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  • brax@sh.itjust.workstoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why go through the trouble to use Arch?
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    3 days ago

    What trouble? archinstall makes it dead simple to get on your computer, then at that point it’s not much different from any other distro?

    I’d sooner ask why people choose shit like Ubuntu where you’re stuck dealing with snaps out-of-date packages, and bloat.

    I used Debian and Ubuntu for like 20 years and just got sick of packages being forever out of date, and the Archwiki always having exactly what I needed.

  • brax@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•Cyclists may be right to run stop signs and red lights. Here’s why
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    9 days ago

    On the one hand, the risks associated with different modes of transport are incommensurate. A car that runs a red light can cause serious or even fatal injuries. A cyclist, on the other hand, is unlikely to cause the same degree of damage.

    The fuck? They may not cause the same degree of damage, but they’re gonna get fucked up by a car that is following the law and has a green light if the two meet in an intersection…

    This whole thing seems like it’s less a case of “bikers should run lights” and more a case of “cities need to be reviewed and many intersections should be updated with yield signs or traffic circles.”

  • brax@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•Bike lanes are crucial public infrastructure, not political props
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    14 days ago

    To my knowledge, the money doesn’t go back into the municipality. On top of that, it vehicles tend to end up doing like 10km UNDER the limit. They also serve no purpose at 3am when there’s nobody out, but those cameras are still rolling.

    We really need to stop putting so much focus on people speeding and start aggressively ticketing people that drive in the wrong lane, impede traffic, don’t use a blinker, rush left turns on red lights, and drive while distracted. These people are the real nightmares I’m forced to share a road with. The people that I tend to see speeding are generally predictable. The ones weaving through traffic wouldn’t exist if people didn’t camp in the inside lane.

    This is all not to mention the number of speed limits that have gone DOWN over the last 5 years when people were already struggling to do the original limit, now they’re going even slower.

    We should be dealing with real problems, not worrying about people doing 60 in a 50, or 100 in a 50 at 3am when there’s literally nobody out. Likewise, pedestrians should be doing better to be aware of their surroundings, not cutting out in traffic, and not crossing roads with headphones on and/or focused more on their phone than their surroundings.