they’ll block all servers that host Mastodon

This will be a never-ending game of whack-a-mole.

Like how China tries to block VPNs that get around their firewall. There’s always another VPN that China hasn’t blocked yet, and there’ll always be another fediverse server that any other authoritarian regime hasn’t blocked yet.

Even a minimally featured bidet will at least soften things up and make wiping more effective.

I used a tushy bidet to start, which is pretty cheap and easy to get going and get comfortable with it. I would recommend the warm water options, but you need to have a sink nearby to steal the warm water from. Fancier warm water bidets have an instant water heater, so you don’t need a hot water tap, just power.

I have since upgraded to one with all the features, and here’s how my process typically goes:

1. Sit down on heated seat
2. Push out what I can
3. Using the remote, turn on low pressure heated water with pulsating mode. I can also move the spray back/forth with the remote to get everything.
4. Switch to high pressure for a moment. That has enough pressure to get up in there a bit, which seems to lubricate/soften any parts that didn’t come out through sheer effort earlier.
5. Pause, push out one more time
6. Go back to low pressure to tidy up
7. Turn on blow dryer for a bit, or dry off with TP if I’m in a hurry.

Why do you capitalize seemingly random words? Is this a translation artifact or something?

Someone mentioned the last mile problem, and someone else responded as if it doesn’t exist based purely on their own situation (right now). I’m pointing out that it does exist with my situation as an example (right now).

That’s all. Should we pretend like there’s no last mile problem?

Maybe in some ideal world, the last mile problem could be solved purely with public transit. We don’t live in that world. Investing as of we live in an ideal world is foolish.

If one approach is effective for more people, that’s great, but shouldn’t we also invest in solutions that fill the gap?

Here’s a summary of this thread:

Guy 1 - why is anyone doing waymo when there’s public transit

Guy 2 - last mile problem

Guy 3 - it works great for me in the city surrounded by bus stops, no last mile problem

Me - it doesn’t work great for me barely outside the city. (My point being that it’ll take a lot to get public transit to within 1 mile of where I am, let alone to someone even further from the city)

You - that’s your own fault so stop complaining

Me - so fuck me and everyone farther out than me apparently.

That’s how we got here. I simply stated my situation as it relates to public transit, and you tell me it’s just my own fault and I should shut up.

We have a long way to go to get ubiquitous public transit in America. I doubt we will ever get there. It makes sense to consider other options as well.

I’m saying we should go to the moon AND develop nuclear fusion.

You want to know what’s harmful to discussion? Pricks like you telling people that their opinion is irrelevant.

So fuck everyone who can’t afford to, or doesn’t want to, live in the city?

I can, do, and will vote for officials that want to expand public transit. I also appreciate other efforts being taken, because I don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good, and I recognize that no one solution works for everyone.

I live on a 40mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. That is connected to a 45mph road with no sidewalk or shoulder. My nearest bus stop is 3.2 miles away.

I’m not even that far out, I can drive to a major city downtown in 30 minutes.

That’s great that you have all this infrastructure around you, but not everyone does. Like you said, a lack of perspective is not an excuse.

Like others mentioned, it doesn’t seem far off stock. The things I can pick out that are mods are:

• bl touch (or something like it). This is an automatic bed leveling tool. So instead of spinning the little cogs under the bed all the time to get the bed level, it will probe the bed before printing to build a map of the bed position, and print accordingly.
• general parts upgrade. This is a simple upgrade kit that’s just an increase in quality. Better springs, stuff like that
• mainboard upgrade. Might just be upgraded to a silent board. Might be upgraded to something more… hard to tell.

I don’t see much else that stands out as being particularly modded. Hope that helps.

Ah, that’s a good workaround.

Does that work pre-os boot? I had to boot my Linux Mac into safe mode, and the way to do that is to press the escape key during boot. I had to plug in an external keyboard to do it.

I have a couple touch bar macs, and the touch bar is fine.

However, I installed Ubuntu on one of my touch bar macs. The keyboard has no physical escape key; that would be on the touch bar. So, my Ubuntu touch bar Mac now has no escape key, which is a bit problematic, so having a fix for that would be cool.

It is not a big deal for me, since I’m just using it as a server, but it could be a deal breaker for using a touch bar Mac with Linux as a PC.