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  • Geologist@lemmy.ziptoAnimemes@ani.socialWe grow up
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    5 months ago

    Characters from resident evil video game. At least in RE4, you play as Leon and there’s a mysterious woman in a red dress who drops in occasionally to mess with you.

    Apparently she keeps taking care of herself afterwards, but Leon winds up as a bum lol.

    Kind of similar to Ash in Pokémon who remains a kid, when Misty becomes an adult and moves on with her life but in reverse.




  • There’s an Interesting history of American cars in Japan. Ford had an incredible failure here, and had to leave with egg on their face, which is incredible because the mandatory vehicle inspections every couple of years make it the easiest country on the planet for dealerships to make money.

    They tax vehicles by engine displacement though, so all those massive engines would be super unpopular, and as I understand it, they also shipped left hand drive cars here, which is absolutely unpractical.

    One wonders why they didn’t just ship UK market fords here, they have the steering wheel on the right side, and the smaller size would be more likely to appeal to drivers with more narrow streets.

    It is common to see chargers and mustang on the road in Tokyo though, but they’re all grey market imports.


  • As a techy guy, I absolutely hate automatic updates, but for any network connected device, if they don’t have automatic updates most people will literally never update.

    Speaking on behalf of my family, they’ll let Internet-enabled stuff go unpatched for 10+ years (I think I had some relatives still using XP within the last couple of years lol).

    I would argue this leave it alone behavior would be totally fine, if it wasn’t for every device nowadays being some Internet of shit thing that demands a wifi connection before it can even be setup, which is the real problem as I see it, especially as most of these companies won’t support them with security updates for as long as people expect to use them.





  • Geologist@lemmy.ziptoSelfhostedBathroom scale options?
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    8 months ago

    Not local, but I’ve been using my withings scale for at least 5 years, and I sync the weights with its home assistant automation from the withings api, then plot the data on a custom health dashboard I made.

    I’d love a local alternative, but regardless I haven’t had any problems with my setup.






  • This article lacks some details, but I believe this is largely just treating a bicycle more like any other vehicle. As far as vehicle crimes go here, the existence of jail time as a punishment only exists if you don’t pay the fine, and these new laws just increase the fines.

    Anyways, these changes are largely worthless for a couple of reasons. First it’s already a crime to use your phone while riding a bike, or riding drunk, or riding with headphones, but it’s basically totally unenforced. Same thing with riding using an umbrella, but even the police do that here!

    As for drunkards getting home from the bar, they wouldn’t have a car available to them generally, so people riding drunk are usually doing so because they missed their last train, and they don’t want to pay for a taxi.