There is no reason to be expanding oil exploitation as a fuel source. Whether you think it's 'woke' or not, electricity is the only sustainable way to power industry, transportation and residential loads (with the exception of some chemical gotchas, blast furnaces use coke because it is a reducing agent and can convert rust into iron). And with a shift to electricity for energy all of our remaining petroleum needs (plastics, chemical precursors, etc) are more than met with existing mining operations.
Not to mention extracting, separating and refining oil sand is one of the dirtiest processes out there. Oil sand is nearly solid and needs to be steamed to get the sand out, then the oil/water mixture has to be separated leaving an absolute fuck ton of contaminated water.
At this stage pipelines are just another way to line the pockets of Canada's politicians and foreign business owners by selling the future of the country.
I have a single W10 machine left and that's only for VR, everything else is Debian and I couldn't be happier. It only does what I tell it to, updates never break stuff, the Debian repository has literally everything I need.
The 20min a week I spend on W11 PCs at work has only cemented in my mind how much I do not want to deal with that shit.
For sure Canada is not worse than the US, but I'm also not a worse driver than most 80 year olds. We should be comparing ourselves to countries like France and Norway not the circus fire to our south.
I cant believe that you think I don't want to spend 12 hours, every other day, being exposed to carcinogens, 600v electricity, and moving equipment, for fun.
Unerpaid essential employee? No strikes! Your usefulness defines you as a slave, you know, unless you want to quit the industry that you have trained for and worked in.
This feature is completely optional and is never turned on by default.
AI desktops sound like a privacy nightmare but right in the article they say, it's not the default. Every time MS adds another shitware feature there is lots of warning, like this, and there is time for concerned users to find work arounds or jump ship to a more sane OS. We need less clickbait titles and more "how do we work around it" because MS doens't care about users needs or concerns only increasing revenue.