Cars manufacturers are going in the wrong direction.

jamogram · 2022-06-14T06:32:16+00:00

Anyone remember phones like the Nokia 8310? Absolutely tiny, which makes sense because mobile phones 10.yeara before were the size of a house brick.

Capitalism and marketing means that, free from external constraints, products will fashion cycle between tiny and massive.

Constraint with cars is having to add increasing amounts of armour to compensate for the ridiculous weight and speed of collisions. Still a big fashion component tho.

jamogram · 2022-06-12T20:17:03+00:00

Harassment is a police matter. I had reason to call upon the Metropolitan Police to deal with a harassment issue and they reacted very quickly and effectively to sort it out.

If the neighbour believes that your sister is causing a nuisance they are welcome to contact the local council to investigate it, or indeed start their own legal action if they are feeling really vigorous about it. Otherwise I would take it up with the police as harassment and not engage with the neighbour.

Should the landlord take these accusations seriously it could be more troublesome if they decide that this is a matter that they would consider evicting her over. This would be a whole new set of questions, but looking at the description you've given it seems quite unlikely.

jamogram · 2022-06-11T19:42:17+00:00

Ok, but what's the rest? Wages, energy for transport/stores/refrigeration, rents? Retail food margins are often slim, and I don't see those other costs going down.

jamogram · 2022-06-10T14:48:59+00:00

Grew up here, there ARE ways to avoid Winston Way but unless you know the area you're not gonna find them. This borough psychologically wants every road it runs to be as motorway like as possible. Single handedly keeping the pedestrian fence industry in business as well.

jamogram · 2022-06-10T14:47:38+00:00

Have you ever tried the so called cycle path along the bit of the A13 that goes through Dagenham? Obstructed everywhere, largely on smashed up pavements, random junctions that take 10 minutes to cross. It's an experience.

jamogram · 2022-06-10T14:46:06+00:00

There's something about Southwark and Lewisham between them having horribly hostile pedestrian crossings as well.

jamogram · 2022-06-10T14:45:13+00:00

My experiences in Outer North West London have been spectatular in a terrible way. That whole area sucks for cycling, but I nominate Harrow in particular.

jamogram · 2022-06-10T11:24:54+00:00

I can see it stated in a few places that, if you use a courier set up by the retailer for a return, it becomes the retailers liability at the point from which you've handed over the package. I can't find any explanation of the legal detail of this however.

When I return stuff to Amazon via Hermes I often get the refund the same day that I hand the parcel over to the parcelshop, long before it reaches Amazon. I don't know if they do this for all customers, but it is clear that Amazon have tight integration between Hermes tracking and their refund process. If the courier was arranged via Amazon, but Amazon didn't get a notification from Hermes that you dropped the parcel off, and you were never issued a receipt, it seems very possible that the parcel wasn't checked into the hermes network by whoever you handed it over to.

As others have said, you can try Section 75 and it's not a good idea to spam people with a python script, but the lack of a receipt might cause you a problem, because without it there's no proof that you handed the parcel over at all. I don't know if the ambiguity caused by Hermes short retention of tracking data helps your case at all, but I'll be interested to hear it progresses.

jamogram · 2022-06-07T08:22:25+00:00

Imagine if society as a whole took responsibility for road deaths and just paid out for death and injury by default. Think of the lives ruined just from minor road injuries meaning that people can't work for a while, can't earn, can't pay rent and the whole domino effect from there, plus medical bills in the USA.

Why should a person injured by an obviously completely unsafe road system have to scrape around themselves for evidence to blame an individual just to get the money to get treated and get better? Why should the bereaved through the ridiculous circus of proving who is at fault when the fact that someone was going to be killed was obvious to everyone before the event?

Meanwhile the people in charge of the way roads are designed and run have no responsibility and obviously criminally responsible drivers are shown neverending leniency because, after all, there but for the grace of god go I.

jamogram · 2022-06-06T09:01:12+00:00

Absolutely everyone has lapses of judgement sometimes. That is why it's a scandal that the roads are run on the principle that drivers who make mistakes are to blame. The roads should be designed so that when people make mistakes, which they will, nobody gets killed.

It can be done, they are doing it in Finland, Sweden, Norway.

It's also very ableist to build a society where you are deprived if you can't drive a car. I live in a place where the things I need are a short walk away and public transport is fast and reliable. It's very ADHD friendly because when I make mistakes the costs of them are often very low. I forgot I was supposed to be in a meeting in the city centre, got an alert on my phone, panicked, ran to a train station, got to the meeting NOT EVEN THAT LATE and there was a 0% risk of me crushing anyone to death in the process. Bigger risk of course is that I myself get crushed, and that really sucks.

jamogram · 2022-06-06T07:12:01+00:00

In my country you are obliged to disclose if you think your ADHD affects your driving. I don't drive myself, but if I was a driver I'd read that as an obligation to ask my psych about it.

EDIT for people in the UK, and London specifically: If your ADHD would disqualify you from driving if you disclosed it, you are eligible for free public transport. Other members of this sub have done this in London, where there is actual working public transport. The criteria is point 7 here. It's not about whether you have been disqualified, it's whether you would be if you disclosed it, so this should be open even to non-drivers.

It's not just people who have ADHD who can suck at driving tho. Most people think they are above average drivers, and lots of them have to be wrong.

It seems to me shocking that we have such dangerous roads. When there's a plane crash there are big formal investigation reports that tell you when the pilot last went to the toilet and whether they are getting on with their spouse. When someone gets killed on the roads we just decide who is to blame, claim money for all the injury and broken stuff on insurance, and then clear the road so that everyone can carry on as normal.

In the Nordic countries they have a legal duty to make roads that are a "safe system". Road designers are obliged to accept that human beings make mistakes, and make sure that those mistakes don't result in people being killed. it's called vision zero. It's going pretty well, Helsinki had no pedestrian deaths in 2019 and 2020. I read a decent article about it in The New Yorker about struggles to get something similar in New York City.

I've been fixated on this since i was hit by a van a few weeks ago (as I am now on a demon mix of Elvanse and Codeine). The van driver's insurance have accepted fault, and I don't live in the USA so I don't have a massive up front medical bill to pay, but it is such a pantomime establishing who is to blame when the design of the road itself means that it is statistically inevitable that someone will have an accident and the people who designed the road have no duty of care to do anything about it. It also sucks that I am more likely to get injured in an accident because I chose to use the vehicle that is less dangerous to everybody else 😞.

jamogram · 2022-06-05T21:16:01+00:00

It could be a bug in chrome os or an issue with your hardware. Posting on reddit is a good idea, because if other 514 spin owners confirm they are having similar issues it looks way more likely to be a (very annoying) software issue.

If it is that then you can send feedback in the usual way. Either way if you're feeling impatient you could try switching to beta channel to see if it's been fixed, if your wifi holds up for long enough to download it 😬. If they are fixing it you'll get the fix earlier that way.

If you have no luck here you can try raising it as a bug on the issue tracker. This might be a bit complex, but you should get a clear answer. You can also try contacting Acer and/or the retailer that sold you the laptop, it's pretty new so I'd hope that they'd take some responsibility, although I bet it could also be pretty annoying.

Slightly OT question, have any of the four little rubber bits on the same surface as the keyboard fallen off of your laptop? I have a Spin 513 and they fall off constantly.

jamogram · 2022-06-05T20:55:17+00:00

No idea if I would be a good driver or not because I live in a city with decent public transport and half decent cycling infrastructure and use those instead.

Not saying it's accessible to everyone but it's been a solid approach for me.

jamogram · 2022-06-04T17:41:52+00:00

Me too. Happening consistently, can't see a bug for this in the bug tracker, can't be bothered to make one right now. Have raised this using the feedback button tho.

jamogram · 2022-06-04T16:08:21+00:00

I have been on 1password for quite a while, because I like their security model. Their user interface is a bit clunky to be honest, but I can live with it.

If you like lastpass then use lastpass.

jamogram · 2022-06-04T15:34:54+00:00

There is android malware out there, but for mainstream apps like the ones you have listed you should just choose based on which one you like most and have the features you want.

My common sense recommendations are:

Don't use the same password on multiple sites. A password manager will help you do this (I use 1password).
Don't put your chromebook into developer mode, it removes a lot of protection.
Install OS updates when they become available.
Think twice about obscure android apps that seem frivolous or make big promises.
Don't install unsigned apps.
Stop using your chromebook when it stops getting updates. You can check when that will be before you buy here. You can get up to 8 years support, aim for something close to that.

jamogram · 2022-06-04T09:19:43+00:00

The short answer to this question is because it was designed with security as one its primary design goals from the very beginning. This involves a lot of stuff and the long answer could be pretty long without even getting very technical.

So TL;DR is this: https://youtu.be/U1bzZRxesoQ

Read more if you like, I went a bit mad and wrote an essay because I was mostly having fun on Youtube.

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IMO there are "old school" and "new school" operating systems when it comes to security. I would say that Windows and macOS are in the "old" camp, and ChromeOS goes along with Android and iOS in the "new" camp.

There are big teams of highly skilled and highly paid professionals looking after your security whether you use any of these operating systems, but the people looking after the old school operating systems have a much harder job.

The old school

Windows NT was first released in 1993, and NextSTEP (which eventually became Mac OS X) was first released in 1989. In 1993 the first web browser had just been released, and the closest thing anybody had to a smartphone was the "IBM Simon".

In 1993 most people did not own a home computer at all, and almost nobody had access to the internet. Viruses and other threats had to spread via floppy disks or bulletin board systems, which meant that they spread very slowly by modern standards. The viruses that did exist mostly made by teenagers in their bedrooms as a prank, not organised crime rings trying to steal your money.

Back then security did not seem like a big priority for the people making operating systems. The people who made Windows and Mac OS were busy doing other things. Microsoft and Apple were busy explaining to people what computers even were and why they might want one, because most people were confused and a little bit scared by them.

One of the reasons people like Windows and macOS is because they can use their old applications, so Microsoft and Apple have the tough job of keeping Windows and macOS secure without breaking peoples old apps.

MS and Apple have the hard job of keeping old operating systems that were not built for security safe in the modern world. A lot of skilled people are working hard to do it, but it's not an easy job.

The new school

ChromeOS, iOS and Android were designed as internet operating systems from the very beginning, and the people who designed them knew from that designing systems to be secure was one of the most important parts of their job. The design of these operating systems makes it easier to keep them safe, because they have lots of different layers of security built in. If an attacker breaks through one layer, there are many more layers of defence protecting the computer and your data. It's an approach that is sometimes called defence in depth.

Defence in depth

TW: War metaphors 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇫🇮🤝

Defence in depth is like the difference between defending a fortress from attack and defending your home.

At the very beginning the people who designed the fortress thought about it being attacked, they put it on a hill to give defenders the advantage, they surrounded it by a moat, the windows are narrow to make it hard to shoot into but easier to shoot out of, and if one defence is breached there are more layers behind it. Defence is still work, but the design of what you are defending has made your job easier. This is the situation with Chromebooks.

Defending your home would be a lot harder because nobody designed your house to be defended. You might install a lot of CCTV, put barbed wire in front of it and start building molotov cocktails in your kitchen, but your job is going to be hard. Defending Windows is more like this.

Chrome OS security

Among the specific thing that chromebooks do, they check that the OS has not been tampered with at every boot, software and firmware are updated together, they encrypt storage separately for each user, the underlying linux OS has been expertly hardened, and there is extensive sandboxing for the browser and android apps.

Loads of stuff, bit technical:

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/security-overview/

https://youtu.be/maCSmdy3an4

https://youtu.be/kBb2k7R7-oc

Dishonourable mention for Windows Home

Windows 10 and 11 Home editions do not encrypt your data when storing it on the device. In 2022 this is downright disgraceful. Windows "s mode" does encrypt your data, but is very limited compared to either home or pro edition.

Any chromebook, android, macOS or iOS device will have proper encryption at rest by default. If you need Windows I recommend the "pro" edition, or careful consideration of whether "S mode" windows is OK for you.

jamogram · 2022-06-03T16:14:39+00:00

I kept getting letters from a local JW about hard times etc etc. It was getting a bit annoying and I also kind of wanted to be as helpful as possible while not getting involved. Here was my eventual response:

Thanks for your letter, and I hope this email finds you well. We here are fortunate to be doing ok, and I have my own history which makes me feel the urge to leave you with something useful. It's a hard task.
In my life I have been most helped by people who have reached out to me where I am, not where they wished I was, or where they thought I should be but was somehow failing to reach.
I do not know you, or where you are in life, but I know that people need love, care and stability. Many don't get it, and that's a tragic injustice. Many people are deprived of the basic essentials of life, food, shelter, and human connection, and the current economic situation looks set to tip a huge number of people near us over the edge into serious poverty. While battling for survival searching for truths beyond the immediate can seem beyond us, and yet we crave it.
Our capacities as individual humans are limited. very few of us will achieve greatness in life, and we all witness many things that are beyond our capacity to control. Sometimes it's all we can do to survive. If we are fortunate enough to feel secure, we may then start to plan beyond the next meal. We have to use our time wisely, resist grand egoism, reflect carefully on who and what we are, and develop our skill and knowledge to enhance our capacities.
While we are limited, there is so much we can do, so much to learn, and so much joy to be had. Time, however, is short. I appreciate that our perspectives differ, and that you have a horizon beyond mortal life. I'm not well educated about the witnesses, but I hope you will respect that I do not feel that I have the time to become so, there's just so much else to do.
I have taken just a little time for you to write this email. I do not know how it will make you feel, but the most useful thing I can give you it the suggestion that, whatever it is, you take a moment to sit with it and take it in. Maybe you'll be compelled to return to it later.
I respectfully ask that the witnesses not contact us further, but wish you all the very best.

jamogram · 2022-06-03T14:22:24+00:00

That its pretty good. For kids growing up in crappy situations things can improve.

Not saying that they always do or denying anyone else's struggles, but I kind of didn't expect much and it was a long run up.

jamogram · 2022-06-02T15:41:04+00:00

Me and my wife have a funny dynamic where she bugs me to up my income if she gets too far ahead, she doesn't like there to be an imbalance. We have separate individual accounts, and use standing orders to compensate if someone is paying a significantly different amount in bills. She is also a little competitive if I get ahead.

Early on in the relationship she was in a much better situation than I was and took quite a collective approach to that.

Ultimately there's now comfortably enough to go around so it's not a big bone of contention, we would both be perfectly sustainable individually at this point, and of course if we got divorce it would all have to be settled.

I cannot imagine letting an imbalance like this develop. I would want to be married if I was the man in this situation, or at the very least to be holding a large amount of our assets jointly or transferring thing over to her name. My wife's autonomy matters, ours is not a relationship of coercion and I wouldn't want a disproportionate say on the finances. It is a partnership.

Your sister is right to be concerned and needs to have a serious conversation with this man about how the relationship functions. It could be an oversight or the result of naivety about the lack of protection granted to unmarried couples with children on his part, and I don't know the full situation from the telling, but this doesn't "smell" right to me.

jamogram · 2022-06-02T15:32:43+00:00

We don't know the full circumstances here, but I can't imagine leaving the mother of my children unmarried with no assets and no income while she takes on the lion's share of child rearing. IMO that absolutely is a coercive situation because, if they do fall out, she doesn't have anywhere to go.

Elsewhere OP has said that the man isn't keen on marriage, if he's also not keen on holding assets jointly or putting anything in the woman's name I would say that a serious conversation does need to be had.

It could well be that the man has simply not stopped to consider the implications for her autonomy of this situation, but I find it very hard to empathise as they would be strikingly obvious to me. Divorce sounds like the worst thing in the world, but where we have been a team and built up assets together it's only fair that the split of assets is reevaluated if the partnership breaks down.

jamogram · 2022-06-02T15:16:55+00:00

It may not be "worth it", but it's a lot better than having no right to anything and no assets of your own if things go south.

jamogram · 2022-06-02T15:14:45+00:00

Exactly. There came a point where me and my now wife got married because it was clear that our lives were so intertwined that the "contract" of marriage made a great deal of sense. It's a great protection for both parties in all sorts of events.

jamogram · 2022-06-02T10:15:37+00:00

Psych knows, codeine prescriber knows, nobody is concerned about it. In a way I am not concerned, but I am very frustrated.

jamogram · 2022-06-02T09:43:53+00:00

Codeine is multiple doses throughout the day, so v sure it is not this.

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