Some flashlights I own have a lockout feature to prevent this from happening accidentally.
The one bike light that doesn’t have this lockout mode, or the ability to disconnect the battery by unscrewing the cap, burned through a dry bag I had it in…
Still a good light, but I had to tape a metal ring over the on/off button, so this never happens again.
I don’t mind a long-click to turn off/on, and a short click to move between SOLID modes (high/low). But for the love of Christ and all the saints, any strobe mode should be a special key combination (i.e. double click).
Flashlights that have you moving through multiple strobe modes before you can get to a different brightness level, or before you reach “off” are infuriating.
Some are absurdly bad in this regard!
“Oh, you want to reduce the brightness? Scroll through 7 modes, including 4 epileptic seizure-inducing strobe modes, before you can get to low brightness mode.”
Very, very, VERY few people actually care about other people’s kids. And that interest only goes up slightly when they are related to the child.
Nothing wrong with you feeling that way.
As for vacations, life events, etc., I’m interested in knowing what goes on in my friend’s lives… that’s kind of what having a friend is about.
BUT… I’m interested in hearing about these things face to face. I couldn’t care less if they’re just social media spam about what they did with their spouse. That’s one reason why I stopped using social media.
Floccus is actually just a sync tool, it can also sync with Linkwarden in the latest version.
No way! I just uninstalled Linkwarden because it wasn’t working well on too many websites (i.e. it would capture cookie popups or “choose your country” rather than the page I wanted).
Glad to see some cool updates and integration, though.
I think we fundamentally agree to the same thing, and the things that need to happen for us to get there.
I’m probably more pessimistic because our elected leaders (with no foreseeable change happening any time soon) have been waging war on all things green and sustainable. As an example, our provincial leader recently suggested that we stop building cycling infrastructure to help ease traffic congestion. The public voted for him, then re-elected him, despite the massive damage he’s caused our protected areas and the downgrade to transportation he pushes.
So, even when we know what needs to be done. How do we convince voters to make the right choice in their elected officials? And then convince every branch of government to follow suit with making the right decisions. :(
Yes, of course i agree that having the right infrastructure in place can make the best choice the default.
However, we run into a problem.
Take your example, “If your local grid is powered by renewables + storage, then no personal choice or sacrifice is needed.”
In order for that to happen, a massive investment needs to be made, the right government (who supports the idea) needs to be in place, people need to be willing to pay more (for the implementation and cost of this greener tech), and the public needs enough reason to demand it.
In your other example, “Same goes for cycling when there’s a good city-wide network of protected bike lanes vs mixed traffic.”, we run into a similar set of issues, plus a twist:
Certain infrastructure, especially cycling infrastructure, doesn’t get built because there’s no demand. But there’s no (current) demand because such infrastructure doesn’t exist.
I’ve been to enough city planning meetings to know that this is a very real roadblock, and it’s hard to convince municipal planners to spend taxpayer dollars building cycling infrastructure without this demand already in place.
In that case, you do have to make an effort (and often a sacrifice) in order to be the demand that planners are looking for. But I’ll say that it’s often very difficult to convince someone to ride on (current) dangerous infrastructure to make a point.
The same could be said for public transit. And if you manage to convince your local government that there’s enough demand, it could be years or decades before the infrastructure is built.
I’ve looked at our region’s active transportation plans from years ago, and much of the planned bike lanes never happened, despite there still being a need. It’s incredibly frustrating.
But what about personal choices that can be made right now? Committing to a plant-based diet, making an effort to go plastic free, buying second hand when possible and not replacing things until they are broken, etc.
How do we convince individuals to make these personal choices, rather than have them wait for someone else to do something about climate change?
The question you should ask is “how do we get people to give a shit enough to be slightly inconvenienced in order to stop destroying humanity’s future?”.
It’s hard enough to convince people to eat plant based for a single day, or to offset a single car ride with their bike.
Yet we need the majority of people (and any corporations they run) to make a real effort, when they are too lazy, ignorant, uninterested, unmotivated, unwilling, too entitled, or narcissistic to take action.
Edit: fixed autocorrect chaos.
I didn’t say that we’ll run out in our lifetime, but we will run out. It’s a finite resource.
Fossil fuel is here to stay
Um, as a nonrenewable resource, I think we can disagree.
We will run out, and sooner than most people think.
The problem we should be trying to solve is how can we still manufacture things, without fossil fuels?
All the green technology today still depends on fossil fuels in their manufacturing. If we can’t figure out alternatives, and fast, it won’t matter what kind of vehicle you use. Even bikes will be obsolete if you can’t make tires or lubricant.
I self-host https://floccus.org/
If you’ve got a browser that supports plugins, then you can use the floccus add-in. But for Android, I use the floccus app since it’s just easier.
Floccus is primarily a bookmarking service, but if you want to save articles for viewing later Linkwarden might be a better fit.
We don’t need any knew infrastructure, we just need to get cars out of the way.
That article speaks to my soul!
Just this past weekend, I rode about 70km each way to see my folks, across 6 or 7 municipalities.
I made it there in about 2.5 hours, across some pretty sketch “not high speed roads, but cars were going high speed anyway”, with much of that having no cycling infrastructure (or shoulders).
What frustrated me most wasn’t the asshole who punished passed me (pickup truck, of course), or the BMW driver who stopped on a raised, protected bike lane to pick up a passenger, but the amount of time I spent at red lights. Over 40 minutes each way!
Had there been a highway for bikes, or even just priority bike intersections, this trip would have taken no time.
Cars suck for everyone!
No problem. When I decided to look for myself, it seems this question has come up on their forum, and the dev gets really salty over it 😂
Looks like good software, though. 👍
It doesn’t look to be open source, or is it?
Tech companies only care about making money. If people continue to buy their half-effort products, then they’ll keep making it.
On the other hand, open-source (hardware or software) is designed for maximum longevity.
Unfortunately, the wrong people have unlimited resources when it comes to making our tech products.
“Western culture”? 😂
And I heard in a public consultation meeting about bike lanes that… get this… Adding bike lanes would make it dangerous for kids to get to school.
What backwards universe did we wake up in?
Does America not have school buses anymore?
I’m in Canada, and yes, we do. In fact, the buses were having difficulty getting into the school’s parking lot because of the way the illegally parked cars were quite literally at the edge of the turn (leaving little space for the bus). It’s been sheer madness these past few weeks.
And it’s hilarious (not) when people put on their hazard lights to park illegally while they pick up their kid. I swear to the gods, if my municipality ever gave citizens the ability to write up parking tickets, I’d reduce our property taxes by 10% from the revenue I’d generate! 😄
For speeding, yes, you’re right. I was talking more about general inattentiveness, bad judgment, actual malicious driving behaviour, and poorly skilled drivers. No amount of infrastructure can correct that! LOL
Oh geeze, yeah, I hope that what I wrote didn’t come off as “not caring” about the wellbeing of other people’s children, because that’s absolutely not what I meant!
What I mean is that most people don’t get excited about when someone else’s child just spoke their first word, or took their first step. They really don’t, because it’s not a milestone that impacts that person’s life in any meaningful way.
When someone sends you baby picture after baby picture, or their kid’s school trip photos… nobody actually “cares” about those things. It occupies no space in their head past that brief moment they were told about it. That’s what I mean.
If those things make you happy, there’s nothing wrong with that, either!
Do cute kids put a smile on my face? Of course. But do I care that an acquaintance’s child now uses the potty? Not. At. All.