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More than ever

Eh, I’m an Australian who works with old British machinery, so I’m used to thinking in Imperial too. You’ll never get away from it, not in our lifetimes.

Diesel is equivalent to 2 €/Liter in Australia right now. Given that the country runs on diesel, its a nightmare. Even the few people who don’t own cars are hurting, because the ships that bring in food run on diesel, the trucks and trains that bring the food from the ports to the rest of the country run on diesel. The grain producers and cattle farms, some of which are the size of small countries, all run on diesel. The cost of diesel is hitting everyone.

5/32"? What in the washing machines per football pitch kind of archaic measuring system is that?

Do you have access to HKEY_CURRENT_USER in the registry? You can usually edit this even without admin rights.

I went back to the old Win10 right click menu by this method on my work PC, which sped things up substantially

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2287432/(article)-restore-old-right-click-context-menu-in

I carry a Linux phone in my normal pocket, not my other one.

The camera doesn’t work, I don’t have any problem with apps but I am probably not a typical user in that regard, but my 5000mAh battery lasts me a day and ends on 30-40%, which is reasonable but not nearly as good as Android. My family members complain I sound like I’m underwater when I call them and the phone crashes every morning when I take it off the charger.

Linux phones are a wonderful promise but require a lot of comprimises. I hope they improve soon

Beats dying of lung cancer

Same way my grandad quit smoking. Dad used to slip horse hairs into some of his cigarettes so when he’d go to take a drag he could never be sure if he was going to end up with a throat full of horse hair or if he picked a lucky one. Scared him straight, he never smoked again.

But its the left who are the American Idiots! /s

Debian Testing then

Nah I’ll give the Americans this one. I don’t use metric time either

I just go with 1.6 because its still easy enough to do in your head.

Eg. 60mi = 60 + (60/2) + (60/10) = 96km

Yeah honestly I don’t get the hate, maybe this is why.

I could never live in the city. That place is dark, full of tall buildings that block out the sky and covered in trash over concrete that blocks out the ground.

Out here in the country I have a ten minute commute and would go insane if I had to work from home. I’m quite happy to go to the office five days a week.

I think cities are the problem, not commuting.

Just install Win10 anyway. Only caveat of not activating is youre stuck with the default wallpaper

This may be an unpopular opinion but who cares? I’ll use DVI if I have to.

This is the exact same argument the Hackintosh community had. “Apple will never put a stop to us, we’re the hardcore tinkerers who find bugs in their software before any normal user!”

Google doesn’t care. The hardcore users on the bleeding edge make up 0.001% of people with an Android phone. Pissing them off will not affect the shareholders.

I run SailfishOS and Australia mandates VoLTE now. It works.

Perhaps not stability, but certainly the ability to understand a problem and fix things is why I use Linux. On Windows or MacOS you just get “Oops, something unexpected happened”, or if youre lucky “Error -2847”.

On linux you can read the journalctl or have a poke in /var/log/ and actually find an answer that’s more helpful than “reinstall the operating system / program”

Is that common?

Apparently this is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy but - I like cars? Cars are fun. You can learn so much working on them and restoring them. Learn to weld, learn to build engines and gearboxes, learn to paint, learn how to do wiring. And at the end of it after all that blood, sweat, and tears - you have something fun you can drive about in!

Why does everybody here hate on my hobby so much? Its like the one thing I have in this world. Let me enjoy it.