lot of money in DRM, and it seems they want to keep that way with doctrine and/or bribery.

For the class, we (students) had to do a market research, and of our small reach (local game forums, malls and where people buy pirated CDs - this was a long time ago), we did not meet a single person self identified as pirate, who would buy a game they want to play if the pirated version was not available, either free from web or street vendors, they would just play something else they could find and afford. That did not bode well with the guest lecturer, but a lot of our findings about piracy narrowed it down to availability, price and convenience - well, there was a minor percentage of people that would always and only pirate for the most diverse reasons even if they could afford the game.

Thanks for sharing that! It was a great read and BC Greens seems like a solid party.

I remember taking one of those tests on how I would vote in some scenarios, and it recommended me to the Green Party at the end. At the time, I did not care much because there were some problems with "Green" parties around the world receiving money from Oil and Russia to promote questionable rules and favour war.

Later I learned that Russia was also financing other parties, sometimes both oppositions in the same country. And I just saw that the federal Green party acted promptly on the removal of those bad actors from their rooster, contrary to other parties.

I will keep my eyes on the Greens, and figure out who is the representative in my riding.

My favourite tool is GPU Screen Recorder - https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder/about/

This is a screen recorder that has minimal impact on system performance by recording your monitor using the GPU only, similar to shadowplay on windows. This is the fastest screen recording tool for Linux.

It works with AMD, Intel and Nvidia GPUs. It is also the one that performs better. Official repos AUR or Flatpak, or you can install from the source above. The flatpak already comes with the UI gtk https://git.dec05eba.com/gpu-screen-recorder-gtk/

Other tools I used were OBS and Steam - you can enable Steam to record your games in the Settings > Game Recording > Record in Background

OBS was very laggy for me.

It depends on the tasks you are planning to do.

Here is a list with a bunch https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Multimedia#Video_editors I tested most of them. While they all work fine, I had better experience with the flatpak versions when available.

If you just want to do some quick cutting, trimming or merging - LosslessCut https://mifi.no/losslesscut/

I use ffmpeg from terminal for quick stuff that I do often. Like resizing a video, cutting, getting an image from a frame.

Lightworks and DaVinci resolve are industry standard, but require a license to use most of it. The problem with their free version is the limitation of input and output formats. Ideal if you are making movies/going professional. I prefer DaVinci Resolve, keep an eye for hardware sale, sometimes it comes with a license bundled - Speed Editor being the cheapest.

Kdenlive is well-rounded, from the open source is the most robust, and with most maintainers. I use it mostly for gameplay and to add voice over to videos.

For recording voice over and sound FX, there is nothing better than Ardour https://ardour.org/

Natron is great for Visual FX, you can also use Blender for pretty much everything.

I use Calibre to organize my e-books, it is great. Mobi was giving me the best result when I converted from epub, the other Amazon format my Kindle supports is azw3.

Sadly, I lost half of the last words per line converting from DRM-free books I got from humble bundle, and figuring out the proper settings was taking too long.

When I learned about KOReader I never looked back, it allows me to sync with Calibre through Wi-Fi and accepts way more book formats. I have been using Kindle more since I installed it.

The problem is that the process to get it running on Kindle is not that straightforward.

Unless there is a x86 to ARM translation layer on Linux that I’m not aware of?

https://steamdb.info/app/3043620/

It appears Valve is working on Proton for arm64, I was wondering if this is to attend the mobile market, a new Index or maybe a smaller Steam Deck.

What kind of question is “Do you need an E-ink display?”

Currently, Apple does not offer any hardware form factor with an e-ink display. If the poster was interested in hardware, that would filter out Apple devices.

What’s wrong with the kindle? I have a 2012 kindle paperwhite

I also have a Kindle, PaperWhite 3.

The list is long, in short: Kindle has a closed system. Similar to the reMarkable brand of e-ink devices, they make it hard for you to do anything it was not made for, and to be heavily dependent on their services.

You can still run Doom and other programs on Kindle, but I would not recommend buying it new, nor to someone who does not want the hassle of tweaking it, as there are better options working well out of the box.

In the poster case, converting DRM-free e-books to Amazon's proprietary format is not always straightforward and can cause severe artifacts in your books. You either need time and patience to tweak the settings of your conversion tool, or install something like KOReader that can read them as-is.

profits local

Depends on the profits you mean, I don't think there is a single hardware built here, overall:

• Buy hardware used or refurbished from local sellers.

• Software that supports your local library borrowing system (Something like OverDrive).

open source drm free e-books

Most hardware supports them out of the box. For the ones that do not, there are some workaround (koreader).

On the profit part, there are some publishers in Canada and you can always connect to your local library.

kobo or apple

That is like comparing apples to oranges. I don't think apple offers eBook readers.

You need to think if you like/need a few things.

Would you like e-ink display? Would you like colour? Is it just to read and annotations? Or you want to run apps available on your phone as well?

Once I started using e-ink for reading books I cannot use LCD or LED panels anymore for that task.

As e-ink eBook reader goes Kobo might be the best option in Canada, everything you need out of the box with the bonus of connecting to your local library.

I saw some online sellers offering Bigme and Boox in Canada, but I could not confirm if they have offices here.

I would stay away from Amazon unless you ok flashing used hardware (for safety) and with doing workarounds (to install koreader).

It depends on how it is implemented. There are many examples out there. wikipedia list of electoral systems by country

A pure proportional voting would have no ridding/districts, I think this is more common for municipal and provincial level elections.

If the countries are divided into independent-ish states or provinces, they can divide the population by the number of available seats - that means a province with 10% of the population, ideally would have close to 10% of the seats.

I am not a big fan of breaking down provinces further because the more you divide into smaller districts, more votes are thrown away, and you open it up for gerrymandering.

Canada seems to do a good job dividing seats per province, the problem is that the provinces break it down into districts and use first past the post voting to elect officials.

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I would not say Edmonton is making it easier. They used to have more summer streets (maybe covid related), and pretty much all attempts into new bike lanes were soon converted into parking / car lanes.

Even if the sidewalks were not so narrow and close to a busy street, things are so far away from each other and extremely car centric. For example, Hawrelak Park is a straight line by car, but a zigzag if you are walking from north of the river.

You can check the "walkability" of most cities and districts here https://www.walkscore.com/