@Alfred please provide the prices in Canadian dollar amounts.

@Alfred in Canada, at the current rate of inflation based on the last 20 years, on average, how much will various goods and services cost in another 20 years? Please provide estimates for the average home, a loaf of bread, a gallon of milk, a dozen eggs and an average family commuter vehicle, as well as any estimates you may think of.

Asking Alfred to write poetry is one of my favorite things hahaha it helps alleviate the stress!

@Alfred please write a free verse romantic poem in the style of Atticus, but spelled with Christopher Walken's accent, switching to Robert De Niro's accent halfway through.

@WeThePeople well shit that's one more nightmare to have to worry about

@LnzyHou @S_r_stone I just saw your response. I use that app because that's how I communicate with various family members as well as for work. It can't be helped. That said, there was no "bringing it over here" happening. My goal was to share to as many people as possible a reminder about the immense overreach that app is performing. One can be a patron of CoSo and still have a use or need for other platforms of communication as well. We don't gatekeep here like that.

PS, is there anyone on here on Android who knows how to enable notifications for CoSo? I have never been able to do it.

Does anyone know if there's a reliable "Event Viewer" app on the Play Store that would let me see what's going on with my phone?
It's an LG Velvet, the last flagship phone of LG before they stopped making phones. I know it's a bit old but it still does amazingly well to this day. Just starting to get random resets. The other night it reset itself while charging, which sucks as it's also my alarm clock lol

Good read.
"Why the world hates think tanks"

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/28/why-everyone-hates-think-tanks/

Researchers in the UK have figured out in the last few weeks how to increase the speed of the Internet by 1.2 million times using the existing infrastructure most first-world countries are already using. They recorded speeds of 301 Tbps.

The implications of this are astounding and makes me wonder what other great vastly under-utilized technologies lay dormant in our day to day lives.

https://www.popsci.com/technology/fiber-optic-wavelength-record/

I would love to be able to afford to go to university, if only for Philosophy...even if it is a useless degree that is only good for becoming a professor of philosophy, because I think it is the closest thing we have to precognition in this world. We need cautiously optimistic and skeptically critical thinkers trying to peer into what tomorrow may look like, because we're coming to a point in our civilization where we cannot afford to be surprised.

@th3j35t3r this is why my greatest fear for the growth of the Internet is it will eventually be standard to have either an implant or an otherwise non-invasive device that connects to the Internet and augments reality for us. Humans are by natural evolution a very social species, but also very memetic, and I fear a massive collapse of societal growth will be imminent. Having the Internet on our phones has become a poison of privilege with a sense of necessity.

When asked what would be Trump's ultimate goal, the Tictator responded with, and I shit you not, the same answer literally every Miss USA beauty pageant contestant would give. He gave the literal Zoolander answer.

His supporters in the comments are so blind to how glaringly obvious his fakeness is...I genuinely would have thought he was being satirical if I didn't know he is just that stupid.

https://youtube.com/shorts/KSPM6j9GjF8?si=QheD1rpldnnJAgRX

@Alfred @th3j35t3r Alfred in this context is this what they would call a, "target rich environment"? They are literally poking the bear that has a bigger stick here.

Keep getting Gmail emails saying someone requested a single use code for my Microsoft account. The emails state "if this was not you, don't worry, ignore this, it was probably someone inputting the wrong email" or something along those lines....but I'm getting one a day. Clearly someone unscrupulous has gotten hold of my email address for the account....do I have anything to worry about? I usually use complex passwords. Probably safer to change it when I get home?

Finally upgraded my PC! I'm now on Windows 11, from 7!

I used to love the gadgets on 7's desktop for monitoring hardware, does 11 have anything like that?

Are there any hidden gem apps on 11 anyone suggests? :)

Also, I like to use my computer for an alarm clock, any suggestions from anyone for apps to use? I ported the existing one I had, and there's on built in, but it's a bit softer toned than I like. Like a gentle breeze.

All 3 top Google search results conflict with each other.
I was just trying to find out how many amps or watts are being used by 48000 volts lol

Just that little reminder that Facebook is actively censoring the sharing of news websites in Canada, but not the sharing of conspiracy sites. This is because they want engaged users, but not informed ones.

@th3j35t3r let's say I'm dumb. What does this mean?