So I’ve been watching the news regarding some of the Bike lane drama in the US, but as an active bike user I have also noticed something weird happening around the city (Hamilton)
A number of the bike racks appear to have been removed from outside some of the larger stores
Now this may seem something small, but there is apparently some part of the planning form overseas to be pushing for vehicles that are able to be tracked via GPS etc
And it has me wondering if it may be part of making something harder to use by making these areas unfriendly for use to push for things that people pair their phones with that are harder to steal because they are digitally lockable, and are also track-able because of the pairing, like e-scooters and e-bikes
What’s the term? **Planned obsolescence **of items that don’t require a digital connection
Has anyone else noticed this happening in their area?
Sounds like a bad user experience from what I’ve heard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTK6TS3pXgc
@Venator , might just be how you use it.
I find Mac and Windows OS a terrible user experience, even most Linux Desk tops so I run a window manager in Linux and keep the skeleton OS to a minimum for what I use it for.
I’m aware of the limitations and might have to settle with a Pixel and Graphene (mainly for the Pixel’s camera) until hopefully there will be more open phones and FOSS developers come up with a more ideal OS.
Honestly, if I could have that experience she had I’d be pretty happy with it as a second phone. Ultimately I haven’t been able to source a supported phone and the three spares I have are not supported by any linux phone I’ve had (and they aren’t that unusual. One is a Pixel 7 pro, ones a Samsung S10+, and one is some sort of OnePlus, a 4 maybe?) They are all flagship phones but I haven’t found any linux phone OS that is supported.
I’ll have to investigate @Antigrav@mastodon.nz’s suggestion of a full Linux OS, though that’s not going to be the same experience it might be fun to play with.