Thanks, that's good to know! It may have been around the 2.8 timeframe. But it definitely sounds like it's gotten better. I'll definitely be trying again.

I use it on Windows. Admittedly it launches better in Linux but it takes an age to launch in Windows. But yes, that was some time ago. Version 2.04 or something like that.

My question is: does it launch faster? I love GIMP for how powerful it is while still being free, but I hate how long it took to load. I was using less powerful alternatives on a regular basis just because I didn't want to wait for GIMP to open.

Sounds good when you phrase it like the headline. But all they've done is trade coal for natural gas. So it's still a carbon heavy power grid, just slightly better than coal.

I wasn't aware that we all had to adhere to YOUR standards of which softwares are useful/needed.

Sometimes people just want something. Maybe it doesn't align with what you want, but that doesn't make it wrong.

How ironic. Alberta, the one complaining about the Feds imposing on "their jurisdiction" and then they go and impose all over the municipalities. The hypocrisy is ridiculous. They really are just in it for what they want. Screw the Feds, screw the cities, just let us be dictators! Ick.

Labour productivity has grown by 0.2 percent annually, on average, between early 2015 and the end of 2023.

...average weekly earnings have increased only 1.6 percent between January 2015 and January 2024, or less than 0.2 percent per year.

This sounds like productivity is commensurate with pay. Maybe instead of advocating for interest rates to drop (which has issues of its own), we should be advocating for proper pay raises?

Edit to add a note: This comment is intending to call them out about poor wages. If you want more productivity, then pay us for it! I'm sick of doing the work of 3 people with measly, if any, wage raises!

If you aren't going to give us walkable cities or really efficient public transit, then we need cars and therefore need the parking. There is no way in this or any world that I am hauling $300 worth of groceries to a bus stop, just to sit there and wait half an hour (at -20C) for a dilapidated bus that may or may not even run on time and has the risk of someone stealing some of those overpriced groceries on the 30 minute ride it would take to get home.

I live in Saskatchewan and it will very frequently get to -30 or below. I cannot ride a bike in that safely without risk of frost bite, so cycling is out of the question (at least in the winter). I drive as small of a car as I could buy, but even small cars are dwindling now in favor of the giant SUV's and pickup trucks that seem to think they own both the road and the parking lots. The public transit in my city is so inefficient that it would take me an hour worth of riding the bus, and a transfer, just to get downtown. I can drive that in 10 minutes. Getting to the other side of the city? 90 minutes to 2 hours and multiple transfers. Or 15 to 20 minutes by car.

Our public transit and walk-ability needs to be remedied long before you start building over parking lots. Businesses with no parking will suffer a lack of business if there is no parking and no change to the current systems.

I think (but I have not tested) that if you can use the DeDRM plugins to import your books into Calibre... You might be able to use Calibre's conversion function to make them all ePubs (which are Kobo friendly). I don't have a Kindle but I do use a Kobo and have had to run DeDRM and some conversions to make books compatible.

Good luck!

Public Libraries are important. Period.

Every medication has side-effects. The idea is to assess whether the risk of side-effects outweighs the detriments of the disorder being treated.

Not all medications work for all patients and good clinicians will have their patients assessed regularly for effectiveness and change or remove medications as necessary.

And still no word on any plans to ensure houses are bought by people who don't already own a whole bunch of investment properties.

Until we address that issue, building more will continue to make the rich richer. But this is to be expected of the politicians whose lobbyists consist of real estate investors.