MystikIncarnate

Okay, the cross platform part makes it make a little sense. They're trying to push everything over to arm (again!) and having something easy to cross compile would help..... But, you know .... The start menu is small potatoes compared to gestures at the rest of Windows ...

I'll say this: a lot of people using AI, are not thinking or making decisions.

Kek

I gave up on Facebook when they banned my account for the second time after providing evidence that I exist in both cases.

Technically, my account is still "under review", for the past 8 years.

I used this name, Mystik Incarnate, because, believe it or not, there are more people who know me by this name, compared to how many know me by my legal name.

I remember that Facebook challenged my name back in the day, like 10+ years ago. I took a form of ID and made it say "Mystik Incarnate" as my name, sent that in, and they unblocked my account for a while. A few years later and they did it again. By then, I was already on the fence whether or not I wanted to maintain a Facebook account... But I submitted basically the same thing and..... Well... It's still "being reviewed".

I do have an account under my legal name, mainly as a collector of messages for people that know me professionally or something that are trying to reach out. I check it every few months at most; but that account has no friends, no connections, nothing. I only keep it so people can message me. I don't use their apps or anything, I only log in on the website and usually incognito so that they can't track me across the web.

Every time I see someone's logged in Facebook account, I'm disgusted by how cancerous it has become. Anyone who reaches out to me on that platform I usually try to have them connect with me by email, or some other chat program that's more trustworthy.

Fuck Meta.

Your experience with rural bike riding is very familiar. I've heard it before.

I would argue that there's no good answer to rural "mass transit". At least not currently. So if you live in a rural area, you're pretty much going to need a motor vehicle, likely a car, as a minimum to maintain mobility beyond your immediate neighbourhood.

In my rural community, we have a bank branch or two, a couple of pizza shops, one grocery store, and a handful of other stores including a dollar store, a few pharmacies, etc. Not a lot, but enough for the essentials. Anything beyond that for work or shopping, you're leaving the local town and driving at least 10-15 minutes through farmland to the next town over.

It's just impractical to live in this kind of place and not own a vehicle. Not if you need to work somewhere that isn't directly in town.

There's a hundred+ other places just like where I live, in my country and it's not changing. Not quickly at least.

Covering the massive distances with public/mass transit options just isn't feasible.

Inside any Metro, or any city with 100k+ people, yeah, it works, but out where I am with our relatively densely populated town (compared to the surrounding areas), having less than 10k people.... It doesn't work so well.

IDK. I do everything in my power to ensure the safety of cyclists when I see them, but it's rare to see any cyclists out this far.

Shit.

As long as they're paying me for the time, I see this as a win.

Why not both?

The problem with transit for rural areas is that you're covering such a small number of people over such a large area that it costs more to run the service than it could possibly ever hope to earn as a service. So it would always be operating at a loss. That's unacceptable under capitalism.

For any major city or Metro area, yes, public transit should be given the highest priority, and it should primarily be run using renewable energy sources. Not only would renewable energy generally be less costly for daily operations, but it would reduce the climate impact of the service.

The problem with bike lanes in most North American areas is that it's an afterthought. So your only viable option is to pull from whatever is there to build the bike lanes, usually causing the bike lanes to run in-line with vehicular traffic, and that's usually not ideal for anyone. Even with good boundaries between bikes and other road users, there's always the chance that a 2 tonne truck barrels through whatever boundary is there and flattens someone using the bike lane. That's not really a risk if you planned for cycling infrastructure as part of the original design of a city, where you can fully separate road users and cyclists.

I recognize that roads are still needed, for deliveries and commercial purposes, but almost everyone else can take transit or ride a bike.

In rural areas, not so much.

Oh.... Oh no.

Oh, that was the cognitive decline I mentioned. That and not feeling tired (without needing to take meth) is the super power....

Not having to sleep. You can just be awake 24/7 without the usual cognitive decline or feelings of being tired.

I use both, and I understand the whole TPM thing and why they're requiring it...

I think this is very cringe.

Linux has its uses, and benefits. But I see a lot of Windows stuff through my work.