While I’d want to turn off biometrics if I thought I was in a risky situation:

• pin required on restart
• Lock Screen is pretty fast
• must importantly sensitive apps and settings use a secondary authentication, including in app switching

So they could force me to unlock it, but probably wouldn’t take the time to hunt down all the places there’s secondary authentication. So damage would be partly mitigated

Thanks for the opportunity to point out that most libraries also value community support. They can always use volunteers and donations but a great way to help your library is to look for book sales!

When a library has too many of certain books less popular than expected or books that have gotten a fair amount of use they need to replace them. A community book sale gives you the opportunity to buy books at a huge discount and the library the opportunity to get a little of their investment back to support more current needs.

Towns and cities built up before cars are more conducive to more people-centric activities and are likely to have more such traditions. Many cities in the northeast are like this, more “European”.

However most US cities and towns had large growth spurts after the car, all that new construction built up as car-centric. Basically 80 years of growth that we’re now seeing wasn’t the best choice. We have that 80 years to make back, 80 years of construction in the way, and it’s no longer fueled by fast growth.

I think it as somewhat similar to Europe rebuilding after the world wars. Both had huge building booms. The different choices were more from a point of privilege from not being bombed. Intact infrastructure and greater wealth from wartime industry and intact manufacturing tended toward different choices that were starting to regret

Even Detroit! I’m not surprised that they did it but they showcased the progress they’ve made turning things around to have a downtown worth visiting again!

Boston always has, my whole life. But yeah as the cities get smaller it may be less likely

Sidewalks. If I have leisure time out of the house I’m probably walking my dog. It’s amazing how talkative my teens get when you’re out walking for an extended period!

My Spring goal is the dog gets at least one walk longer than 2 miles every day, longer than 3 miles on weekends.

Ironically it’s the park that’s expensive. Part of the tradition is to grab takeout to eat on a bench on the town common, and we’re lucky to have restaurants from many different culinary traditions. Our favorite since Pandemic is a Pakistani kebab place but our second is a Turkish kebab place for contrast

Every one of those, you should know how to operate them, have done basic knowledge how they work, and be able to troubleshoot basic problems.

And yes, most importantly you should understand when it’s a user issue and when

At what point do I go “huh – maybe I should leave this up to people who went to school to learn about it”

Yes, you should be ashamed. As a tool that you probably depend on every day, you need to have some sort of basic understanding, to do basic troubleshooting, and to have a vague understanding what your mechanic tells you

I kind of agree with this. I have no interest in that preference but they do seem a lot more open and straightforward about their interest, than dating women

Of course they’re also more driven by appearance, so that advice about hitting the gym goes double

Let him enjoy his pastries anyway he likes

I imagine there’s a significant chunk of users who don’t know or care how to properly open their server up to the world and are relying on the Plex proxies

That seems like the obvious place to put a subscription that won’t get people upset. Or maybe it’s in the presentation.

When HomeAssistant started a subscription, they renewed their commitment to opensource, added new remote features with obvious costs under subscription while still letting you do it yourself, plus made it clear this funded continued opensource development. I happily pay this and haven’t been disappointed. Did Plex fumble a similar opportunity?

Where do you get those? Or is it just for a few models?

My car has nice LED projectors but my old car that my kids are driving has older xenon bulbs that were bright when new but insufficient in the face of modern glare. I’m tempted to get the glaring ones because then at least my kids could see but if I had a way to upgrade the right way I would

I only know that for me, driving with windows up, radio quiet, I don’t hear most loud pipes until too late. It’s probably not a good idea to startle drivers just as you’re passing them

Yeah but a single blinding light doesn’t make for good visibility. They’re supposed be much more visible with multiple lights

It’s by state. I’ve always lived in states with relatively strict inspections, at least compared to other states, but I’ve never heard of them checking lights or window tint. They’re supposed to

I suppose it’s good that they focus on more urgent things like brakes, emissions, that there be lights, tire treads, and windshield chips/cracks, but I wish they’d do everything

Actually it’s mildly annoying that I have to pay the same for inspections that include the emissions check, with my EV

Found the euro …. Is that even approved in the US yet?

I mean, sort of, but I live in a place with narrow winding roads that all too often don’t have a line painted on the edge of the road.

There’s definitely a strategy to look down at the edge of the road until the perpetrator has passed, but that assumes you have something to look at that will help

I thought the same, until my teens started driving. Both of them complained they can’t see in the glare and ask me to drive at night sometimes, LoL

That’s my feeling as well, but it would be great if any data exists. Most of the intentional LEDs may be super tight but also have very sharp cutoffs, no problem

How many of these blinding headlights are

• idiots driving with high beams
• idiots with aftermarket LEDs that should be illegal
• idiots who raised their truck enough that headlights can’t be aligned correctly

All you gotta do is follow the law, the law of gravity. Start at the top and work your way down.

In the us, historically a lot were in basements but for decades now they typically have laundry rooms.