u/carnewbie911

They have stopped doing this for about two weeks now. They used to put our letters into the indoor mail slot. This way, our letters get into our homes. Otherwise, the wind can blow it away, or someone else can steal it. We lived here for 25 years, and it has never been a problem.

For two weeks now, they have just tossed it on our front porch, and that is not really safe. Like people can steal our T4/tax letters, or credit card, debit card, or a lot of personal letters with our identity.

Is this normal?

*update1: The mail slot is 80cm from the floor and very easy to find. I double-check the height, and it's within spec: "Placement Height: The slot must be positioned between 60 cm and 125 cm from the floor"

*update2: turns out, after speaking to a few neighbours, it's a new guy. The regular carrier is probably on vacation. This new guy has been doing it to everyone, and seem like everyone is pretty upset.

So I commute from Surrey, and it's 4 hours a day in total. Last year, I had to come to campus every day because I had no choice; my math, stat, and CPSC courses were all spread out on different days. I was pretty much taking a 4-hour bus ride just for a 2-hour lecture. I waste about 20 hours a week on the BUS!!

Anyway, I'm debating whether to compress my lectures into 3 days, where I'd have 4 back-to-back 2-hour lectures. I wouldn't have time to eat lunch, but I'd save commute time and could spend that time studying at home instead. I waste 12 hours a week on the bus. I do have a schedule that works, but I will have to run from WESB to FROST......... in about 10 min

Another option is to spread the lectures over 4 days. I'd be looking at about 5 hours on campus per day for 4 days. The advantage there is that I get to eat lunch, I have breaks between lectures, and I get to see a cute classmate I have a secret crush on. I spend 16 hours a week on the bus.

I am really not sure what to do. More experienced and wiser students, what's your suggestion?

the courses are CPSC 213, CPSC 304, Math 111, Math200.

This question is for people who know more about IT and computers.

So like, I am going to travel to China for like 2 months. Now, I am also applying for Co-ops. I am worried that if I get an interview, I can't do a virtual interview because China bans everything there.

So like, can I use UBC vpn and then like have the ability to use MS Teams, Zoom, and stuff?

I bought a new 10 Gbps enclosure. I want to turn one of my drives into an external SSD to back up personal data like movies or pictures. This will most likely serve as a second backup of my personal stuff. Most likely, I will use it with my MacBook Pro. Since it replaced the Dell XPS as my main laptop. I use my desktop Win11 for home stuff, and MacBook for school. (I don't like how MSFT is moving towards AI Copilot and stealing my data, maybe iOS will be my main thing in the future, or even Linux)

I have 2 m.2 drives, SATA or NVMe. Both were old computer drives.

The NVMe was the original drive in my Dell XPS laptop. It's PCIe Gen3. The enclosure will bottleneck. I can put that drive back and use it on the laptop as an internal drive. That laptop is still pretty good.

The m.2 SATA is currently being used in the Dell XPS. I wanted a fresh build. Everything in there is disposable, but SATA wouldn't fully use the 10Gbps. Then again, there isn't anything else it would do without a bottleneck.

I am leaning towards using the m.2 SATA, then I can put my old drive back in the Dell XPS, and use it as the original OS and original stuff. But then, I feel left out because of the bottleneck.

Anyway, summary, M.2 SATA or M.2 NVMe for the 10 Gbps USB enclosure?

its a The Ugreen CM400 is a dual-protocol enclosure.

even 100GB is a lot for storage for academic contents. googlgler only give me 15gb and Dropbox only give me like 2gb.

unless you have LLM models or a lot of adult related contents, I don’t even know how I can fill up 1Tb?

For example for one of my class Math 101, I am in section C. my section average is 59!!

but the course average is expected to be 69, which is a typical average.

why is that? why does one section perform so poorly relatively to others?