IngeniousRocks (They/She)

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  • I think automatic transmissions have conditioned people to sit too far from the pedals.

    I just bought an old classic and haven’t driven stick in a decade. After I got everything comfy and adjusted how I wanted I realized something: I couldn’t get the clutch all the way down if I tried, I’m too far away. Same for the brakes.

    Power brakes have made us feel as though all we need is the braking power of our toes, but what happens when your ABS pump goes out and you have to use actual force to apply the brakes at 65mph? Do you have the leverage to get those brakes as far down as they need to to stop safely?

    If we were all still popping clutches at every red light I don’t think this would be an issue. I think we’d have less distracted drivers too, needing to shift manually keeps a driver engaged with the car and road.

    I Wasn’t advocating to ban Automatic Transmissions when this comment started, I am now.



  • Back when I was in management my number one advice to the folks under my leadership was “care less”. Like sure even from a management position it isn’t hard to see that becoming emotionally invested in work is the easiest way for a missed sale to ruin someone’s week. But from the human perspective its like, why care so much? You barely make a fraction of a percent of the total value of your labor here, tip the scales, give them the bare minimum of labor and stop caring so much.










  • FreeTube is a FOSS youtube frontend.

    FreeTube occasionally has issues on videos with preroll ads where the video fails to play because the ad won’t be fetched. This can sometimes be mitigated by running an ipv6 rotator script and blocking freetubes access to ipv4. The one I run reassigns my ipv6 address once every 5 seconds to a new randomly generated valid address.

    Sometimes even this doesn’t block the ads (again causing the video to fail to play) in which case selecting the share icon from the freetube interface and clicking “open invidious link” will open a web browser pointed to whichever invidious instance is set to your default.

    The freetube folks are working on implementing DASH, which should eliminate the need for these workarounds once successful.