buckykat [none/use name]

Xournal++ is good for taking notes with a stylus and annotating PDFs, I’ve used it for years.

I run PopOS on my Lenovo Flex, it supports the stylus and all other hardware out of the box. The only tweak I had to do was in firefox’s about:config to make it treat touch inputs differently than mouse inputs.

Nobody reads the articles

Well, the second sentence of the linked post is:

This is very much a developer-focused board to help accelerate maturing the software ecosystem around RISC-V, so we recommend waiting for future RISC-V products if you’re looking for a consumer-ready experience.

So I’m gonna go with not very.

Make sure you put “by the way I use arch” at the end of all your posts

The only newspaper worth reading is The Onion because it has the jester’s privilege to actually tell the truth.

You shouldn’t pirate the NYT

Because it’s a dogshit propaganda rag which uncritically repeats the US government line

Archived page to get past BI’s paywall

On the days I travel, I often have a full schedule of Social Security disability psychological assessments to conduct.

This person’s job is looking for excuses to cut people’s disability benefits.

Since the vehicle is technically for my business, it needed to be big enough for a specific tax code. The Cybertruck was the only one that fit the bill.

Picked the stupid thing as some kind of weird tax dodge?

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving significantly reduces the stress of driving all over Arizona.

Definitely driving without paying attention to the road

Won’t happen under capitalism. Which is just another reason capitalism needs to go.

I haven’t run an OS off a spinning disk for over a decade but I still remember how big the leap in general usability was when switching to SSD

It’s also dangerous to walk outdoors at all. I saw the aftermath of a drunk driver killing a pedestrian at 6 AM a few days ago. There was debris spread for at least a hundred meters down the road. The news said the driver was uninjured.

When Linux doesn’t do what I want, it’s never because it was deliberately designed not to do what I want in order to increase shareholder value

If humans treat goblins like shit because they’re goblins, and a goblin turns into a big bad because they want to kill the humans that slaughtered their village, then critical support to that goblin

Try Pop OS instead, it works great with touch and pen input on my tablet laptop.

It wouldn’t. Nor would it be unsafe. These property value fuckers are not just obnoxious but also really stupid.

There’s a neighborhood in my city right next to a light rail station. Literally, some of the houses are less than 20m from the platform. But when the station was being built the neighborhood association specifically campaigned against having any access to the station from the neighborhood. There’s a huge concrete wall blocking it off now. So if the people living in the houses literally directly next to the station wanted to get to the station they’d have to walk (or realistically, drive) over 2km across a highway, along a major road and through busy parking lots. And then, after getting to the station, they’d have to cross back under the highway to get to the actual train platform, because it’s built on their side of the highway despite being impossible to get to from that side.

property value obsessed homeowners are some of the most obnoxious people on earth

.world is run by reactionary dipshits

Please do not the bush

Yeah, an empty parking lot. You might think a field of grass would be better, but in my experience the unevenness of the ground makes it harder to learn more than the softness boosts confidence.

Your falls when learning in the parking lot will be a lot more stumbling and dropping the wheel than anything serious. The wrist guards are especially important because most people’s reflex when falling is to catch themselves with their hands, and that can be a problem even at low speeds without guards. You will also bang your ankles on the pedals, which is painful but not seriously damaging.

First, work on just controlling the wheel with one foot while standing on the ground with the other. Roll it back and forth, get a bit of a feel for how it moves.

You’re going to want to try and hold onto something when you first try to get both feet on the wheel. In my opinion, this is a dead end and doesn’t really help.

Get out away from obstacles and work on stepping your second foot up. The movement you should be going for is a single smooth unhurried step while leaning slightly forward, don’t try to rush. This part can take a while and can tire you out more than you’d expect. It’s okay to let the wheel fall (that’s part of why a cheaper, lighter secondhand wheel is ideal for learning), and it’s okay to take breaks. Getting frustrated doesn’t improve balance or smoothness.

When you manage to get both feet on the pedals, keep your knees bent slightly, your back straight, and your eyes up. Especially at first your balance, and the wheel responding to your balance, will tend to go where you’re looking. Look at the ground, you’ll go to the ground. Look forward, you’ll go forward.