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Farmer's Market at Dixie & Lakeshore in c/mississauga@lemmy.ca
[–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago*

That def happens but there's legit farms here too. Plus there's ways to recognize some products. What appears to be happening (here) more than grocery store repacking is either reselling Ontario Food Terminal product or padding one's own product with food terminal items. Buying food terminal resale is equivalent to buying from alt grocery store. I'm not pitching a farmers' market as some form of panacea for our food system's deep problems. It's a social place to visit, talk to someone, and maybe find a treat that you like more than what's in the No Frills. In case that sounds appealing.

It would be pretty great if we had real food markets where one didn't need detective skills to spot grocery store repacks, but among many other hurdles, detective skills are a necessary component for market function. That's markets. Some say they're the most efficient way to distribute commodities. I'm not so sure. 😄

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    Farmer's Market at Dixie & Lakeshore (lemmy.ca)
     

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/70155504

    In case you missed it, there's a farmer's market running all summer (May-Oct) at the Small Arms Inspection Building at Dixie & Lakeshore. That's next to Mary Curtis Park and the border with Etobicoke.

    Lots of produce, eggs, honey, meat, you name it.

    More info: https://www.creativehub1352.ca/lakeviewfarmersmarket

    A bunch of tents of a market
    Is the grind setting fine enough? in c/coffee@lemmy.world
    PM2.5 on the balcony hit 350μ/m³ at 5AM in c/toronto@lemmy.ca
    [–] [S] 2 points 3 months ago

    I'm guessing it's different density of the smoke clouds. Even if they rise consistently over the burning area, they could still form patterns of higher and lower density as they move. Think patterns in smoke from a cig or candle as it rises and moves - curls and gaps forming in it. Not sure what that's called or caused by in fluid dynamics but I assume that happens in the smoke clouds as they travel south. So when we get lower density bit over us - numbers go down, hgher density - they go up.

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    Does Fedecan host a Matrix server? in c/main@lemmy.ca
    [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago*

    Nowhere yet. Still on Discord since Discord backpedaled on their ID bullshit. We'll have to reexamine again at some point. It seems there may be some other alternatives to look into like Stoat or Fluxer.

    BTW I'm not at all a fan of the Discord format but it's not my decision to use that format.

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    • Does Fedecan host a Matrix server? in c/main@lemmy.ca
    [–] [S] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    Been contributing monthly since I joimed in 2023. It's approaching my cell phone bill. Not complaining, just saying I got that part covered. 😄

    Still, I can't demand extra free labour but in case it was already done.. or someone was about to do it.. 🤭

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    Quality difference between Shimano Alivio and XT derailleurs (mastodon.social)
     

    This is the reason a #Shimano XT #derailleur costs more than a Shimano Alivio. On the left you have the whole-body slop of an Alivio M3100 derailleur. On the right you have the same of an XT M8000. There's noticeable slack in all the pivot joints of the M3100. There's no noticeable slack in the XT. It feels like a single piece. The result of this difference is misshifts like going one gear higher then back to the desired one, or otherwise some shifts taking longer between gears.

    There's a second video in the original post showing the XT derailleur.

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    Follow up on the Pixel 8 Pro battery life post from a couple of weeks ago (lemmy.ca)
     

    So I have an update to my post from a couple of weeks ago. I did a few full charging sessions and they all showed estimated capacity around 4700mAh:

    Then yesterday I found this curious setting, after updating to Android 16 QPR1:

    I turned it off, did a full charge session and I got this estimate:

    And that result looks to be right back to the normal cycle degradation line:

    I'll do a few more full charge sessions but we have a tentative culprit. Google seems to have introduced a battery capacity cap under this setting, presumably to extend the cycle life of the battery.

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