In my area, bikes are allowed on all sidewalks except for a street-bounded square around the downtown core where we must ride in the street. When on the sidewalk, we are expected to yield to pedestrians. This works in practice, mostly due to low volume of bikes and pedestrians, and in some places 12 food wide sidewalks specifically designated as class 1 urban trails that even allow some ebikes. In practice, this works okay but you are definitely forced to have little micro interactions with people to negotiate sidewalk space or signal your intentions. Cyclists go to the sidewalk as a last resort because it's often not a comfortable place for us to ride, just less likely to get us killed. I will never understand cyclists who don't ring. It's a bad look for our ability to share space. Unlike cars, bicycles and pedestrians are close enough in speed to occasionally mix.
I do agree that in city centers and high traffic areas, riders should dismount.
I also thought it was a bit of a wild request for bikes to only cross where bike infra exists. If we can't make progress in driver behavior, we should build more mode separation to contain the thousand pound death machines in their own physically isolated section of the street. At no point should we be compromising bicycle or pedestrian mobility. We have a right to the street also, and it's the cars who have trouble co-existing with the other modes of transportation without murdering a bunch of people.
I hear you on the tiling. I wish my window arrangement on KDE was more keyboard based. As it is, I end up dragging and resizing across multiple monitors and workspaces.
Assuming dev/sda is Linux and dev/sdb is Windows, I have grub on sda and Windows bootloader on sdb. I use a hotkey at boot to tell the bios which drive to boot from.
Theoretically windows thinks it's the only OS unless it's scoping out that second hard disk.
Is there any issue with having windows on one drive and Linux on the other and toggling in the bios at boot? Do I introduce any problems by keeping my rarely used windows installation on a separate disk like this?
We started with Linux around the same time, and I remember how awesome Gnome 2 was on Warty Warthog or whatever old release. At the time, the Windows Start menu was a convoluted mess of folders, uninstallers, readme files, etc. Gnome listed my programs more or less in alphabetical order with one icon each in logical categories. It was so simple, I explored every crevice of it and remember thinking "is this it?". It was and I soon learned that it was not just simpler, but more powerful and user friendly in various ways. I have moved to KDE since then, but it is absolutely the enshitification of Windows that pushed me here.
Out of curiosity, what do you consider a decent file manager? Dolphin is my favorite currently because I almost always have two panes open, but I've been looking for something even better since I also spend a lot of time working with files.
I also jumped from Gnome to KDE over the years. I'm not a fan of how Gnome went with the convergence, large-padding, touch trend. I love how KDE has tighter spacing and follows a traditional desktop metaphor while still being customizable. Gnome 2 did okay at this, but when gnome 3 hit, I ran to Mint/Cinnamon for a bit before trying a bunch of KDE distros.
KDE is so humble. Their k-apps are much more numerous than I realized and the DE is great on Kubuntu, Neon, Arch, MX, etc.
Having said that, I hold a lot of love for the gnome team too, I just don't jive with the design philosophy anymore.
I started with Ubuntu in the 2005-7 timeframe on very slow old hardware. Shortly after, I bought an eeepc as I was a poor college student at the time and couldn't afford much else. I dual booted for years until windows 8 irritated me into giving up Windows for non-gaming completely, I've been using various forms of Linux as my primary OS since then.
Tl;Dr tried Linux because my hardware was very modest, stayed because Windows was getting worse in various ways.
I like it. I'm going to start calling it that now. Why are we tiptoing around their corporate feelings? They forcing these things to become obsolete in contravention of what is best for the consumer.
Nice resource. I get good exercise and eat a lot of raw or unprocessed foods, but my portions are whack and there's not a lot of consistency day to day. I've been wanting to clean up my diet for a while and I'm gonna add this to my planning document.
Yeah, I feel like the only person in my life who doesn't have Chipotle, ChickFilA, McDonalds, Starbucks and a bunch of other apps on my phone. Worse yet, I walk in and order at the counter like I'm living in the distant past. :-)
I see a lot of people saying something along the lines of "their network; their rules".
With this in mind, it's still shitty that they frame this as a compatibility issue when in reality they just want to track you.
They should be forced to say that they disallowed this private relay thing in order to obtain more info about their customers, because that's significantly more accurate and truthful.
The browser ad on doesn't work in apps, and if they have a blocker outside of that, it probably uses a VPN on the loopback interface to strip out the ads. I run a VPN a fair bit, so I would only be adblocking when I'm not on the VPN. Are there any non-root methods that can do full system ad blocking other than the VPN thing?
In my area, bikes are allowed on all sidewalks except for a street-bounded square around the downtown core where we must ride in the street. When on the sidewalk, we are expected to yield to pedestrians. This works in practice, mostly due to low volume of bikes and pedestrians, and in some places 12 food wide sidewalks specifically designated as class 1 urban trails that even allow some ebikes. In practice, this works okay but you are definitely forced to have little micro interactions with people to negotiate sidewalk space or signal your intentions. Cyclists go to the sidewalk as a last resort because it's often not a comfortable place for us to ride, just less likely to get us killed. I will never understand cyclists who don't ring. It's a bad look for our ability to share space. Unlike cars, bicycles and pedestrians are close enough in speed to occasionally mix.
I do agree that in city centers and high traffic areas, riders should dismount.