So, you’re telling me that I’ll needs to use my… legs?

Dear god.

But where do I park my car?

15 years ago I went on a 3 month Semester at Sea study trip on a small cruise ship circumnavigating the globe.

There was only a handful of whitelisted sites available on the WiFi, otherwise you would need to pay a ton for the satellite connection or … have a staff password.

At least with my group we had a a healthy list of credentials that had been acquired in various ways. Even with occasional password changes, we managed to stay connected.

The ICE restaurant car always cures the delay blues, at least for me :)

I have a 45 minute high speed train commute to a busy end-of-line station. I can sleep, read, work, or just stare out the window and think.

Same commute is probably twice as long by car during rush hour.

I started calling them “potentially fatal car crashes”. Even the “small” ones… us humans are delicate.

Dunno about NYC but I complain about traffic noise in the surveys that my city sends on occasion.

The pong clone, likely Tennis, is in one of OPs photos.

Mooi fiets :)

My new (used) city bike. Mostly used for the train station and dog running.

I still include Google results in my Searx.

Definitely miss the good ol’ days where it was optimized to give the best results. Same goes for Netflix recommendations back in the the DVD mailer days…

I’ve had simple, single-speed back-pedal braking bikes for more than twenty years as my primary transportation.

It’s not that I’m disinterested in other bikes but just don’t want to compromise on things you mentioned like maintainability.

I want a bike that will last for decades, even if it trades hands many times. I’ve bought a new bike in the past but my current daily ride is older than I am.

My primary mode of transportation is a bike and IMO not all e-bikes are real bikes.

Pedal-assist sure but if there is a throttle (and pedaling is optional) then I consider it a moped.

Not that I’m opposed to mopeds…

I live in a similar climate and use rain pants.

Sounds super cereal…

We have I-Root and K-Root in Europe, these are certainly used…

I used to work in Grasshopper for parametric models but now I mostly reach for OpenSCAD.

All the devs I know use SO…

So the tankie idiots join the bigger pool of non-tankie idiots. How will we ever survive…

In my experience, you actually need more people to maintain and extend existing software compared to the initial build out.

Usually because of scalability concerns, increasing complexity of the system and technical debt coming due.