This post got me thinking of installing smoke detectors in my home. Nobody I know has one, and it never before crossed my mind I should have one.

Thankfully I did get one installed. Two days ago it went off and saved our butt.

Thanks OP and Lemmy.

We were lucky and dodged that future enshitification bullet.

This brings flashbacks from when you required to use IE6 for any “online” paperwork.

I wouldn’t feel like a second class citizen when a less efficient and expensive procedure is kept in place for those that choose to stay out of the walled garden ;)

Motorcycle engines also can benefit, especially ones with high compression engines. By memory I recall my F850GS is rated 5hp less using low octane fuel. It was also recommended to use premium to solve a jerky low rev response I was having, and surprisingly it worked. Not sure if because of the additives (had to seek another brand that had premium) or because the octane.

SMS is now 11 cents, better, but not free. There are a bazillion more apps that do free messaging but everybody, even companies expect to have WhatsApp

As one of those adopters 15 years ago, it was a no-brainer. I could either message my wife “free” or send SMSs at 20c each.

That’s fucked up. Nobody should have student debt, whatever generation.

A bit of a flawed view there that higher education lands jobs magically. It’s probably the other way around, and those with more than average curiosity and life ethics have a better shot at it.

Why limit it to a specific OS? Open it up and inline a resistor, say 680 ohm or so.

Or wire a simple on-off switch. Or both ;)

Most silly excuse was my boss refusing to install Linux because he just had a friend give him original windows 98se licenses for the PCs we just bought for the company.

Well it gets less silly thinking that getting the eprom programmer software and orcad 4 working on Linux was probably impossible.

Then it was outright the best decision ever, because those machines never required a reinstall and worked flawless for the 5 years I was there working. Never understood the bad rep W98Se had. Never used it on my personal rigs of course.

My kid (13) surprised me the other day and said he wanted to try Linux. He has seen me forever using it and got scared about W10 getting hacked or something so thought of trying it out.

I handed over to him my Fedora 43 (KDE plasma) install USB drive and once installed the problems began.

The monitor couldn’t be set to native resolution, and Steam didn’t want to run. Turns out that there is no wayland compatibility with the Radeon Polaris RX480. What a bummer, that card is perfectly fine for what he does on his PC.

We tried with the cinnamon version and that is working fine. He even has roblox running.

Tl;Dr: Wayland isn’t compatible with older hardware that most casual windows users are mostly going to be using.

I’ve driven many cars without ps and when going fast enough that a quick reaction is necessary, it can be handled fast enough. Not a major safety issue more than looking at GPS is a safety issue. I ride over 100km a week on my MTB so thanks for the suggestion.

Cranking! That allows no electrical wires needed to cross into the door. Simpler and less prone to failing.

This is something I’m looking for also… but extended to the max. It seems all EVs have to be feature packed. I don’t want that. Give me an option to have manual windows, no central locking nor remote, and if the tire size is right, I won’t even need power steering. A/C AND USB-A would be the only creature conforts wanted… Probably an EV converted beetle?