BubbleMonkey

That fucker must have lived in my house with his shitty ideas.

I have a plethora of overhead lighting options that just makes you go “fucking why, though????”. Seriously the place is ancient and used to have gas lamps and a coal chute, so all retrofit, most rooms have two light switch panels with 4-8 switches - the tiny bathroom has 8 switches on 3 panels ffs, but kitchen and living room have -5 panels each- for the overhead lights. Fucking absurd. (And don’t even ask about my breaker box.. absolute nightmare. Since stuff is wired into whatever they felt like, the master bedroom shorts out the kitchen 🫠)

I really want to get someone in to rewire.. remove all that crap.

Warm lighting fucks up the apparent colors of my walls and makes them look quite sickly, because the colors I have don’t mix well with yellow (ime, most bright colors don’t mix well with warm lights, and my colors specifically are mostly in the blue/purple/red side of the color wheel), so you are incorrect.

It’s all about balance; cool lights don’t need to be as intense for the same apparent lumen result. Or, you know, get a shade. I don’t even own any warm lights anymore, but the only real clue is that my walls are the correct color at night..

Even being electric, if the point is for public transit to replace personal transport, a bus will never be more desirable for most people in most places. They are slower than cars because they stop places but obey the same laws as a car going from a-b.

But I got to ride a subway when I went to Boston (I’m from a rural bus area that would greatly benefit from a local daily rail system since the rails are already run for industry) and it was so fucking amazing to just have a set of destinations I could get off and do stuff, and then get back on if it sucked and keep going.

Busses take forever to go the same distance. They will never come close, and are only good in small areas that don’t plan to expand. Cities would do better to plan for the future with light rail, even if it is a bigger upfront expense, because the long term maintenance and environmental savings (including externalized; other people in traffic etc) are worth it.

If you read my comment you’ll see I did read the whole thing.

Busses are less efficient than trains no matter how you slice it. They sit in traffic just like cars, typically use gas or will need to sit and charge forever between uses, and can only hold x small number of people. With light rail, it can be electric much more easily, carry a ton more passengers, and uses dedicated tracks to avoid the congestion of traffic.

Still a bad take.

How would one go about setting up a win 98 at this point? Do you need an ISO of it already, or can you find that somewhere for that specific use?

I ask because I have a game that I want to play for nostalgia reasons (it’s a kids game from waaay back, but I remember it fondly, and I bet I’d do a touch better now) but I can’t get it to play in any compatibility mode or anything. It just flat refuses to launch.

I got about a paragraph in before this joker said the whole reason they don’t support it is cost.

Cars are also wildly expensive, it’s just the government isn’t paying for those, it’s an externalized cost that we each pay which, if redirected toward public transit, could be substantially reduced. But they say there’s no value in this expense over running buses.. except capacity, speed due to dedicated lines, and fuel consumption, you know.

I bet this person owns stock in automaker or gas companies.

Bad take.

This is great news. I hope it works in scaled practice and can be quickly implemented

My strategy for this is to have a second password manager available on a couple old devices, accessed with biometrics (fingerprint in this case), and only the master password saved within it.

I considered saving it within the main manager itself, since I have devices where I can use biometrics rather than password, but that feels like a bad idea.

Has definitely been a life saver

A surprising lot of them are re-skinned, actually, so that’s a legit thing. Depending on your definition of pelt.

Lots of cans that were printed for discontinued lines, or printed before a label change, have plastic sleeves over the can to re-brand them, even when the label on the old and new is identical..