cyborganism

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[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 points 9 hours ago

Just clip a bunch of letters from magazines and glue them on a piece of paper like all psychopaths do. Sheesh. It's not that hard.

/s

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago

That still exists???

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 0 points 14 hours ago

LOL! Good point.

Those that actually make good products that don't fall apart in your hands on the first use I guess?

In all seriousness though, when I wanted to buy a certain product (like those stick-on battery-powered lamps that you can put in attics and stuff for example) I would check CT and Amazon.

  • The CT product would have swollen batteries and acid damage, short circuits, burnt light bulbs, or even burnt LEDs, the casing would be cracked, right out of the package. And the worst part is that when you go to return to the store, they don't reimburse you for a broken or damaged product. Nope. You can either exchange it for another broken item or they only give you a god damn reimbursement CT card that you can only spend in their stores.
  • Meanwhile, Amazon would have a ton of selections with customer reviews to back up the product so you know what to expect. The prices are also competitive, even with the delivery fees. And if the product is damaged or breaks, you get an instant reimbursement as soon as you send it back, free of charge.

For the record, I cancelled my Amazon Prime subscription, and boycott Amazon. I don't buy anything from them anymore unless I really can't find an alternative somewhere else whether in stores or online at another Canadian location or straight from manufacturers. But, I also avoid CT as much as possible due to my extremely poor customer experience there. There's always Rona/ Reno Depot, but they were bought by an American equity firm. Home Depot is also American. So I don't have any other Canadian options.

Canadian companies like Canadian Tire, Loblaws, Metro and other big chains have established themselves almost as monopolies in Canada. Yeah I want to encourage Canadian businesses, but they're taking advantage of Canadians, and that doesn't encourage me to buy from them. I try to find smaller providers, but it's sometimes near impossible for certain types of products.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 hours ago

Went there for an oil change once. The mechanic asked me what kind of oil my car needed. I told him it was literally written on the cap.

I regretted it instantly.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

Their tools barely last long enough to finish the job...

More than half the shit I buy there is some cheap Chinese crap that's either broken in the package or breaks as you take it out because of how flimsy it is.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

@camus@jlai.lu Ça mérite d'être publié dans !rance@jlai.lu ça non?

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Fucking CAQ man... calice

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kick their ambassador out and bring home ours.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

I read that in Nandor's voice from What we do in the Shadows.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago

And think about what you're leaving behind.

 

Je vous implore de contacter votre député et notre nouveau premier ministre pour lui demander de mettre ses culottes de leader mondial et imposer un cessez le feu permanent et de réouvrir les frontières et laisser entrer la nourriture, l'eau, l'essence et la médecine pour les gazaouis qui sont en train de crever de famine, de soif, de blessures et de maladies. Et qu'il admette que c'est un osti de génocide une bonne fois pour toutes.

 

I just watched this tonight. I had seen some clips from a music video montage and it seemed kinda cool.

After watching it, I found it to be underwhelming. The artwork ans animation weren't that great after all. And the story was so bad lol.

Do not watch unless you have 45 min to waste.

Btw, sorry for not following your guidelines on my initial post. I wasn't done watching it and was going to comment as soon as it was over.

 

Est-ce que c'est juste moi ou est-ce que la qualité des produits vendus chez Canadian Tire est extrêmement pourri? Depuis quelques années j'achète des trucs et ils sont souvent défectueux ou brisés dans l'emballage. Des fois ils vont briser en les sortant de l'emballage, même!

Et à chaque fois que je retourne le produit je ne peux pas avoir de remboursement comptant ou sur ma carte de paiement, car ils n'offrent que des cartes de remboursement Canadian Tire. C'est assez frustrant et ça ne me donne plus envie de magasiner là.

Mais, après il ne reste plus grand choix à part Walmart ou Amazon pour la plupart des produits. Je veux bien acheter de commerces canadiens, mais c'est juste de la calice de marde.

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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by cyborganism@lemmy.ca to c/quebec@lemmy.ca
 

Je sais que c'est au sujet de l'Alberta, mais ça concerne les lois sur les référendums qui, je crois, est quelque chose d'important pour le Québec.

 
 

Sadly it's because they are filling for bankruptcy and will be closing down their physical stores. But their online stores will remain open.

Their clothes are of incredible quality and look great.

 

I'm using Kubuntu 24.04

I installed flatpak and am trying to perform updates but they keep failing. Mainly the downloads keep failing with "Failure when receiving data from the peer." And downloads are painfully slow.

Maybe the main servers are at full capacity? Can I configure mirrors maybe? Where can I find a list?

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