Every two years I get the chance to go drive in Europe. I have done France and Belgium several times, and now I've added Iceland which seems to have the same rules as EU.

I like that basically every zone has a start sign and a stop sign and I appreciate that more information is conveyed by signage especially "hey dummy the next sign is informational" kind of things, but I have one really big gripe: speed limits suck. I appreciate the high limit of 130 kph, but whereas in the US you have "advisory speed limits" for corners and hazards and stuff like that, where I have driven in europe these aren't suggestions, they are the rule. This means that for those of us that get carsick we are constantly bouncing from 90 to 70 to 50 to 30 to 50 to 30 to 50 to 70 to 50 to 30 over and over and over again. Does the speed hump require 30kph? Yes. Do you need it for 50 yards on either side? Maybe no.

I also appreciate that roads are small and that driving is not prioritized, which is great, but it's hard to take a family of 4 for a few weeks to see family because... you have to rent a Dacia BIGSTER just to fit suitcases.

My hot take from all of this though: I think europeans are probably better drivers. You have to be more alert for one, but for two you have to know the EXACT size of your vehicle to navigate every parking garage, parking space, or "2 lane road" that has a truck on it.

Last month a "Velma" kept following me around Lemmy using their alts to harass and downvote me, then they popped back up the other day to tell me that the decades of Weinstein rapes were the same as non-physical sexual assault and consensual sex, which is crazy.

Anyone elae have weirdos or creeps following them around?

Looks like Velma's getting upset:

Or maybe this DM is not ftom another Velma alt and a random user is suddenly very upset at me personally for no stated reason. What a coincidence!

Gemini can't set timers, make reminders(can't connect to "device assistance" with all privacy-invading bullshit enabled).

Is there any other mobile OS that does simple voice commands?

All I want are timers, alarms, date reminders, and apparentlysndroid can't process those anymore.

Is it just not high in the priority list?

Linux is so full-featured at this point and music is such a huge part of culture that I'm always surprised when asked to find that there's no music-making software available.

Or have I just not found the Linux equivalent yet that everybody else knows about?

My friend's kid is hooked on Ponyo right now, and I feel like that will be the Miyazaki film burned into her soul from here on forward.

What games worked well for you on Heroic? I've had basically zero problems since I switched and it's so much faster and reliable than the native Epic client on Windows.

@1stQ@feddit.org great photo

My friends are very emotionally attached to Costco.

Will they help with controlling the necessary processing power for games? Are Rixels applicable to most games?

It was very unstable and I kept feeling like I would fall into the lake.

Here or elsewhere.

My friend's on reddit a lot, uses it for support questions and reviews mostly, but got fed up with all the bullshit toxicity.

I suggested she check out Lemmy, there's less content, but generally fewer toxic interactions, and we scrolled a bit.

She checked it out, didn't understand a meme on WomensStuff, had me ask them about it, and was so put off by their responses that that was the end of lemmy for her.