PhoenixAlpha

joined 1 year ago
[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (8 children)

If your city is only designed for drivers, it's no surprise that people will want to drive places. When you remove parking minimums, you also need to prioritize transit and micromobility accessibility, so people are actually incentivized to switch modes. Cities can and are making this shift successfully: here's one example.

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You really ought to get on the mathfinder train

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

They are more privacy focused, but they are not "better" in an unqualified way. Mullvad and Tor especially are not recommendable for daily usage without significant asterisks, they have some features disabled and if you modify their settings at all, add extensions, or even log in to websites, you ruin their anonymity features.

Librewolf is nice, but it's basically just Firefox with Arkenfox pre-applied, and it lacks automatic updates which are important for security. If you have a package manager that's better, but by definition you'll still get updates slower than using Firefox and applying Arkenfox yourself. For instance Firefox 129 released on August 6, Librewolf 129 on August 10.

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 138 points 2 months ago

"Why and how would you falsely confess to anything?"

Like this.

TLDR: cops tortured this poor guy into believing he killed his father while on medication. They threatened to euthanize his dog. He tried to hang himself in the interrogation room. Then they found his father ALIVE. Then they sent him to a psychiatric ward, since he was unstable from the torture THEY inflicted.

It sickens me to see that someone thinks this can't happen.

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

If USB4 is so good, why isn't there USB4 2?

USB-IF:

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Keymonk. It actually still mostly works if you find an old apk, I'm using it now. The suggestion bar is broken and it's a little buggy, but god most of the time it still flies, security risks be damned.

Keyboard 69 was another option, but it's also abandoned and I found it much more bloated and buggy.

What I wouldn't give for a good open source two finger swiping keyboard...

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 9 points 9 months ago

If you're looking to rent for the day, you would never pick 3 cars over 1. And if you already own the 3 cars, you wouldn't go out of your way to rent another one. I don't see how a parking charge would change this, unless it was far heavier than this proposal is.

Additionally, think about how many full 9-seat vans there are in Paris. Think about how many single-occupant SUVs there are. I think the benefit here is pretty clear.

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 13 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Article says they are tripling the cost, and 9 is more than 3, so...no.

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 0 points 11 months ago

Do you have a source for him moving to restrict sales? I see there was a House bill about that a couple weeks ago, but it didn't involve Biden.

[–] PhoenixAlpha@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm on android so maybe it's different, but I find it works consistently if I swipe in from the very leftmost edge of the screen.