I’m just a silly old car with bad opinions

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Cake day: July 9th, 2023

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  • Truck being driven was most likely one of These (notice the hydraulic arm for the concrete chute on the front and in the video). Concrete probably sloshed out of the top and thus down the chute onto the car. IDK if there’s a way to close these up when in “transport” mode.

    There’s no way to tell if the truck is going too fast since we don’t know the speed limit of the road nor the truck’s actual speed. Regardless that’s a lot of weight you need to stop in a short period of time even if the driver was going under the speed limit.

    My armchair guess is genuine accident caused by poor visibility with the bush in the way and the driver understandably freezing up with a giant ass truck barreling up on them







  • Not only that, periodic wildfires are a critical component in some ecosystems. I live near a an ecosystem that relies on prescribed burns from the Forest Service in order to keep it in shape. Before the FS was a thing our local Indigenous tribes were the ones doing these burns and maintaining the land. Letting it run wild would put us in a similar situation to the Western US, on top of the invasive species outperforming and choking out the native ones.












  • I’ve grown up with windows (started with windows 95 in elementary school) and have been a Linux user since 2009. Watching windows decline and the Linux desktop grow and mature has been quite the ride. I’ve been distro-hopping for years and have finally settled on Debian Testing. It does exactly what I tell it to do. It helps me accomplish whatever task I’m doing and then gets out of the way.

    Windows on the other hand is the polar opposite of that. Constantly nagging you to use OneDrive. New panels and “experiences” popping up out of nowhere. Unskippable OOBEs after a major update that force you to navigate some dark pattern if you have the audacity to resist using a Microsoft account. The telemetry that you know is running under the hood 24/7. Hands and knees begging you to use Edge to open PDFs?!?! Using windows today is like using Clippy - the operating system.

    Linux has come such a long way, and outside of some proprietary edge cases, I can no longer imagine using Windows as a daily driver