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Owning a Car Is Less Important To Younger Generations.
  • I didn't read through your whole comment to be clear, but your first sentence clearly points out that you either didn't read or understand that I specifically said "That doesn't include other costs from driving obviously in which it would be overall cheaper to take public transit..." And then I equate the lost time due to not having the best public transportation as being part of the issue.

    I don't care what the value of my car is. I'm not holding it as an asset like an investment. It is a tool to get me back and forth to where I need to go because public transportation is not the most effective means of travel where I live.

    I need to walk excessively far to get to a bus stop, having to haul around a child while doing so makes it that much more complicated.

    That being said, there are times where say, I would like to go to an event in the inner city. I will drive to a park and ride and take the train, but the nearest park and ride to the trains are a 20 minute drive away.

    So while you are talking about costs and valuation etc. I have already adjusted for that but didn't go into the specific details because the lack of a good transportation system is the biggest reason that I don't use it as much as I would like.

    Yes, overall it is cheaper, but due to factors outside of my control (aside from voting and trying to be more involved when I can with public relations in regards to transportation) it is still more feasible for me to use personal transportation rather than public.

    A second example is this, it takes me well over an hour on public transit to take my kid to one of their weekly meetings. It takes me 10 minutes to drive there with moderate traffic.

    Trust me when I say that I would absolutely love to not need to drive a vehicle however it is simply unfeasible with my current responsibilities.

    Edit just for clarity: Trying not to give too much personal info but I also have to move between various work sites throughout the day for which there are no public transportation options. So it basically negates anything I've said in terms of cost for fuel, maintenance etc. but it does leave me with no choice but to drive.

  • Owning a Car Is Less Important To Younger Generations.
  • I wonder where the results of this research come from.

    Even with a size of 10,000+ people, I would definitely like to see the information on where they live, because that is a massive factor.

    I live in a place with ok (not great but not horrible) public transportation. Problem is, it's way cheaper for me to drive to work than to take public transportation.

    It costs me 4$ a week in fuel to drive to work. A monthly transit pass is more than 100$. Even with an honored citizen pass which is just under 30$, it's still cheaper for me to drive to work.

    This doesn't include other costs from driving obviously in which it would be overall cheaper to take public transit, however it's overly time consuming just to get to a local store and back home due to a lack of better transit. It would take me almost an hour one way just to go 3 miles to the local grocery store.

    I'm not saying cars are better by any means, but the necessity is very much dependent on where people live, so the data could be skewed simply by that factor alone.

    I lived in mainland Japan for a while, the public transit system is amazing. What also helps is that there are smaller local places where you can simply walk to in order to get groceries or other necessities.

    I wish the US wasn't stuck in this capitalistic nightmare and just started heavily investing in public transit. Then, in places where transit is fully functional (and reasonable), start pushing an occasional non driving day, with free or reduced fare transit. Anything to slowly integrate public transit systems into people's daily lives so it isn't seen as some lower tier form of transport or a hunge inconvenience.

  • Yet another video takedown.
  • I have one of these and a dumper.

    I took all of the games we have and dumped them onto an SD card. I use it for the second switch we have that our kid uses.

    No messing about with swapping cartridges and taking a chance on losing one, which has already happened once.

    I ended up with a V2 which is even better. No wear and tear from popping the cartridge in and out and all the games on it.

    Aside from the "inconvenience" of having to push the button to roll through the games, it was worth it.

  • Trump is 78 and barely coherent. Where's everyone who questioned Biden's age and fitness?
  • .ml here, I hope he goes to prison for a very long time.

    Granted I knew nothing of the differences between .ml, hexbear, etc at the time I joined, and still kinda don't. To be fair I question what the hell im doing half the time anyway lmao.

    Maybe someone that is a little more involved in the different servers could shine some light? Cause man I get frustrated seeing some of the stuff I do, even when I try to tailor my feed to certain subs it still bleeds through lol.

  • In an effort to "not show bias" Trump's sentencing is delayed till after the election.
  • As much as I don't want to agree, I partially do agree with your first statement and hope (regardless of how little faith I have in the justice system) that they are intentionally doing this so they can let the can of worms open if he loses and then take every single person they can down with him when they try to derail the results and attempt a 2nd coup.

    It would be the icing on the cake, like you lost and you made a second attempt at it, there's no fucking back tracking and now we have even more people that came out of the woods to help you and we are going to take you all down.

    They could put him in jail now, but corruption is rampant, but maybe (sliver of hope) there is some quiet digging of graves for these people to fall into.

  • Japan: Nearly 4,000 people found more than month after dying alone, report says
  • Having lived there for almost 10 years, most of it as a "local", they also have a very real problem of foreigners coming there and destroying apartments or racking up debt and just leaving.

    There's more going on obviously, like the xenophobia you mention, and just straight up racism, and probably other things. So it's a little more than just a cultural problem but that is a decent chunk of it.

  • Sony's PC obsession continues with in-depth DualSense Edge customisation on your PC
  • I'm curious about the stick drift thing.

    I have 3 controllers, two of which I've had since maybe 6 months after the PS5 was released since that's about how long it took me to get one.

    Both controllers have a few hundred hours on them, neither have stick drift. The third one doesn't have nearly the amount of hours on it since my kid spilled juice on it and I procrastinated for a few months to take it apart and clean it lol so I'm not considering that one.

    Is it really that bad or did I just get lucky? These things are almost 4 years old and still work perfectly fine.

  • Beyond-All-Reason: Open source RTS game built on top of the Recoil RTS Engine
  • Just a note for those interested in the local play aspect of it like I was.

    You don't need to create an account to play the game locally.

    You can just exit out of the first menu and play the scenarios that are available.

  • FFVII and 7th Heaven
  • I was considering that, but was reluctant to do it without any advice since I don't know enough about the Deck and how it works other than it runs on a variant of Arch.

    After your comment I did try it and it worked.

    Thank you!

  • FFVII and 7th Heaven

    Has anyone gotten 7th Heaven to work with Linux?

    I know there are instructions for the Steam Deck floating around so I'm hoping someone here might be able to point me in the direction of some instructions for Linux.

    I couldn't find anything relevant from a few searches but I did get Memoria and Moguri working pretty easily for FFIX by just running the exe using protontricks-launch, tried that with the 7th Heaven installer and it crashes out with the following error and output from the terminal.

    Internal error: Failed to expand shell folder constant "userpf"

    [x@archlinux FFVII]$ protontricks-launch --appid 39140 7thHeaven-v3.9.9.33_Release.exe

    pressure-vessel-wrap[12440]: W: Not sharing path --filesystem="/etc" with container because "/etc" is reserved by the container framework

    pressure-vessel-wrap[12440]: W: Not sharing path --filesystem="/sbin" with container because "/sbin" is reserved by the container framework

    wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

    fsync: up and running.

    wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

    002c:fixme:winediag:loader_init wine-staging 9.0 is a testing version containing experimental patches.

    002c:fixme:winediag:loader_init Please mention your exact version when filing bug reports on winehq.org.

    wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

    0070:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005 0070:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005 0070:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005 0070:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005 0090:fixme:hid:handle_IRP_MN_QUERY_ID Unhandled type 00000005

    wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

    0090:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented! 0090:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented! 0090:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented! 0090:fixme:xinput:pdo_pnp IRP_MN_QUERY_ID type 5, not implemented! wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

    002c:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (000000000021FEA0 0000000000000000): stub

    wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1.

    0024:fixme:thread:GetThreadUILanguage : stub, returning default language. 0024:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 005DD99C, 00000000 005DD9C4 0024:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x409 005DD99C 00000000 005DD9C4) returning a dummy value (current locale)

    0024:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 005DD99C, 016CA680 005DD9C4 0024:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x409 005DD99C 016CA680 005DD9C4) returning a dummy value (current locale)

    0114:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0114:fixme:uiautomation:uia_get_providers_for_hwnd Override provider callback currently unimplemented. 0114:fixme:uiautomation:default_uia_provider_callback Default ProviderType_NonClientArea provider unimplemented.

    0114:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0114:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_fragment_get_FragmentRoot 0000000000817EE8, 000000000021F9D0: stub!

    0114:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_fragment_GetEmbeddedFragmentRoots 0000000000817EE8, 000000000021F9E0: stub!

    wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. 012c:fixme:thread:GetThreadUILanguage : stub, returning default language. 012c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 00A0D9E8, 00000000 00A0DA10 012c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x409 00A0D9E8 00000000 00A0DA10) returning a dummy value (current locale)

    012c:fixme:nls:RtlGetThreadPreferredUILanguages 00000038, 00A0D9E8, 019FA680 00A0DA10 012c:fixme:nls:get_dummy_preferred_ui_language (0x38 0x409 00A0D9E8 019FA680 00A0DA10) returning a dummy value (current locale)

    012c:fixme:wtsapi:WTSRegisterSessionNotification Stub 000100A8 0x00000000 012c:fixme:uxtheme:BufferedPaintInit Stub () 012c:fixme:win:DisableProcessWindowsGhosting : stub 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy (000100A8): stub 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonCreate (000100A8, L"Installing"): stub 012c:fixme:rstrtmgr:RmStartSession 006BFB40, 0, 006BFB44 stub! 012c:fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. 0138:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFA, 007CFEB8 012c:fixme:exec:SHELL_execute flags ignored: 0x00000100 wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. 0148:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (000000000021FEA0 0000000000000000): stub wine: using kernel write watches, use_kernel_writewatch 1. 0154:fixme:kernelbase:AppPolicyGetProcessTerminationMethod FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFA, 000000000019FE80 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy (000100A8): stub 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonCreate (000100A8, L"Installing 7th Heaven."): stub 012c:fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx 000300D6 c051 1 00000000 012c:fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx 000400D6 c051 1 00000000 012c:fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx 000200DC c051 1 00000000 0164:fixme:ver:GetCurrentPackageId (000000000021FEA0 0000000000000000): stub 012c:fixme:msg:ChangeWindowMessageFilterEx 000300DC c051 1 00000000 012c:fixme:shell:SHAutoComplete stub 0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083D0F0, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

    0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 0000000000827610, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

    0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32770" 0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083D0F0, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

    0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 0000000000827610, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

    0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"#32769" 0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083C320, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

    0120:fixme:oleacc:find_class_data unhandled window class: L"Button" 0120:fixme:uiautomation:msaa_provider_GetPatternProvider Unimplemented patternId 10002 0120:fixme:uiautomation:base_hwnd_provider_GetPatternProvider 000000000083D0F0, 10002, 000000000181F8A0: stub

    012c:fixme:rstrtmgr:RmEndSession 3735928559 stub! 012c:fixme:graphics:ShutdownBlockReasonDestroy (000100A8): stub 012c:fixme:wtsapi:WTSUnRegisterSessionNotification Stub 000100A8 012c:fixme:uxtheme:BufferedPaintUnInit Stub ()

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    What's the craziest thing you have ever seen someone do on public transit?
  • On a bus from El Paso to Phoenix someone smoked a joint in the bus bathroom and got dumped on the side of the highway immediately after.

    Two hours later on that same bus trip the bus got raided by immigration and I got into an argument with the officer that wouldn't accept my ACTIVE, UNEXPIRED Military ID as a valid form of ID and started yelling at me for my passport (I have a Spanish last name). I threw my passport at him and told him to fuck off before I got my command group involved with his. I don't know how that worked but he got real quiet and left me alone immediately after that lol. There were several people that were pulled off of that bus that night. It was overall pretty shitty.

  • Florida student who assaulted school employee over Nintendo Switch gets 5 years in prison
  • Did you read the article?

    He was already a special needs student with an apparently individualized education program. This doesn't sound like a "Why now?" Situation. It sounds a bit like there may be more going on, especially since the school district declined to answer when questioned about it.

    You may be right that it's probably not the first sign of aggression but he's also autistic with other issues. Do you know how expensive it is to get help, how our healthcare/insurance system preys on people to take their money rather than help them, and the likelihood of this family maybe not being able to help more than they already were?

    I feel sorry for the person that he hurt, but this is a mentally ill black kid getting tossed in prison because of a mental illness. Which is going to ruin him just like you said.

    The judge saying he showed no remorse is bs used to paint this kid in the worst light. Well no fucking shit he showed no remorse, if he's got a bunch of mental problems that would make sense. I knew a kid growing up that was similar, he was extremely strong and even the slightest thing could set him on a rampage. His parents drained everything they had into helping him, but it wasn't enough. When the insurance stops paying what are you going to do?

    I'm not saying that nothing should be done but there's more to this than "parents failed the kid with mental disabilities".

  • US Email Providers - Other then Google, MS, Apple, ...
  • Edit: just realized you said US based. Tuta is not US based so that might not work for you. Sorry about that.

    Tutanota (now just Tuta) allows you to use your domain. I use it, it doesn't support external clients (Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) but they do have Android, Linux, Windows (maybe Mac too) clients.

    It's also cheap.

    I've been using it for a few years now, it works for me.

    You can get a free account to check it out first and if you like it just upgrade to get the personal domain usage and increased storage limit.

  • New York parents who report abuse to protect themselves and their families often become the targets of child welfare investigators. A lawsuit is trying to change that.
  • Yeah, it sounds like some reform to the process should be made.

    I don't necessarily disagree with having child welfare involved, just how they handle things might be a bit (or a lot) on the iffy side.

    This is where you get to an impasse though, the procedures are possibly (I say possibly because I don't know the history there) the way they are because people complained of not getting enough help, so the rules were changed to become more involved to better protect those needing help. Now it's too much so people are up in arms again.

    So often victims of domestic abuse go back to that situation, whether it be fear, love, pain, or whatever other reason there is. There is a reason for "but we simply don't trust you to stick to that decision".

    There isn't a cut and dry solution to problems like this. It doesn't really matter which direction they go, there will always be people screaming about not doing enough, or doing too much etc.

    They may be legally required to tell the abuser what is going on... I mean, how can you serve a no contact order without telling the accused.

    There is a ton of work to unfold here, so many things that are in place for a reason, as unreasonable as it may seem. It will always be a work in process with such sensitive situations.

  • Assetto Corsa Content Manager Question

    Having some trouble getting the drop down list to show any details.

    As you can see in the screenshot it's just blank. Outside of that, everything Assetto Corsa works great.

    I have tried following the method at the following link however it doesn't work at all for me. I can make it through the process up to the point where you should be able to launch CM but it just fails to launch.

    https://gist.github.com/ANBAL534/4f1693536f17b75ebcc8016e0d4cc071#gistcomment-3872704

    If I install AC fresh, using experimental or GE-Proton9-7 it will launch CM, but none of the drop down menus work, they just appear like in the screenshot.

    I'm assuming that this may be related to some kind of .net issue but before I go digging around trying to manually change stuff, I figured I'd check if any one else has seen this issue.

    5
    KDE Plasma 6.1 Keyboard LED Question

    I see lots of posts about KDE being able to sync the screen with LED backlit keyboards but other than saying that, no information on how to do it or what keyboards are compatible.

    I could be totally missing something, I tried to parse through the changelog but didn't see anything in there about it.

    Would anyone be able to explain how I should check if my keyboard (Akko 5108) is compatible and how I can change the settings if possible?

    4
    Bambu Studio (P1S) Camera Issue

    Has anyone been experiencing issues getting their camera feed up in Bambu Studio or the Handy app?

    For the first month and a half of having this printer the camera would usually load fine with the occasional issue. However now, I can't get the camera to load at all. It just errors out and says "Loading failed [-4]!" or "Loading failed [-13]!"

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    Ender 3 Max Neo Upgrades

    I'm looking to upgrade my Ender 3 Max Neo.

    It has Marlin 2.0.8.3-HW-V4.2.2-SW-V1.4.7G firmware which I am unable to flash over to other versions of Marlin for some reason, it just crashes.

    My board is a 4.2.2. Obviously as indicated by the note above.

    I don't mind changing the board out but I'm having a hard time finding any information on the 3 Max Neo and would rather not buy parts just to end up finding out that it's not going to work.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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    retroarch not importing games on linux

    Using Ubuntu 22.04, installed retroarch and trying to import games.

    Files are in zip format (also tried unzipped) and for whatever reason, retroarch refuses to import them.

    I can manually select and play games but no systems show up.

    Anybody ever experience something like this on Linux?

    I've tried flatpak, appimg, regular install. Same results every time.

    I use no-into sets.

    Edit: just as a side note, I can import the same games on a Windows machine just fine.

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