• frezik@midwest.social
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    5 months ago

    Motherboard front panel connectors should be officially standardized. These fucking things have been basically the same since the 90s, but we still have to line up all the individual wires instead of having one plug.

    Oh, and fix RGB headers while we’re at it. They’re the flimseist fucking thing, and you shouldn’t be able to use a 4 pin plug on a three pin header.

  • 58008@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Instantaneous, lifelong driving bans for any driver who is found to be texting or intoxicated behind the wheel.

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      5 months ago

      I respectfully disagree. People, who depend on cars for their job would lose the license and their job, making them drink more.

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        5 months ago

        Respectfully, so what? If you drive for your livelihood then it’s your own damn fault if you get banned from it for doing something illegal.

      • philipsdirk@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I respectfully disagree. People that cannot bring up the discipline to drive sober and keep their attention on the road, even if their jobs would depend on it, shouldn’t have the privilege of being allowed to operate a machine that can easily kill when making a mistake or misjudgment.

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        5 months ago

        You spectacularly missed the point of DUI law. Society couldn’t give two shits if someone is drinking themselves to an early grave. It’s when they endanger other people that it becomes an issue. That’s why it’s driving under the influence, not existing.

        Many countries will judge a DUI induced kill a murder, because the person who chooses to drink and drive knows that killing someone is a probable outcome and chose to do it anyway.

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        Agreed, and I respectfully disagree with everyone else replying to you.

        Relying on your car for your job is a much wider criterion than driving as your job. In car-centric places like the US (outside of the big cities) that’s probably 99% of the population. Couple that with the piss poor social safety net and losing your license literally means starvation.

        This still doesn’t mean I endorse or agree with people driving distracted in any way. If revoking someone’s license meant removing them from the road but not destroying their life, I would do that in a heartbeat.

  • AbsentBird@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

    If you own a house with nobody living in it, you gotta pay rent to the state each month for the privilege of keeping it empty.

  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Imagine a kid runs out on the road suddenly… What a dumb fucking idea!

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      5 months ago

      The smarter version of this idea is the turn signal comes on automatically in the direction you turn.

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        5 months ago

        It’s not. The point of a turning signal is to give a warning to fellow drivers in advance. Turning it on right when you’re turning is way too late. Just learn to drive properly for fucks sake!

  • I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    My car makes it slightly difficult to change lanes if I don’t signal, some resistance on the steering wheel and a warning beep beep beep that I’m “drifting.” There are some terrible roads around here that confuse the sensors so I do a bit of steering wheel arm wrestling now and then just to keep going straight.