Canberra (the city, not the federal government) has been going pretty hard on urban infill for a while now, if we manage to get high enough population density then suburbs can become towns
Now we just need to convince Australians to have babies at better than replacement rate; I don’t think it’s possible to densify in a declining population
First learn to make your own sodium hydroxide. You can’t get away from dependence on others, everything is more complex than it looks
Dense population attracts crime, dense population allows for more walking and cycling infrastructure. The coincidence of those two facts makes people think that walking and cycling infrastructure causes an increase in crime. Those people are confusing correlation and causation
Or choosing a width and windiness to achieve desired speeds, fill the reclaimed space with bike lanes and parking or bus stops or gardens or playgrounds in the widest parts
I feel like if you can’t see them in time you’re going too fast
The EV kit company I was looking at years ago stopped being a kit company and became Tesla :(
There’s always plugshare - charge at a random person’s house
One of the best things about recumbents is I’d go right under it
Canberra, Australia has ok bike to the airport. No bike parking at the airport, so if you’re seeing someone off you’re probably locking it to a sign or a fence. You’re in with cars for the last kilometre though as the airport doesn’t consider bikes, though the city does
All those cars are parked nose out. They’re driving forward to leave.
I like that a lot more than parallel parking with a bike lane protected by paint. There they have good protection, the drivers can see the cyclists when they’re parking or unparking, that only fault is the bike lane is also the driveway for accessing that parking, but even then it’s low speed
Even with the encroachment there’s loads of room
What features do you find missing from open office? The way I use it open office calc is better than Microsoft excel
When fingerprint or whatever is setup as a PAM module for login it can decrypt your home folder, so you can do the initial login with it
Sure, usually, but this was a bike
Some mouses have scroll wheels that click too easily. So when you scroll, you paste. In my collection of mouses the Logitech ones are fine, gaming mouses are the worst, and the one Microsoft mouse has no way to do a middle click
It was great before we had scroll wheels. Now it’s too easy to middle click while scrolling a document
People in the thread say the proposal is to change the default and add a toggle to switch it to the mouse settings
I’m going to continue using gnome
We didn’t have scroll wheels back when I first used middle button paste. Scroll wheels make it less good, as too many are too easy to click while scrolling
The question though is who gets their preference as the default, and who has to reconfigure stuff
In this case they’re giving the default to new users and letting X fans reconfigure which seems right to me.
Embedded Linux is fine, just make it so if the owner wanted to they could hire any programmer to modify or update it
Because unlike other car centric places, the US federal government is actively opposed to any improvement in bicycle or walking infrastructure, though some states are willing to defy the federal government
Add to that how the US federal government is opposed to renewable energy, opposed to protection of the environment, opposed to protection of threatened species, opposed to immigration, opposed to past immigration, opposed to assigned at birth gender nonconformity, opposed to non reproductive sexual preferences, opposed to education — especially of women
Your oil state is probably more responsive to people’s desire to ride a bike without being killed than the US, and yours is an oil state.