If you can get them at all. Everything seems disposable nowdays.

Nice. I love how 3d printing helps with sustainability.

I notice it when I’m dehydrated.

I smell the same flavour of bullshit about RedNote that I do/did about Bluesky. The articles are so obviously Astro turfing.

I’ve been pretty happy with my Apple AirPods Pro

Why would we let another corporation take control? Recovers is where it’s at.

I’ve noticed a significant change in my Facebook feed recently. It’s almost all content creator content now, which I’m taking as a sign that my network is no longer posting there.

bloviating

I love this word. TIL it.

“Asshole resistant”

I love that concept.

It’s almost as if, hear me out here, the Norwegians are right…

I wasn’t saying you were excusing the behaviour. I was saying that many, including the media do.

So what practical measures do you suggest to stop this from happening again?

Every accident I have been to (and I’ve been to a lot), was either caused by driver impatience (driving faster than the conditions, drink driving, fiddling with phone, etc) or deliberate intent (suicide). The former is a driver education and training problem. We need to train young drivers to accept delays as OK. As a former motorcycle rider, I taught my kids the importance of patience and driving as if the rest of the world was out to kill you. Every driver should have to do (and pass) a defensive driving course. Also, too many bad habits are passed from parent to child, so every driver should have to spend a prescribed amount of time with registered driving instructors. In Germany, you cannot get your drivers licence without spending time with registered driving instructors, and if you fail your test it costs 400-500 euros to repeat, so there’s a good incentive to learn the skills correctly the first time.

This was an organised event with signage etc… There are many things that could be done, but better driver education to overcome the “bikes shouldn’t be on roads” mentality would be a good start. Dedicated cycle lanes and a loosening of the ridiculous restrictions on e-bikes in NSW are some other things that would help imho.

If you can’t stop in your sight distance, you are driving too fast. Doesn’t matter what the maximum speed is. There’s no excusing this.

The whining on facebook about how cyclists should be banned whenever something like this happens does my head in. If you can’t stop your car within sight distance, you are driving too fast. Doesn’t matter if it’s a cyclist or a tree across the road. Slow down!

Interpretation - the NSA can now crack all common encryption methods, so let’s disadvantage our adversaries at no real cost to us.

The time and effort you put in to learning 3D Cad will more than pay off for you in your ability to make things you need that someone else hasn’t yet made and posted online. Sure, it will be a bit of learning curve, but what are we here for but to learn and grow?

I use FreeCAD which is FOSS. There’s a great series of Youtube Videos by Mango Jelly on how to use it.