Come on, there’s no way you can believe that.

It wasn’t a mistake. The “mistake” was in not raising their prices as fast or as much as they possibly could, and so they just decided to not to honour it, and crank the price next time around - because they could.

This is pure greed, plain and simple.

Worthy of a class-action lawsuit.

Corsair executives should fry for this.

Yeah, DAWs are definitely one of those niche things that keep people using Windows. I’m an Ableton user as well, and it’s one of a few Windows apps that I struggle to replace.

My wife teaches post-secondary, and stays on Windows because all of the commercial CAD software is for Windows. (AutoCad, Sketchup, Pro Tools, etc.)

After dealing with the dumbnes of Macs, back in the day, I made a conscious decision that my first 16-bit computer was going to run Windows (3.1).

I’ve played with many many OSes before and since then, and still have a soft spot in my heard for OS/2. I’ve been a professional Unix/Linux sysadmin for a quarter century now, and yet my desktop is still Windows.

No more. I will never EVER install Windows 11 on a machine; and never give Microsoft a penny of my money or a byte of my information to resell.

It’s easier than you think. Muscle memory is a pain, but can be rewritten with new habits and keystrokes. Or for that matter, you can mostly mirror the exact functionality that you’re used to using.

Microsoft will not get their shit together, ever. They don’t have to! If they lose 30% of their existing OS market share, all it will effectively mean is that they’re immune from antitrust complaints, which is a net win for them.

Meanwhile, Steam is working their ass off to make gaming on Linux a seamless endeavour, and are mostly there.

Do it. Give up on the company that wants to milk you, to steal your information, to abuse your trust.

It was a fair question, and you gave a reasonable answer. No need to call the person silly for not knowing something you do.

“Quick! We need to find a way to blame this on someone else. Start spending and don’t stop until we have a paper-thin excuse to privatize more.”

Oh no, US producers are…WHINING! How ever will we cope?

For the record, Alberta is actually doing fuck-all to protect Albertan or Canadian spirits, because our premier is a Trump-loving separatist fuckwit.

Fucking Chinese “medicine.”

As an Albertan, I would do the same - but charge them for the ride.

Alternatively, it sounds like something we Canadians would make up to troll Americans. :-)

I disagree with some of your thoughts here.

I don’t see the separatists (meaning the separatist organizers) as lazy - they’re disciplined, extremist, and quiet. Coinciding with Trump’s victory last year, we’ve seen a huge upswell of hard-right conservative movements around the world, simultaneously attacking immigration and women’s rights in relatively coordinated action.

It seems like they’ve been working in the dark for decades, and now are stepping out into the open for an all-out assault on the progress we’ve made.

Also, Kenney didn’t lose the leadership. He said he’d stay on if he got a single vote above 50%, but then jumped ship with a 51.4% approval rating. He steered the party in the direction he wanted, and then handed the wheel to Smith to take the blame.

But you’re absolutely right about money. There’s a LOT of it feeding the separatist fuckwits, and I want to know where it’s coming from. Is it the US government directly, or Musk for some twisted reason? Is it another government trying to destabilize the country? Oil executives? It’s not primarily coming from Alberta, that’s for sure.

I took a look at the site. “The Bureau” is a racist screed by one guy. It’s not journalism, it’s just fearmongering.

Calling the consequences “unintended” is debatable.

Your points are well taken, but it also incentivizes abandoning a losing party after an election - even if that party still represents the interests of the constituency.

The broader solution is to deeply gut the party system, starting with true proportional representation. Banning whipped votes would be ideal, but not possible to implement.

I’m not sure I agree with your claim that ‘floor crossing is an essential element of a healthy parliamentary democracy…’

Leaving a party that no longer represents the constituents should be alliwed, but I’d be happy if MPs were required to sit as independents for the rest of the term.

Well, you certainly seem to be an asshole.

Besides, you’re missing the point - ALL of the points.

1. There are unfortunately a lot of things that cannot be done without US companies. You call people losers for having an Apple or Android phone or using a credit card, but what other options are there right now?
2. We may not be doing perfectly - hell, we’re probably not doing as well as we should - but not getting everything perfect right away doesn’t negate what we’ve done.
3. The point isn’t to hurt the US - we’re not big enough to really accomplish that. The point is to avoid the US as much as we can for our benefit and sovereignty.

Expect Danielle Smith to declare Alberta a safe haven for these misunderstood souls who need protection from Liberal overreach. And somehow, fuck Trudeau for this too.

Oh no!

Anyway…

Meanwhile, Calgary’s new mayor tried to make it fucking illegal.

Try the early '80s. They were the first company to put their developers front and centre with pictures and names.