So are shoes :-)

I think I only genuinely liked one, maybe two cars I ever owned. Typically it’s just a necessary part of life and a massive waste of money, but it is exciting when it’s new.

TIL: people name their cars. Honest question, unless you have several identical cars, why?

We have a kid in a wheelchair. Car is not optional.

Yeah, I’ll have to find a new wife if I try to put a few beater bikes in the garage. It’ll get expensive fast.

Without cops, you’re fighting a bunch of junkies to get your bike back. Cops looked at me like I was an idiot when I tried to file a report for my stolen bike.

But what would you recommend? I have a bunch of PebbleBee trackers on my stuff, but I can’t think of any way to hide any of those on the bike.

I really wish there was a better way to secure bicycles. Most of the time I choose to take the car or motorcycle is because I got a nice bicycle after my old cheapo got stolen from what I thought was a safe location.

I’m not even talking about lack of bicycle racks in many parking lots, but the fact that a $50 angle grinder goes through just about any chain/u-lock in about 30 seconds.

I know this because I had to cut off my own U-lock after assholes tried to drill through the lock on mine and ruined it. Also, nobody even looked twice at a guy using an incredibly loud grinder generating a ton of sparks in the middle of a retail parking lot.

What issues? I’m pretty much 100% ipv6 on all ubiquity equipment.

There’s 0 chance these units are any cheaper because they lack parking space. This just allows developers to charge even more money from vast majority of people.

Pretty much every rolling distro works this way. Nothing fantastical about it.

If you want even more set-it-and-forget-it setup you can use any immutable distro. OpenSuse MicroOS in my grandma’s case.

That’s true, but I’ve been using it for 25+ years and prefer stock kde experience. Daily driver for work and play. Fewer issues than windows for sure. I can’t figure out macos so I try to avoid it.

OpenSuse

That’s not typical, right? Few sites I found say average nl commute is 19km. I commute around 13km on bicycle and it takes around 35 minutes mostly because of traffic lights.

None of that happens though and cli is not needed for most users. Updates are automatically pulled and installed whenever she restarts. Worst case scenario she knows to press down once during boot to select previous snapshot.

My 97yo grandma uses Linux without even being aware what OS she’s on. Web sites open the same. Telegram works the same.

Anyone saying Linux isn’t user friendly hasn’t used it in decades or ever.

Most Windows/macos users wouldn’t be able to install those either so that’s a non argument.

Where do you live?