TL;DW: Car drivers are salty about lane splitting motorcycles (and also bicycles, scooters, pedestrians, birds, small dogs, etc.) because of the Crab In A Bucket mentality. They think because their life sucks and they’re suffering in traffic everyone else needs to suffer just as much, therefore splitting is “cutting in line” or “cheating” as if there is some virtue in your transit time being comparable to someone else’s.

(But I did watch it anyway, because F9.)

Anyway, I read someplace several years ago and now conveniently can’t find the source, if 40 or 50% or so of current urban commuters switched to motorcycles from cars, volume based rush hour congestion would be solved in most (possibly all) currently car-centric Western cities.

So go buy a motorcycle.

I’m probably preaching to the choir in this specific community, though.

That talk about substitutes happened when it was initially handed over to said data miner, and anybody concerned should have switched back then. I did, moving to Lawnchair, and never looked back. Oodles of other options are doubtlessly available.

Any love for the most sold vehicle in history? Yes. And yours is green. So it goes double.

I’ll take an 8k computer monitor though. In fact, send two. Kthnx.

I never remove mine from the KLR. Inevitably you find yourself in possession of some damn fool thing that’s otherwise impossible to transport by motorcycle as soon as you do.

And also weed out models that are clearly impossible to print.

FWIW I always make my headline image a printed instance of whatever it is. I figure nobody’s interested in anything else.

Re: Lemmings.

How about Magpies?

But it’s still fun to shake the jar and watch 'em fight!

Here’s another vote for the X-Max 3. Mine has been quite solid.

If anyone is interested in multi color support, though, it seems that the Qidi “Box” filament changer deal will never be made compatible with the Max series, and will only work with the new/current Plus 4. There is at least one third party solution for this in the CoPrint ChromaSet thingy, but this engenders some pretty significant compromises and also locks you into using their nozzles, in addition to reducing the print volume significantly which kind of defeats the purpose of the X-Max 3.

If you have any AMS-ish aspirations, the X-Plus 3 and X-Max 3 are probably out of the running.

Especially since VBA can make calls to the Windows API directly and through that avenue do all kinds of funky things to your system.

This is totally expected and also absolutely peanuts compared to Intel, who once released a processor that managed to perform floating point long division incorrectly in fascinating (if you’re the right type of nerd) and subtle ways. Hands up everyone who remembers that debacle!

Nobody? Just me?

Anyway, I totally had — and probably still have, somewhere — one of the affected chips. You could check if yours was one of the flawed ones literally by using the Windows calculator.

Taken as a whole from a historical standpoint this is certainly so, current events notwithstanding. I predict a lot of salty people reading your comment are going to studiously ignore the fact that Europe as it stands now has been shaped pretty much purely by thousands of years worth of wars, which required the invention of all kinds of weapons and warfare tactics. And that’s before the European powers took all that on the road in the colonial era.

Sure, until they start spying on you in real time through your school issue comptuer’s webcam. (Or listening via its microphones, or snooping your wi-fi traffic with preinstalled malware, or…)

Anyway, the asshats even try to snoop on students’ social media activity outside of school and not done on school hardware.

From TFA:

The research team identified 14 companies actively marketing online surveillance services frequently beyond school-issued devices and outside of school premises, raising concerns about privacy, equity and oversight.

Emphasis mine.

Separately, Microsoft warns that Windows 11 version 23H2 will reach end of support on November 11, 2025.

I.e., the one that still supports WMR virtual reality headsets and hasn’t had the functionality for those artificially pulled.

I find that not acting like a dillhole is usually an effective strategy, also.

You can do it with the Tesseract web UI. Probably others as well, but the default Lemmy web UI is pretty dinkum and seems to be missing quite a few of the more detailed features. You are correct that this information is indeed exposed by the API.

https://t.lemmy.world/modlog?other_person_id=15838010

Now the question is, what are you going to do with this information?

You can disable Edge if you don’t want people launching it… “accidentally.” There are a myriad of ways. Most recently I’ve used Edge Blocker, which does what it says on the label. Note that this will cause the opening of any file types associated with Edge by default to silently fail if you don’t reassign them to some other program.

The install Firefox and uBlock origin. Unless your parents deliberately go out of their way to download and install Chrome (and depending how heavy-handed you want to get you could even prevent this by busting them down to a limited user account) they won’t have any choice but to use the correct browser installed on their system. That is to say, the only one.

It’s virtually impossible to exist online these days without generative AI bullshit being shoved in your face with no means to opt-out. It’s clearly not consumers driving this so-called “demand,” because savvy people don’t want this to begin with and never did. Rather, it’s the desperate speculative hype around this dumb nonproduct that’s causing big businesses to set electricity and money on fire with AI slop to no tangible benefit.

A saner response from the UK government would be to tell these companies to either power their AI datacenters with renewables or get out, rather than trying to guilt trip individuals over, of all the goddamned stupid things, undeleted emails.

OP hit the nail on the head. This is once again shifting the blame (and guilt) onto individuals who even collectively have fuck-all impact on the problem in question.

The worst of it is, some people will believe this shit.

Who’s gatekeeping? You’re putting an awful lot of words in my mouth. I’m pointing out that a lot of people are effectively gatekeeping themselves.

I think you rather missed the point.

Everyone has fantastic resources available to them through the internet that didn’t exist in the early 1980s, or whenever. And yet, people with four kids and cars and mortgages and taxes managed back then. It’s even easier now. The only obstacle to anyone is apathy.