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  • Driving manual takes BOTH Theory and Practice.

    1. Replay potential scenarios in your head and try to predict how you will react.

    2. Re-examine your realtime reactions on the road.

    3. Learn both rules of the road and real-life motorists reactions to rules.

    4. Safety - Safety - Safety. If it feels unsafe, get off the road safely and wait it out.

    Manual driving tips.

    Use the emergency-parking-hand-brake for hill-assists.

    Practice dual-brake-accelerator press/release.

    Practice clutch-release-hold with no brake-accelerator ( fully depressed clutch, quarter-release, half-release, no-clutch … does the vehicle jump forward, at what point does it start creeping forward, what noise is the engine making, how does the gear-stick/shaft feel smooth or vibrating or extremely-stuck, etc etc )

    Practice a reliable gear-stick-shift-shaft action. Turn your wrist outward and push horizontal, and up for 1st-gear. Neutral with a downward wrist and wiggle along the central neutral line. Turn wrist upward and firmly push straight forward for 3rd-gear, and tap gear-knob down and wiggle along central neutral line to confirm gear-stick is in the neutral, etc etc.

    So by judging how traffic behaves and by establishing clear personal good gear/manual habits, you can improve your reactions.

    Look forward of the vehicle for less than 10 meters ( 30 feet ) and drive below 60 kmph ( 40 mph ) if you can’t smoothly handle the manual transmission. Increase by 5 feet look distance as you get more comfortable over several months.

    Don’t drive in traffic, park if you feel unsafe without causing problems.

    Avoid steep shopping mall parking lots and narrow spaces until you are comfortable handling the manual vehicle.

    Add wing mirrors and antenna at the edges of the vehicle corners to help visually identify the area around the vehicle.

    Best of Luck and Have Fun once you are good at it. If after 2 years you aren’t getting any results, then manual may not be the best choice for you and you may need to give it up. Automatic transmissions are now making amazing progress and reliability.

    No shame driving automatic transmission vehicles.


  • maniii@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlIs Pine64 dead?
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    8 days ago

    It is the same/similar problem that Nokia/Maemo and Sailfish/merOS have all had.

    Some things are binary-blobs + NDAs and many things are still locked, the OSS community can only do so much before they hit the commercial roadblocks.

    We need a complete CoreBoot + OSS silicon-chips + OSS firmware + all-community / all-commercial dual production lines.

    The open-source-based company should be able to sell both the commercial locked-version and the oss-all-unlocked-version with the ability to switch infinitely between the two models.

    But the world of electronics rarely will ever work or reach that level of interoperability , repairability or recycling this way. Not for a long time maybe in some distant future.



  • I had an entire LIFETIME in ONE night. Dream was super realistic, but it was all anime waifus. From earliest childhood memory till old age and that final darkness basically that last moment woke me up with a start. I never imagined that an entire lifetime in one night dream.

    I don’t think I ever had such an experience ever again. It was just one time. Never to happen again so far.


  • Sony Support SUX.

    When you go to Samsung or Moto/Lenovo support, they would give you a loaner phone when yours was in for repairs. Repair centers accepted wherever they were located.

    Sony would tell a 1500USD phone customer to F*CK OFF if they asked for a loaner phone during repairs. You have to go to the Sony Mobile repair center to get any kind of help. There are tons of dealers and TV / audio / other Sony repair and none of those have any kind words or help for customers.

    Sony Support is DOGSHIT GARBAGE.


  • Evangelists exist in all communities. I was simply stating that people whose agenda to convert you to Linux may not always have other peoples best interests at heart. Clearly I don’t have that agenda. I would prefer people made their own decisions and choices based on their own needs. Not forced into an untenable situation.

    I like how upvote/downvote does not matter on Lemmy.

    Its about free speech as in beer. And not censorship. We can have our opinions without fear of being the unpopular opinion.







  • In ten years time,

    1. Locally-sourced technology innovations.

    2. 3D-Printers in every village. ( Prints shirts, shoes, pants, socks, replacement parts )

    3. Plant-based Plastics ( seaweed and hemp/copra/palm )

    4. Total breakdown of Petro-chemicals ( Saudi, Iran, Indonesia, OPEC, Russia ) no more Petro-Global-economy

    5. CNG/LNG from Biomass and big farming takeover.

    6. Solar/Wind/Tidal Electricity generation technology maturations.

    7. Massive Trades-based Education and less PhD based international studies.

    8. Rapid Rebuild from MAJOR Disasters ( flooding, fires, tsunami, earthquake, volcano, hurricane, tornado, Cat-6 storms , etc )

    9. Any country heavily dependent on Import/Export with zero local production/productivity will go back to the StoneAge ( tough reality for small countries / city-states )

    10. Massive World-Wars everywhere. Massive Militarization ZERO Democracies surviving including USofA.






  • maniii@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.mlQuestion: What is Linux misinformation?
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    2 months ago

    No one in the Linux community wants to force users onto Linux. If they do that, then they are morons and should not be listened to.

    Windows is blatantly forced on users through monopolistic practices and underhanded dealings going back decades.

    I know what I actively will choose. Also it is my choice. It doesnt have to be your choice or even the right choice. Choose what you want and what you need. No one in the Linux community can or will force you to switch to Linux.