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Kwikxilver

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  • @datahoarder Oddly the daily Google Drive posts have dried up since moving to Lemmy? I hope this means people have found more sustainable storage.

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  • I'd probably bet that the people that have filtered through to Lemmy probably already have their own data storage already sorted - you've got less "casuals" as it were. I use Google Drive myself, trying to figure out an alternative.

  • Shade

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  • Great article. It's so sad that the homelessness problem is outweighing the desire for shade and public space. I feel that it's definitely the bigger problem of the two, but also more complicated to solve.

  • What games do your friend groups tend to play with one another?

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  • Fortnite. It's free!

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    Have You Been to the Library Lately? | The Walrus

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  • Fantastic article. I didn't realise libraries were doing so much - but it's clear that they are struggling. We should be funding institutions like this absolutely - but also funding housing and health more. If people had a place to live and a place to be healed the library wouldn't have to pick up the slack.

  • Describe a game in 5 words or less, and see if anyone can guess it.

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  • Fallout

  • How do you get around daily?

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  • Absolutely. We have tried existing off the "express" store 5 mins from us but the prices are killer. We have had to switch almost solely to the discount markets because of the cost of living.

    I barely use my car so I have thought about selling it, but we don't have a reliable car hire scheme in my town so if I needed one for work I would be screwed. I think though that the savings from being car-free would in no way balance out the costs from the expensive supermarket. Difference of a weekly shop is like £50!

  • How do you get around daily?

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  • That's the thing - when I shop, it's usually for a week or so and I can't carry all of that stuff on the back of a bike. All of the discount supermarkets are located on the edges of town in more industrial areas while all of the more traditional / expensive ones are within a 30 min walk.

    I do barely use my car - WFH most of the time - and I'm glad I don't use it to commute any more. That really is hell on earth.

  • How do you get around daily?

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  • I live in the UK. I take the train to work, but I usually drive to the shops and for errands as there aren't any cheap supermarkets within walking distance. I do tend to walk into town as parking is a pain! And I do lots of walks around my towns parks.

    Should really get on the bike train, but I don't have a great place to store it and I'm worried about getting killed by SUVs!

  • How do you guys have your music streaming setup?

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  • Plexamp is what I use. It's the closest feel to using my iPod touch back in the day. I just wish there was a better way to display archived podcasts!

  • Cities Skylines community?

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  • I can't make communities on my instance - if there was a general gaming instance that might be good to put it on there.

  • Electric vehicles alone can’t solve transportation’s climate problems: to cut heat-trapping emissions, we also need to reduce car use.

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  • There needs to be a radical redesign in how many countries, especially western ones, build the places we live and work. We need suburbs do be retrofitted with mixed use development and transit. It's going to be incredibly costly...but it's do or die.

  • America’s Suburbs Are Breeding Grounds for Fascism

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  • I agree with you - but from personal experience of growing up in a cookie cutter, isolated suburb it's the kind of place that does something bad to you psychologically. Living in a walkable (dare I say 15 minute?) town now has done wonders for my mental state compared to when I lived in the suburbs.

  • Timeline of total users at the top 10 Lemmy instances

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  • I'm actually quite pleased to see lemmy.ml focus on what they want to focus on rather than being a general purpose instance like mastodon.social. I read their mission statement and they were pretty adamant that they want to see a variety of different instances - and we should! Reminds me of the golden forum days.

  • Restored electric tramway in Bergen, Norway (video)

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  • Lots of cities around the world have got rid of their tram systems in favour of private cars and are only now starting to realise that was a very bad idea for the most part.

    I'm fine with historic tramways - but is it going to be fit for purpose if people start using it like a modern metro?