So cool. Die Maus under der Elefant takes me right back to my childhood. I am glad to see so much varied representation and thankful all of you are here.

I tried MX for a while. It was alright but not the distro for me beyond that short period of time. I’m glad it exists but a bit mystified at how it ended up topping the charts.

Seriously, the way things are going I’d be happy pouring more cash into a bucket of bolts than it’s worth just to keep it running. Mine is only a 2015 but I’m gonna keep up the maintenance because it was one of the last model years not to have an upgraded radio with the newer round of anti-features and spyware. I drive all of 20-40 miles a week. Not really worth buying a $50k car, is it?

Exactly, when you have as much power as a politician or c-level executive, you should be the first one to have every waking moment streamed online for anyone to see. Your bank accounts should be 100% public, and you should have to share your ID with 10 different companies just to buy a pack of tictacs. Why? Because everything you do will impact many, many people and you have incentives to lie, cheat, and steal.

They could pump the water back to the start of the creek and make it into a lazy river. Moving water doesn’t get as icky and kids could race paper boats down it and run across the bridges as they follow.

No article, but from the pic alone: a hedge around the outside to absorb traffic noise would make this a more human-enjoyable space. Also, the best shade tree in the park appears to be in a place where no one can easily sit under it without walking though a fountain. How about some stepping stones across the pond?

We should all mean this. Truly the logically dominant date format.

Ugggghh, I finally got 85% degoogled and the storm clouds in the distance tell me I’m going full Linux on desktops, laptops, tablet, phone, and media boxes in the not so distant future.

That said, fuck Google. If you ask me to leave, I’m leaving.

Is there any way to intentionally fail this attestation with Graphene over and over again by VPNing into the UK with a Graphene device and letting it ban and report you over and over again until detective Nobbleberry from the BBC is in the US breaking down your door?

It’s like serial numbers, RFID, lora trackers, traditional security cameras, eyewitness testimony, and evidence-based search warrants don’t exist. Instead, they tell us that we have to give up all our rights to find lost dogs and bikes. I’m a cyclist with a few decently nice bikes and I’m not silly enough to think my bikes overrule anyone’s 4th and 5th amendment rights.

In my experience remapping keys is easier on Linux than Windows. I copy and pasted a lot in past roles and unlike my own Linux PC which will allow me to set whatever key combos I like, the Windows comp at work didn’t have any software for this and IT didn’t have anything for me to install. I ended up adding my shortcuts directly to a hardware keyboard with user-modifiable firmware and that made it easier than ever before. Now copy and paste are a single keypress and even some of the weird key combos I could never remember have a simple stand-in. I guess what I’m trying to say is don’t discount hardware solutions because it may be the simplest way.

I remember this too. Somehow, despite all the laptops I installed it on I got VERY lucky and only had a couple of WiFi issues, one totally incompatible laptop, and one that would not boot until I got the boot parameters right. I heard plenty stories from other people though. All that said, it’s so much smoother and easier installing Linux nowadays that the Windows install where I worry the whole time that MS is trying to reverse psychology me into agreeing to sell my unborn children into slavery.

Simple but powerful. War only benefits the few and the common folk suffer on all sides.

Seems poorly thought through. Some chump with Photoshop and a text editor could replicate this but change the QR code to a malware site in minutes.

There’s a great bike trail between Glenwood and Aspen if you ever make it out that way. Highly recommended.

As an officer of the anti-clanker brigade I am preemptively ticketing them for bad vibes & bad faith in the court of common sense. If you can’t safely and legally operate a motor vehicle, you don’t belong behind the wheel of one. That holds true for humans, animals, robots, etc.

They need to stop testing unfinished tech like this in life/death environments. I haven’t seen it done, and I certainly don’t condone it except in minecraft, but when protesters were “coning” cars, I always thought it was a wasted billboard for cross-cultural economic solidarity. If they put some labor union phone numbers on there for the outsourced overseas operators tasked with getting the car unstuck to read, their situation might be improved as well.

I’m so against the Colorado bill, but a situation where Microsoft is handcuffed but FOSS isn’t sounds less terrible than the original plan. Of course they’re just pushing the idea to gain ground and when the federal version comes, it’ll apply to everything. Maybe Colorado will become the most Linux-friendly state in the meantime.

I’ve emailed and called my congress people and the cosponsors about the Colorado one. Not sure what to do next.

Colorado has the safety stop. If no one else has right of way, we can pass through stop signs at up to 10-15mph. In practice, visual blocks mean we have to slow down quite a bit, but where there is visibility, there are some 4-ways I can very easily blow through. We can also pass through a red light once we come to a complete stop provided nobody else has the right of way. In practice, very little changed except now I put 100% of my effort into scanning for traffic, rather than 50% watching traffic and 50% scanning for the police. Going through downtown is also faster now that I don’t have to dwell at the lights. Overall, this just legitimizes something that happens anyway. Cars roll through stops every day, it would be silly to ticket a cyclist for it.

It was my dream to throw one of these off the theater roof and watch it go splat. We never did that, but we did do syrup shots.