I was an idiot and bought a high end TPLink router, I can’t even use Vlans without signing up for their back door service.

Hm, at least with their enterprise equipment you can completely disable Omada.

There are lots of traditional crafts channels from all the corners of the world, if that scratches your itch. How about something like this?

Relevant Brennan Lee Mulligan sketch

Driving a car and doing it regularly is the most dangerous task most anyone living in any number of western societies with service-based economies will ever undertake. There is nothing wrong with treating it accordingly - with awe, care and a healthy portion of respect and fear.
But whether the decision not to do it is a good one depends on your life circumstances. Do you live or plan on living in a big European city? Yeah, you don’t need a car in your life, good riddance. Do you live in a North American suburb or rural area? Er… not using a car is probably not an option unless you relocate.

I had a pretty bad car accident due to failing to yield the right of way (I struggle with multitasking)

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something here. It should go without saying that when one is driving, one’s attention should ideally be focused on nothing else and multitasking therefore shouldn’t be a factor.

How do you know? Statistics reported by websites… which are recording user agent strings?

If you randomly stopped people in the streets and asked them what a user agent was, you’d get a certain percentage of folks that give you the correct answer. That percentage is the upper ceiling for any possible error margin that websites recording user agent strings have in attributing those strings to actual browsers, since nobody unaware of that term will know how or be interested in changing their user agent.

Do you think it likely that this percentage is going to be in any way, shape or form… impactful, considering that most people won’t be able to tell you what a browser is? 😜

Enshittification is inevitable for all free services (services as in with a server component).

No, it is not that bleak. It is only inevitable when there is an active push for a short-term maximization of user base monetization (which is very much in the nature of VC). It can usually be avoided with products that are wholly under the ownership of all users (such as a cooperative or a government-provided service) or - only if one is lucky - with products of financially independent private enterprises under vaguely benevolent and unhurried leadership (such as Steam, to some extent)

I used to have a (high-ranking and well-educated) foreign colleague who used to think that the “Main” indeed signified that this was the bigger and more significant of multiple Frankfurts.
I honestly can’t blame him, it was a deceptivley plausible misconception.

Could I get a fairphone that won’t suffer from obsolescence after a few years? I swear I was just looking at the 4 and deciding against it because I heard people were having issues sourcing parts for older fairphones.

Can I get a forever phone where I can upgrade and repair module by module until I’ve thesiused and frankensteined every piece into a whole new phone?

I’m not having trouble sourcing parts for my FP4, maybe that’s a regional issue or it’s still too new. I intend to keep it for at least 10 years, but the most worrisome thing for me is that there are simply no aftermarket components. Maybe the market just isn’t big enough for that, but it means we’ll be stuck with whatever number of original parts the manufacturer provides.

You have met your sq quota

At this point you’re only adding to the pile of questions I have 😜

Because it would remove the offending information from being viewed by his sensitive eyes.

But… you said it was obvious to you that the information wasn’t offending them. So what problem would this solve?

Thank you captain obvious.

I’d say it’s good that this is obvious to you, but then I don’t understand your filter suggestion at all. Is it a reference to something?

You could filter it on your end

I’m going to go out on a limb here and suspect that the implied problems with holocaust denial and Nazism aren’t that they’re offensive to individuals but that the ideas are allowed to continue to exist, be practiced and eat away at society. “Filtering it out on one’s end” wouldn’t really address that.
@tfm@europe.pub may correct me if I’m far off.

Watching this post. I still don’t fully understand how Usenet works.

It’s ok not to understand something, that’s always the default. And I’ll try to support that sentiment by admitting: me neither! 😅

Sure, for a basic machine that allows for better than 20mph, or 35kph.

What makes you say that? Wearing a helmet is always recommended, since it provides protection against debilitating injuries whether the cyclist moves at 35km/h or is at a standstill. The basic risk of injury stems from being a mere participant in traffic, after all. Just like the basic risk of a debilitating defect in a piece of electronics that gets used every day stems from it getting used every day.

Trying to compare that to my phone is a false equivalency. Try trolling someone that hasn’t had both university level ethics courses, and university level debate courses that I fucking hated. The debate ones, not the ethics. Ethics I breezed through. Debate is some absolute bullshit because you have to entertain the viewpoint of liars, like you.

While I don’t understand how ethics figure into this, I’m glad that you understand how a debate works! I’ll graciously ignore the no doubt involuntary ad hominem (which you as an expert will know has no place in any kind of discussion) and will ask you to now employ the most useful technique you’ve likely learned in that course and rephrase the original point I made in a way that makes me go “Yep, that’s what I said!”, because from my point of view there must be some kind of misunderstanding. What (did you think) was I equating with what?

I wish there were aftermarket components available for that thing.

TIL I’m a savage with a crack-less Samsung Galaxy S10 e

Riding without a bicycle helmet is just never a good idea, whether you’ve ever hit your head or not doesn’t factor into it :P

yes, however as far as I am aware there are no laws in the us against any private vehicle usage on private land. Unlike the FDA which criminalizes owning or consuming certain chemicals.

You may have reached the limit of that car-metaphor there.

Exaclty … certain types in certain areas with a reason. That’s regulation.

Which is just what I wrote, yes. Excising every unmaintained or outdated vehicle from traffic everywhere for example is just as valid a regulation as excising a certain type of food - any food - from general consumption. There’d simply have to be a good reason. And once there is, yep, what can and can be eaten gets dictated.
Again, that’s already how it works, in traffic and in cuisine.

This would mean they’d be against food safety regulations, would it not?

It would not.

Having traffic laws isn’t the same as banning cars, either.

Of course it is. Part of traffic legislation literally involves banning certain types of vehicles, either in certain areas or on any kind of public road in general.

Monetary needs and all that. If it’s a startup with VC then there is either not enough people paying or not enough private users supporting by other means like bug fixing, support, etc. Or greed by VC.

Well, VC is greedy by design. A VC-funded business will never be optimized for longevity, a good product or happy customers. They may achieve those things en passant, but they’re never the objective.

For example: Any case of “there is not enough people paying” can also be rendered as “the scale and moving speed of the business is way off”.