Have fun with your real life in real reality because of your obviously right choices. Here's a view from the side of fantasy land, where others made different choices, and are apparently not serious, and not real adults for this.
pedz
joined 2 years ago
Hi, I live in fantasy world. I get my groceries on foot, making multiple trips a week instead of one big trip. Sometimes I go to a bigger store with my bike trailer and my panniers. I live in an apartment (even more signs that I'm not a real adult), so no renovations. And for recycling stuff like old computers, tables and stuff like that, I also use my bike trailer. Otherwise there are companies specialized in moving stuff. Either on bikes, or they own the truck and deliver stuff to me. Or take it somewhere else.
I go camping with my bike in national parks. I pull my folding kayak with a trailer. All in fantasy land. I will never be an adult because I don't drive a car or own a house. I'm not even a real human. It's true that everything is made around cars and sometimes it's a pain to have to use or rent one, but most of my life can be done without it. We are millions like this. Just not being real enough for you.
And of course, the goal is to force you cycling everywhere and get rid of your precious F150, and not just motivate a few more people on kids bikes or into shitty public transit so you and your precious real life can have more space on the roads.
It's so ridiculous. I know it's a provincial matter but some suburbs around Montréal are trying to build TOD and they get threatened by the transit authority to have their train lines reduced or cut. Even if they are already not in function during evenings and weekends.
And VIA Rail trains have been extra late for a few months now, with no end in sight.
Plus, the coach industry is continuing to reduce and/or cut routes. Fifteen years ago I could go from Drummondville to Victoriaville, and be back the same day. Now there's three coaches a week. I once heard a guy in a train from Drummondville to Montréal, saying that he was visiting his brother in Victoriaville when he had to leave a day earlier and discovered there were simply no coaches leaving the city that day. He paid $80 for a taxi to get him to Drummondville so he could then take a train home.
As someone that tries to get around without a car, some days, all levels of governments make me wish I had one.
The region where I'm from is trying to re purpose an abandoned rail line into a rail trail. The project dates from 2012 (in French). All the bureaucracy involved makes the process take forever. Meanwhile the extension of a multi lane highway plowed through a wooded area, some farmland, required the construction of a bridge, is now completed.
Same for public transit always being cut, while highway extension is like the proverbial carrot on a stick for voters.
VIA Rail won't even take fucking bikes in the Corridor, yet! Going from Montreal to Drummondville with a bike involves paying $35 for the coach ticket, $15 for your bike, that must be in a box or a bag that they will sell you for $15 if you don't have one, and pay the same again to get back! Oh and there's two coaches per day, for your convenience. Also, even if you ditch the bike so you can take a train, it's going to be seriously late.
But if we're so worried about the environment and quality of life, instead of trying to get everywhere using public transit and/or a bike, maybe we should buy an electric car. That's a very good message from our "leaders".
Cars cars cars! Buy a car! Do you like your new car? You can go to places in your new car! Because you won't get there using public transit, and cycling will make you fear for your life.
Making sure Canadians can buy affordable e-bikes? Naaah. Buy a car! It's good for the economy! Everyone needs an affordable car! Cars cars cars!
I'm not sure how my install works, as I just found a script that installed everything for me and it worked on different SBCs. However, when I look into "About", HA says the installation method is supervised. And according to the article, this is precisely what is going to stop being supported.
Home Assistant is deprecating two installation methods, meaning they will continue working for now, but support will end in six months with the release of Home Assistant 2025.12. This includes Home Assistant Core, which runs in a Python environment, and Home Assistant Supervised, which involves running your own operating system underneath Home Assistant.
This is what I do. I have an Orange Pi 3b as a file server but it also runs HA in a docker image on top of that. I guess I'll just wait and see if it stops working. If so I'll try to reinstall using whatever "new/official/supported" method they want, and if not working, I'll jut give up on HA.
You'd do the same if the last time you left fish on your wooden table, it took days for the stench to go away.
Meh, I guess I will need to find a new way to install Home Assistant on my Orange Pi.
The instructions I found apparently uses the supervised version even if it's running in docker.
It's been a while since I looked into installing/reinstalling HA but AFAIK using anything else than a Raspberry Pi seems discouraged, which is... discouraging.
I'm Canadian but I went to Europe twice and I must admit that I passed by Amsterdam, because my first trip was landing there and departing from there, but I only spent a few minutes visiting the city. My main goal was Germany. I spent a few days in Hamburg and Berlin.
The second trip was also in Germany, along the Rhine, and ended in Belgium. Wallonia has nice bike trails, and I must go back to visit more of the Eifel region.
Why am I "avoiding" France? Because I speak French natively, and never considered France exotic enough. I did go to Martinique and Guadeloupe though, it's closer than France, and much warmer. But I also met French people there and they suggested some places to visit in France. So now I'm planning a trip around the Bordeaux region.
However my mother thinks Europe is a country. She is always confused when I say I went to Europe and visited Germany and Belgium.
AFAIK it's acceptable if the parent is walking or sitting with the child. It's only abusive if you tie the leash outside while you go run some errands in a store, or if left attached in the backyard.
Sorry, I don't want to be the pessimistic person but I don't have a driver's license and cycle almost everywhere I can.
I don't even live in the US and feel like a second class citizen. Everyone around me is encouraging me to get a license and a real vehicle. To them, cycling is not serious. Cyclists are dangerous and cycling is dangerous. You are not a real person to society if you dont drive. The social pressure is insane.
Even the police is telling me to be careful and think of the poor car driver that would be traumatized by hitting me. It's their way of doing safety prevention.
Bike if you can. But be aware that you will need to be strong in multiple ways. Not just the legs.
That's one of the reasons I stopped rewatching Stargate. It's so noisy.
One night, I was rewatching Stargate late during the night and I realized I needed to lower the volume often to avoid annoying or waking up the people around. I could wear headphones but I don't want to hear guns and explosions so frequently so near.
I really liked Stargate (SG-1 and Atlantis) but now a big part of what I see and hear when I watch it, is guns and explosions, and I'm passed that.