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Tools for collecting traffic data on my street? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 months ago (8 children)

you know what else slows down ambulances? Congestion

I live near a school. Cars go way too fast and blast through intersections. Impeding the flow of car traffic is exactly what we need. I'd rather not require the ambulance in the first place.

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Tools for collecting traffic data on my street? (midwest.social)
 

I'm working with my neighbors to petition the city to add traffic calming measures (e.g. speed bumps, one way roads) to my street. I'm also hoping to turn it into a bit of a research project. Does anyone know of any tools to monitor or even automate data collection of the speeds of cars, number of cars going by, how many actually stop at intersections/stop signs, etc? If we're successful with the petition, I think it would be nice to be able to present some data from before and after the traffic calming measures are put in place. Thank you in advance!

I was wondering why my laptop heats up too much lately in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Stop spreading FUD please.

For some reason people love to shit on Brave and turn a blind eye to mistakes made by Mozilla or problems with Firefox. Brave has had missteps in the past, as many projects have. This doesn't make it "malware."

It's ok not to use it for ideological reasons - I don't like their CEO either. But that doesn't mean Brave is not a privacy browser or not a good browser.

Also see: https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/why-recommend-brave-browser-on-android-and-not-mull/13957

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/brave-history-is-quite-blurry/11657/2

I was wondering why my laptop heats up too much lately in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I use this feature for snowflake

Pro/Con of DeGoogled Phone Operating Systems in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

/e/ is not degoogled and security does not seem to be a priority for them. I wouldn't recommend it. See the following comments from a divestos dev:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/should-e-os-and-the-fairphone-be-added-to-privacy-guides/13184/2

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/should-e-os-and-the-fairphone-be-added-to-privacy-guides/13184/8

EU fingerprint checks for British travellers to start in 2024 in c/[email protected]
What is your unpopular flim opinion in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

So true, I watched dune in theaters with my friends and half of us fell asleep lmao

What is your unpopular flim opinion in c/[email protected]
America has lost its f*****g mind. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Personally I'm ok with fuck cars being mainly a place for people to express their frustrations with how things are - I think that serves an important role.

I would also like to see places for more nuanced discussions about urbanism for those who are interested. I used to go to r/NotJustBikes for that, but haven't seen any similar communities emerge on Lemmy.

When compared with a short commuting time (< 30 min), a long commuting time (≥ 60 min) was associated with a 16% increase in likelihood of depressive symptoms in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

It's also well documented by strongtowns how car infrastructure specifically devastates local communities and bankrupts cities due to how exorbitantly expensive it is. Long car commutes may increase the GDP of a country, but local areas suffer.

When compared with a short commuting time (< 30 min), a long commuting time (≥ 60 min) was associated with a 16% increase in likelihood of depressive symptoms in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This illustrates very well how broken our economic system is lol. What benefits "the economy" (GDP) is not what benefits real people/communities.

Fairphone 3 - or how to be contend with a phone and its´ issues in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I'll also add that while Fairphone markets that they suoport their phones for many years, the firmware of the Qualcomm SoC it ships with stops receiving updates after only a couple years. Your phone will not be secure after this point. Read more here:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/android-overview/#firmware-updates

Issues federating with lemmy.world? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Interesting - I just checked again today and it's showing up on lemmy.world

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Issues federating with lemmy.world? (midwest.social)
 

If you go to c/[email protected] through midwest.social, it shows fewer subscribers in the sidebar than if you go straight to lemmy.world (https://midwest.social/c/[email protected] vs https://lemmy.world/c/homeimprovement). Also, there are posts that only show up when you look at c/[email protected] through the midwest.social instance, and are missing from the lemmy.world instance.

For example, this post: https://midwest.social/post/4242666 is nonexistent if you look at the homepage on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/c/homeimprovement. However, you can see it from the homepage on midwest.social: https://midwest.social/c/[email protected].

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Whole Home Surge Protection? (midwest.social)
 

Is whole-home surge protection a good idea to protect large appliances, a plug in hybrid car, etc from voltage spikes?

I'm also a little lost in terms of what I should be looking for in a whole home surge protector. Are they all just MOVs, and if so, doesn't that mean they'll wear out and need to be replaced overtime?

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Unable to find 30 year old Gaggenau Oven EB 378 610 part (midwest.social)
 

cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/4040473

Every once in a while, the heating element seems to break on my Gaggenau EB 378 610 oven. Other than that, it works fine.

This time though, I am unable to find a replacement part since the manufacturer discontinued it. I searched everywhere online and on eBay, but was still unable to find it.

I would rather not buy a new oven since that would be very expensive and I like this one. Does anyone have any ideas about where I can find a replacement heating element? Or am I out of luck?

It's a convection element, part #00098494, 100L

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Unable to find 30 year old Gaggenau Oven EB 378 610 part (midwest.social)
 

Every once in a while, the heating element seems to break on my Gaggenau EB 378 610 oven. Other than that, it works fine.

This time though, I am unable to find a replacement part since the manufacturer discontinued it. I searched everywhere online and on eBay, but was still unable to find it.

I would rather not buy a new oven since that would be very expensive and I like this one. Does anyone have any ideas about where I can find a replacement heating element? Or am I out of luck?

It's a convection element, part #00098494, 100L

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