Check the laws and regulations in your country (or ask others who know). In my country you pretty much don’t need these, especially if you use a private tracker. But I heard that in other places you are actually getting fined if they spot you.

Yeah, I posted the source of the actual meme

@markz sorry, I thought it was a military hospital ship and I immediately remembered about the F35 kill switch saga

With a firmware totally backdoors free, right?

As an inhabitant from Bucharest, I can definitely tell you that you’re not spending 6 minutes in traffic going to and from work. Take ~1 hour in advance give/take. Keep in mind that you also need to find a parking spot at your destination because while the number of cars increased, the number of parking spots couldn’t keep up.

Many people resort to park in the most illegal places possible, such as sidewalks or pedestrian crossings, and that’s a practice that has been tolerated for a lot of time by the authorities and has only recently started being tackled through fines and bollards.

Bucharest is in a weird position of being a “car-centric-pedestrian-friendly-ish” city - because while you can easily use public transit and walk to where you need, people are using cars to go everywhere and whoever can own and drive a car, does it, sometimes even for short distances. It’s crazy!

But that’s impossible! We all know that cars=economic growth and, as total idiots with internet access like Andrei Caramitru post daily on FB, that the German economy is now in recession because of the actions of ecofascists against the likes of BMW and that these ecofascists riding bikes and e-scooters are coming to our economy too!!! /s

Edit: holly hell, I just noticed the numbers presented in the article by reading the comments that were not federated to my instance. 6 minutes a day?!? That’s just impossible!!!

No, it’s not heaven on earth, they really got it very wrong. No, this is not village level traffic at all, and all the main arteries are congested almost all the time, even in non-working days. The only times when roads are miraculously free are when there’s a big holiday like Easter or New Year’s Eve, when people basically party all night long, some even back in their hometowns, so they no longer do anything the next day, at least in the first part of it. Don’t believe me? Check out the traffic filter at this very hour on Google Maps (it’s Saturday 11:15 PM at the moment of me editing this comment).

If you’re traveling through Bucharest by car, take at least 1 hour to go from one place to another, especially if you’re going from the outskirts to the city center and back. Also take in mind the time you take to find a parking spot since these are hard to find (you’ll find a paid one easily though, those are like kryptonite to most of the drivers, who would rather park their car illegaly, wherever they can).

If you plan to travel by bike, don’t!!! The traffic is terrible and your life is too precious. Outside the bigger parks (Tineretului, Herăstrău/Regele Mihai I, Carol etc.), the areas where it’s safe to cycle are few and spread out. There’s no comprehensive bike lane network like you see in Paris or in big German cities.

If you plan to travel by foot, outside the touristy areas the streets are absolutely filled to the brim by cars, puddles form on pedestrian crossings when it rains (or like now, when the snow melts) and sometimes you have to take the road in order to go through. It’s better now than it was 5 years ago, but it’s still a hit-or-miss. Public transit is decent though, compared to other cities (despite other people in my city hating it). English signage is lacking lots of the times, but it gets you pretty much wherever you want to go (and we even have some night lines). Use Google Maps or InfoTB to get around or, if you love open source, try Bimba or other FOSS apps using the Transitous API.

On Mastodon, Friendica, Pixelfed and if I’m not mistaken also Bookwyrm you can verify yourself by using your own website (if you have one). You can also do it for free if you have an account on a bunch of services such as Gravatar.

I haven’t seen anything like this on Lemmy fwiw.

Don’t know where did cm0002 appear from, not sure if he’s wearing a cape, even, but all I know is that he’s the hero we need.

damn…

Or with Lemmy. I view it perfectly fine in Friendica

I went with Kvaesitso as well, but if you, @Grail, cannot get used to it do give Lawnchair a try. It currently seems like the most developed AOSP based FOSS launcher.

Beautiful!

@Blaze my personal laptop, backed up to an external drive

I’m using last.fm to scrobble my music to. It brings me the most Spotify features minus the streaming part (even has a neat playback thing which appears at the end of the year instead of at the begining of december)

Do these people ever touch grass or are they afraid the grass is just some CIA psyop comploting against them or some shit?

Good news!

Did they release the actual music yet?

Have admins able to access to all your data on that server - ✅ OK
Have admins able to see a reliable score of all your nonsense without beating their heads around with eating your shit - ❌ THIS IS LITERALLY THOUGHT POLICE; THEY’LL SEND AGENTS TO YOUR DOOR IF YOU POST A GIF FROM TENOR AND THEY’LL TAKE YOU TO THE (NONEXISTING) GULAGS OR SOME SHIT. HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!

I read about most of the shit the tankies on ml say it’s censorship. Many of them are just common sense stuff. And the fact that you are flagged for commenting “this” or that you’re commenting with a GIF from Tenor - those two things are pretty low effort and I think the answer to it is a proper one (no, it’s not actually a thing about GIFs, it’s about low effort comments. You can upload your own GIF elsewhere and use it).

Also, it’s funny how they have nothing against China using a social credit system, but when Piefed uses it IT’S HELL ON EARTH!!!

Great find! I’ll check to see if there are any similar websites for restaurants/locals in my city as well