I thought the formula was to be the child of a well-to-do family, start a tech company in a garage, then scam your way up to become a billionaire.
pedz
joined 2 years ago
I quit my job as a level 1 tech last week. I had enough of supporting Teams, OneDrive, Office 365, Windows 11, and all of the Microsoft stuff for multiple clients where I had limited access. I certainly won't miss the over notifications of my employer's Teams. I don't know what I'm gonna do next but I hope my next job or employer will not use this POS.
But isn’t your conclusion way more dangerous than actually driving the deadly metal-box yourself? Being a pedestrian or, even worse, cyclist, you’re a highly vulnerable squishy flesh-thingy surrounded by deadly murder-boxes.
Perhaps but it's counter productive to just get bigger and bigger vehicles in order to be "safer" and crush everything else around. It's a race to the bottom to which I do not wish to participate. At least where I live we are "lucky" enough to have multiple abandoned railways in the countryside that have been turned into bike trails, so I generally use these. I can cycle to my parents' using two bike trails, without cars, for 140 km. Otherwise I specifically moved in a city with good bike and transit infrastructure (Montreal) so that I don't need to drive a giant lethal metal box that pollutes and takes space.
Anyway because I think cars are insane and avoid them at all costs, my chances of dying while I'm inside one are lower than someone using one daily. It's also one less deadly machine on the road. I'm not getting in a car to go to the grocery store or to go run errands. I'm not getting in a car every day to go to work. When I cycle it's usually on dedicated infrastructure, on in bike lanes.
From my point of view, even if I have to mix with cars sometimes while cycling, even if I fear for my life and wish people driving cars would be more careful while passing, it's usually an exception, and I feel much safer at 20 km/h on "my" dedicated bike path than sitting in a car surrounded by other cars and trucks.
I don't drive. I'm sure I could even if I'm afraid to do it, but I don't like cars and society forcing us to drive partly for this reason. People drive lethal metal boxes everywhere without really thinking about it.
Cars are one of the most deadly things in a lot of countries and yet, they are totally normalised.
In Canada alone, in one year, nearly 2000 people died from car collisions. And distracted driving accounts for about 20% of those.
It's why I prefer to cycle, and on segregated paths if possible. Because when I cycle on the road, I always have this kind of thoughts in the back of my mind. What if the person driving a multi ton projectile coming behind me at speed, is day dreaming and "didn't see me", even if I'm dressed in bright orange?
Sorry to be so serious about a meme but, yeaaah.
This looks like exclusive phasing and it's despicable when it's at every damn intersection.
I like exclusive phasing when there's a high volume of pedestrians crossing in all directions. However it's horrible on stroads because it's done under the pretense of pedestrian security while being mainly to maintain a heavy flow of cars in as much directions as possible. And it makes waiting longer.
It's one of my pet peeve when I visit Quebec city. All of their fucking pedestrian crossings are exclusive phasing, and I loathe it. It's nice and useful in the the old town, but it becomes so annoying as soon as you walk outside of the walls.
I've been doing some rail trails on the "green roads" (routes vertes) to visit my parents for the last three weekends and I stopped at the park for overnights as I didn't want to cycle the full 140 km in one shot and then back. It's getting greener!
The Yamaska National Park is a small park located around a reservoir in southern Québec. From there it's possible to access multiple rail trails and "linear parks" going in all directions.
More pictures in the comments.
The last two upgrades have broken my audio setup.
First the options for Network Server and Network Access in paprefs were greyed out and my sinks disappeared after upgrading to bookworm. I just had to create a link to an existing file and it was working again but, it's weird that it was needed in the first place. Pretty sure it has something to do with the change from pulseaudio to pipewire but I'm not very up to date on that subject and I just want to have my current setup to continue working.
Then yesterday I just launch a simple apt-get upgrade and after rebooting my sinks disappeared again. The network options in paprefs were still available, but changing them did nothing. I had to create the file ~/.config/pipewire/pipewire-pulse.conf.d/10-gsettings.conf and stuff it with "pulse.cmd = [ { cmd = "load-module" args = "module-gsettings" flags = [ "nofail" ] } ]" in order to have my sinks back.
I know it's not only a Debian thing, as I can see this happening to people on Arch forums, but as Debian is supposed to be the "stable" one, I find it amusing that a simple upgrade can break your sound.
Using Boost for Lemmy, I got an obvious political ad from the right asking to sign a petition to scrap the gun "ban" in Canada (it's a registry not a ban).
Now I understand this is an ad but I don't appreciate having propaganda from the right injected into my browsing on lemmy. Have better ads, or let us report them.
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Oh I thought this was The Onion for a second, but apparently it's real. I mean, obviously.