rmuk

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Shopping malls tend to have choke points where the rapidly flowing road traffic transitions to more random car park traffic. Not a problem if a few thousand people are coming and going as they please throughout the day but thousands of people arriving together at 9:00 and leaving together at 17:00... they're just not designed for that sort of thing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No. I went cold turkey in mid-June. I logged back in last week to use Power Delete Suite to automatically edit every post and comment I ever made to this and then deleted my account.

I'll still use Reddit read-only and with cookies blocked if I stumble upon (ahahaha) it through a search or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Google en passant.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Yeah. Story time:

In the England we have ancient rights-of-way laws but a lot of private landowners try to block footpaths that cross their land. If a landowner can argue a footpath hasn't been used in (I think) two years they can have it removed, but in 2025 all the existing footpaths will be made permanent and indelible except with explicit local government permission so between now and then a lot of landowners will be rushing to get paths removed.

I've made a point of walking every footpath in my area and making sure they're all documented on OSM. If any of the landowners try to get a path removed I have my GPS tracks as proof of use.

Edit: FWIW, I find OSM to be the best map for rambling. Google and Apple don't come close and OSM even gives Ordinance Survey a run for it's money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

True, but we don't know how many strings are attached to that. The Tesla connector is going to be made 'open source', but that doesn't mean anything in terms of it being free to use or permissable. I hope it's being done in good faith but The Dipshit has something of a record to the contrary...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe. I know it's a different scale but in the EU there's a standard connector for all electric cars (CCS Type 2 Combo) and that's become the defacto standard for most cars in most countries, but Tesla maintains their own connector in non-EU territories. I wouldn't put it past Apple is all I'm saying: controlling the charge port is very important to companies that profit from tight vertical integration.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The big one at the moment - at least in the UK and IMHO - is disposable vapes. I see them everywhere, just tossed on the ground or at the side of the road. The reason I see them is because of their flashing blue LEDs still running, meaning there's at least a working battery and support circuitry in there. It's disgusting that something like that is tolerated. I'm hopeful that the requirement to have user-replacable batteries will eliminate them by making them uneconomical compared to standard vapes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Good too see you again, old buddy!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

No you're not. You are, however, forced to pay for Ant & Dec, Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan since they all work on commercial channels paid for by the products you buy every day. License Fee by a million cuts.

Feel free to stop paying for the BBC if you like - it's always been your choice - but if you find a way to stop paying for ITV, Sky, GB News, Capital Radio, Metro and Talk TV please do let me know.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I still can't believe there are competing standards for something as boring as chargers. I kinda hoped that when the EU mandated a single car charger it would spread to non-EU countries too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Banana you glad I actually live a life of crippling loneliness?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Having a successful marriage and eating an orange.

view more: ‹ prev next ›