i mean hashtags are literally just a hashtag and some text, any software can choose to parse them in any text field

for tourists maybe, but for commuters monthly tickets (or fuck it, get a yearly one) are completely 0-thought in a zone system.
Buy the right ticket at the start of the period and never worry about it unless you need to go somewhere else.

what makes it even worse is that you can totally design with the assumption that people will still drive, without making it horrible.
Just design for people to drive to metro stations! A lot of the suburban washington DC metro stations are like that, and while yes obviously it’s not great it’s a hell of a lot better than having suburbanites continue to drive downtown.

no no, a werehuman is a creature that transforms into a human under a full moon

It’s really not difficult at all, best case you scan a fucking QR code, otherwise the fallback is just that you verify that the emojis shown on both devices are the same.
Takes 5 seconds…

how was it hard to set up the client?? You sign in like any other service…

that’s why, if i were elected supreme dictator of earth, one of my first decrees would be that drivers have to reimburse the passengers for their delay and pay for any damages on the transport vehicle/infrastructure.
Also: 5 repeats of this and you lose your license permanently, and the state will punish you further by giving you a 5-year free public transport pass for the entire country. Oh how i love being evil.

“oh fuck i don’t think i fit underneath there, i’ll have to go up the side!” splat

while i agree that the crypto stuff is fucking depressing, this is very exaggerated and miserly…

What do you mean by it not being “usable by the general public”? There’s a desktop client, browser extensions, and you can legitimately build things with it that “just work” provided you have those things installed.
I’d say you’re borderline outright lying.

again, that’s not a fundamental issue, that’s shit design to fleece you on money. It’s like landlords installing self-contained LED fixtures that lock you out of switching the bulb yourself.

From what i can tell this isn’t a problem in europe, there are plenty of replacement LED bulbs available.

i see no actual reason why LED lamps should still be more expensive than halogen, that just sounds like companies fleecing you

can we please stop acting like the way the light is produced somehow magically makes it worse?
It’s the fact that the lamps are ILLEGAL AFTERMARKET MODIFICATIONS that makes them bad. You should not be able to walk into a gas station and buy things that are ILLEGAL to put in your car.
There are plenty of people driving around with LED lights in their cars, you just don’t think about it because they meet the legal specifications and thus look identical.

the thing with openwrt is that you have the freedom to fuck it up, which is exactly what tends to happen to people who know enough to come up with the idea of installing a different OS on their router.
So you really should make sure that you’ll be able to deal with it when you eventually fuck something up because you wanted to configure the blinking pattern of the LEDs or whatever.

Though to be fair openwrt makes it fairly easy to back up configurations and just reinstall everything from scratch

Idk if zero tolerance is the way to go, but conceptually at least allowing things with “significant” AI usage is kind of horrifying to me. The entire rest of the fucking world is completely uncritically embracing it so i see no reason why places like these have to allow it as well, i think it should be obvious that we want some communities that reject AI usage so we have control groups and safe havens for the future…

that doesn’t change the fact that it’s a fucked up phenomenon.
“haha yeah isn’t it funny that people operating 3-ton machines going 80km/h do so in a fugue state, so quirky :)”

Edit: and this is why i hate most drivers, yeah sure buddy it’s completely normal and safe to not remember driving :)))
what the fuuuuuuck is wrong with society

mmm yes, using the thing famous for being fundamentally programmed to be a sycophant to challenge your ideas…

Did you have the AI challenge that idea?

the problem with “just a tool” is that using it will inherently change how you act.
Best concise way i can put it is that it’s like how better hardware has largely just resulted in software not really caring about efficiency any longer.

mayhaps even use it as a motivation to improve 👉👈