Not everything in black and white makes sense.
I mean you could have the best car free cycling infrastructure in the world and it would still be better to wear helmets since the energy you build up with a bike is just too much for your crane to take.
This is the same reason airbags exist and we stopped putting metal spikes on steering wheels.
All of this is strangely reminiscent of the seatbelt discussion for me.
I still don’t get it, we know helmets protect, so the less cranial trauma you come across in your life the longer your life will be. It’s rather simple.
What you are addressing here is just anti bike politics. If tomorrow everyone would agree to wear helmets, they would come up with speed restrictions for cycling. The goal is to be anti cycling. The idea they hide behind is replaceable.
I didn’t know there was a anti bicycle-helmet faction. I guess it’s like smoking, if I ignore the dangers it won’t happen to me…
I’m not sure if the people living in Paris were mad. It might be the people who commute that hated her anti-car politics.
On the other hand we are talking about a nation that wanted to put a highway interchange in the middle of Paris …
It’s a cheap Chinese made, it prints when I turn it on and that’s like every two months for the last 3 years. So I guess it’s good. I also only use it to print from linux or my phone.
I got a cheap Xerox laser printer, the toner is cheap and lasts forever.
Sadly I concur, every EU country is better in that situation than Germany.
The whole mobile ecosystem is a giant hardware backdoor on every phone. I think it’s too late now to change anything on that level.
Sorry but this whole thing is just snake-oil.
You can verify and sign your whole trust chain down to the last shared library and it doesn’t matter when you don’t know what the binary blobs on your TPM / CPU / BIOS / NIC are doing.
The only guarantee to a secure system is openness an all of that signing won’t help you there.
I don’t trust Microsoft, why should I start trusting IBM/Canonical or Poettering now.
If the possibility is there they will happily lock you out of your own hardware.
Interesting, I wonder if you could do the same now with Internet. We know that DSL works over a wet rope.
I don’t understand why they are signing it. I mean we know that Microsoft is hostile, why submit to their signing bullshit.
The more you normalise bad behaviour the worse it gets.