ProgrammingSocks

@ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social

Hello! My name is Cobalt Swiftpaw. I’m here for memes and art.

Previously /u/PirandelloKruger723 on Reddit.

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ProgrammingSocks,

If you’re sitting its a motorbike. If you’re pedaling and it’s under a certain wattage it’s an ebikes. If you’re standing and throttling it’s an e-scooter. I’m not talking about electric mopeds/moyorcycles. E scooters are only acceptable when they’re limited to ~25km/h IMO, but ebikes are still preferable. I’m not saying people should be going 100km/h on a scooter, you’re misconstruing it. I’m arguing that the fact that those people are resorting to using 100km/h death machines signals a problem in infrastructure and alternate modes of transport.

ProgrammingSocks, (edited )

No issues to report here. Audio sucked when I had an old shitty laptop with a BT4.0 chip but after I upgraded to a Thinkpad X280 Bluetooth just worked out of the box. Been using pipewire but before that I used pulseaudio with bluetooth audio extensions that you can find on the AUR. Pulseaudio was far less stable, pipewire just werks.

ProgrammingSocks,

Not sure what you mean “when”. I’ve been daily driving Linux for 8 years and I still love it.

ProgrammingSocks, (edited )

I don’t care about getting people into things. That’s a highly individualistic way to look at the problem. Car dependency is a societal problem, and marketing won’t solve societal problems. There needs to be a fundamental change in the way we (specifically the government) view transportation as a whole. (And as an extension to that, there also needs to be a change in regulation to close that loophole for light trucks.)

What’s important to me is getting lawmakers and those advocating to the lawmakers on board with funding public transit and making the streets safer for all people using them. Yes we need people on board too but really only enough to get these ideas in lawmakers heads as a major issue. A minority. The majority of people don’t understand or care and that’s fine, because their minds will start to change once they see it actually working. In the words of NJB, there are not that many car people, bike people, or train people. Most people just want to get to their destinations as quickly and efficiently as possible.

We don’t live in a direct democracy. 51% don’t have to explicitly agree to laws. The government passes laws that are bad for people and the majority disagree with all the time. Not saying the majority of people disagree, I honestly think they couldn’t care less. I’m just saying we don’t actually have to recruit hundreds of millions of people.

Unfortunately, a major part of this plan is going to have to restrict what oil companies are allowed to do and nowadays that’s seemingly impossible. Only seemingly though. Nothing is truly set in stone.

ProgrammingSocks,

Legal where I live, and in many states too.

ProgrammingSocks,

I have an electric vehicle. I ride it everywhere in my city and it costs basically nothing. It’s an ebike. I’ve done nothing to it, it’s a normal 350w motor capped at 32 km/h. And damn does it feel so much better than driving in traffic.

ProgrammingSocks,

I was gonna say the same thing. I sense claims of stolen IP soon

ProgrammingSocks,

Wow am I glad for my NoScript usage right now. I’m definitely going to be even more restrictive after this.

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