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This won't apply to everywhere, but near me (in the UK), the council removed some of our bus lanes and cycle lanes last year, to appease some angry car babies, and possibly Rishi "We're a nation of car drivers" Sunak.

It's now difficult to safely cycle to the city centre.

At commuter times, the bus can now take 45 minutes for a 40 minute on-foot journey. Used to be 10 - 15.

The buses also get stuck in traffic at various earlier points in their route, so may be 10 - 30 minutes late or cancelled. This was already a problem, because the bus company is appalling, but it's got worse since some of the bus lanes are gone. Very little chance of using this to get to work on time, or to get to the train station if you're working out of town.

I'm not surprised bus and cycle usage is down. I walk instead, but I imagine many others can't afford the extra hour of travel time every day and are now driving again.
:(

It's a good plan for a more professional setup, but in this distinctly unprofessional setup, if I did it remotely, I wouldn't get my chat and a cup of tea and biscuit :)

I can't personally, but I've installed/set up Linux systems for quite a lot of older people, and I think only one of them ever uses the terminal for anything. The rest just... use the computer.

On the whole, they're pretty much just using Libreoffice, Firefox and a few other bits these days. If something needs the terminal to fix, we're already past the point where they've phoned me to pop round and fix it.

These used to be Ubuntu systems, but I switched them all to Mint after having endless Snap permission problems with printers, USB sticks and other peripherals. Once up and running, it's pretty low maintenance.

I guess they don't need to use the terminal, because I'll go and do it if it's necessary - but we are looking at once every few years. Not a lot of tech support needed.

On my own machine, I probably use the terminal every day.

So... on average late 30s/early 40s? So it's actually a Lemmy post, rather than a Reddit post?

This is very badly implemented. I might be misunderstanding, but it looks like they're not protecting children by removing far-right material or other assorted bullshit, they're "protecting children" by collecting more personal data on all users (or viewers).

"We want you to protect children by forcing all users (and unregistered viewers) to give you their passports and bank details, and we want you to use their telephone and laptop cameras to record their faces. Store all the data wherever you like, and feel free to sell it on/use it however you like, we totally believe you won't do anything shady or abusive for profit"

It seems like it would be quick and convenient to use - quick as a flash, perhaps? Also, it's quite funny they'd not thought of this universal voucher system, it sounds like a winner! I wonder if the universal voucher could have alternate names too, rhyming with "flash" or "funny"?

They said it - "fair and compassionate". I can only assume they use a different dictionary to me.

Alongside the paper, Mr Stride also addressed the Commons, saying: “This government’s priority is to make sure that our welfare system is fair and compassionate. Fair on the taxpayer, by ensuring that people of working age who can work, do work, and fair on those who are in most need of the state’s help.”

Obviously not in all cases, but sometimes they push you away to try and make it less upsetting for you seeing them in a degenerated state, which is embarrassing for them, and painful for friends and family, then they can pretend things are fine when they occasionally see you.

Okay, so you're going to ban targeted marketing and online advertising, right?

No?

Ah, so the plan is to introduce comprehensive support and counselling for stress and mental health issues in young people, meaning they won't have to turn to these things to cope with their depressing, stressful lives?

No?

Ah, got you - you're going to improve the individual lives and prospects of all citizens, creating a utopian nation, so they can each look forward to a healthy prosperous future and genuinely have nothing to worry about?

No?

I know it's a stupid, petty thing to get hung up on, but I'm weirdly offended by the word "Center" being used instead of "Centre", in a British article/newspaper for a British Institute at a British University.

It's the end of civilisation, I tell you.

That's okay, you can still install Linux on Apple computers 👍

I guess we're still waiting for it to "trickle down" to us?

"Enough of this wishy washy woke looney liberal mental health support nonsense. In the good old days we simply self-medicated with smoking, alcoholism, affairs and domestic violence. It never did us any harm, until we died in our 50s, to the great relief of our long-suffering, abused families"

Good ol' Tory 'common sense' :P

That's awful. Poor bloke. Taking the work back down, filling a couple of holes, painting them and retexturing the wall after - you'd expect them to say "You can take that down and repair it on your lunch break" and just move on.

Damn! He's here?!? RichardRealName is my nemesis!

He seems pretty emotionally fragile - can we pressure him into doing stuff? i.e if people start posting stuff on Twitter, such as:

"I heard Elon musk was too cowardly to go and film the ice wall at the edge of the Earth. I bet he's one of those lame libtard round-Earthers"

If enough people chipped in, surely we could make this happen.

I got detention off of a teacher for saying "Hitler the Shitler" or "Hitler is a Shitler" or something suchlike during a lesson, even though several other kids had already said it and didn't get in trouble.

Technically, the detention was for swearing, though I chose to interpret it as "Miss Teacher loves Hitler and he is her boyfriend".

I instigated a petty campaign of cartoons, blackboard messages, textbook graffiti and just general rumours that this poor teacher was genuinely a Hitler-loving-Nazi, and had a Hitler shrine in her house. As I was generally honest, well behaved etc, it was readily believed and spread quickly.

As she was relatively unpopular as a teacher, many of the other students joined in, goosestepping past her in the corridor, nazi saluting behind her back etc.

After a few weeks, upon entering the classroom to find a full blackboard chalk cartoon of her and Hitler getting married, she started crying and shouted at us and we all felt awful.

I apologised to her after the lesson, and she actually apologised for unfairly singling me out for punishment "to set an example" and oddly, we actually got on pretty well after that, and the Hitler jokes faded out naturally.

Don't worry, it all balances out - his family just min-maxed his character into music. Most of his stats were comically low. For example, Mozart was really bad at ordering food from a drive-through or even ordering a takeaway by phone or through an app.

Other things Mozart was shit at:

• Using a mobile phone
• Riding a bike
• Driving a car
• Microwaving his own dinner
• Using a computer
• Assembling flat-pack furniture
• Mariokart
• Wiring a plug
• Installing Linux
• Fastening velcro shoes
• Using self-service at the supermarket
• Using a toaster
• Celebrating his 36th birthday

He couldn't do a single one of those things. You can probably do at least two of them. So what if he beats you at music?

Looking at some of these... I'd never even considered sectioning them by genre - mine's mostly by physical location - if I want to play that game, where's it already installed?

So there's :
Desktop, Laptop, Deck Internal, Deck SD1 (and SD2, 3 & 4 for removable SD cards)

Then like most people, I've got a "Complete" and a "Maybe [person's name]" for ones the missus might enjoy.

The only sort of grouping is "Wheel Games", which is basically driving games, but the type you want to play with wheel & pedals, not just a controller. My wheel and pedals aren't set up permanently, so when they are set up, I pretty much only play all the Euro Truck/Bus Sims, Dirt Rally, F1, Revhead, BeamNG sort of games etc.

Great link! I love the little story in there.

I actually use "shevelled" alongside many other words which to my mind "should logically exist" - for example, at the weekend I dismantled and then remantled a wall in my garden.