Tlaloc_Temporal

I’m sorry, do you think bikes are incapable of slowing down? Do you think walking should be protected as a hobby? Do you think the answer to better transportation is less transportation?

Your answer is to get a car or wake up at 4:30. I’d love to have an actual bike lane where I can go faster, but that’s not always possible. If the only acceptable place for a bike is dedicated infrastructure, bikes will never be used.

Reckless driving is one thing, but excluding bicycles from 99.99% of North America is a crazy reaction. It’s difficult to even find data about pedestrian-cyclists collisions; based on hospital data in the UK only 2% of pedestrian deaths or serious injuries are caused by collisions with bicycles, while 96% are caused by motor vehicles.

If you’re so worried, make sure to support public transit and cycle infrastructure. I’d love to use separate lane pathways, or even better light rail, but until then I need to bike and not die.

When 2 tons of metal guided by tired humans that can barely see me while going twice my maximum speed less than a foot away from me is a “bike lane”, I’d rather walk than risk death at far too early in the morning. Especially when that “bike lane” is broken up by parked cars.

At least give me a curb. A protected bike lane is the bare minimum I’d wager my life with, even with the danger of right hooks. Those cars could instantly kill entire families, and you want me to ride next to semi trucks, separated by paint?

It’s party marketing, yes, but it’s also Quality of Life features. Windows either has a setting you can find by farting around in the settings or it doesn’t work. Linux can have every setting, but most of them need CLI work, research, and the wherewithal to unfuck whatever you fucked.

If CLIs could be listed, explained, and parametrized in a simple GUI, it would make learning them 10x easier. More default scripts for unfucking things would also help (like Window’s old troubleshooting wizards). More status checking and better error messages, so one can tell when something is broken without manually inspecting every module.

It’s gotten much better, and will certainly improve by necessity if more average users pick Linux up, but it’s a step that has to be taken before Linux sees a major marketshare, regardless of marketing.

Piracy has always been a distribution issue. There are definitely greedy lazy people who will always want more for less, but the organized effort required for piracy only happens when fair access is impossible.

I’d say the specifications of the design should be made public domain after some time (say 5 years for high-tech and 10 otherwise) or if the OEM shuts down the factory.

It’s a bit unreasonable to keep parts in stock 50 years after the product was last sold, but if the designs are available any company can start a new run, or even just a guy with a nice shop. The big exception to this is silicon chips, there are only a few companies that can even make integrated circuits, let alone processors. Public access to designs might encourage competition though…

I agree that the vast majority of ads are manipulative, but are there not legitimate uses in notification? Like posters annoucing an event, requests for scientific trials, or even lost posters.

It’s not bad for hyper local news via groups.

That being said, anyone that trusts a social media platform as a source of media probably doesn’t use it as a source, but instead just assumes that it’s fully representative. Like when some people dismiss tik-tok because they only see people twerking, they assume it’s representitive of the whole platform.

So much this! After Harper I was hopeful about doing something about this mess before it got worse. Then nothing. I think a bill was presented at one point? Maybe? •sigh•

Sadly, google cats aren’t part of the cat distribution system.

This is also data from an opt-in survey of only one kind of user. The real number of Linux users is probably somewhat higher due to the higher level of privacy conscientiousness in the community.

ViaBedrock would be cool if it at least allowed building. World archival is neat though.

I doubt I’d be banned on my friend’s personal realm, unless microsoft have automatic anti-cheat running even there.

With the sole exception of playing on a bedrock server. I’ve looked for Java mods to facilitate this, but only found the reverse (understandably).

I wonder how many of these places are owned purely for their speculative value in the future, just to own as an asset. Like million dollar paintings or rare cars.

I wonder if real estate can be used for money laundering.

There have been many an issue with YT changing notification settings, or even unsubscribing people. I don’t know if they still do that, but it used to happen to enough people at once that channels would mention checking your notification settings after seeing double digit percentage drops in base viewership.

/s for those who need it.

It’s not very active or professed if you do it privately with existing tools.

I’m still amazed that I’d never heard about Nortel until this year.

I kinda wish reposts were an actual mechanic, where it’s linked to the original like a crossost. Meme variant chains would be cool too, seeing the evolution from the first post.

This post is already a day old, and the imaged was at least 8h before that.

Tying shoelaces together, except you only chamge shoes once a year.