In person, bash is king. Online I’ve mostly given up, but I don’t shop on Amazon anymore, so on the rare occasion I need something, I ask a friend to order it for me. I assume that provides some obfuscation.

With the number of breaches and leaks, my chosen birthday is likely more substantiated than my actual birthday.

For me, I was a long term gnome 2 user and have used gnome 3 and various derivatives. Gnome 2 was still very customizable, but Gnome 3 was very prescriptivist. I feel like KDE gives me the ability to dial in my desktop quite a bit more and I really like dolphin and the KDE apps. With that said, I don’t hate Gnome. I’m glad it exists if only to encourage other DEs to keep getting better. I don’t see myself daily driving it, but I would gladly recommend it to a Linux beginner.

On Graphene now for the sake of simplicity, but I greatly miss the customizability and tweakability of crDroid. Truly one of the best ROMS.

Graphene is pretty cool,but in regards to the whitespace thing and as a general rant:

Linux and the web are doing this too. Thankfully KDE hadn’t been effected as horribly as Gnome… shudder. 10 years ago, Spotify Linux version could fit about as many songs on a single screen as a average spreadsheet has rows. 5 years ago or was only like 10-15 songs despite my resolution going from 1440p to 4k. Now I don’t use Spotify at all but these lobotomized clowns who all studied at the same school of bullshit design and nonsensical interface editing are trying to ruin everything else I love. Leave the padding and text size alone you fucking wankers! :-D

Who needs to steal your data when your news articles share it with 180+ partners unless you subscribe? Germany’s GDPR bastardization is the worst. The young people have been buying that Ami-propeganda since the 80s. They know more about Rhianna and Mikey Cyrus than they do about chat kontrol and Grundrechte. Not too dissimilar from the US, so I dont want to rip on them too bad. Those that do get it need to get loud with their friends, everywhere.

Seriously agree. Complaining that a proprietary app store won’t give you this app is like crying that you have a right to protest while lying under tank tracks. Sustaining yourself on this earth requires you to have a minimal level of logical functioning and this seems sadly absent in 80%+ of Americans and also significant portions of people worldwide. McDonalds isn’t going to let you set up a lemonade stand in their lobby.

Not a mean question at all. I haven’t had more difficulty keeping a working system than I did on Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, etc. I get everything I need in Arch and the packages are always fresh off the grill. I also like the emphasis on text config files and a ground-up install. That helped me better understand my system and how it works.

No idea about performance. My performance recommendation is “don’t run Windows!” :)

I noticed the same thing with KDE and Wayland. Sometimes my curser still grows 10 sizes or shrinks as I pass over certain windows or between monitors but things are more consistent and predictable than they used to be.

I feel like every step governments, leaders, and even many citizen initiatives take is always a step in the wrong direction now. No matter how much we watch them, they’re just up to more shit. We could donate half our salaries to the EFF, FSF, and ACLU and we would still be playing defense. How do we put a stop to this shit?

If it was a German story, someone would have shaved all the heads of all the little snot-noses laughing at him, a la “The Inky Boys”

Vote to build better infrastructure and provide better transit service. Even if it sucks. A train that goes 65mph next to a 75mph freeway isn’t a failure. It’s a gateway to better transit. I myself have fallen into the trap of viewing these projects as unworthy or not good enough when they are a step in the right direction.

I will now almost always hold my nose and vote for things that fund trails, busses, trains, bike infrastructure, etc. Then I’ll go and complain online about how they didn’t go far enough :-)

Styling!

Losing a piece of bike infra always hurts, but the 20mph speed limit is very nice if people stick within 5-10mph of it. Crazy that something that dropped bike collisions so much could be torn out though. They’re blindly murdering someone for parking spaces.

Speed limits are higher out here and the way it usual works out where I live is.

<30mph - ride in the road <40mph - ride in bike lane if present, on the pavement if not 😈 (actually legal here) <55mph - separated paths only 55+ - too much noise, avoid

I don’t like it and don’t even care to understand why. Thank you for sharing this unholy curiosity.

Strawberry is great and so was Clementine before it. It’s really a step up compared to what the average distro bakes into their default bundle of applications.

I test rode a Hase Pino a few times. It’s a sit/lie tandem where the person in the back rides and steers more or less like a normal bike and the front rider is semi-reclined over the front wheel peddling with their feet out in front of them. My wife lost a $100 bet when I convinced a disabled friend to ride with me who was afraid of bikes and they had a blast. Should have made it a $15k bet so I could actually afford to keep the thing. I occasionally daydream about riding the Pino up and down the street downtown offering rides and flirting with the ladies.

Image results for context: https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=hase+pino&ia=images&iax=images

So I rode it from Waterpark to Wesfield and later from Broad Ripple to White River Park and the trail was 99% non-sketchy in the daytime in my assessment. I could see some sketchy areas one or two blocks back from the trail, but the trail has seemingly gentrified the blocks immediately adjacent in a lot of spots. The area just before Mass Ave where it runs next to the freeway is in need of some landscaping work but also didn’t feel sketch.

My biggest takeaway is that Indy traffic engineers slept through the lesson on right of way. The signs say to stop, but the cars usually stop for you. It’s ambiguous and dangerous and I think there is potential for improvement.

Thanks for weighing in so I didn’t go in blind.

Cool project, though I personally want to pick my gear in a car and on my bike.

That sounds very reasonable. I like to see monthly and weekly ticket options that even a visitor could sign up for. Every city could expand their transit reach by an extra few miles with a good bike share. That could translate to a huge area increase for transit coverage. I’d hate to see the option to bring your own bike be removed from busses and trains though. Bike share bikes can be like Russian Roulette.