I let them know, they just took care of it 👍

I think I'm finally doing this "touching grass" thing people talk about, I just got an e-bike a few days ago so I'm finally able to get out of the house in a meaningful capacity since I can't drive and I'm horribly out of shape, this lets me get around to places I need to go somewhat comfortably on my own while still letting me get a decent amount of physical activity (certainly far more than the near-zero I got before)

I've done a few trips just for fun and it's nuts just how much more you pay attention to and enjoy the environment compared to in a car, but today I did a grocery run and it was also very practical, I got a decent pannier bag I can clip to the bike that can be used as a shoulder bag or backpack and it holds a pretty decent amount

A few years ago, the bus service in my town made massive cuts to routes and frequency, making the buses pretty much completely useless to me, I really miss taking the bus places

But you know what I'm actually finding I miss the most about it? Having an excuse to actually get some reading done, I have an e-reader and being on the bus was the perfect time for me to use it, these days I rarely touch it because I have trouble focusing on that at home for various reasons, the bus trips were just long enough I could get some decent reading done and the small size and weight of my e-reader made it very convenient to do so, while using other devices was often inconvenient

I almost never read through books, and that bothers me, especially since it means I'm really limiting myself in my understanding of theory, I basically had to fight myself to even get through a good chunk of State and Revolution, I don't think I ever actually finished reading it

users are harassing a trans person in the freedesktop organization for banning a well known bad actor from contributing, the guy who made hyprland, who encourages and participates in queerphobic harassment, especially against trans people

It's especially infuriating because previously people had reasonable discussions on /r/linux about how ridiculously shitty this guy is, but now pretend as if the accusations are completely unfounded, or pretend it doesn't matter (the usual defense is "it's his personal Discord, how can you ban him for stuff he does there??"), along with the usual complaints about "ideology infiltrating Linux" (this is especially hilarious seeing how many of these people also worship Richard Stallman), as well as the typical redditor idea that rules lawyering is perfectly valid because "debate" and any use of common sense moderation is "power tripping"

But all he has to do is say "Red Hat Bad!!" (this isn't even a Red Hat thing really) and write a few one-sided blog posts directly naming and shaming and everyone goes nuts

Words can't describe how upset I am at this situation, people like this are the absolute lowest scum of the Linux and free software community

Do you think they even realize how many of the people who write the software they rely on are queer 🤔

Edit: Feel a little more hopeful finding out that another thread was posted where people are far more reasonable, making it pretty clear that the thread I'm talking about isn't really the usual community response and is actually just brigading by the asshole's groupies

Oh hey, I got my first "Reddit Cares" report on reddit! I haven't posted anything politics related on there in a long time, so I think it was over a comment about e-bike safety which is just makes it so much funnier 🤣

I love how they have to have an entire paragraph at the bottom telling you what to do if someone's using the feature to bully or harass you, they clearly know that this is literally all the feature is used for yet they do nothing about it lmao

Edit: My comment was literally just like "it's not safe for pedestrians if you go bombing down the mixed use pathway at 70 km/h on an electric motorcycle" lmao

They probably think "the SEE SEE PEE will hack your phone and steal all your data the moment you step in the country!!" lmao

Edit: I was right lmao

Which is what makes the most sense too, hydrogen fuel cells generally don't make much sense for personal vehicles

It really sucks how often pirates have to resort to emulating inferior Switch versions because the PC versions have uncracked Denuvo

This is true but also it's always morally correct to pirate Nintendo games

It does very much bug me though how, unsurprisingly, there's plenty of people on reddit and Twitter acting like piracy is the only reason one would use Yuzu, as if it isn't such a huge value to be able to run games you paid for at a more playable framerate and better resolution than Nintendo's outdated hardware

Like, hell, Tears of the Kingdom having such awful performance drops on official hardware even compared to BotW is basically the big reason I haven't bothered picking it up

Not really sure who would continue developing it though, it would have to be someone who already knows enough to do so but isn't currently contributing, because the current developers almost certainly wouldn't risk continuing to do so if they lose

(who btw farms montages in low rated btb games)

Typical, so many of the people who complain about the existence of SBMM in games are people who want to be able to constantly stomp players who are worse than them (when people complain about "not wanting to sweat all the time", this is pretty much guaranteed to be the actual reason)

While I don't doubt that Halo and CoD have flawed matchmaking, people usually use those to say that SBMM as a whole is a bad thing, or even that it's "ruining gaming", when it exists for good reasons and benefits a lot of games

You rarely see people complain about it in fighting games for example, usually when people do it's because the developers of a given game have designed an original system that does a bad job at actually matching skill, when a typical Elo-style system would've worked far better

This is the most hilariously bad faith interpretation of a comment I've ever seen on the internet, congratulations

They tend to justify the view by only ever bringing up the dangers of nuclear power, and arguments about nuclear waste (ignoring the fact we keep getting better in both these areas).

I've even seen people like that on here before when the topic's come up too, it's an annoyingly common sentiment

Was just watching the new Coaster College video about the roller coaster accident that happened in a park in Shenzhen last October, and while the video was good, man, so many of the comments are exactly what you'd expect about anything related to China

The funniest ones were the "made in China" ones, when the coaster in question was made by a US company 😂

It's also pretty funny for people to act like there's fewer repercussions for Chinese companies for this kind of thing, when the video even mentions that the investigators sent by the city directly recommended criminal charges against multiple managers from the park in question, which is wild when these sorts of accidents in the US almost never result in anything resembling criminal charges, usually the people responsible don't even face any consequences

It's also interesting to see people mention it as being unusual that the Chinese government is so open about something (since the investigation info is available to the public), unfortunately I doubt they'll look at this and question anything else they've been told about China's government

Yes, each airbag vest costs money to produce, that's why you pay for them, and why it's shit that this company is charging an ongoing subscription that actively disables them when you miss a payment, because the vests they've already sent out don't cost them any money to maintain

And yes, each copy of a backported security update doesn't cost meaningful amounts of money, but you're not paying for just a copy of one update, you're paying for an ongoing service that provides constant backports of security updates for loads of packages (and if you're a personal user, as other people mentioned, you don't even have to pay for that!), those backports are not free to maintain, companies charging for extended support that is nothing new, especially when they're long term support distros targeting enterprise

This comparison makes no sense, a motorcycle airbag vest doesn't require any effort on the company's part to keep working, but backporting security fixes absolutely does

That's not mentioned in this specific blog post, but that's always been one of Vanilla OS's defining features, it's "apx" package manager to install those various types of packages

It's even using Distrobox actually, but the point is to make it simpler to install packages for those contrainers, with the user not worrying as much about managing the individual containers, and not having to memorize the specific commands for each individual distro's package manager

Basically, like the rest of Vanilla OS, the point isn't that you can't do this stuff elsewhere, it's that it's trying to make it easier to do it

This literally means nothing, it doesn't mean you can just ignore any potential problems with a concept and just try to build it anyway

And even if Hyperloop is possible, it still doesn't make sense to do, because high speed rail already exists and makes a lot more sense, the US should start building that instead

Nice, I've had to quit multiple games because of that, Pokémon Go being the main one I used to play often that I quit a few years ago because of the daily streaks fucking with my brain

Animal Crossing New Horizons was another one where that was a big contributing factor to me quitting, but there's also plenty of other things that were shit about that game lol

IDF-supporting nazis must not know what buildings look like, there's no way you can look at that and think that those buildings used to be "palaces"