eBay was revelant 20 years ago, before marketplace platform like craiglist, kijiji, and facebook came to exist. They do a better identify verification and a general management of customer experience like non-working product, rma, if applicable.

I understand that some specific cheap gadget are only on ebay, but may ebay close, they would appear on alibaba, dhgate and/or even amazon at some point...

Farewell eBay era's: it's pertinence is gone like the wind.

I will admit I am quite surprised that eBay still exist at all.

Last time I used their website, it was over complicated, non-responsive, and I got scammed, and it was more of a pain in the ass to deal with eBay as you needed some Master in eBay Scam Protection, and if you missed one of the 50 golden rules, you would see your money gone with no help from eBay and the 3rd party seller, in another country, laugh his/her/their ass off.

That why people moved to site like Amazon, where even if it not always the case, the customer has a feeling of liability of the name. While there is horror story on both side, I never had problem getting a refund for a defective product, or the like with Amazon, cheap or free return, etc. The whole eBay model got shifted and phased out by the Platform like Amazon, AliExpress, etc,etc...

Doesn't seem like a smart move to buy a sinking ship, but hey, good luck with that !

Sure:

Canada’s electricity imports (driven largely by hydro provinces like Québec) reached: 23.2 TWh in 2024 (+8% YoY)
Source : Canada Energy Regulator

Imports have been increasing every year since 2020
Source : Canada Energy Regulator

In 2024, Québec recorded the biggest year-over-year increase in imports in Canada: +3.9 TWh imported from the U.S.
Source : Statistics Canada

In 2024, Hydro-Québec bought: ~6 TWh (2024) ~10 TWh (2025) -> That’s a ~66% increase in one year
Source : Hydro Quebec

Québec used to be a major electricity exporter, but in just a few years, exports have dropped by more than half while imports are rising sharply. Hydro-Québec increased its electricity purchases from about 6 TWh to 10 TWh in a single year, and Québec had the largest increase in imports in Canada in 2024. At the same time, Canada’s net electricity exports have collapsed to their lowest level in 20 years. The system is clearly shifting from surplus to pressure.

The problem is that as this happen and progress, we will be bind by legal agreement to supply this province or that state, and we will be fucked.

Yes they would do better in the private sector, and competition would rise, the same than the energy section for cars... do you see your governement sell gaz ? No they fucking tax it lol...

How can that be more obvious than that, it the same for the health sector... claiming we have a free healthcare system... please let me laugh for 16 hours while someone wait aorund 12-18 month for a MRI to change their life and get themself a diagnostic and the follow-ups, while you can have that done in 24 hours for a mere 800$ that include a DVD movie of it...

We are so fucked into a matriachal state, were our governement is the providence... that what wrong. It went way to fucking far.

Are you kidding me... Hydro Quebec is the worst example of a government owned monopoly.

The fictional goal:

"helps paying the cost of running the government like education, roads and social programs etc. Citizens in Quebec pay around 7 cents a KWh at that's Canadian money where 1 $CAN == 0.70 $US"

The reality:

That money is being wasted by our politicians at the moment, that vote themselve 30% salary increase, wasted around 800M~ in public funds on various prone-to-fail projects, increase the public system instead instead of reducing the presence of the state and the amount of white collar. Additionnally, this year , Hydro got the permission to raise price over the inflation %. Basically it is used as a cash-cow that never cease to funds the ambitions of politicians that want to have big projet to export that energy so they can resell it. The real price of hydro is around 10cent a Khw once you passed the basic level, which correspond to a 1 room appartment, and not a home or a house of a typical family. So after a few day you already exceed the low cost, and start paying the higher price. Hydro is the cash-cow that can employ arrogant social media teams that mock their own customers online when they complain.

As a Quebecer, ***I find this description of Hydro Quebec pretty offensive, delusional at best***. We lost the control over them, and the governement (ab)use em only as a leverage. What we need, is to develop a way to store that energy so that during winters time, we don't need to lurk back to Ontario and the USA and cry for energy that we need to buy back at crazy rate.

It is really sad that there is no AI Killswitch and easy way to disable all of it... there should be a law that force manufacturer to get your (un-forced and un-coerced) approbation such as an opt-in to enable anykind of bullshit, assistant, ai tool, ai search, and all the preloaded parasites.

Otherwise, the experience should be a pure vanilla Android, not this perverted garbage.

I tried to escape Google AI-shitification of the Pixel phone just to find Samsung doing the same kind of prostitution or worst. At this point, I have nothing to lose at trying a different OS platform.

You clearly need to give Steam + Proton a try.

Diablo 4 @ 60 FPS is awesome, so is most game that don't try to install stupid privacy invasive kernel anti-cheat (because the game creators can't figure out cheaters from their server side or by analyzing datasets with the help of AI, so they need to add security from the client side, like if that ever worked well on the internet.... to do security on the client side... anyway)

We just need to stop paying attention to the big bully in the room, and let Microsoft does their thing with their cult followers and ignore them, like we do with Apple.

I don't know what they are talking about, the Linux market share did reach 3% and continuing to rise... and is set to break new record of adoption by the end of the year. Clearly they are doing something that is working great. Thank you Microsoft :D

I made the switch last year, and I couldn't go back to window anytime soon, everything work just fine with some compatibility layer or something, even Steam work fine. I just keep ignoring all these anxiety aggravating people who keep preaching the end of the world at the end of windows 10 support, and I've been sleeping better since then, the world haven't stop turning.

In fact, with the money I saved, I made a donation to the Mozilla fondation for Thunderbird.

Seriously, just ignore *them*. You'll thanks me later.

Sometime, some people who think they are more important than they really are, just need a simple lesson: Be left alone in their corner of the world in isolation.

Meanwhile the rest of the world will enjoy a super important tool that Internet Archive is, and they will try to provide better way at enforcing copyright rules than just use the lazy and dumb way and accuse the wrong people and become the needle in the foot that nobody need, because you want to rules like a pyramid, and can't figure out how to punish the actual people who break copyrights, so instead you go after their upstream provider. And note that I am not against enforcing copyrights, but it need to be done in a proper way, not with this plain stupid method.

Absolutely not acceptable.

When I had the chance of trying steam + proton, it became clear that I had to give a real try.

It has been almost a year now, and all my workstation are running either arch or debian. I don't think I would want to ever go back and re-invest myself in the Microjunkie ecosystem that gonna tell me the meteo that I didn't ask for, and try to sell me some specific stocks or tell me about their political view (news), all while forcing me to register an account that nobody want and of course a bunch of telemetry that you are forced to.

GAFAM had one goal, and it is to put an identity on you, so that they can sell it back. Google is doing it with their developper program/device setup, so is Apple, and now Microsoft. There seem to be some sort of incentive to completely FORCE YOU out of your capacity to say NO, I don't want to link my identity or create an account to use this computer or device I bought. And we are not even going in the capacity of refusing AI crap, Telemetry crap, Marketing crap, etc that is being forced bundled with a vast majority of the computers and mobile handheld.

ParasiteOS ?

I guess it is a good thing that Linux desktop has already reach 5% of desktop market, and that Steam work great on it.

GoodbAI Windows :)

Can we have a model that we can choose that isn't powered by Google ?

As a paying GPT user, I would love to have that option, just saying ```\_( o_O )_/```

Oh well, another device that I will have to look for "how to disable the enshittificated battery management on this device so that my apps and the rest function as desired and expected".

Thanks Microsoft.

"This could appeal to developers working in business units or teams that want to build quickly without waiting on formal IT approval."

Because all serious business or corporation wouldn't have employee signing a NDA and/or other forms of contract for mutual confidentiality as a direct, indirect or chained provider or supplier, and thus, wouldn't be allowed to share whatever project, code or other idea on some system that has not been "Approved by IT", that IT team that probably had to go through a set of approvals themself so that the business stay secure but also compliant in the eyes of it insurance, shareholders and others liable party ?

Just a though for nightmares... :)

Seem that some people working in these nice tall building, making decision for all of us, doesn't understand clearly the human nature, and JFC this is so disconnected from reality, that this is plain hilarious.

What is expected is; An utopia where all humans are nice, beautiful, happy, smiling, nice to each others, clean, and recycling 100% of their waste.

What the reality is; Redneck Joe will not give a fuck about you and your bullshit, he and the 40-50%+ of the population, will start again (like our grand parents used to do), throws shit in water, burn it, bury it, export it, bring it to their others neighbor, and do shit like this....

Yeah... instead of making people life easier, let try repression. That worked real nice for Drugs (War on drugs), I'm sure that will be a real success with Garbage bags ! */sigh