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I don't date, no love and living? No I am surviving. Maybe I would if I was living and didn't have worries of not being able to make it next month. And I think it's a problem a lot of people have. I used to buy food without worrying too much about the cost, so I'd just get things I think were good, but now I bring limited amount of cash and just spend for what I deem to be essential. Because I know I can easily go over $100 of food in a week easily.

I am not from Ontario but I am guessing it's not too different here, I am from Quebec and people here have this feeling of rushing things the moment they touch the wheel like they are always in a hurry, and I think it's probably because of the culture of always needing to do things and want things fast so everyone loses patience and don't wanna lose any time. I seen people even when not driving putting themselves at risk just to save a few seconds. And if you drive at the speed limit people hate you because they think you're going too slow.

That's good, I don't care much about the OS people use but yeah as long as they use something that they like and that doesn't exploit them that's great.

I use Guix System as my distro and it's great, just goes to show the power of free software, you won't get something like that anywhere else.

OpenSUSE might be a good one but you could also experiment with archlinux in a VM learning it really helps in making you more comfortable with GNU/Linux in general. They have good guides and a good wiki.

I use GNU Guix System and I really like how it works. Is it the best? There is no best really but to me those distros with 100% free software are the best. Like Trisquel, Parabola and GNU Guix System

Me: Emacs for everything (using it as my window manager, IRC client, music player, watching youtube and even browsing the web (without js))

They don't need to go that far, I am just saying this is simple enough to do. Probably more complex for big corporations but the big corporations have the means to pay for their more complex system. As for small business this is simple enough. I am not saying they should build all their own hardware from scratch. And yes data is important and its better not to rely on some third party like I said what happened with cloudstrike affected so many and cost millions in damage. Same as so many company rely on Microsoft for everything. What's so bad about not needing to trust another big corporation with all your data and your business?

Depends on what you need, if you're a small business you won't need much and it won't cost as much as if you'd run a big business. Anyway, the whole point was to be more self reliant, how is being self reliant a bad thing? Why should you give all your information and trust a third party with everything you have?

I am broke af I would never have bought the game if I didn't get it for free. So they lose nothing if it's from me. Same for TV series and movies.

I think you could easily hire people who do that job at your company or someone who maintain it at least or some contractors.

Well companies can also have their own servers. It would even be better than relying on a third party where when the company does a mistake then all their clients (other companies) are affected. The Cloudstrike bug would be a good example of that.

I mean that's good and all and I am sure those companies are way better than those big American tech companies but my point was about not having to depend on another company. Because you have to trust them with your information and just because it's Canadian doesn't mean they are good automatically. Another advantage of self hosting is if for any reason you lose internet access you still have access to your local network and all your files and passwords when you need them. This is also why it's important to not create a dependence on any online services. Like if this site were to shut down I wouldn't lose much, I would just lose my posts which to me aren't that important as people have read them already.