Frederic

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[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 1 points 31 minutes ago (1 children)

I am using a simple application named "Car Scanner", on my phone, it connects via bluetooth to the $4 OBD2 dongle, and it works in Android Auto, can display all kind of info on the multimedia screen.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago

I'd be completely lost with BEPO...

I used QWERTY US in 80-90, it was the only available keyboard on 8bit machine (Sinclair, Amstrad, Commodore, etc), then AZERTY in 90-00 because I had a PC, then moved to Québec so since ~2000 use QWERTY FR_CA. Because of all the switch and never learning how to type, I still type with like 2 fingers :)

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

no, the one you put is the "official" french canadian one, used mostly by gov, but everyday people are using the "normal" one

This is why we have not conquered the world yet :)

Do you not use BEPO ?

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

French Canadian keyboard is QWERTY but with all kind of symbol, like the 1 to = top row can give

with shift !"/$%?&*()_+

with altcar ±@£¢¤¬¦²³¼½¾

We also have the µ¯§¶«»°

and we can do all kind of Èîöç etc

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

eille wow non étant Français, AZERTY c'est cool :)

¤ is the currency symbol

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Remember to only buy items on sale, all the others ones are overinflated. For instance the ratchet kit at $699 will go on sale at 80% off every 2 months, etc.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 12 points 3 weeks ago

Same problem in Montréal, thousands of empty condos, they are small and expensive. And condo fee kill the deal compared to owning a house...

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

This is what I was thinking, when more and more phone offer 5000+, samsung offer 20% less...

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

3900mAh ?!? what?!? sure you cannot do a day without charging it, pretty lame. And it's so thin you'll bend it.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 13 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)

Yes, at least seeing a 50yo guy like me. We come from the 8bit world, there was no linux!

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

In University. In the 90s we used commercial un*x (HP-UX, IRIX, AIX, Solaris/SunOS, SCO) and some others like SVR4, BSD, Minix. Then a guy on usenet talked about making is own kernel running on a 386. My first real full linux install was kernel 0.99 on a 486DX50, around 1993, came in multiple floppies, then to install X11 that was like 10 more floppies! Configuring things was a bit nighmarish.

[–] Frederic@beehaw.org 15 points 4 weeks ago

Also, when I think Mafia in Ontario, I think construction.

oh boy, Montréal, construction is 100% run by mafia it's incredible, at every level

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