Ok?

Did I not pretty explicitly allude to the need to not over-indulge?

This is why hedonism is a good thing.

You just can’t be so hedonistic that you can’t keep being one next year, and the year after. Or in a way that screws someone over.

Cats will tell you when they want you to stop.

Most people don’t notice, but when you know, you just kinda know.

Also private equity.

I am.

How would a pedal that opens a door towards you work? Unless it’s like a handle for your foot?

Makes sense.

Is that a thing?

Feels like something door closers make irrelevant.

You’d think fire code would require exit always be push, because that makes evacuating smoother.

If you have a bunch of people wanting to go through a door, you do not want them the be pull.

Even while orderly, requiring a crowd to step back to provide the space for the doors to open is not ideal.

Haven’t seen that.

You can also push a door open with a foot as you take a step forward.

It’s trickier than using an elbow, as it involves the balancing act of putting your weight on the door, which will give way, before allowing your foot to actually land. Do it wrong or with a door that’s much lighter than you thought, and you fall over as you deliberately shift your weight off the one foot you’re still standing on :D

I initially started doing it to push open doors while holding stuff with my hands, but now I kinda just walk into doors and open them with a foot as I do.

You shouldn’t be touching any handles upon exiting a bathroom.

The door should be push to exit, so you can open it by pushing with your elbow.

Aaand that’s several more paragraphs on condescension.

So what I’m getting is this: your problem is that I didn’t write my comment in the form of a watertight essay, while discarding any mention of anything that is unlikely to occur in the immediate future?

Firstly, you are the one who started from the premise you need to own a car to commute, and indeed that one should own a car capable only of commuting and other very short often bikeable trips.

Did I? Imo I merely expressed that the weight problem of cars meant that how they are designed should change. How does “we should have” mean everyone should have one, and only use that?

All I meant is that smaller and lighter, shorter range cars should be available, and be considered as normal to use as what is normal now.

And why did you just write nine paragraphs at me explaining things I’m fully aware of?

Do you think people with ideas about how the world could work, are somehow blind to how it does work?

If there’s a “right” amount of sleep, I’ve yet to figure out what it is.

They’re not talking to each other, the interviewer is a third person.

To clarify, I find your reply unhelpful, because you explain the logical course of action for an individual to make the most of the current sorry state of western transport. US transport, to be specific.

And in reply to something obviously rheotorical.

Your answer is not even close to the most efficient solution to transport we might come up with as a society.

Meanwhime I am commenting about that hopelly improved future, where owning a car in the first place is no longer a choice made for you.

Where you can head out, and get to any point on the map for a reasonable cost, in a timely manner, while owning nothing more than the clothes you’d be wearing.

I literally live in a country where that is how it works. It’s possible.

Yup.

There truly is no alternative to car-centric infrastructure. And there is no way to reduce the distances we all simply must drive. /s

You’re presenting all these factors as if they’re intrinsic and unavoidable. They are not. We should not only move towards smaller vehicles, but denser urban design that removes the need to regularly travel stupid distances.

Intercity travel is truly the WORST in a personal vehicle. Why the hell would I drive somewhere for hours, when I can sit in a train and game on my steamdeck the whole time?

I know the US sucks in this regard, but that’s a reason to fix things, not perpetuate the problem.

Let me ask an even more basic question, who said you need to own a car, at all?

Because that was the auto-industry, too. You know what we did for “generations” before we all drove small sedans for generations?

Walked.

And it worked fine. When cities were for people, not cars, nothing was ever so far apart that getting from A to B was inconceivable without a personal vehicle.

Who said you need to own the car you need for a couple days, once or twice a year?

Do you buy the moving truck each time you need to move your stuff to a new home? What about the bus, train, or plane you use to go long distance?

“don’t want to” is not an argument as history has shown consumers will buy whatever marketing convinces them to want.

That’s kinda the whole reason behind the current big car problem in the US. It’s not what consumers wanted, it’s what automakers made in order to skirt environmental restrictions.

Another reason to have smaller cars with smaller batteries with shorter ranges, just enough for the every-day commute.

Why do you need to bring several hundred kilograms of road-tripping range to work and the grocer every-day?

Was definitely on by default on my device.

Personal data is still accessible, if the app you choose to pin is something like the dialer, or your mail app, then yes, you can obviously access contacts and emails. The feature doesn’t block the pinned app from accessing everything it normally accesses.

As for opening other apps, this applies to stuff like links or launchers. If the app has links somewhere, you could open your default browser app. It does not allow you to “escape” the pinned app to anywhere else in the system, unless the pinned app has a way to launch other apps the way launchers do.

The feature could certainly use improvement, but if it were only useful with people you trust, it would be pointless.

It’s obviously intended for situations where you have to let someone use your phone, and don’t want to give them free reign. With people you trust, you wouldn’t need something like that.

It’s far better than nothing, and is in fact part of android.

It is.

Apple has “guided access”, android has “pin app”.

I only have experience with the latter, it works by opening the task management view, and selecting “pin application” on a running app.

That then locks the device to that app. To access anything else, it has to be unlocked as if the screen were locked.

The one imposing the standard is entirely me. My parents deliberately STEPPED AWAY from controlling me and my siblings lives as we came into adulthood. They’re incredible.

Today we all treat each other like adults, (and humor mom by allowing her to baby us a bit) they’ve completely stepped down from being controlling influences in our lives. They advise, show concern, and voice opinions, but since turning 18, they’ve never once acted like we can’t do as we please.

The way the acted towards us and each other left a huge impression. As I’ve gone on to live life I’ve truly come to realize and appreciate my parents are 2 in a million. I didn’t realize the significance of it while growing up, but thinking back now, the things they did blow me away. Like who makes a point of explaining each mistake they’ve made raising someone, as they realize what they were, TO that someone, and apologizing for them openly?!

I think it’s actually made me and my siblings easier to control, we always listen if they have something to say, because we all see that they’re two of the wisest people we’ll ever know.