Transit wins even if it’s only slightly slower than driving since it’s cheaper, more relaxing, can be used by children and blind people and can bring you directly downtown without needing to park.

Nope! Instead, they save car industry profits!

I replaced my 2060 with Intel ARC just because of the bad Nvidia drivers lol. Only thing I miss is cuda for using Meshroom but I can use other programs.

Yes, but the driver is paid to drive the.bus. Do YOU get paid to drive your own car?

Yup. The worst part is how the problems AVs claim to solve are already solved using existing technology that have other benefits like fewer emissions and physical activity.

Another great video by NJB. I found the speculations made in the video about the future of self driving cars to be pessimistic but can totally see the future ending up exactly as he describes it.

If you live in Ontario, you can make a public comment on this bill: https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-9266

I’m pretty sure my bank’s android app is just webview considering it has a cookie banner when starting it and it looks almost identical to the actual bank website. The biggest feature of the bank app is for 2FA, but it’s not like it’s much more convenient than SMS and they really should be supporting FIDO2 and TOTP codes for actually secure 2FA.

Have a look at the PostmarketOS device list. There are a ton of devices that boot, but the vast majority are missing critical features that render the device almost useless for anything but a server. The only android phones that I know of that run well with usable features and performance are the Oneplus 6/6T, Poco f1, Pixel 3a, shift6mq and fairphone, though even then there are crucial features missing. A modern phone built for Linux with a modern chipset, working camera, USB and sound would be awesome, but such a device does not exist AFAIK.

At least where I live, Bikes are legally considered Cars in most cases.

Under Ontario’s Highway Traffic Act (HTA), a bicycle is considered a vehicle, just like a car or truck.

As a cyclist, you:

• must obey all traffic laws
• have the same rights and responsibilities as drivers
• cannot carry passengers if your bicycle is only meant for one person

Also, this is the official documentation in Ontario for bike signals, not sure how it compares to other parts of the world.

I like to signal well before I start turning so that I have both hands to complete the turn. I also don’t use the legally defined turn signals since I find cars don’t understand most of the time and it’s easier just to stick an arm out in the direction I’m turning.

This is the way. Drivers are usually not able to understand how to respond to bikes at intersections, so imitating something they understand, a car, is how you stay safe.

At least in North America, around 80% of the population lives in a populated area. That means even if we only eliminate cars for urban areas, that’s still most of the cars removed. The only way I see people in rural areas getting around without a car would be with electric cargo bikes and robust train routes.

Just btw, your requirements for the website would work just fine on a static site. A static site just means the server only serves the website and nothing else. No DBs or anything like that.

Exactly my point. Some of it looks nice like KDE, but the rest is just a mashup of different design languages and philosophies that do not mesh together. The disk utility comes to mind as one that is pretty horrible for how important it is.

This is exactly what we need. I hope they can follow through. For it to be effective, it will need to connect to local transit in each city. Currently, the Via rail stations in Ottawa are not connected to the LRT.

Honestly, the way Massgrave works seems less sketchy than random keys from resellers. Massgrave is able to trick Microsoft into giving you a legit license key.

On the desktop, Windows is the majority. This means that many people around us who we care about (friends, family) are going to be using Windows and receiving the problems associated with it. That’s why we (linux users) care when Windows goes to shit.

Much of the security that comes with most linux distros is due to how software is installed. On windows, you typically install random .exe files online and have to put your trust in whoever provided you with the installer. On linux, it’s much more common to use a package manager to install packages, which means you are putting your trust in the package repositories instead, which can be policed by the maintainers who can decline to add suspicious packages.