As soon as I got a bike path near my home that led to my grocery store, I stopped driving to the grocery store. This only happened when two bike routes were linked together, since I live off an arterial street. You either have to be willing to put in a huge stretch of bike lanes all over, all at once, or be willing to put up with a few stretches of underutilized bike lane until enough are added that they become usable. With your mindset, you could never go from no bike support to having bike supporting infrastructure.

I don’t think that definition of slur is correct. I’d argue that any word that is being used insultingly to refer to a subset of the population is a slur. Using a shortened version of the scientific term without malice to describe someone couldn’t ever be seen as a slur, even if some people didn’t like being called it. Unless it’s common to use it derogatorily, I don’t think that you can call any descriptive word a slur. Since ‘cis’ is just the Latin opposite of ‘trans’, it’s pretty clear that it isn’t meant to be derogatory.

Even if I personally felt offended when anyone called me “tall”, I don’t think I could categorize that as a slur because I am tall and that’s the word that is commonly used to describe my height without intent to offend.

Boy, I haven’t thought of Lofty Pursuits in a long time

It’d work for me and probably for my wife, but my circle also has people that will already be complaining about making a shift to a new service. I’d like to keep it as simple and familiar as possible, which is why I chose element in the first place. It’s the only fully self-hostable service with text, voice, video, screen share, and different rooms in the same server, all e2ee, all in the same app. Still has some rough edges on the screen share apparently, but I’m fine with that for now, in hopes that element can sort it out eventually.

Yup. Spun up my own matrix/element server as soon as the announcement dropped. Working on adding Element Call now, but they sure don’t make it easy.

I recently switched from 320kbps to lossless, and there are very few moments where I can tell a difference. The biggest one is in the cover of “Tom’s Diner” by AnnenMayKantereit. There’s a section of the song at 320kbps where it goes almost silent, other than faint whispers of the band counting out the silence, but in lossless you can hear them actually singing the song quietly

Still increases footprint/grants more credibility to the Fediverse, which I think is a good thing. It just won’t really impact the daily experience here

I live in the PNW. I picked an instance in the PNW. Sometimes I see local news, and often I read comments from people within a few hour drive. It’s nice to have a small, local community here, while still having access to the rest of the world together. So I guess recommend picking the largest instance in your region if you don’t have any other preferences.

Someone who was filmed screaming and crying during the announcement (maybe inauguration, can’t remember which now) of the 45th president of the US

Explain how it’s evil to allow the US companies to move their production out of the US? The US corporations could have kept industry here, but they decided to fuck themselves over so that a few shareholders’ margins went up by a few percentage points. That wasn’t China being malicious, that’s the US lacking any sense of foresight while being blinded by greed.

I disagree here I think, the DS was a fun iteration on an existing console (gameboy advance xp), but the Switch spawned a new classification of console. The hybrid console has pretty much taken over casual gaming, including Steam’s Steam Deck, Microsoft’s ROG Xbox Ally, and Playstation’s Portal (PS kinda phoned it in here). While I don’t think that hybrid consoles will replace normal consoles altogether, I do think the Switch has made having a handheld variation of your console a necessity moving forward.

Literally just went through getting the app built /deployed for my parents and my partner’s parents using the old method a few weeks ago. I’m super glad the app is on the app store, but it’s just bad timing for me lol

You don’t have to give them your password, and GrapheneOS has a convenient feature to turn off biometric unlock for only unlocking the phone, but still lets you use it in apps

While I understand where you’re coming from, I think this list exists for a different purpose than to find you collaborators. While I didn’t make the list, I do like having a list of competed FOSS games somewhere, as I think it fills a gap in FOSS game reporting. I think there should be (and know there are) other lists specifically for FOSS games looking for collaborators.

Nah, those two cannot be used synonymously. They mean different things, and one is predatory and problematic, the other is not.

Was gonna say, I’ve definitely seen his channel before

I didn’t, but I didn’t look too hard. I wasn’t really expecting it to work

Yeah, doesn’t work on GrapheneOS either, bummer

Yup. All my IoT devices are on a network that doesn’t have access to the internet. To control remotely, I use a VPN. Even though I don’t think it’s technically necessary, I take the precaution of blocking connections to the big company’s APIs/websites for all my IoT devices, just in case.

I wish this were easier for the layman to do. Some companies like Unifi make it pretty painless, but they are expensive and it’s really hard for the non-networking-savvy folks to know exactly which devices you need from them to have a working setup.

I agree with the fact that they aren’t a great company, but anyone who’s shopped around for skins/decals knows that dbrand is a cut above the rest in terms of quality. I’ve stopped buying from them due to how they run things, though.