I have never heard of woodpusher before as a term for chess, so idk

It is probably not the name I would have picked myself (even though I qualify for it) , but it’s a classic, kinda ;)

There is also the recent !woodpushers@quokk.au.

There are not enough active users on Lemmy/Piefed, there is obviously even less so that are playing chess. I’m not sure creating a new instance will solve that issue (I just joined, though ;)

Why the need to reinvent money for what used to simply be called being (good) neighbors or being members of a community helping one another, that was money-less? By putting even a tokenized form of money into play, like others have already mentioned, one is risking turning it into a business, with any kind of abuse… Even more so if said money has an expiry date on it (why? and how would that be considered fair?)

Just do it, because it’s wasting your time and effort, and possibly also material if it’s failing in ways that a better tool would not. It’s preventing you from doing better work.

I know you’re right. It’s just me being… me ;)

In France, we don’t use craiglist but we have a similar thing called Leboncoin (for anyone wondering). Maybe that’s jsut what I will do, taking this as the opportunity to also look for a good deal on a better model for my own use, using that same website ;)

I wish I had read your comment (and asked the op question) a few years ago when I purchased my own sewing machine (I decided to learn in my early 50s to mend my spouse and my clothe): it’s a rather weak machine that can’t handle denim that well, if at all… Looking very much like the first picture you shared. But since IO also don’t want to create too much waste, I try to make do with it… up until I can find a used model that will work better and someone willing to use mine.

How can I keep using OTP and 2FA services when on a dumb phone?

That’s the reason why I use a smartphone… like a dumb phone.

I install on it only the apps I need and must have access to: security, finance,… apps like that. And nothing else. No game, obviously no social, but also no music, movies, not even ebooks and also no ‘but I like that app so much I can make an exception’. No nothing. I don’t even use the agenda on that phone, I use a paper one, and I barely use it as a phone too. It’s dumb and almost useless (just not completely useless), exactly like I want it to be.

RIP the little that was already left of my brain, after I figured it out :p

And they would be right this not merely interesting. This is fascinating ;)

Great idea, gg! And great remark:

newsprint sketchbooks are ridiculously expensive.

+1 only because I can’t do more.

I am both proud and ashamed of it.

Don’t be, you should have a look at my (non woodworking) cheaply handmade notebook. Unlike your sketchbook, my notebook is ugly as hell (made out of recycled plastic, and cardboard) but no matter how ugly (and cumbersome) it is it’s still the best notebook I ever used… in the last 40+ years. I’m loving it ;)

Agreed, but accidents still are accidents 'sometimes with dramatic consequences). And excusing idiocy or idiotic behavior because it happens on a bike is not a good idea: it the same idiocy with the same sad consequences. Like I said, the tool is not the issue, how a person is using it is.

bikes and electric scooters are not supposed to be ridden on the sidewalk

They are not supposed but they do.

Same thing in France. I also live and Paris and don’t really know what the other commenter is talking about

Since I have no stats or pictures to share, for anyone else reading French wanting to have an idea “what I’m talking about”, here are a few of the results I was served searching for “Paris accidents velo et trotinettes”, in no particular order. BTW, I have not read all of those articles I just want to make it clear I’m not imagining things like the previous comment seems to imply (sorry for the lack of layout, I made it real quick):

• “The number of cyclists in the streets of the capital has exploded since the Covid epidemic. Cycle paths have sprung up, the space and speed of cars have been reduced, but pedestrians are now wary of bicycles and scooters that run red lights and ride on sidewalks.” France 24 the original French: “Le nombre de cyclistes a explosé dans les rues de la capitale depuis l’épidémie de Covid. Les pistes cyclables ont fleuri, la place et la vitesse des voitures ont été réduites mais les piétons se méfient maintenant des vélos et trottinettes qui grillent les priorités, montent sur les trottoirs.”
• “The trial of the nurse who fatally struck a 32-year-old woman with her scooter in 2021 before fleeing the scene opens on Thursday, March 20. Her name was Miriam, she was Italian, and she worked as a waitress in Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris). On June 14, 2021, she collided with another young woman, a nurse riding a shared electric scooter. The latter was traveling too fast, in a prohibited lane, and with a passenger. The scooter struck a group of pedestrians. Miriam died after falling.” France Info, the roginal French: “Le procès de l’infirmière qui avait en 2021 mortellement percuté à trottinette une jeune femme de 32 ans, avant de prendre la fuite, s’ouvre jeudi 20 mars. Elle se prénommait Miriam, était italienne et serveuse à Saint-Germain-des-Près (Paris). Le 14 juin 2021, sa route a croisé celle d’une autre jeune femme, une infirmière circulant sur une trottinette électrique en libre-service. Celle-ci roulait trop vire, sur une voie interdite et avec un passager. La trottinette a percuté un groupe de piétons. Miriam est décédée après avoir chuté.”
• [En quelques jours seulement, deux piétons ont été très gravement blessés à Paris, renversés par un vélo ou une trottinette électrique. Deux drames qui posent désormais la question des « mobilités douces » très prisées par la mairie de Paris.](https://www.epochtimes.fr/pietons-danger-a-paris-polemique-apres-2-accidents-graves-impliquant-velo-trottinettes-1773520.html
• “It’s anarchy in all the streets. Even though there are cycle paths, everyone does whatever they want: scooters everywhere on the sidewalks, cyclists who don’t know the rules of the road and parents terrified at the thought of seeing their child cross,” she says. “C’est l’anarchie dans toutes les rues. Il a beau y avoir des pistes cyclables, tout le monde fait n’importe quoi : des trottinettes dans tous les sens sur les trottoirs, des cyclistes qui ne connaissent pas le code de la route et des parents terrorisés à l’idée de voir traverser leur enfant", estime-t-elle.
• ““The decision to ban electric scooters didn’t come out of nowhere. It stems from several observations that have stirred the city in recent months. Safety was the top priority. The number of collisions and falls involving these vehicles has skyrocketed, turning some roads into obstacle courses. Added to this is chronic urban disorder, fueled by scooters abandoned anywhere and everywhere, blocking strollers, wheelchairs, and hurried pedestrians. Insecurity has taken hold, exacerbated by the disregard for rules and the increase in risky behavior.” Why Paris is saying no to free-access electric scooters which is explaing what Paris put a ban on rental electric scooters “La décision de bannir les trottinettes électriques ne sort pas de nulle part. Son origine tient à plusieurs constats qui ont agité la ville ces derniers mois. Avant tout, la sécurité a été placée en tête de liste. Le nombre de collisions et de chutes impliquant ces véhicules a bondi, transformant certains axes en parcours d’obstacles. À cela s’ajoute un désordre urbain chronique, alimenté par des engins abandonnés n’importe où, bloquant poussettes, fauteuils roulants et passants pressés. L’insécurité s’est installée, attisée par le non-respect des règles et la multiplication des comportements à risque. »

And btw, “abandonned” (rental) bikes (abandonned in the middle of the sidewalks, or even at the entrance/exit of a crosswalk) are another issue on their own.

All I’m saying is that this behavior (and I insist the issue pedestrians are most concerned with is with electrical, not with actual bike users: they already have enough trouble dealing with cars) is a real danger and should notbe tolerated or minimized. Even if we like bikes more than cars.

The only places I regularly see bikes on the sidewalk are those where the road infrastructure makes it too dangerous to ride a bike on a street

So, it’s ok to make it “too dangerous” for pedestrians instead? Not my logic, but as a pedestrian I’m obviously biased.

Also, keep in mind the code makes it clear it is ok to push a bike on sidewalk, that does not make it OK to ride it. Even less so when it’s an electrical one, which makes it go so much faster.

I have a hard time understanding what you mean? Bike are not beings, they are no problem, nor is a hammer, it always is the people using them, right?

Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance

It’s a partisan paper. With very selected pictures that show only… nice situations. It’s not like that everywhere in Paris, far from it.

As a Parisian and as a pedestrian, I’m very unhappy with the ‘bike’ situation because of the way electric bikes and scooters (I don’t know the English word for our French ‘trotinettes’) have invaded sidewalks making it a real danger to just, you know, be walking.

Not only do we have to worry when we want to cross a street, because of the cars (and more and more because of the bikes that consider traffic lights do not apply to them), but we now also have to constantly be on the lookout (even looking behind our back, and keep in mind we, pedestrians, have no rear mirrors) when we are simply walking on the sidewalk because of those electrical bikes and scooters. I insist on the ‘electric’ part as they’re the ones causing most troubles, not people pedaling or pushing their scooter.

Sorry, It probably wont be a popular comment but it is a comment from someone that has been living in Paris for the last 27 years and that have not owned a car in over 26 years, someone that loves the idea of giving back the streets to bikes… Just not the way we are now forced to “share” (there is nos haring happening, they will rush through the crowd) our effing sidewalks. Sidewalks are the only space pedestrians can safely use in town, ffs.

Whatever you say. Have a great day.

That’s a lot of words (and even more negativity) to not say precisely where and how you consider that comment has failed to meet your requirements. For someone asking for clarity, I thought that could be worth considering. Why not show the kind of useful answer you’re expecting, or at least show precisely where that comment has missed the point?

And, nope, if you’re wondering, this not an attempt at trolling you: there is not enough of us around here, so instead of spitting towards one another face, maybe explaining why one feels… disappointed could help change what may need to be changed?

The closing of public places is a real trend, and not just with the closing of ‘bistro’. Many places people could freely gather publicly are vanishing. As mentioned in another comment already, and I agree: this weakens society dramatically.

I live in Paris and have been for decades, I’ve seen how the city has changed making it always harder to be outside in the city (it’s also harder to ‘be inside’, to own a place to live in Paris, but that’s not the point).

I mean, in a city we can go to many places, obviously. Say, we can to work and back to home, do errands, go to art gallery or to a doctor, and so on. As for Paris, It’s also as touristic as it ever was, with many places to go visit and to take pictures of. But there is less and less places where people can just be together. Even public benches are less and less usable, making it less an option to use them to meet and/or to start chatting with other people. The street is turning into a mere mean of communication, to move from point A to point B, and quickly stops being the place where people used to live. It’s even more obvious in Paris, which used to not be like that much.

Beside the handful of real absolute morons/racists/haters (we have similar people in the EU too, they are far from being exclusive to Britain), I consider this an impressive scam that went somewhat completely wrong.

Those promoting Brexit never intended to really leave the EU, that was a mean to grab more power by manipulating the… lesser informed population, and they were indeed quite surprised the day those people, and then a few more with them, actually voted for that Brexit scam. Making them the proud leader of something that was probably never meant to happen. Hence their absolute lack of preparation for it and the shit show that followed for years.

It’s also a demonstration of why a failing public educative system is fatal to a working democracy. Uneducated citizen can’t vote with their brains, only with their guts. And we all know that what usually comes out of guts is not ideas, right?

Something we can also witness happening in the USA, quite obviously, but also in most countries in the EU even in my dear own France. Sadly.

Maybe UK citizen have not yet realized how badly they screwed themselves with Brexit, and they need a second shot of an even sadder reality? Or maybe they’ve just given up already?

I’ve been using a radically different one myself, to my own surprise it’s doing all I want it to do (even integrates with the MPV player): newsboat, a full command line RSS app.

One of those few nifty indie apps I liked so much when I was using a Mac, even before it was open sourced when it was still paid for. No Linux version (and I have no plan to move back to Apple) but I remember it fondly <3