On iOS you can get uBlock Origin Lite for Safari and it works very well. You can also download the Orion browser which lets you get Firefox and Chrome extensions and can get uBO or whatever else that way too.

As a Canadian I’m very jealous of your mobile plan prices.

Am Canadian, can confirm. Can’t exactly compare to American prices since I’m not American and also haven’t visited in years, but it is very expensive to live here, at least in any medium or large city. Smaller towns aren’t too bad for housing costs, but then grocery and gas prices go up. There’s places that are reasonable in certain aspects but then they’re very expensive in others. I’ve got family all across the country, literally coast to coast and north to south. West coast of BC to east coast of Newfoundland, northern stretches of Iqaluit to southern tip of Ontario and everywhere in between, and no one has a low cost of living all around. I’m sure there’s places cheaper than something like NYC or LA or something but overall I’d guess Canada is probably more expensive than most of the US.

I thought I was the only one. Genuinely my favourite theme they’ve used.

So I was curious and put it into a converter, USD 3.84 $/gal. is equivalent to CAD 138.0 ¢/L. The gas station by my place was 169.9 the other day which is equivalent to 4.73 for our southern neighbours.

My grocery store has had these for a while. Dynamic price reductions are coming too. Instead of a set % off, it’ll calculate the most optimal percentage to take off based on popularity of the product, how long until expiry, etc. Just a heads up.

I’m currently watching Handmaid’s Tale for the first time (the show, not the movie. I haven’t seen the movie). I’ve never read the book either so no spoilers please. Anyway, it’s eerie how many things are lining up. Like you said, supposed to be a warning, not a guidebook.

That win was bullshit anyway. USA had too many men on the ice and didn’t get a penalty for it, but then Canada got a 4 minute penalty for high sticking during what should’ve been their power play.

I was thinking the same thing. I’ve actually got a $50 gift card for there right now. Been making to take my wife there, we should get on that soon

Which will then probably tell you that it conflicts with vulkan-mesa-device-select and asks if you want to replace it. Which might either work or just get you another conflict because vulkan-mesa-device-select is required by some other package.

Yeah, basically. This was my result:

sudo pacman -S vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
:: vulkan-mesa-implicit-layers-1:25.3.5-2 and vulkan-mesa-device-select-1:25.2.6-2 are in conflict. Remove vulkan-mesa-device-select? [y/N] y
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: removing vulkan-mesa-device-select breaks dependency 'vulkan-mesa-device-select' required by lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select
:: removing vulkan-mesa-device-select breaks dependency 'vulkan-mesa-device-select' required by vulkan-intel

Btw… pacman -Qi <package name> usually tells you anything you need to know about a package. In this context mainly why it was installed (as a requirement for which package) and which other packages are required as a dependency.

So maybe you should take one step back first. Check why 'vulkan-mesa-device-select` was installed in the first place.

Okay so I tried that and got:

pacman -Qi vulkan-mesa-device-select
Installed From  : cachyos
Name            : vulkan-mesa-device-select
Version         : 1:25.2.6-2
Description     : Mesa's Vulkan Device Select layer
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://www.mesa3d.org/
Licenses        : MIT AND BSD-3-Clause AND SGI-B-2.0
Groups          : None
Provides        : None
Depends On      : glibc  libdrm  libxcb  wayland
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : lib32-vulkan-mesa-device-select  vulkan-intel
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 104.43 KiB
Packager        : CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>
Build Date      : Wed 29 Oct 2025 02:12:36 PM
Install Date    : Fri 07 Nov 2025 07:55:30 PM
Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature

Seems it’s necessary, so I tried sudo pacman -S vulkan-mesa-device-select and it gave me no trouble, so then I ran sudo pacman -Syu and after just under 10 minutes everything updated! Seems to work again. Thank you very much for the help, I really do appreciate it.

Answering “n” gives me the same error still. Same with if I say no for both questions. In fact, any combination will always result in the same error.

Probably a dumb question but how would I go about installing vulcan-mesa-implicit-layers?

I tried that one too and it gave me the same error.

Thanks for all the info. I tried manually replacing the mirrorlist but I’m still getting the same warnings and errors. I also tried -Syyu but still no dice.

What was this you were saying about keyfile? That doesn’t seem to be something I’m familiar with.

For most people they don’t think of liberalism as a specific thing, they literally just consider liberal and left to be the same thing, and conservative and right to be the same thing. It’s not that they’re trying to say nothing left of liberalism is legitimate or something, it’s just that literally everything left is under the branch of liberalism. It’s not thought of as a specific subset of the left, it is the left, and various degrees of leftism are all considered part of liberalism. Again, not saying that’s correct obviously, it’s just how most people here see it.

Yeah, the NDP (New Democratic Party) is what you’re thinking of. They’ve only really had one good shot at having their party leader elected for Prime Minister, but then he got cancer and died from it. The NDP still wins local areas though. A lot of the right wing voters here aren’t even necessarily conservative, just anti-liberal. I’ve known lots of conservatives who would happily vote for the NDP too, just not the liberals. We also have the Green Party which is more of an environmental party who are useful for approving conservation efforts but don’t have a serious shot at PM. They have some great local leaders though. Then there’s the Bloc Québécois who are only in Quebec obviously, and they stand for French rights. They do quite well in Quebec typically but again, no shot at PM.

For most of Canadians and I think Americans, liberal = anything left of centre, while conservative = anything right of centre. I know that’s not what those strictly mean but that’s the generally accepted definitions here at least, and I’m pretty sure in the states too.

I’m not sure if it’s possible but a mini pro but with good battery life would be the ultimate phone for me personally. I’m basically always on my feet but use my phone a lot so a large battery is important, but I also want a small phone and a good camera. I doubt that’ll happen though.

Yeah that was basically my thought too. I probably do less than a quarter of that on average, but that’s not really the point. I should be allowed as much time as I want. Not that I use a Nvidia subscription anyway, but still. This makes me mad on behalf of other people.

Touché.

For the bedroom, a baby monitor makes sense. Not sure why you need one connected to the Internet though.

Wait, that was real? I only saw the screenshot on Lemmy and assumed it was a shitpost.