I agree with you 100%. As a motorcycle rider and pedestrian/runner, I am all too aware that even if you are in the right as to your personal choices - it will suuuuuck to be unseen from someone piloting a larger vehicle. Responsibility doesn't solely fall on the pedestrian in this instance - but why wouldn't someone at a disadvantage want to up their visibility?
Had a bicyclist the other night on an unlit Street wearing all black and no lights or reflectors on their bicycle. 25mph zone but two way narrow in-town street. I only knew they was there because the car in front of me crossed the double yellow - and looking in the rear view, had pulled off to the side but was next to invisible...
Yeah there is a lot of fuss about the cx5 turning to touchscreen and people hating it (in literature, not sure on the experience side yet). I have a 2020 and like the setup it has for sure.
I'm riding into my fifties - and given recent pricing ridiculousness with video cards and now ram, my desire to build my own is significantly less. No cost savings and then adding the time investment starts to become less attractive as years go by.
I was looking forward in the next year or two to upgrade my circa 2020 build. I've held off due to abhorrent video card pricing - Love me some games but I've been playing more single player non-demanding games (metroidvania types).
You just unlocked another memory. Doing some bleach cleanup of a wall that had animals in it (painted cinder block behind framing). 2 sections out of 6 completed, I threw my back out. I continued to finish the clean up in agony because I was so mad about the problem at hand. I need to focus more on my upper body and back (I run a lot, but that does close to nothing for core support).
I wrecked my neck sleeping wrong once. Had to go get meds because it wasn't getting immediately better the next day (nor the next two after). That's the part about getting older that sucks. "Surprise your next hurts!"
I have a machine in my garage that gets used for music and the random football game. Starting it up after being down even a few weeks starts the churn of updates. It's annoying.
Gonna start down a rabbit hole here - but are there any good rf remotes for htpc? I've been using Nvidia shield devices for the better part of what feels like a decade now and they're awesome - with the exception of lacking hardware av1 decode.
I've got an older AMD bulldozer platform with 16 or so tb behind it. SMB serves up all of the media to Nvidia shield platforms running Kodi. Away, I'll wire guard in to my network to remotely access media and compute as needed. I'm a big fan of not running a bunch of integrations that would fail at a time I'm just trying to watch something and relax; IT support at home after doing it all day sucks.
The older I get, the more I don't give a fuck and just let go.
Interstellar - when Cooper is watching messages from his son... Gets me every damn time.
I bought a used Ryobi lead acid riding mower with bad batteries for cheap. Converted to lithium. I was and still am psyched to get that thing out every week. And I'm in the same age range as you.
This happened to me with a good friend. He wanted to stop listening, and admittedly I was on repeat (severe depression, major life changes coming and I couldn't cope properly) - but it has the effect of drifting us pretty severely.