Only a no brainer if you can make the $10/mth fee back in cash-back ($500 in purchases?), or if you're Premium or higher. Otherwise why not use the Mastercard Cash account card?
Soooooo no more LineageOS for Pixel phones? As in no newer Android versions?
Man I love my Pixel 5...
Quboz lets you buy your music though?
I'm equally upset at Canadian companies selling items that are not made in Canada, under a guise that it's "all Canadian".
Example: I want a folding coffee table. Found a Canadian company in Windsor, Ontario. Looks legit... Looking closer, the tables are made in Poland...
There DO exist companies that are through and through Canadian... too many are masking it though. It's understandable for some things but it's nuts for stuff like furniture, like above (QC has a lovely woodworking furniture industry)
Unrelated but during 2022 COVID times I was accosted by someone while in a supermarket, simply for performing the act of touching several bananas and not buying them (checking for brown spots).
They said "Why do you touch all the bananas with your bare hands!!"
I replied back as they walked away "Do you eat the peel as well as the fruit???"
These idiot boomers fell for the facebook propaganda.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_boxes_in_schools_hoax
What a weird thing to focus on, are you planning to go visit your VPS in person?
GoCode is the parent company, and you can see they offer colo in an Equinox datacenter. I imagine this might be a one person contracting team that uses a PO Box for home address privacy (as I do myself for my business purposes)
They run a Tier 2 networking service, including peering with a lot of big exchanges. They'll be around for a while... And have been so far...
Hetzner does the same shit for ID verification/provisioning, it's all related to anti spam and anti malicious use.
I host at home but use Xenyth as a reverse proxy, that's honestly what many people who are comfortable to run their own server should do; protect your home IP.
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Canada Post continues to negotiate with CUPW as union announces strike mandate
(www.canadapost-postescanada.ca)
Sampling of text from www.canadapost-postescanada.ca news release
Canada Post proposes new postage rates for 2025. Price of a domestic stamp would rise 25 cents in move to better align with rising cost of providing the service
While rate increases are necessary, Canada Post understands that they mean additional costs for customers, and the Corporation works to minimize the impact. For the average Canadian household, the rate increase is estimated to have an impact of $2.26 per year. For the average Canadian small business, the estimated impact is $42.17 per year.1 Permanent™ stamps will always be accepted at the current domestic postage price.
Further details
For a domestic letter (30 grams or less), the price of a single stamp would increase from $1.15 to $1.44. When purchased in a booklet, coil or pane, the price would increase from 99 cents to $1.24 per stamp.
The proposed rate changes would also affect other products, including U.S., international letter-post and domestic Registered Mail™ items, with a corresponding increase of about 25 per cent on average. Commercial letter mail rates follow regulated rates and would also see an increase of about 25 per cent on average.
The proposed rates were published 2024-09-06 for public comment in Part I of the Canada Gazette. Subject to regulatory approvals, the new rates would take effect January 13, 2025.
My comment: As expected. I HIGHLY recommend checking the Canada Gazette chart on price increases.
From canadapost-postescanada.ca:
TORONTO – Canada Post is excited to unveil our latest stamp set celebrating the early years of MuchMusic and MusiquePlus. The groundbreaking, often interactive television stations revolutionized the way we listen to music – fans could finally SEE the stars in action in a new format: the music video.
Launched in August 1984 and broadcast from Toronto, MuchMusic was one of Canada’s first specialty cable channels, quickly reaching five million households only a few short years later. MusiquePlus began broadcasting out of Montréal in 1986, and quickly emerged as the top platform for homegrown Francophone artists to strut their stuff alongside other big names.
Through engaging programming, MuchMusic and MusiquePlus almost instantly became the gigs everybody had to play, shining a spotlight on such Canadian artists as Blue Rodeo, Kashtin, Les Colocs, Alanis Morissette, Les Trois Accords and Avril Lavigne. Fans gathered at the stations - both inside and outside - for live performances by homegrown stars like Jean Leloup, Roch Voisine, Les BB or Mitsou or global legends like David Bowie and Duran Duran. Now, MuchMusic lives on as a prominent Canadian entertainment brand across social media, bringing its iconic irreverence and perspective to a new generation.
Canada Post has a long history of celebrating Canadian music and musicians on our stamps, including a new stamp featuring Sarah McLauchlan released this past September, along with stamps commemorating icons like Elisapie, Oscar Peterson, k.d. lang, The Tragically Hip, Leonard Cohen, Salome Bey, and many more. The MuchMusic and MusiquePlus stamps were unveiled in Toronto and Montréal, respectively.
About the stamp issue:
The lively, colourful stamp illustrations depict the iconic buildings that housed MuchMusic in Toronto and MusiquePlus in Montréal are drawn from the perspective of the cheering crowd that would regularly gather outside the stations. Printed by Lowe-Martin, the stamp issue includes a booklet of 8 Permanent™ domestic rate stamps, and two Official First Day Covers.
The stamp and collectibles are available at canadapost.ca and postal outlets across Canada.
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First off just to say this reply feels very privileged, there's folks that can barely afford $100 in groceries a month... let alone 4K a month in deposits... is the card realistically for them? Maybe not. But still...
TY for the info on the card, I forgot that the Cash card is more like a debit card and doesn't add to your Credit Score.