you know what else slows down ambulances? Congestion

I live near a school. Cars go way too fast and blast through intersections. Impeding the flow of car traffic is exactly what we need. I’d rather not require the ambulance in the first place.

Stop spreading FUD please.

For some reason people love to shit on Brave and turn a blind eye to mistakes made by Mozilla or problems with Firefox. Brave has had missteps in the past, as many projects have. This doesn’t make it “malware.”

It’s ok not to use it for ideological reasons - I don’t like their CEO either. But that doesn’t mean Brave is not a privacy browser or not a good browser.

Also see: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/why-recommend-brave-browser-on-android-and-not-mull/13957

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/brave-history-is-quite-blurry/11657/2

I use this feature for snowflake

If making people feel safer walking and biking in cities = “worthless shit” to you then why are you even here? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been honked at or yelled at or nearly run over while walking or on my bike by drivers who refuse to stop at red lights at all because of the right on red rule.

Cars don’t belong in cities at all, with the possible exception of delivery/commercial vehicles and vehicles for disabled people. Banning right on red is just one part of a multi-pronged approach to get us there, together with better bicycle infrastructure and public transit, etc.

/e/ is not degoogled and security does not seem to be a priority for them. I wouldn’t recommend it. See the following comments from a divestos dev:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/should-e-os-and-the-fairphone-be-added-to-privacy-guides/13184/2

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/should-e-os-and-the-fairphone-be-added-to-privacy-guides/13184/8

Fuck borders!

https://srslywrong.com/podcast/187-borders/

So true, I watched dune in theaters with my friends and half of us fell asleep lmao

There is on Voyager https://github.com/aeharding/voyager

Personally I’m ok with fuck cars being mainly a place for people to express their frustrations with how things are - I think that serves an important role.

I would also like to see places for more nuanced discussions about urbanism for those who are interested. I used to go to r/NotJustBikes for that, but haven’t seen any similar communities emerge on Lemmy.

It’s also well documented by strongtowns how car infrastructure specifically devastates local communities and bankrupts cities due to how exorbitantly expensive it is. Long car commutes may increase the GDP of a country, but local areas suffer.

This illustrates very well how broken our economic system is lol. What benefits “the economy” (GDP) is not what benefits real people/communities.

I’ll also add that while Fairphone markets that they suoport their phones for many years, the firmware of the Qualcomm SoC it ships with stops receiving updates after only a couple years. Your phone will not be secure after this point. Read more here:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/android-overview/#firmware-updates

I think people would feel a lot more responsibility if they actually had a decent say in what goes on. Our individual actions do so little to change things relative to the actions of corporate goliaths and governments that it kind of makes logical sense to just give up and try to enjoy your life.

When our “democracy” (speaking specifically to the US here) essentially amounts to voting between two shitty options nobody likes and having to wait four years to remove them if they do something you don’t like, you can’t really call that a system that gives power to the people. We need more direct democracy imbedded in these systems so that we can quickly reverse bad decisions and implement new laws, directly. Otherwise, why should people feel responsibility?

Interesting - I just checked again today and it’s showing up on lemmy.world

We did have a few outages this year - more than normal for us. Do you think power surges could have contributed to it breaking?

I’m pretty sure youtube creators get the vast majority of their income from sponsorships and donations rather than ad revenue, which they could also do on peertube, no?

TIL downvotes on Lemmy are public lol. That was honestly just a misclick tho, my bad

Definitely possible. The first one lasted nearly 30 years (until 2020), the second lasted less than a year and was still under warranty, and the third just broke a few weeks ago. My repair guy seems to think the replacement part he’s been able to get is just lower quality than the original.

Thank you so much!!!

I’ve had it serviced at Master Tech before several times, and they seem willing to do it again if I can find the part. I don’t think they have any way of getting the part unfortunately