Services like paypal allow me to pay for online purchases with my bank account rather than a credit card - so not sure why you think you can't make internet purchases online without a credit card? But yes, generally you do need a card for hotels and rental cards.

I used to listen to podcasts when flying - it's a great way to kill a few hours

I'm waiting to hear about people intentionally jumping in front of cars, knowing full well they will stop, in order to try and rob those inside. The other concern I have is people screwing/trolling self driving cars since they know how the car might react. A human might try some defensive maneuvers or be able to recognize a bad situation about to unfold. Will cars? How will self driving cars handle snow covered roads with no visible lane markings, or very icy conditions where if you don't brake early enough, you slide through intersections or fishtail wildly around corners. I still firmly believe that full self driving (that is, a car without any steering wheel or input device) is decades away. Everything seems easy on open highways, but inner city streets in poor conditions is where the real challenge lives. I also feel like determining the liability on who's responsible for crashes is also big challenge that's going to hold this back.

I actually looked into switch to a Credit Union here in Ontario. The only one within an hours drive doesn't have a website at all, only a phone number and physical services. Are Credit Unions just not a thing here in Ontario outside of the major cities?

It's a CalDigit Mini Dock (which I originally picked because it had two HDMI outputs)

My experience has been... less than impressive. Granted, I'm using a MBP, and most of my experience revolves around a "dock". The dock provides 2x HDMI, 1x USB 2.0, 1x USB 3.0, 1gbps ethernet, but no passthrough charging. That's fine, but the USB ports spontaneously disconnect, so I use a dedicated USB 3.0 hub. So now that's 3 cables. Bought a new monitor, but need 8k HDMI, which none of the docks supported, so I'm using a thunderbolt to DP 1.4 cable. That's 4 cables on 4 ports, to allow me to charge, get gigabit ethernet (probably going to replace the now useless dock for a 3.0 ethernet adaptor), use my keyboard, and use my ultrawide.

As an aside, USB-C ports don't seem very robust compared to HDMI and USB type A. I was debugging some networking equipment so dragged my little dock around and I had to be careful how I positioned everything because either the doc would hang, putting it's entire weight on the plug, or try to balance it on the keyboard. Honestly, it doesn't seem much better than microusb.

I lived in Ottawa for many years - apparently they use chloramine (they switched in 1992) - I can still confirm that the water tastes like pool water. Not as bad as other places I've been to, but you could still tell. I now drink straight, unfiltered well water and find the flavour to be excellent, it sucks to go back to city water. You really notice it when you go out to eat and order a fountain pop/glass of water from a small restaurant that either doesn't have, or needs to replace their water filter.

It's too much work for the ROI (to return for deposit). As a kid I remember we used to keep bags and bags of it in the basement, before finally taking it in for like, $20. It was a tonne of work. But there was a hidden benefit: University students would put their empties on the curb after the weekend and the homeless would come by at night and take them in for a refund. This actually worked REALLY well. Living out in the country, I burn what paper I can in the woodstove, everything else just goes to the curb on Wednesdays to get picked up by the township.

I suspect this has more to do with the culture than the fines. And good luck trying to enforce it.

I don't see a rename, this is the closest I was able to find on how to do it in sheets: https://webapps.stackexchange....

If Sheets would let me easily rename cells I'd be sold. Instead, it's buried in menus.

unifi-video? I have it running on my own hardware. No need for their NVR hardware. The cameras expose the RTSP stream directly if you don't hook them up to an NVR (ie, unmanaged).

You just described the chinese dystopian social credit system. I am not comfortable with a Corporatocracy that colludes and shares data between each other.

You mean like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I thought they could write the fine off on their taxes, so doesn't that mean it's paid for by taxpayers? In 2018, their operating income was $10.4B, $2.5B isn't that big of a deal for them.

Rail travel isn't great either in Canada. My wife and I took the overnight train (The Ocean) out east from Ontario - the cars had been in storage since last winter during the Christmas travel peak, and it was their first trip. The water lines in our car broke and we had an inch of water in the bottom of the cabin (ruining my wife's purse). They moved us, but the toilet didn't work in the next one. They found a 3rd cabin, but the toilet was broken there too, so we had to go back to the first cabin with the sopping wet floor for the bathroom. The heat was also broken in the dining car, you could see your breath and you had to wear a jacket. The staff were fine, but it was a terrible experience.

The ~1500km trip took about 28 hours (we were 6ish hours late for arrival), and cost only slightly more than a 2 hour plane ride.