Lka1988

Games run faster with LMDE6 than they did with Windows 10 on my 5800X3D/7900XTX PC.

They buried sandbags.

Ace Combat

That actually looks like a fun game.

Ok, cool. But I don’t think your experience would still be very good if you were joined by an additional trainload of people riding 4x4s right alongside you. It’d be time to pave over that canyon so that the people visiting it can park.

Completely missed the point. Less “general public” is the entire idea of offroading in remote locations with no cell service or anything else. It takes actual skills to get up there, and the more-skilled people tend to be more respectful of the lands. But I digress.

And trains aren’t mutually exclusive with cars. I might take the train to visit my parents a few cities over, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t a highway for the moving truck to drive along when I had to get my stuff over to where I live now.

For sure. I don’t disagree with that at all. I’ve moved across the USA twice, and both times it was more cost-effective to just drive. Paying a transporter to haul a minivan, paying a moving company to ship my family’s stuff, and loading us all on a plane to live at the in-laws while we wait for our stuff to arrive - was our first choice. However, I did the math and found that sending my family on a plane while I rented a UHaul trailer and just towed it with the minivan was over $1000 cheaper, despite the 5-day drive I had to do. But I enjoyed it.

No-one is saying no-one should drive a car. Rather, that the right tool for the right job should be used. In the US, cars are used for a lot more than what they’re best at. That you are using them effectively for personal use, is not a reason to also have them used where they aren’t as effective (in this case in comparison to trains, large volume transit of people who are mainly transporting themselves between hubs of human activity).

Absolutely. I just get really fucking tired of seeing the “fuck cars” morons beating a dead horse over and over again with “all cars are bad and should be illegal right now”.

In Tokyo, Shinjuku train station routes 3.8 million people to where they are going, EVERY, DAY.

And it’s a beautiful thing. The fact that Japan is roughly the size of the entire US east coast and somehow manages with trains just fine is an engineering marvel.

Interstate 5 in the US, the busiest in the country, does a pathetic 0.75 million a day on its busiest strip. And the cost-effectiveness of trains beats out cars waaay before you hit capacity on such a highway.

I don’t disagree with this either.

Honestly though, for general “getting around”, I just prefer my bikes.

Of course; do you not?

A train can’t take me up remote roads 15 miles up a canyon to destinations that only a capable 4x4 can reach (this is the point of those roads), then take me out the other end of the canyon via those trails into a small town with a delicious diner and ice cream shop. All while checking out abandoned mines (no I don’t go in), ghost towns, and other history from before my time.

And yes, I do this often.

I would argue that the Scottish kilt is one of the manliest items of clothing to exist. Its “gender-normative” equivalent is essentially a skirt.

You can get a Dell micro Optiplex for less money and have a full fledged i5 or i7 processor with similar power usage.

Absolutely, I’ve got a cluster of mini PCs with 7th/8th gen T sku i7s, plus an Optiplex SFF running a standard i7-7700, and everything together draws less than 100W on average.

Whayyy are you G A E

I was allowed to bring a calculator to a history test once though.

TI-82/83/84 loaded with a notes program?

My mom had to go back to glasses after wearing contacts for years because the contacts wore away her corneas!

That’s a slightly horrifying thought… My wife has keratoconus and has to wear hard contacts (scleral lenses, but functionally the same thing) in order to see at all.

RIP

Brakes can absolutely stop faster than a log falling off a truck. Your reaction time is the main concern.

This has nothing to do with online platforms, and everything to do with terminally-online people who have never experienced socializing with the opposite gender.

IMO its not about the item, but the intent. I know we’re getting into hypotheticals and rhetoricals, but IMO, the line is doing anything that causes harm to another living being without feeling remorse.

Stealing a water bottle from a megacorp doesn’t harm anybody. Stealing a water bottle from a homeless person can mean life or death.

And water is surprisingly heavy itself.

Syncthing never had an official Android app, and the current iteration, Syncthing-Fork, is updated quite frequently.

I try to stay away from the play store at this point. Even Tasker is sourced from the dev himself (license is like $4, absolutely worth it), and is more capable than the play store version.

I feel terrible for the kid, she never asked for her mom to be a piece of shit.

Some theaters sell tickets to showings specifically for those who have small children.

Seems to be a common format for greentext compilations.

I can’t read this shit either.