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West Nile virus is a summer reality in Canada. How to stay safe · Global | Health
  • There's not much you can do personally other than avoiding mosquito-prone areas and wearing proper clothing.

    Municipalities and other governing bodies can implement mosquito control programs though if residents feel they would benefit from reducing the mosquito populations. WNv isn't a huge threat in Canada yet, it's much more prevalent in the United states, so most mosquito programs up here are to control them for nuisance for more enjoyable summers, tourism and business, outdoor labourers and farmworkers, etc.

    I work in mosquito control and it's a pretty safe product that's used, no aerial spraying of chemicals in our area it's just targeting the larval stage of mosquitos by applying a bacteria which kills pretty much only mosquitos or black flies. Leaves everything else untouched.

    Places like roadside catch basins can produce a lot of the mosquitos that transmit WNv, just sampled a townhome complex the other week and found that pretty much every one of their 30 catch basins were producing over 1000 mosquitos, likely on a weekly basis for months.

    If you feel a mosquito control program is needed residents need to contact their municipal or regional representatives to get the process started. You may already have one going as well, where you may be able to get any stagnant water on your property treated for free (depending on the program). A lot of people don't even know their city has a mosquito control program, even ones which have been going for 20+ years.

  • PC Freezes if I don't have a game running

    My PC constantly freezes if I'm not playing a game or have a game running.

    ✅ If I'm playing a game, it's fine.

    ✅ If I have a game running in the background while doing other stuff, it's fine.

    ❌ If I leave my PC while playing a game and the lock screen pops up, it will freeze.

    ❌ If I do anything other than gaming, such as browsing the web or digital art, PC will freeze.

    ❌ If PC goes to sleep overnight, it will freeze.

    The frozen PC will typically show no error code and display will show "no input" until I hard reset.

    If I hard reset, it often won't successfully turn back on unless I move the mouse while it's resetting, otherwise it will freeze again on the windows loading screen.

    Sometimes I will actually get a blue screen with the error code of DPC_Watchdog_Error or something like that.

    Anyone know where I should look first to try and fix this? It's been happening for weeks now and it's driving me crazy. I can't figure it out.

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    Has Netanyahu finally lost America?
  • I keep hearing people say this but does anyone have a reason why they believe Harris will be tougher on Israel than Biden was? I haven't seen any sort of indication that she will other than a few words in a speech, despite Biden having been very soft on Israel.

  • YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete
  • I would settle for something that simply turns the screen black and turns audio off whenever ads play. I don't care if YouTube gets paid for it, I just want to decrease the value of ads and prevent myself from seeing them.

  • How did gravity worked on the Death Star?
  • I'm curious if it would be similar to that of the moon, less than, or moreso.

    It is made entirely of metal which is super dense and has a lot of mass, but a lot of it is also open space I imagine. Curious if the smaller amount of dense metal would have a larger or smaller mass than a solid moon.

  • Mom didn't go to school
  • But, if they're lucky they will potentially just be successful enough to reproduce and spread that information to the next generation...

    Not guaranteed, but still... Natural selection does have an ultimate purpose after all.

  • 'Problem for Tesla': Dems flee automaker over Musk’s Trump endorsement
  • You mean the 4% drop that happened after the ginormous 27% bump that happened, basically resetting their price to where they were a few months ago? I'm sure musk is hurting real bad. Articles like this just infuriate me.

  • Does voting for Biden change anything if I live in a deep red area of my state? (Ohio)
  • If Ohio voted 15% blue last election and then votes 25% blue this election, that's significant information that tells people there may be momentum for change.

    There may not be a chance of winning this election , but every vote tells people what people want.

    If you don't vote, Ohio will always look like it will only ever vote red.

  • When did Microsoft stop developing Windows to be good?
  • There's not much competition, they can't make more money to increase shareholder value by improving the product because they pretty much have all the marketshare they need.

    The only way to make more money is by monetizing your data and selling you more and more ads. Which they will do more and more year after year since they need to increase profits year after year for shareholders.

  • Project 2025 aims to eliminate the US Forest Service (USFS) powers to prevent forest fires and to increase logging on Federal lands which makes sense because it's trees that are the problem
  • I mean, I know trump is just an idiot repeating things he's been told or has heard somewhere on repeat but there is something credible to that idea.

    It's the one downside in my opinion to protected areas and parks. No one is allowed to do anything in them that is seen as unnatural. I wouldn't suggest logging a park but selectively removing and cleaning up debris / dead trees should definitely be a thing.

    They are a giant fire hazard.

    A natural forest has regular fires to clear out the underbrush and dead debris. Parks never allow fires to occur and that dead debris builds up to a point that if a fire did happen, absolutely nothing would survive the heat whereas smaller more regular fires would allow for some of the older and stronger trees to survive and repopulate, depending on the forest ecosystem.

  • Build a PC @lemmy.ca Pyr_Pressure @lemmy.ca

    What the hell is this? Am I missing something?

    Just bought a ROG STRIX 850w PSU and it came with this monstrosity of a cable that I've never seen before.

    The two ends are entwined between eachother in a way that you can't un-entangle without popping an end piece off

    Is this an actual real cable design or is it mis-manufactured? It offends my sensibilities.

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    Roomates meeting for the first time

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    Data Newbie Looking for Advice

    Hello,

    I am looking for some advice to help me out at my job. Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask.

    So, basically my boss is a complete technophobe and all of our data is stored across multiple excel files in drop box and I'm looking for a way to change that into a centralized database. I know my way around a computer but writing code is not something I have ever been able to grasp well.

    The main issue with our situation is that our workers are all completely remote, and no I don't mean work from home in the suburbs from a home office. They use little laptops with no data connection and go out gathering data every day from a variety of locations, sometimes not even cell coverage.

    We need up to 20 people entering data all day long and then updating a centralized database at the end of the day when they get back home and have internet connection. It will generally all be new entries, no one will need to be updating old entries.

    It would be nice to have some sort of data entry form in drop box and a centralized database on our local server at head office which pulls the data at the end of each day. Field workers would also need access to certain data such as addresses, contact info, maps, photos, historical data, etc. but not all of it. For example the worker in City A only needs access to the historical data from records in and around City A, and workers in City B only need access to records involving City B.

    Is there any recommended options for software which can achieve this? It needs to be relatively user friendly and simple as our workers are typically biology oriented summer students, not programmers.

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    When refinishing the floors, someone was upset his couch disappeared.

    Empty room, great Pyrenees dog on a dog bed in the corner beneath windows in a log cabin.

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    What companies have made your blacklist?

    What companies will you never give another dollar to?

    What happened that put them on your blacklist?

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    Sync keeps crashing if sorring inbox to "unread messages" when there are no unread messages.

    Just trying to check "unread messages" despite no notifications indicating there are some, just to refresh the inbox and make sure there's nothing in limbo before notifications appear (not sure how the technicalities work).

    If there are no new messages the app crashes. Can make it crash multiple times in a row. Works fine if there is a notification and unread messages present.

    Device information

    Sync version: v23.09.13-18:19 Sync flavor: googlePlay

    View type: Slides

    Device: OnePlus9Pro Model: OnePlus LE2125 Android: 13

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    Spicy Stirfry

    Had a hankerin'

    And ya the egg was overdone ): that was disappointing.

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    His Favourite Spot

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    What is a good board game for beginners to expand in to? started with Catan, maybe looking to shake things up.

    Hi, me and my cousins had a good thing going for a long time playing Catan but we are looking to shake things up. We have played Catan regularly for over s year, but find that it's getting a little stale. We are looking for a game that requires a lot of strategy, planning, teamwork but also betrayal and backstabbing, yet also not take half an hour to set up and dismantle.

    In Catan we love that the board changes every game and therefore the strategy, but found that once we got to the castles and knights expansion there was one strategy that beat out all the rest which sort of deflated the fun (first person to get science bonus seemed to win 90% of the time).

    Any other board games out there for beginners that don't take forever to set up and put away? Not huge into role playing, but never say never I guess.

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    cute dogs, cats, and other animals @lemmy.ml Pyr_Pressure @lemmy.ca

    Bandit the Pyr

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