Agreed. That would be a bummer for (eg) flights from Vancouver to Toronto, but still. I think it's best.

I had wondered how you even do a long haul trip to Canada from the southern hemisphere without doing a stop in the USA?

It's certainly doable. I flew from Johannesburg to Regina, SK without transiting the USA. The route was Johannesburg to Nairobi to London to Winnipeg to Regina. The London to Winnipeg part flew over the arctic regions of Canada.

From Australia, you can go Sydney to Tokyo to Vancouver to wherever else you want to go in Canada without transiting the USA.

A much better way is not to use any Meta services.

At this point, it's obvious that Trump is a demented nutcase whose only approach to "leading" is flooding the zone with acrimony and vitriol. Best thing to do is ignore the fool. Just rag the puck until his power is constrained by midterms or the next election and let him hurt the USA as much as he wants to.

Why wouldn't it work? The monitor can display whatever it wants; it doesn't have to obey the HDMI signal coming in. Or it can overlay whatever it wants over the HDMI signal with no involvement from the computer driving the display.

If the MFA app is a TOTP app like Google Authenticator or whatever, you can export the secrets and use another device. I wrote an app for Linux that I use when I couldn't be bothered to get my phone while I'm on my PC. It's not that hard.

Do not buy products and services from evil American tech companies

I'm doing my best. Not in Europe (Canada, actually) but I cancelled Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix 18 months ago. Self-host email and calendar, so don't pay Google anything. I still watch videos on YouTube, but I never see any ads (I have very effective ad-blocking.)

Or loosen regulations and maybe Europe can develop a functional tech economy of its own.

Oh, Europe is being spurred to do that.

Meh, they'll probably build future ads directly into the monitor firmware, so even people using them on Linux will get them as the monitor powers up. Won't that be lovely?

Yes, a loss of 300,000 jobs is certainly good for USA workers, Einstein.

There are grassroots boycotts for sure. Canadian tourism to the USA is way down, costing an estimated 300,000 American jobs.. Canada has more-or-less stopped buying US alcohol.

And when I and most people I know buy groceries, we avoid anything coming from the USA, even if the alternatives are a little more expensive. Canadians aren't only doing this because of tariffs; we're also fucking furious at Trump's threats to our sovereignty and insults to our country.

And the thing is, once we get used to staying in Canada or going to Mexico or Europe for holidays, and once we get used to not buying American products... it'll be a hard sell to get us to return. And I suspect this will happen worldwide.

I drive a stick-shift in a city and it's not so bad. You get used to it.

While I do like manual transmission cars, the one I own now is probably the last one I'll own because I expect my next car will be an EV. Or even if it's internal combustion, it's likely going to be hard/impossible to find one with a manual transmission.

The time change is the biggest problem. But being offset from the Sun by an hour is still a problem.

For properly-drawn time zones, you'd only be offset from the Sun by +/- 30 minutes either way, not by a whole hour or 90 minutes.

All the evidence suggests that it's better for our health to stay on Standard Time rather than Daylight Saving time, and sleep experts agree.

But I guess scientific evidence hasn't meant anything to politicians for quite some time now.

Paint the walls yellow, put down yellow carpeting, and fill the place with flickering, humming fluorescent lights. Nobody will venture through.

While I understand that Cuba is currently under the thumb of an oppressive communist dictatorship, it seems to me the USA is unnecessarily picking on it, seeing as it doesn't pick on equally despicable dictatorships (Saudi Arabia; China) that are just as bad as Cuba but more powerful.

I guess when Trump needs a distraction from Iran, he'll do a special military operation against Cuba.