@NNN @mclean.bsky.social I own a dozen different kinds of batteries. Every single one of them will (correctly) refuse to charge when the battery is too cold. Most of them will automatically start charging once it's warm enough, though some cheaper ones require you to unplug the battery and plug […]

@Wraithe @crschmidt.net In general, I'm not a big fan of crossposting; especially when following across the bridge is possible, I'd rather not have split conversations, ya know? I know other people feel differently, but I have always used each social network differently; when I crosspost, the […]

@crschmidt.net (I haven't exactly been active on Mastodon or Bluesky; my most recent set of posts has been half just testing out bridgy to make sure it's working. But social networks, as implied by the name, have a strong network effect, and for better or for worse, Bluesky is where a lot of […]

@Viss i mean, people talk to you where you build your network. If you built your network here, then your network is here. "the better conversations are happening here" *for you*.

@rawkitbawl.bsky.social only way to answer the question is to try!

My _guess_ would be that Waymo is safer for cyclists than your average human-driven car; most negative cyclist/Waymo interactions I have seen reported appear to be cases where I would be surprised if a human driven vehicle would do better, and the incidents that do happen seem more minor than […]

@rawkitbawl.bsky.social I'll admit that I'm lazier than I should be, though I make an effort for anything that is a top post that I don't describe the overall context of in the original post. (I have never felt like I have a good answer for how to describe "screenshots of maps" with alt text in […]

But someone in a leadership position acknowledged the harm, acknowledged that there were obviously changes that the officer could have made (e.g. one rec was to simply turn on the car's lights if it _needed_ to be parked in the bike lane), and said that they would personally take steps to […]

I did not appreciate the fact that the officer parked in the bike lane (even if he was "on a call" while he was watching baseball on the TV in the police vehicle, he could have just pulled 10' forward!); and him repeating several times "You've really got nothing better to do, how sad" was […]

Last week, I flew to and from Kentucky on full aircraft. I spent more than an hour around hundreds of people in the crowded Charlotte, North Carolina airport.

Unlike 98% of people in the airport, I was wearing an N95 mask.

Earlier today (5 days after my […]

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