You had… a dictionary at home, maybe an encyclopedia, but if you didn’t you could call a librarian and ask them if they had any reference on any topic. It took minutes when they were opened rather than seconds any time but… no ads, no tracking, serendipity yet no distraction, was it actually worst then?

Nice try FBI, you’re not getting that info from me!

Meanwhile I’m traveling soon and “packing” microSDs, like… 0.5Tos the size and nearly weight of my fingernail. It’s ridiculous!

I considered buying the 2To ones … but I don’t even need them. Even the 0.5To ones it’s to carry some video library or Kiwix with Wikipedia and StackOverflow which to be honest I don’t even truly need as I can get the content over the Internet anyway.

I don’t think eSIM providers do but I admit I didn’t check. It’d be even more convenient, no need to leave your home to switch.

Exactly, sure disconnect customers from the Internet if they use it for entertainment… but once they use it to earn the income that pays their bills, it becomes questionable… and once it is in practice required to be a citizen, at the local, national or supra national level then it becomes a totally different question, to which the answer is basically no, you can’t disconnect someone otherwise you remove their citizenship.

while WINE/Proton are good, they’re not infallible.

Just finished the latest trendy AAA game (Clair Obscur) thanks to Proton and Steam… 45hrs of (amazing) gaming and I didn’t tinker with a single option.

extremely not tech-savvy

You managed to make an account and post on Lemmy so you’re probably underestimated your technical knowledge. That being said IMHO it’s best to first list what software you use then find alternatives that work on Linux. Once that’s done then yes sure try whatever distribution you want.

If you know the right tool for the task, very few things take time. IMHO what’s more problematic is that with enshitification you’re swimming upstream. Sure as long as the maintainer finds the right trick, you can postpone indefinitely bad “surprises” but ultimately, why do so when proper alternatives more aligned with your Worldview exist?

I’m not trying to be sarcastic here, I genuinely do not understand what you are saying. Please give an example and/or a reference, whichever is more convenient.

Are you saying that going to 90km/h emit less than going 30km/h?

What?! Haven’t your heard?

• FSD is happening next year, for sure,
• we’re still 18 months away from developers being replaced,
• it’s “deep” reasoning, basically nearly ASI!

/s (obviously)

changed the search engine in Firefox

Which… takes maximum 1min to do.

in general, efficiency goes up till ~90km/h.

Are you talking about fuel efficiency or total emission though? The efficiency might go up but the emission might still go up, it might be less emission per km/h but maybe not per km.

I do check other media but I do not participate in them anymore, e.g. I browse reddit or https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/ but I deleted my account months ago.

He should just goto hell early.

He’s going to Mars as soon as FSD on Tesla is ready, next year for sure!, to not blow in his rocket then once there chat with his amazing chatbot telling him, with 20min delay for each message, that he truly is the best.

What an absolute retard.

Hopefully it was a symbolic downvote. They say they did only to provoke but in reality they did upvote.

Good analogy as most people don’t understand how a microwave is working either.

That being said, at least microwaving isn’t on fast track to pollute our entire ecosystem so…

Great point. I mostly focused on the power that cars give to people, revving the engine isn’t a random gesture, it’s a show of power when most people usually have… pen, papers, keyboards… few have power tools but even then, it’s not very powerful. A car or a truck though that’s typically what the average human can exert the most raw power. Nothing psychological or economical. It’s not like having a fancy house that cost a lot of money or showing of, no it’s being in control of a powerful machine. I do assume it is rewiring the brain of drivers… but now that you mention it, it is also coupled with effortlessness. It’s not like being strong when you go to the gym, here it’s entirely decoupled from your strength. This must rewire drivers even more than I initially imagined. Thanks for the hindsight!

I’m not sure if you ever used a bike lane, or watch the countless videos of people riding on them, but it’s very VERY rare to have unobstructed bike lanes. So… sure, one grandma who isn’t paying attention, who cares, ok a truck that has to do deliveries and forcing you to go on the car lane, not going to kill you… then again, and again, and 2 cars parked there, another delivery… usually before you finish your trip you even wonder if there was a bike lane in the first place.

mail-in ticket from a camera like this won’t

Damn, imagine now if one could put such a camera anywhere and it would

• either be moved away if below a threshold after a period, e.g. 1 week
• or stay as long as it pays for itself then when it pays for a 2nd one, that new one would be randomly nearby