klangcola
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- Comment on Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy 10 months ago:
Maybe it’s a different culture, or matter of car and people density, but in my country (Norway) most people cycle on the sidewalk. Including kids of course, from the age of 10 they can cycle to school instead of having to walk.
Many footpaths here are also officially designated “cycling and walking paths”. Generally the only cyclists you see in the road are sports cyclists in racing bicycles and tight skin suits.
The thinking here is that cyclists and pedestrians are both “soft traffic participants” so they share a space, while “hard traffic participants” like cars, trucks and motorcycles are kept separate.
Pedestrians do have right of way over cyclists. As the heavier faster party, cyclists have the responsibility to avoid conflict, by giving right of way, and slowing down and/or chiming their bell to signal their presence before passing pedestrians.
Personally, if I was told that tomorrow I’m only allowed to cycle on the road, I would get rid of my bike. If I’m gonna be on the road full of lorries busses and SUVs going 60kph, I’d rather just be in my car. It’s just not worth the risk and constant peril. This is in a more suburban and industrial/commercial setting, where the sidewalks have gaps to buildings, and pedestrians are far apart.
I can however see how in a dense, crowded downtown area where the cars mostly drive slow and the sidewalks are dense with people, that cycling in the road makes more sense.
Thinking about it the only roads with 30kph limit and a sidewalk are in the very center of the city. All other places with 30kph are basically neighbourhoods etc where there are no sidewalks and everybody shares the road. Roads here with a dedicated sidewalk also have higher speed limits that what a casual cyclist can achieve
- Comment on Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy 10 months ago:
People often rode them on sidewalks posing a danger to people walking.
I’ve seen this sentiment around, but where else are you supposed to ride eScoooters and bicycles? Of course ideally they belong in the bike lane, but most places don’t have bike lines, so the alternatives are sidewalks or in the road with cars.
If we’re gonna get people out of cars, we need to recognize that walking+transit doesn’t work for everyone a lot of people and that a bicycle/ eScooter is the solution (look at Amsterdam/ Copenhagen how well bicycles work) , but bike lanes don’t get built overnight, especially when few people cycle, if their banished from the safe sidewalk and only allowed to cycle in the dangerous road.
(I’ve lumped bikes and eScooters together since they both solve the same problem of rapid personal transport, both having speeds of 20-30 kph which is significantly more than pedestrians but less than cars)
- Comment on Average Lemmy Active Users by Month 11 months ago:
Like taiyang said, SteamOS is based on Arch which is super not newbie friendly, but the desktop modes “desktop environment” is KDE which available on pretty much any Linux distro, including beginner friendly ones like (K)Ubuntu and Fedora (although I’m not sure how beginner friendly Fedora is, regarding proprietary drivers and codecs)
- Comment on how to repair a RJ45 cable? 1 year ago:
Like others said it’s mostly just practice.
What helps is to align the (short) ends and hold them flat between your index finger and thumb. Use your free hand to get them in order. Once they’re in order, keep holding them still between your index finger and thumb using one hand, then use your free hand to slot on the connector
- Comment on If you could play one game for the first time all over again, what would it be? 1 year ago:
It might be relatively new, but I’d say Subnautica.
It was such a breath of fresh air when it came out, and instilled both such a sense of wonder at all the vibrant lifeforms of 4546B and also instilling such dread upon encountering reapers or diving deeper than ever before. I still remember the mixed sense of wonder and unease upon discovering the Jellyshroom caves for the first time
- Comment on What non-IDE tekst editor do you use? 1 year ago:
Kate on Linux, Notepad++ on Windows.
Also, Kate on Windows (it’s really good)
- Comment on Immich now has Gallery Watcher! 1 year ago:
Wow that’s awesome! Props to etnoy for creating such a polished PR for this feature
I can’t wait to simply point immich at my existing photo structure :)
- Comment on Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? 1 year ago:
For RPi the two major causes of issues (in my experience) are low spec power supplies and low spec SD-cards.
Power supplies drop voltage when the loads gets too high, which is especially pronounced with high power USB devices like external harddrives.
SD-cards tend to get worn out or give write errors after enough writes. Class 10 SD cards are recommended for both speed and longevity. And ideally try to avoid write intensive stuff on the SD card
- Comment on Business Continuity Plan if the worst happen 1 year ago:
“On a DVD”… 😅 in some decades that might as well be like saving your video to 8mm film. Gotta call some specialist antique dealer on the other side of the continent to find the right tech and right adapters to play it back on modern hardware
- Comment on Vaultwarden using Docker Compose with existing Certificates 1 year ago:
Thirding a reverse proxy. Probably Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) is the easiest reverse proxy to get started with, if you don’t want to deal with plain nginx config files
- Comment on Proxmox and Minisforum - A Solution to Random Crashes 1 year ago:
Thanks for sharing, I have 3 hm90s I’m about to set up ( just waiting for RAM and SSDs ), these crashes sound super frustrating.
I was planning to run them detuned anyway to reduce the strain and temperature on the Power Supply, since its a non-standard USB-C which looks hard or impossible to replace if it breaks some years from now