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  • Hunter2@discuss.tchncs.detoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlCan you drive a manual transmission?
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    Just pull the parking brake and accelerate until you feel the car slightly raising and then drop the parking brake.

    Eventually you get a feeling for it and drop the parking brake before it’s “fighting” the accelerator.

    This might sound trivial to some, but I know several people that never use the parking brake in these situations and instead do a manic race with their feet and the car drops a couple meters back and they over accelerate to compensate.


  • Not to mention that they did start with the narrative that they start enforcing this on a certain date, but it took me 2 months over that to receive the warning/being locked out. I remember seeing people from Canada (one of the countries in the first wave) that still had not been forced off 4 months into the date they had set.

    They appear to be taking it slow (not booting off everyone at the same time) to build this narrative that it’s working fantastically so to not get a massive drop off in users (stock price drop) and waiting out for their competition to also move forward with this change. All of this while also adding more markets, dropping the prices in others and removing the cheaper plans.








  • Drugs are not legal in Portugal. It’s decriminalised up to small amounts (ie personal use), which is different.

    My understanding is that:

    If you get caught with a couple of joints (or any drugs), they are confiscated, you are identified and you might have to pay a fine, do community service or go to an addiction consultation.

    If you’re over that limit, but not overly, you get the above + go to court and will likely receive suspended sentence and will have a criminal record.

    If you get caught with a truckload (obviously for distribution), if it’s your first offence you’ll likely also get suspended sentence, such is the state of our justice. If it’s not your first offence, you’ll likely do jail time.


  • I’m seriously questioning if you’re a bot because you’re throwing keywords and expressions you do not understand.

    You’re complaining of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) articles. This is clearly not that.

    Those pages ask the same question multiple times even in organic forms of how you randomly type it into a search engine. Just close any site that starts wit something like: “Don’t you hate it when your remote doesn’t work? If you press the button on your clicker and nothing happens, you need to open it and repair the buttons. If you need to fix your remote, start off by checking the batteries…”

    Journalism should not be “here’s all the info in one paragraph” and be gone. However, a good lead should reply to 5 questions: What? Who? How? Where? When?

    But this is not a news piece, this is a fluff column about old tech. You can just hit Wikipedia for easy-to-read digested info (I do that frequently).

    For all the shit ways journalism has gone to, and the ocasional misteps The Verge has done (their pc building tutorial, go watch it for a giggle) this actually a cool column.

    Last I read they are also sticking it to Spez by continuing to report on the shit Reddit has been doing.