princessnorah

princessnorah, 23 days ago

I’m sorry, but did we read the same post? I couldn’t find where it mentioned that you shouldn’t vote. So I dunno, maybe run along to someplace else where people actually care for these sorts of low effort comments?

princessnorah, 23 days ago

Do I seem not calm to you? Or are you just using that as a way to put me down because you don’t like being called out for your behaviour.

I pretty strongly believe your comment added nothing to the conversation. I am just starting to become so tired of these low effort comments poisoning the english-speaking internet just because it’s a US election year.

princessnorah, 23 days ago

The point of the post, from my reading, is that there are other things you can do that are quite punk outside of a political context. I’m not angry, I’m just mildly disappointed that you seemed to miss the point entirely.

I would also daresay that there are far more potent political actions you can take as a punk. Not to discourage voting, I’ve voted in every single election I’ve been eligible before. But personally I think it’s far more punk to attend protests and rallies to show politicians an overwhelming distaste for their cowardice.

So IMO voting is only punk when it’s done in conjunction with other actions.

princessnorah, 23 days ago

I strongly disagree that the act of voting, in and of itself, counts as “contribut(ing) to your community”. Maybe that’s where our opinions differ.

princessnorah, 23 days ago (edited 23 days ago)

I can believe that your opinion is valid, while still also believing that your comment here in this thread is not. Considering my instance has downvotes disabled, I decided to comment and reply as much. I am sorry for assuming you were American though. I’m skittish as I’ve seen way too many communities, unrelated to US politics, devolve into toxic debates about voting vs not voting in this year’s upcoming election over there.

princessnorah, 24 days ago

With Invidious, it would have to block every single accessible instance for that to work. You can proxy the video through the instance to avoid censorship.

princessnorah, 25 days ago

I have never seen a roundabout here in Australia that allows for these sorts of conflicting movements, that would be asinine. Are you saying there’s multiple lanes that can exit or go straight such that someone in the inside lane can turn out in front of someone continuing around in the outside lane? Is this a North American thing? Of course that would result in accidents, don’t build your bloody roundabouts like that!!

I drive through three lane (six lane road) roundabouts all the time and no one gets hurt. In fact I have to drive through two such roundabouts to get to the nearest freeway.

princessnorah, 25 days ago

You jest, but we do kind of have something like this in Melbourne, Australia. Except the vehicles that get to cut through the middle of the roundabout are Trams. Plus while they’re trundling through, everyone else has to stop and wait for them.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/854c2b66-98cd-4370-8d35-a71f953208b5.jpeg

princessnorah, 24 days ago

I’m bloody sorry but did you just say this is one of the least bad you’ve seen?? Let me give you a different view:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/eb2122dd-f25d-4998-a1c6-30ec1f78b15c.jpeg

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/8b449859-dd2b-489e-a642-ad1a209d1835.jpeg

Trams traverse the traffic lanes at three points, as well as one making an immediate left turn exit. There are four traffic lanes. Royal Parade has inside lanes and service lanes.

But I also don’t have to imagine that at all, those are common here too and I’ve never had a problem at them:

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/e1f30e42-7dad-47a2-a780-b9dba8bab94d.jpeg

Notice how the approaching lane at the bottom left has an artificial curve added to it? It’s traffic calming to help slow down cars before they get to the roundabout itself.

princessnorah, 24 days ago

I don’t see any conflicting movements here. I have a roundabout almost exactly like this just around the corner. It’s not complicated.

princessnorah, 25 days ago

I’m kinda really tired of these inane and inaccurate takes on Musk’s tweet. He doesn’t tell her to “dial it back” at all. In fact he opens by agreeing that transphobia is great, but that it’s all Rowling talks about and she should diversify her content. That’s it. He’s not distancing himself from her or anything of the sort. These articles are dangerous to suggest otherwise in my opinion.

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/3961a7b7-67ec-468c-b4c5-72fcb51bd284.webp

princessnorah, 27 days ago

Why do you have Plex and Jellyfin?

princessnorah, 27 days ago (edited 24 days ago)

The lifetime subscriber bit makes a lot of sense. I didn’t have a Plex Pass and ditched them last year when the enshittifcation became worse than the effort to move everything over to Jellyfin. Basically swapped overnight once I was committed.

princessnorah, 27 days ago

That’s super fair, I only have the people under my roof :)

princessnorah, 27 days ago

No, it isn’t, because it’s a bicycle. If you want to go faster, get an electric motorcycle, and get your license which teaches you how to handle those speeds.

princessnorah, 27 days ago

The people that upvoted you clearly did not click either of those links. I also thought the commenter sounded like an old fart who was amazed at electric “kick” scooters. But then I clicked the link before writing a whole comment about it.

princessnorah, 27 days ago

I agree on the licensing part, but you don’t need to get that much beefier for 45mph that you spend USD$4k. $1-2k is good ebike territory, I’d put these are $2-3k for something reasonably priced. This is coming from someone that has a 110cc road-going motorbike. Yes, motorbike, not scooter. The frame is about twice as thick as a mountain bikes. The things that really needs the most beefing up are the fork suspension and headstem.

Honestly the whole bloody problem with electric motorbikes and scooters (of the sitting variety) is that they’re way overpriced for terrible range (<100km). Something in the $2-3k with that sort range that can go ~75kph would be the sweet spot for consumers I think. Especially if you’re paying the costs to get your motorcycle endorsement on top. Which is pretty pricey where I am in Australia.

princessnorah, 27 days ago

Who was talking about using bike gears? But also, you should abandon derailleurs at any speed unless you’re racing the tour de france. The only advantage they have over internal hub gears is weight. And hub gears can be easily made strong enough to handle that sort of torque.

But you wouldn’t necessarily need gears At All for something throttle driven. Electric motors have more than enough range of RPM on a single speed gearing system to get to 45mph. E-bikes only have gears for the human component, not the motor.

princessnorah, 26 days ago

You’ve never heard a Moped be called a Scooter before? Dude put “scooters” in quotes. He was trying to convey it in a brief comment. You wrote out a huge, condescending reply instead of clicking the links. I think that’s on you mate.

princessnorah, 29 days ago

i’ve come to really like the term rest in power, and i think it’s appropriate here, so…

rest in power Zoey Alexandria ✊

princessnorah, 30 days ago

Naturally.

princessnorah, 1 month ago

Anyone that uses the word triggering like that is kinda a dick ¯_(ツ)_/¯

princessnorah, 1 month ago

I think it entirely depends on your use case and hardware. I have a rack server, I need the extra power relatively frequently, as well as the 16x 2.5" bays and the 4 NICs. A rack server is a fairly power efficient package to get all those features in. However, it means that I am limited to discrete graphics, as Xeons don’t have Intel QSV. There’s also no monitor connected, and no 3D rendering happening, so the card is gonna idle at >5W and probably only use 20-30W while transcoding. Compared to a system that’s idling at ~250W that’s nothing.

princessnorah, 1 month ago

what an incredibly weird and uncomfy thing of you to say. i’ve never installed that dating app before…

princessnorah, 1 month ago

Oh, okay, that makes more sense.

I mean, I think a lot of the dating app culture stuff stays way more local. I’m in Australia so the stuff you commonly see is gonna be different.