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  • I believe the parent post is nicely sketching out what a “best” move is. I have seen no better approach myself. At the same time I see what you see. The best approach isn’t all that great. If you’re lucky and find the right people it could work. There’s a lot of luck involved there.

    That’s why I do think there should be some regulations indicating what is tolerated. It seems to me parent poster may agree (and thus also woth your take).

    Since GDPR you can tell the school you don’t want pictures on platforms you disagree with. You may miss out on seeing the photo’s, you might come across as crazy, but you can (and you should). We were given a choice at the cost of extra paperwork and some limitations.

    Even without the addiction problem of these platforms we should nurture and find a good society around us. It’s a valid take to try and find likeminded people.

    I don’t think that’s the end of it. Given the state we’re in, the network effect, and the fragile ego of developing kids, I suppose we need a stronger push.

    AI enforced age verification or logins which allow you to be followed anywhere is not the solution in my current opinion, it’s a different problem. The problems are the addictive and steering nature of the platforms which seems to be hard to describe in a clear way legally.

    I wonder how “these platforms” should be defined and what minimum set of limitations would give us and the children the necessary breathing space.


  • I’ll reply to this random one with that statement. There’s no winning move as a parent.

    Problem is being locked out. If your kid is the only one not on social media and all other kids are, your kid will be socially left out.

    All kids are on a chat platform you don’t support. What do you? Disallow it and give them a social handicap that might scar them, or allow it and take the risk?

    The same goes for allowing images on other platforms. Since GDPR schools seem to care. Yet if it’s a recording that will be put on social media you can explain your 4 year old why they weren’t allowed to participate… It sucks.

    I don’t know what the right way forward is. I don’t think this is it. Something is needed though. We should at least signal what we find acceptable as a society. Bog stupid rules which are trivial to circumvent might be good enough, or perhaps some add campaigns like we did with smoking (hehe, if it’s for something we support then adds are good?).

    Regardless, the current situation clearly doesn’t work. It would be great if we could find and promote the least invasive solutions.





  • Really depends on what is considered nice about MacOS. Just had a new on-boarding with someone who really liked their Mac keybindings and it seems getting those dialed in is nicer (easier? better?) on KDE. I’d also generally gravitate towards Gnome for Mac users though.

    As a piece of advice for OP: Accept the use of keybindings over the touchpad. Mac has done a great job and I have not seen a Linux laptop/distro combination that nails it. Search for the pain-points after switching and ask about it (kindly) on a community like this.


  • Having experimented with this a lot, I’d say it depends :P

    Keyboard only you can get by with 5fps or so, but there’s no real feedback at that point.

    15fps is ok and quite usable. Artifacts are the more annoying thing at that rate. 30fps is really more then necessary (though I agree higher is nice on lcd displays).

    What bothered me most is the limited contrast, pixel density and limited amount of colors on color eink display.



  • Like any other car, but less worry about the drivetrain and a bit more about the suspension.

    It seems batteries last quite wel. Our car has 250k km on it. The battery is fine (90%-ish) and the engine runs smooth. Listen for sounds of bearings failing if there’s no extra sounds. Drive a second one of the same make and model to compare suspension and noise to.

    Check the reputation of the brand and see if it lives up to your standards in terms of wear.









  • I agree to that extent, but I don’t think people will be deterred by it unless it’s not allowed by law.

    A car from the early '90s is still driven unless it becomes too expensive for the comfort it provides but safety does not seem to be a consideration for many at this price-point (and I guess at other price points too). Modern regular cars are far more safe than what was typical in the '90s and trucks are far less safe than regular modern cars, yet they’re on the road.

    As such, I think people people will keep using it, downplaying the risk involved. Many don’t treat cars as a boring means of transportation but rather as a desirable object. Us humans don’t act very logical when we want something.