Twice a car has come into the bike lane while I was in it and I swear my heart was in my throat. I was fine both times, but people get distracted and I’m all for barriers

Less traffic routes is usually my strategy as well. Annoying to lose the time, but so much less stressful having less cars around

I live in Montana in a city that is extremely bike friendly relative to nearby states. Still the little bits of friction make choosing to bike difficult. My work commute is 3 miles with a bike path most of the way, and then a bike lane for most of the rest. I biked to work every day this last year (even through the snow) and I loved it, but it made me bitter to how much cars are preferred.

Some of the crosswalks I use are parallel to a 45MPH stroad and I hate crossing them. Cars barely have to slow down to take the huge turns and they never are looking for pedestrians/bikes. I always stop and wait for a gap in cars because the chances I’m seen are just too low. Not Just Bikes has a good video on making crosswalks safer and I wish my city would take notes. One of my friends has been hit by a car 3 times because he’s more reckless on crosswalks than me - I hate saying reckless because it should be a place that’s safe for him to cross - no injuries ever.

In winter the bike paths were sometimes plowed, other times they’d just wait until the next storm. Snow drifts never were plowed. Studded tires are a must. The unreliability was a huge pain. I remember one snow storm came in while I was working and I had to walk my bike most of the way home.

Some of the lights make pedestrians wait an entire light cycle to cross so I’ll leave the bike path to ride in the road just to save time. I know they do it in the name of safety so that bikes cross right when the light is green and are more visible, but it’s hugely punishing to bike commute times, and I would argue that it’s no safer. Cars aren’t going to see bikes either way. I’ve complained to my city twice about one particularly dangerous intersection on the bike path and was told they have a 7 year plan to make it safer. No details how. I hope for once it involves slowing down cars.

Also, for the small section of my commute in the painted bike lane, I’ve been pushed off the road twice by cars. Both times on their cellphones. So I don’t see painted bike lanes as offering any protection at all.

I’m confused… how do all of you handle your merge conflicts???

Why does the sun heat the Earth if space is a vacuum?

If you enjoy science fiction, Ready Player One is super great. Do not judge it based off the movie. Quite different plots. Do skip Ready Player Two though.

How are they doing this though? They just black list any traffic coming from all VPNs they know about?

What if someone in the US were to use a VPN?

Or are they getting location data from the phone itself?

Do geese see god?

Linux would be best for reliability. Nothing’s better than untimely windows updates. Also, less power usage. If you do decide to go with Linux you should look into running jellyfin via docker. Makes it super portable and best of all makes it simple to run other docker services from the same machine (nextcloud, trillium, pihole).

You can set up duckdns for free domain names (with a docker service for dynamic IP) and use nginx as a reverse proxy to all your services (if you plan on streaming outside your house)

Rouge-likes and wave based shooters.

Love risk of rain 2, and have played years of zombies. Just discovered vampire survivors

This video gives me hope!! Wild how much push back trains and busses get in the U.S…

I sometimes buy a physical book but end up pirating a copy to my ereader so I can read in bed easier and use the dyslexic font. Makes me a bit sad that the books don’t get those creases in the spine from being read. Just looks like I own a bunch of books I didn’t read

Risk of rain 2 if you’re into FPV rouge likes (I love zombies and any wave shooter game really)

One of my favorite games of all time. The music is 10/10 epic. I’m trying to get 100% completion. Especially amazing with friends to just chill and slay. Mercenary is my go to character. Hard to learn, but rewarding.

I picked up Outer Wilds which is on sale but I don’t think is on the list. I hear it’s amazing so I’m excited to play.

SSX Tricky

My whole family has put in way too many hours, it’s the only game where we actually are competitive against each other. Even my dad, who plays 0 other video games likes to play with us. I wouldn’t say it’s unpopular, just irrelevant today for most people, but not for us…

For a long time, we each had some PS2s to play, but not I emulate on the steam deck and and play even more than before. I’ve never had a game before where I actually try for high scores and practice.

My oldest brother is definitely the undisputed champion, but I can beat him when my favorite character, Moby, is maxed out, while his, Mac, is default level (which is the case and will remain the case on my steam deck)

Also, I still play Black Ops 1 zombies. I think they added more to the zombies in future games than I’m interested in. I own black ops 3 and hear that Shadows of Evil is amazing but every time I sit down to learn it, I just lose interest. Maybe there’s extra friction because I’m usually playing solo.