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Makes sense; there wouldn't have been any flowers or tetrapods for them to suck on yet.

Wait, the $15 2K model you bought yesterday can be rooted? I figured anything made in the last few years would've been patched.

Can you tell me the exact model (the code on the box, like this, as explained in this XDA thread about the model I got where I experienced disappointment), and where you found the information about rooting it?

I appreciate that you're happy with yours even without rooting, but I don't think I'd be able to trust it not to enshittify in the long run on the stock firmware.

I have a couple of them that I bought shortly after the LTT video on the topic with the intention of rooting. After figuring out that I'd unfortunately got the newer hardware revision that can't be rooted, I had them just sitting in a box.

If "debloating" them without rooting and installing Lineage or whatever is "good enough," maybe I should take another look. Do you know of a good guide to follow? Is there anything special that needs to be done, such as preventing it from updating or connecting to the Internet before the factory malware is removed?

I like how that adds up to 110%.

Goddamnit. I got my Boomer parents to ditch cable and get a Roku, in part, to keep them away from Fox News.

Yeah, if Trump's sycophants filed for voluntary dismissal, it's because they wanted to preserve the opportunity to try some other bullshit tactic later.

There is no rule that you have to put "rule" in the title. It's just a tradition.

Global warming sure doesn't help, but the Colorado basin was dry AF even before the industrial revolution. IIRC, the Anasazi got fucked over in a similar way.

(Disclaimer: I am a traffic engineer in the sense that I have a degree in it and have done it professionally, but I got disillusioned and bailed in favor of software engineering so I'm not hugely experienced. Think EIT, not PE.)

That is a very good question I don't have a good answer for, and have wondered myself.

First of all, it's more in the wheelhouse of urban planning than it is traffic engineering (being concerned with an entire area rather than one road at a time), so there's that. But on the other hand, urban planners are more concerned with issues like land use and aren't necessarily analyzing traffic flows the way traffic engineers do. I'm not sure the specific kind of comprehensive designing you're hoping for actually gets done often enough.

That said, it seems like the prevailing opinion (when it comes to the city street network, as opposed to freeways) is that having a hierarchy of functional classification, with the traffic being funneled from local streets to collectors to arterials, is the preferred way to go. Traffic engineers like it because they can (theoretically) design the arterial to provide better performance in terms of mobility while worrying less about pesky things like access and placemaking, and NIMBY homeowners like it because it gets the thru-traffic off their street.

Personally, I'm actually pretty skeptical of that, from an urbanist and "recovering engineer" perspective. I think it could be better if traffic were evenly distributed across blocks, such that (a) the lack of true high-capacity/high-speed corridors would discourage driving altogether and provide better placemaking and urbanism, and (b) each street's "fair share" would hopefully be low and slow enough that it would be acceptably safe for cyclists/pedestrians/kids playing in the street etc. Basically, I think "worse" could actually be better, once you realign your goals away from moving traffic as quickly as possible and towards making a good place to live.

When it comes to freeways specifically, I'm not sure anywhere does parallel freeway corridors unless the area served by each justifies a freeway in its own right. But if anywhere does, it'd be Texas, home of the infamous Katy Freeway...

...and other extensive use of frontage roads. I actually learned about that just the other day from this recent Road Guy Rob video, which honestly might answer your question better than my screed above did, now that I think about it. (Sorry for not leading with that, but I've got too much sunk cost fallacy to delete what I wrote now.)

When did that happen?

I am genuinely surprised none of the freaks around here have mentioned the KFC dating sim yet.

Yeah, that exploitation definitely gets subrogated to the MAGAs, not Iran.