chrome update wtf, if you're not running with "use system titlebar" enabled, the minimize, maximize/restore, and close buttons vanish when you maximize the window. Between this and moving the tab finder button back and forth, my faith in disabling auto-updates has been renewed, yet again.
"Paris has closed more than 100 streets to motor vehicles, tripled parking fees for SUVs, removed roughly 50,000 parking spots, and constructed more than 1,300 kilometers of bike lanes since Mayor Anne Hidalgo took office in 2014. Those changes have contributed to a 40% decline in air pollution..."
Serious question: Why is it that bicycle commuters in Paris are in super stylish street clothes, whereas the ones in London dress like they're in the Tour de France?
@peter@brett@davidho yes, and notably Paris has carved the space for low-stress connected network of bikeways out of what was extra lanes of cars and parking, so normies who would previously sit in traffic for lack of better options have left the car for bikes, for trips of 1-3 miles to work, school, shopping, or errands. If everyone on a bike looks like they're dressed for sport, you're seeing only those people who do it in spite of the lack of comfortable and dignified bike infrastructure.
Using #Gimp on a Mac and ... it won't edit photos any more. I tried resetting, reinstalling, searching the web like mad. Can open photos and do almost anything I want, including adjusting levels, but literally nothing using the edit buttons works, so no image editing 😢
(Exception: bucket fill works if I'm not in gradient mode, but it fills with the background color, not the foregound).
@ovid there's a setting to make it do that, but by default BG color fill is what happens when you press alt while using the tool (you can see it while pressing alt on the "tool options" dialog.) Maybe something thinks alt is pressed and that also borks the edit menu? I once had a right mouse button on a trackpad that would get stuck if I wasn't careful, made everything weird.
If you thought you were going to do something with the keyboard or save yourself pawing at the trackpad a bit and you're using gnome desktop, I guess you're just using the wrong desktop. Haven't tried it for about 20yrs, but a couple weeks was all I need to see of this for the next decade or two.
for filling watering jugs, I'm trying to find some simple float nozzle thingy that would allow a few jugs to be filling from the rain barrel while you are watering plants with one or two (used 1gal milk jugs) but I'm not finding such a thing for less than $32 each fancy fuel nozzle, that seems to have a spring/trigger thing. It's going to fill with algae and get clogged with junk / a pain to clean if it's anything more complicated than a floating ball in a slotted tube
USPS from the other side of Portland to SW, package was sent on Wednesday... the status, last updated Thursday, is "In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late". 😒 wtf #FireDeJoy
cannot fathom how a crew of people could make so much noise at a hedge for so little benefit. I think they now have as many man-hours into this two days (noisy as hell the entire time, plus grinding and hauling away a truckload of shredded wood and leaves) as I spend on the same amount of hedge in a year with hand tools. And you can't see right through the whole thing when I do it.
How many cities have to do this before people quit saying their city isn't Amsterdam? It's not rocket science, just reassign and protect some space from cars, to bikes and transit, until you've got a complete priority network that makes the car a second choice instead of default (and make people who do still use cars pay the actual cost of parking and driving.)
trying to imagine, for the last half-hour, what tree is possibly still standing in my neighbors yard such that they need to make this much noise cutting it down and grinding it up, or maybe this is just their annual laurel trimming
