This is news? People die when there’s a war.

This feels like something the C levels are going to see and immediately tell everyone that the business needs to use it.

I don’t have a problem with paying you a markup. I’ve done work like that for free before and it’s not fun. However, €400 is C$640 + markup + shipping + your tax + my import tax + any conversion fees. I’m not sure it’ll be worth it. How do you suggest I send you money?

It seems all in, just for the phone to my door is $1000 CAD from clove UK.

Are you using it as your main phone yet?

Battery life is okay? Calls/SMS/MMS are dependable with your changes?

How much was shipping and import fees? Canada post? $829 for the phone, $70 DHL shipping, ~$100 import fees. I’m probably going to buy it

I have a buddy in the UK who is willing to take ETH/BTC from me and stash it in a box with a bunch of candy for me. Lol.

Yeah, I never got into XMPP back in the day and IIRC when I did look into it having multiple devices use the same account was a bit of trouble. Matrix was just a web API I could hit with python super easily and I never looked back.

Why XMPP? Are there bridges for signal, WhatsApp, SMS/MMS?

I’ll admit it’s been over a year since I’ve tried to daily drive my PinePhone. I bridge everything into a self hosted matrix chat and notifications didn’t really work outside of SMS/MMS and calls.

Man, you’re making me want to try and get one shipped to Canada. This is exciting.

ETA: I’d need a matrix.org chat app working with notifications to switch.

The problem they’re trying to solve isn’t time with family. It’s the commute to/from the office when working from home isn’t an option in their eyes.

Ontario will spend C$650 million on five helicopters and six water bombers

From the EU, I hope.

increased tariffs are on their way! /s

I’m in this pic too!

“My deep hope is that this comes off without a hitch and we have so many people going, ‘Wow, we can take transit. This is fun. This is easy. It’s convenient, and maybe we can just stay on transit for the long term,’” Dudas said.

What’s fun, easy, and convenient is working from home. You know what, it’ll cost EVERYONE less too. Maybe we can put the park and ride expansion money into healthcare or child care.

I’m using this for everything. Thank you.

Huh

We gotta put it in the front window for all the neighbours to see!

Had to see what else is down there.

I use to work for telus and I have lots of friends there still. Everyone is told to use AI and gets $1000 a month. If you hit the limit, they’ll up you to $2000. They’re also spending millions a year on lift and shift VMs into GCP which are not cloud optimised. This year they did a tonne of layoffs in chunks. Directors were told to cut 30%.

I’m sure if they don’t get their DC, they’re just going to keep burning money to use AI, more to fight the City Councillor, and then more to build the DC in the end because there’s no way prices will come down.