[–] 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

We've all cycled and found the mechanical driver's on roads who seem to think they have permanent right of way even over a cyclist, and been stood up going 15mph+ Vs the general flow of traffic makes for much less stress on both sides.

Albeit stood up going 30+mph and like I say - you need to have cojones right now with our current road system :/

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (4 children)

    Totally disagree on the 15mph limit.

    While it's a little scary travelling faster than that stood up (trust me, I'm a thrill seeker) I got talking to a dual motor ebiker tonight and he like me said the same after he had had prior escoots too - being able to keep up to the 30mph general traffic made my buying decision easy because travelling on pavements with them is literally waiting to ram someone talking on a phone coming out of a shop or, driving on the road. Which is the only way.

    Being limited to 15mph though is outright dangerous in my, and that guy in Farmfoods with his dual motor ebike opinion, too.

    I've had HGV's trying to bully me whilst doing the speed limit and it's not fun.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Aye, I'm all good and stopped using Nova after many years when the Branch crap came out.

    It's the FB domain, and their many other bought out ones (WhatsApp nty) that are blocked at a network level here. No ghost accounts for me :p

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Cheers OP for the heads up, sooooo glad I started blocking those domains a long while ago with OpenWRT > Tailscale exit node at home.

    Frustrating sometimes since peeps link many charities and shit via FB, but easily circumvented via archive sites tor i2p etc.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Indeed.

    Reminds me of the Android Market Play Store and not being able to use PayPal back yonder and having to use a throwaway top-up, debit card if you wanted to buy apps. Ewww.

    e: the online Safety thing can suck my plums?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I think it was actually DBAN I dabbled with firstly, and then like you Knoppix. I played too much later with microkernel distros like DSL / Tinycore, then Debian / Ubuntu's etc.

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