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  • I made this change like back in December or so. I had been distro hopping since moving to Linux in August of last year and was on a ton of distros with KDE that all had Wayland.

    I moved to Mint Cinnamon because it seemed to be one of the few that wasn’t using Wayland and my issues stopped. I believe they did have experimental Wayland on one of the versions and I made sure not to use that one since I was under the impression it was due to Wayland and remember trying to decide between the other options they had.




  • The Steam Frame has a good chance of changing that like the Steam Deck did for handheld computer gaming. Partly because it bridges the gap between PC gaming and handheld gaming because the early Rift and Vive were strictly PC based which excluded people who didn’t have the best gaming rigs and these headsets weren’t cheap either. And then Meta comes along as does Pico but they focus on handheld gaming which is cheaper but doesn’t allow the best graphics or long term games, more mobile style games than anything else.

    But the Steam Frame has a chance to make a better bridge between the two since it is a PC at its core and runs Linux and doesn’t need a dedicated PC to play games.

    I’m optimistic, anyway.





  • Okay so you get the promise of cheaper premiums for now….

    Insurance companies of all types are greedy as fuck. This is temporary. This will get increased in the next 5 years, and I’m being conservative with that number because these slimy fucks will likely be trying to increase prices the next day after this goes into effect.

    Supposedly you’ll get a cheaper premium today at the cost of not being reimbursed to make you whole tomorrow. So what happens when these same companies come back and want to increase your premium by $10? Are you now going to make parties whole by the same percentage? Likely not. And the cowardly government is just going to let them step on the public again.

    And how does this work for out of state drivers in New York? You get into a wreck and you’re just fucked despite supposedly paying more than a New York driver who hit you?





  • NutinButNettome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    Problem is a bike won’t be as efficient or realistic for a long distance. A bus takes too many stops for longer distances and isn’t ideal in cold/hot conditions for waiting.

    My job sent us out of town for a week and paid for Uber rides because the trip from the airport was over 20 miles. Too long for a bicycle and it wasn’t going to be fun to wait for a bus in the pouring rain where everyone was already crowded under the only shaded area. Not to mention the thought of doing public transportation when Covid was much more rampant.

    Also better in bad areas. Public transportation in a bad neighborhood is a great way to get mugged or assaulted, especially if you’re a woman to be the target of some really nasty abuse, best outcome is verbal and worse is physical. And bicycle is about the same. People have easy access to assault you and catch you from behind while stopped. Not that you won’t from an Uber/taxi ride, but the risk is lower.


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    Also happens in the other way too, probably more often as the driver since you should have your eyes on the road more. But being in both spots, I’ve definitely felt eyes staring at me and looked to see them just staring in the mirror.

    ”Did I run a red light? Did they just ask me something and I zoned out and didn’t hear them? Did I just run over someone and didn’t notice? WHY ARE YOU STARING AT ME?!”