Je suis desolee - Je ne comprends pas l’espagnol. Parlez-vous francais ou l’anglais ? ;)

I’ll pick them up in the tax-free section of the airport! :)

Both. Sure, the actual exchange might be made-up. The problem is that it’s entirely plausible it is real. I’ve seen this kind of exchange happen on video (which of course could also be made up). It’s common for television shows to do stories on what the “person on the street” knows about some topic. For local news stories, it’s usually to showcase how poorly educated “the youths” are today.

Periodically a reporter will go to a public place and showcase how people answer questions that arguably should be fairly easy to answer with an elementary school education or if they check in with some news source regularly and actually understand the topic. The worst ones are where they are “confidently incorrect”.

Jimmy Kimmel does this regularly for laughs. I’ve seen several examples going back decades from various local news programs. In all cases, I’m confident they are showing the 10% of interviewees that were the most clueless, and not showing the other 90%. Still, the level of cluelessness on the ones they do show is often truly frightening.

That is what i was referencing with my comment.

Yeah, i know. See my other reply from moments ago. I’ve never heard the term “ugly Canadian” or railing against their imperialist culture abroad. I’ve seen some latent sense of superiority over them (especially wrt frankophones) but not outright hatred. They aren’t treated like a threat, from my limited experience, and that was before our government went Fascist.

I didn’t intend to do that. I realize you also have a growing right-wing that is on the same page as ours, and there are other excesses, along with insane housing issues.

I also feel like the ire of the world is not as strongly directed at you. We have decadea of negative stereotypes. It comes from being “in your face” for so long and having such outsize influence in the world.

I remember encountering several negative ideas during my term abroad in Europe during college and was very careful to avoid reinforcing any of them.

Well, California was a Spanish colony, sfter all.

This stuff is embarassimg. I swear, next time i travel I’m gonna have to claim I am Canadian.

The stupid - it burns!

I’m American and switched to all that except ksuite over a decade ago. Started with linux back in '95 with Slackware.

I suggest you fully switch to Linux, and use QEMU to host Windows 10. Fire that up when necessary. Most windows software including games can be run in linux with Wine/Proton - no Windows needed.

Best to have 32G RAM, for flexibility.

Once you get comfortable, set up your own cloud. The simple hands-off choice is Synology, but there are good FOSS options. Set up a personal vpn secured with a certificate and a domain name, and you have your cloud wherever you need it.

I use OpenVPN and activate it briefly when i need something on my NAS, then disconnect. Joplin via WebDAV works well with this setup, as do shared volumes.

I’m the same way, been using that for my P6 and P2 XL. I thought the P2 battery or usb-c was failing 4 years ago until I degoogled it with Lineage for MicroG. Zero problems charging it after that, and battery is still adequate. It disxharges faster now, but at 6 yo, one has to expect degradation.

Adaway is the other must-have app for me as it blocks adware, spyware, malware at the OS level.

I will unroot my phone or use a different encryoted phone when i travel overseas because rooted phones are insecure if the bad actor gets physical access.