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Yeah, I'm with you here. Parties are not a fundamental part of our electoral system, they're just a way for politicians to organize themselves. In theory you could get rid of all of them tomorrow morning and our institutions would still work: We'd elect MPs, which then elect a Prime Minister, who nominates the cabinet, etc.

I'd prefer having all MPs being still beholden to their constituents; "floating" MPs couldn't be held accountable. Also, could an independent get elected to a "floating" seat? If not, that doesn't seem fair to me.

Ranked ballot is easy to use (just put the candidates in order), easy to understand, and makes sure everyone's preferences are taken into account when selecting an MP.

Story time. A couple years ago, we were sailing off the US east coast around South Carolina, and as you do in that situation, we were trailing a fishing line behind the boat in hopes of catching something. Suddenly, we were surrounded by dolphins giving us a show, jumping in the waves, playing around the bow, all that jazz. The kids were delighted, we were taking pictures and videos and generally enjoying ourselves when we noticed some splashing a little distance behind the boat. We pulled up the fishing line only to find that the lure and tackle were missing. Looks like the sneaky fuckers were distracting us while they stole our dinner!

Adrienne Cowan from Seven Spires and Melissa Bonny from Ad Infinitum

Saw them last year with Kamelot, it was an amazing show. I didn't know them before but I'm a fan now!

Millenial Québécois here. Never been a souverainist myself, but I've been voting Québec Solidaire if only because I could get behind their societal project. Give me a good project and I'll probably go along with souveraineté if it's required for said project. As an end itself, though? That's where you lose me.

Anyway, all this to say that yeah, I feel closer to the ROC than I've ever been. I find myself cheering for Ford when he slaps export tariffs, and I'm reading up on Mark Carney and so far I'm liking most of what I see so I'll probably vote Liberal next election.

I think there should be a ratcheting structure, like an additional 5.1% everytime it's mentioned publicly by his regime.

I liked Freeland because Russia hates her. I also think she did a good job handling Trump in the NAFTA re-negotiation 4 years ago. Both her and Carney were very good options for Canada, IMO.

pass probably isn't for you then, unless you find a wrapper or something that lets you put all in one file. I've switched to keepassxc as well, I could never get the browser integration to work with pass.

No, only the file contents are encrypted. The file names and folder structure is visible to anyone who has access to the files.

The files themselves can contain a ton of stuff if you want, but the convention is to put the password on the first line and that's what "pass -c my/file" will copy.

Yeah, my experience with Aqara has been like that: flawless out of the box, pairs quickly with no issues, reports state correctly, all good. Then after a random while (at least a few hours, but within a day) they just drop off the network never to be seen again until I re-pair them.

I even got an Aqara smart plug just to act as a router and pair the Aqara stuff through it, it was better but this time it dropped off after a few weeks. Might've been the battery though, it was a temperature sensor in -20°C.

Running a bunch of services here on a i3 PC I built for my wife back in 2010. I've since upgraded the RAM to 16GB, added as many hard drives as there are SATA ports on the mobo, re-bedded the heatsink, etc.

It's pretty much always ran on Debian, but all services are on Docker these days so the base distro doesn't matter as much as it used to.

I'd like to get a good backup solution going for it so I can actually use it for important data, but realistically I'm probably just going to replace it with a NAS at some point.

I've switched to Flex D, and I'm using Home Assistant to manage peaks. Already saved about 160$ this winter, I really like it.

Can't really help you with Hilo, though. I've avoided that program for exactly the reason you mention, you kinda have to stay within their walled garden for all of it to work.