I hope his home gets destroyed by a climate-induced natural disaster.

Software patents shouldn’t exist!

Learning how to ride a bike as an adult can be a bit scary and much more difficult than for a child. But it isn’t rocket science! You can do it 👍

REI has an excellent guide on learning how to ride as an adult:

https://www.rei.com/learn/expert-advice/how-to-learn-to-ride-a-bike-as-an-adult.html

As an experienced street and mountain rider, I read it and it makes perfect sense. Follow their advice but also:

• Bring a first aid kit (for the large variety of bandages) and a great big tube of Neosporin/triple antibiotic ointment. There’s a chance you’ll get a scrape on your first try. It shouldn’t be anything serious (barely any pain sort of scrape) but you don’t want an infection 👍
• Don’t try to pedal right away! Just push with your feet on the ground and get used to balancing when coasting. Also remember: There’s a threshold where you’re going fast enough to easily balance or too slow where it’s easy to fall to one side (instead of falling though, you’re an adult and will simply place your foot down after stopping by holding the brake, right? 🤣).

Once you get used to pedaling to keep yourself going it’ll be like a switch: Before that moment you didn’t know how to ride a bike and now you do! I’m certain it’s a great feeling because I still remember it when I learned to ride as a kid! It’ll likely become a “core memory” 😁

Don’t stop there though! Practice balancing on your bike while moving slower and slower. Get the hang of a rapid foot-down (or dismount, haha). Eventually you can get good enough to literally stand on your bike while not moving at all and that impresses other people vastly more than any other bike trick I’ve ever performed, haha. Even super experienced, professional riders will be like, “WTF! How do you even do that‽” Hahaha

Anyone can do it it just takes lots of practice and if you try it every single time you stop it’ll eventually come naturally. Of course, you’ll look super goofy/clumsy the first hundred times (haha) but eventually you’ll have a biking superpower 😁👍

Edit: Once you’ve decided that biking is for you take some time to learn how to do basic bike maintenance. Even if your tires are fine deflate one and take it off then put it back on. You don’t want to be figuring out how to do that in the middle of nowhere on the side of the road (and always travel with an extra tube… That’s what tiny under-the-seat bags are for!).

Nobody likes having to change out a tube in the middle of a trail/out on the road but is inevitable if you bike a lot. Also, if you smash your wheel hard enough it can get bent enough that you can’t ride. No big deal though! Just bend it back! I used to encounter so many people on trails carrying their bikes with bent tires and I was like, “oh! Let me fix that for you…” <WHACK! WHACK! WHACK!> against a log/curb and it would be straight enough to ride on again 😁👍

So… Russian economy is a barrel of laughs.

Idiots. Exposing your connection is immodest!

It’s because right wingers are authoritarian and their authority told them science is bad.

Trying the back button to get out of an ad infestation? You get a new ad! Trying again? Believe or not, straight to another ad!

There’s vastly more malicious code now than there was back then. Every company that has an online presence is constantly under attack. Constantly. There isn’t an IPv4 address that exists that isn’t scanned and have an attempt at hacking performed within seconds of being connected.

Not only that but today’s malicious code is much better at what it does with hundreds of amazing features and methods of branching out using different attack methods. Today’s malware is so good it updates itself very carefully/as secretly as possible so that some old compromised machine that no one thinks about anymore can become the next vector of attack inside your network.

All it takes is one active vulnerability

Keep all your shit up to date, people! When was the last time you checked your router to see if it had updates? Hmm‽

People are accepting of ads because ads are literally everywhere. A world without ads would be very strange indeed!

Every logo that exists and every product that has its own name/brand printed on it is an ad. Every product name in a catalog or simple list is an ad.

A world without ads would be like hundreds of years ago when you could buy soap that just looked like soap with no labels and no packaging at all. When the only food you purchased was bare produce/meat (or the whole animal). But even then any assembled/manufactured product would have some sort of “maker’s mark”.

I mean, how long have humans been branding cattle? That’s the original use of that term!

The article sucks. The FTC isn’t going after Microsoft’s cloud services because they’re good/bad. They’re going after Microsoft because of forced bundling. Same abuse of monopoly power they were found guilty of when they started forcing everyone to use Internet Explorer.

Microsoft is forcing customers to use their cloud services under all sorts of scenarios. Many of which have no logical reason other than to force customers into Azure.

For example, if you have a lot of Windows servers in Azure they will stop supporting you once you reach a certain threshold unless you also sign up to use their enterprise cloud AD service.

They already do this with regular Windows–you have to use AD if you’re a business customer and you go past a certain threshold of systems–but in that case you can just get some Domain Controllers and call it a day. You can put them wherever you want (locally, in AWS, in Azure, wherever).

With Azure Windows servers though you’re forced to use Azure AD (or you lose support and possibly access to other bundled services). You can’t host Domain Controllers anywhere else. I mean, they’ll let you have as many off-Azure DCs as you want but they must still be joined/synchronizing to Azure AD.

There’s probably many other anticompetitive tactics in place within the world of Azure but that’s the one big one I know off the top of my head.

Sounds sooooo second class to me. I only deal with first class languages so I can enjoy my curry with a satisfying closure 🎩 👌

It was a tired story until OH DEER it wasn’t anymore.

After replacing writers and artists it is now replacing the entire category of, “old people”. AI has reached the, “final solution” faster than I thought possible!

Because a lack of rest always moves projects forwards with absolutely no problems at all!

Girls don’t have problems like this. They’ll never understand what it’s like to be mail.

Manufacturing timestamp: 205611170708.32!

Exactly! I love how AI image generation can come up with funny surprises like that 🤣

I hope the hilarity never ends!

I use it for the hilarity!

I made a whole series of images representing the usual hair colors just for fun:

I have so much fun with images like this in Discord/Matrix and the occasional Lemmy post 🤣

That’s a lot of dough

OP doesn’t realize he’s an AI.