Numpty

Nah you're 100% welcome in Canada. We are glad you're here.

Try Nanaimo. A city of over 100,000 people... there is ONE walk-in clinic in the city, and they are rarely open. You go there and it's either closed or there is a sign on the door "Accepting 10 patients today". So you go to the Nanaimo General ER and IF you're lucky, you will be seen in about 8 to 10 hours.

Drink bottle water and consume plastic particles... drink tap water and get all the other contaminants (places I travel for work outside of Canada have highly contaminated and unsafe water... so water with bits of plastic are the lesser evil).

Yup. I really regret letting my EU number go when I moved (back) to Canada. My EU number was about 25 Eur per month (a few years ago) including international roaming calls and data in Canada.

I though naaah, I'll get a local number because it makes sense right? No not really... 98% of the calls I get on my local Canadian number are scam calls (someone threatening me in Chinese with deportation over unpaid taxes etc.) so it's not like I would have been inconveniencing anyone local calling me... most of the remaining 2% call me on WhatsApp or Signal...

Hmmm.... Infineon has been doing work with graphene semiconductors for years. Something seems a bit off with this article.

Double-check that you have Nvidia Prime configured/selected. It's been a while since I've used Mint, but... try this...

1. Open the App menu (bottom left, same as in Windows)
2. Type "nvidia' and this should show you the NVIDIA X Server Settings app. Click on it to launch.
3. Double-check that you see all the drive info, including the driver version. Close out the app of all looks "right".
4. In the Mint system tray (lower right), click on the Nvidia icon (if you don't see it, open the app menu, type "startup" and make sure "Support for NVIDIA Prime" is enabled) 5. Set the profile to "Active profile" (it's hard on battery life in this mode). This forces everything to run on the Nvidia card only...
5. Test your games. Do they work better? If yes, you've found the root cause of the performance issue... if not... Hmmm, I'm not sure, then it's time to try other things.

My experience with this is that Nvidia Prime was not being enabled/selected when I was trying to game. If this (forcing everything to launch on Prime) works and your games are working at a more acceptable performance level, you can leave it in "Active profile" at the expense of battery life... or you can set up the On-Demand profile.... or explicitly switch between Intel and Nvidia, using Intel for all non-gaming things and pop it into Nvidia when you want to game.. lots of possibilities depending on how you want to use the computer. :-)

BTW, an alternative to the systray method is simply setting the profiles right within the NVIDIA X Server Settings app (the last menu item on the left nav menu within the NVIDIA app). I just find that the systray icon is a quick/easy way, and it's worth knowing about.

Yeah once you fly with other non-Canadian airlines you realize just how awful flying domestic and international on Air Canada really is (and the discount airlines like Swoop were even worse). I travel a lot for personal and work, and I try my best to book Qatar, Emirates, Turkish, etc. Hell, even KLM is better and they aren't amazing. Same with Ethiopian Air... not amazing or even good but better than Air Canada.

They manufacture and sell the buses in Canada... There are BYD buses in operation in at least Toronto, Victoria, Longeuil, St. Albert and Grand Prairie (and probably more by now). https://en.byd.com/news/byd-opens-first-canadian-bus-assembly-plant/ If you're in Montreal, there's a decent chance you'll see BYD E6 taxis.

There's been rumors of the cars being prepped for general sale in Canada.... but I can't find any proof of that right now.

I explicitly go out of my way to avoid Air Canada and WestJet. They are both abysmal airlines. WestJet used to be good... but lately, it's become a competition between them and AirCanada to see who can fuck things up more spectacularly.

I'd say that Air Canada also lands last in customer service, quality of service, comfort, and adhering to the rules for customer rights... and pretty much EVERYTHING else.

It's really a YMMV thing with Nvidia on Linux. I'm running 3 computers in the house on openSUSE Tumbleweed (mine and my 2 boy's computers). The computers all have various Nvidia cards and they all work just fine for gaming.

The "iffy" part for Nvidia is mainly focused on the troublesome issues some people run into with kernel updates and the drivers not keeping up. This is mostly a historical thing. It's been several years since I've ran into any Nvidia driver update related issues in Linux. The other major complaint about Nvidia is screen tearing... it's occasionally ugly. It's hard to resolve or fix,a nd in many cases it just is what it is.

The issue you're encountering with games running poorly on Linux Mint will probably not be resolved by distro hopping - I'm not trying to discourage some experimentation.. that's a fun/good thing :-) ... but the Mvidia drivers on Mint will be the same ones you will install on Fedora, and openSUSE and and and. The very first place I'd look is at the drivers. Are you 100% certain that the proprietary Nvidia drivers are actually installed vs the default Nouveau Nvidia drivers? You're running on a laptop... so that's the hybrid video card thing. Are you 100% certain that the games are launching on Nvidia vs running on the default Intel? If the games run terribly... they are very very likely not using the full capability of the 2060... either because the full drivers are not installed or you're running on the Intel by default even though the drivers were installed.

Generally, you use the radio network from mobile phone to cell tower, and then fibre optic to the switches. Sometimes they use microwave line of sight for surface-to-surface connections where fibre doesn't make sense, or is unviable (terrain, distance, cost, difficulty of laying fibre, etc.). It's possible that there could be a satellite connection in the process, but unlikely unless you're on an airplane, a ship, etc.

The GPS on the mobile phone definitely does use satellite (receive only though, no transmit).

It's a problem with Canonical. They stepped up and created the snaps and then abandoned them instead of maintaining them. They still maintain the core that they include with the distro... it's all the extras they created to pad out the store... and then abandoned. "Look the snap store has so many packages"... yeah... no... it doesn't.

Why would a company who makes a commercial level open source package want to add snaps to their already broad Linux offering? They typically already build RPM (covering RHEL, Fedora, openSUSE, Mandriva, etc.) and DEB (covering Debian, Ubuntu, all Ubuntu derivatives, etc.)... and have a tar.gz to cover anything they missed. Why should they add the special snowflake snap just to cover Ubuntu which is already well covered by the DEB hey already make?

Sure, show vendors what's possible, but if Canonical stepped up to make the snaps, then they should still be maintaining them. It's not a business opportunity... its more bullshit from Canonical that no one wants.