yardratianSoma

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[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Agreed. I don't know many women who don't cry for greater safety on the road (men share this logic, but I do find the bias of safety falls to a greater amount of women), and buy an SUV just to keep up with the trend of larger vehicles on the road so they don't get demolished in an accident.

I do like this permitting system idea, maybe somewhere where you have to apply to be approved for the class of vehicle like suv, pickup truck, sedan, etc. . . Like maybe a need to justify why the extra energy and size is needed, but now we are in a situation where millions of vehicles already are on the road, so maybe a tax or new requirement would have to come into effect.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I had issues with it in the past, where certain search engines would go down, so often that it was more of a hassle that just using duckduckgo. I remember bing and duckduckgo being engines with the most uptime for me, so I didn't see the point in using it at the time. Which instances work well for you?

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

this is awesome! I'll have to test this out because gaming with the daughter has been limited to games that support it natively. I wonder if this can work with emulated games too?

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I use duck duck go mainly, but more and more I'm using yandex. I heard about kagi, the privacy-focused but paid alternative, and what it really comes down to is how much do you want to trust others with your data?

This article made no mention of browser extensions like ublock or privacy badger, the latter being a track-blocker exclusively.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

everything you say is true.

But thinking that cities will redesign their streets without public pressure? I doubt it.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

comparison is the thief of joy

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Just a hunch, since technological advancements seem to hit the public realm much faster in places like China, in the cities especially. I don't know what the laws are like there, but I've heard rumors that there is less government regulations for technologies that can benefit the general public, like drones and automated metros. Oh yeah, and how could I forget about the robots they show off at conventions, to take the place of receptionists and other customer-facing positions.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Minecraft is the ~~most popular~~ best selling game of all time, and the single-player mode is still being updated. Granted, many people play on multiplayer servers, but still.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At the very least, you can still pirate it and play cracked multiplayer with friends.

I made the mistake of buying the game year ago, and bought a bunch of DLC at 50% or greater sales, and now the sunken cost fallacy has taken hold on me, and I still want to buy more . . . . (at least I'm broke so I can't right now hehehaha)

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

Overcooked, Liars Bar, Ready or Not, Schedule 1, Elden Ring, Jackbox, etc . . . . . All work great as multiplayer titles on linux. There's a great trove of fun games that don't require kernel level anticheat because the the community of players isn't as toxic.

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

it'll definitely get the greenlight in countries like China before anywhere in the west, I believe

[–] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh no worries, I am writing a Cisco networking exam in about a month, so I've actually studied subnets and addressing a good amount, but I don't mind the refresher!

I was just speaking more generally, in terms of programming, where integers and strings are different data types, yet you can store numbers as a string, which I always found interesting.

 

I let my folks know that I'm getting rid of my drivers licence, because I don't plan on driving for at least the next 5 years.

My parents then said things like, "you're moving backwards in life", or "what will you do if you need to transport someone in an emergency?", to which I responded, "Taxi, or ambulance".

Am I a fool? Should I retain my licence for emergencies? I'm broke ATM, but should start working again soon, and my licence is expiring in a few weeks (and my wallet fell in a river a week ago, so I don't have the card anyways, not even kidding), so I'd rather not pay the $90 to keep it, if I don't have to.

What about you? Do you still keep a license handy for situations, or no? Is living car and license free possible in Canada?

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