You got the eyes just right!

It really doesn’t. See my other comment here for more detail.

Let me tell you how primary lane travel works in civilised countries: drunks and the others you mentioned end up in a canal, stranded up on a meridian, or crashed into a bollard.

That’s because they do more there than just say “share the lane” and call it a day. They narrow the road to almost exactly the width of a typical car using unforgiving barriers like bollards, medians, and 5m deep canals. They restructure the roads so they aren’t straight throughways, but brick-paved, winding pathways through the city.

They turn roads into obstacle courses, calming traffic, because as we all know, drivers may not be worried about killing cyclists, they’re horrified by the idea of scratching their paint.

They still have drunks of course, but they’re typically on bikes (since driving is so impractical), and they too often end up in a canal.

Here’s a decent example from Amsterdam where they effectively have 3 classes of road:

• Highways where no bikes are permitted but there are always entirely separate cycle path options to travel the same distance.
• Wide through roads with level asphalt paving and typically a curb, a row of trees, a tram, or other safe barrier between cars and cyclists.
• Narrow, often winding shared roads where traffic is naturally calmed by the terrain: bollards, canals, bricks or cobblestone, big speed bumps, raised crosswalks, or other oncoming cars in a space clearly designed for a maximum of one. Even the traffic lights here are configured to reduce speed by defaulting to red in all directions.

That last category is the majority over there, and a big reason why the city is so safe and quiet… unless it’s King’s Day or New Years eve. Then these spaces are flooded with loud, drunk pedestrians or children shooting fireworks at random. On those days I recommend trips out of town ;-)

This could actually be good news. At the end of the day, bike lanes are car infrastructure. If you want a cycling city, what you need are narrow, slow, winding roads that’re car-hostile. If you can’t have bike lanes, then this could be the opportunity to restructure the roads so that cycling in the primary lane is the default option for everyone.

This is one of the most infuriating things about the left. Automation is fantastic! Why the hell should we rail against something that reduces the amount of work people have to do? Why oppose something that reduces risks we have to take in our daily lives?

There’s no dignity in human labour. We do it because our survival depends on it. The problem is that the automation of that labour is treated by capitalists as a net profit to the owning class.

We should not be fighting to “maintain employment” FFS. We should be fighting for a reasonable share of the fruits of our community. If your job is automated, you should get a share of the company profits for life and then happily leave for new and different work, not try to prevent the automation in the first place.

Yeah that was the big strike against it for me too. I found that you can sort of perch it over a crossed leg and it’s sort of serviceable that way, but yeah… no coding on the train with a Surface.

The Surface Pro keyboard is actually quite good, with the added bonus that it’s also easily detachable.

Hmm. Annoying. I’m on an FP4 as well, but this is the first time I’ve seen this.

Yeah I made the same mistake. I bumped it to 5x and ho boy did everything slow down.

I have an FP4 and I love it. I only ever have problems with the fingerprint sensor when my hands are dirty or overly sweaty. The camera works rather well to be honest, but I did replace the app with the Googled one.

I can’t speak to Android Auto, 'cause I’ve never used it, and don’t know what ARKit is. I do heavily use Google (and Organic) Maps though, and I find the accuracy of both the GPS and compass to be quite good.

Honestly, I generally find the hardware to be pretty solid and have been using it since the FP4 was released without issue. I connect it to my computer to transfer Very Large Files all the time, and regularly push a lot of data through the wifi.

I’ve been abusing the shit out of the battery though, so I just ordered a replacement one. Something most phones still can’t do. It’s Fairphone’s killer feature in my book.

I’m not posting this to invalidate your experience, just to demonstrate that there are others who feel differently.

This too is an excellent take. “Artificial pain points” for capitalism, or “learn some shit” for Linux. Love it.

At the firewall level, port forwarding forwards traffic bound for one port to another machine on your network on an arbitrary port, but the UI built on top of it in your router may not include this.

If it’s not an option in your Fritzbox, your options are:

• Make the service running on your internal network listen on one of those high-number ports instead.
• Introduce another machine on the network that also performs NAT between your router and your machine
• Try to access the underlying firewall in your router to tweak the rules manually. Some routers have an admin console accessible via telnet or SSH that may allow this.
• Get a new router.

The first and last options on this list are probably the best.

You make an excellent point. I have a lot more patience for something I can understand, control, and most importantly, modify to my needs. Compared to an iThing (when it’s interacting with other iThings anyway) Linux is typically embarrassingly user hostile.

Of course, if you want your iThing to do something Apple hasn’t decided you should want to do, it’s a Total Fucking Nightmare to get working, so you use the OS that supports your priorities.

Still, I really appreciate the Free software that goes out of its way to make things easy, and it’s something I prioritise in my own Free software offerings.

What site are you using to book night trains?

The Liberals are happy to lose elections if it means that they’ll get their turn again in a few years when FPTP guarantees another run for them.

Fuck yeah. More of this please.

Oof, that video… I don’t have enough patience to put up with that sort of thing either. I wonder how plausible a complete Rust fork of the kernel would be.

In my experience, the larger the company, the more likely they are to force you to use Windows. The smaller companies will be more relaxed about the whole thing.

The largest company I’ve worked for that allows Linux had a staff count of hundreds of engineers and hundreds more non-nerds. In their case though, the laptops were crippled with Crowdstrike and Kollide and while the tech team was working hard to support us, we were always aware that we made up around 1% of the machines they manage and represented a big chunk of their headaches.

The response to this you usually hear (from me even) is that “I don’t need support, I know what I’m doing”. Which is probably true, but the vast majority of problems is in dealing with access to proprietary systems, failures from Crowdstrike or complaints about kernel versions etc.

TL;DR: work at a small company (<100 staff) and they’ll probably leave you alone. Go bigger and you’ll be stuck fighting IT in one way or another.

National Film Board of Canada represent! 🇨🇦

I remember seeing this in school as a kid. I’m 46 now.

So what? What good is a “progressive” party if they prop up genocide? The Conservatives are going to take the next election precisely because of cowardice like this. Why should anyone consider voting for the NDP (or the Liberals for that matter) if their policies are the same where it matters?

This is the thing the NDP doesn’t get: principles and passion are what drive Left-leaning voters. It’s not enough to be “not Conservative”. We already have that party. We need a party that taxes the shit out of billionaires, blocks fossil fuels, and yes, stops selling weapons to genociders. Without the courage to be better, they’re just another meaningless colour on the ballot.