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  • Kichae@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHow convenient
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    15 days ago

    The thing that you have to keep in mind is that Canadian roads (and, presumably, American roads, too) were designed for a very different transportation culture than the one that exists today. In many cases, they were built for horses and carriages, and retrofitted to motor vehicles that grew up in a much less populated country. No, they didn’t work well in the 50s, either, but the density of cars was low enough, and the kinds of people who drove were different enough, that it kinda sorta worked. But as the populations have grown, and as the culture has become more high strung, and driving has become a necessity for many people (and as vehicles have gotten larger, taller, and more fortress-like), navigating the streets has gotten riskier for all involved.

    And no, it won’t get fixed, because North Americans hate change, and we would rather give a small number of millionaires and billionaires tax cuts than actually spend money on social infrastructure in any kind of meaningful or thought out way.





  • Kichae@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.mlWhy sometimes Linux is hard to switch to
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    2 months ago

    Well, most of us know how to deal with all of those, and the vast majority of them haven’t been an issue for the average user for, like, decades now. No one’s fucking with compatubility mode post, like, 2004.

    Meanwhile, most of the help you get when trying to solve issues on Linux are command line commands that are not explained by the helper and which we have no idea what they actually do.

    The fight I had just to get my printer to work. The fight I’m still having to get my audio interface to work consistently.





  • Kichae@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldMozilla situation
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    6 months ago

    And now it’s not. The original developer bought it back a couple of years ago.

    The bigger issue is that, like with all of the Firefox forks, it’s still using the Firefox code base and security updates, which is what’s about to go absolutely sideways. Removing the AI translator is one thing, but it sounds like they’re planning on totally fucking it all up at its core.

    With no usable Firefox to use as a base, all of the forks are set to die on the vine.





  • Kichae@lemmy.catoComic Strips@lemmy.worldHuman nature
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    11 months ago

    The Internet is populated by people who think English grammar is cosmic law, so it doesn’t surprise me that they think you should bend over for dogshit urban planning.

    Ironically, none of them follow the rule of shutting up if they don’t know shit about shit.