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@lemmy.worldDedicated and separated cycle lanes are the way to go. Cars, cycles, and pedestrians all need their own space. The challenge for the UK is our often quite narrow existing roads. Making space for physically separated cycle lanes is often going to mean taking lanes away from cars. Which is not necessarily a bad thing but obviously creates a lot more friction to be implemented.
Many cities in Europe have had an easier time with this due to more post-war modernisation/rebuilding that created wider roads.
I wish more would be done to link up walking routes. There's a lot of footpaths in the country but they often poorly connected to each other. Local authorities are supposed to have plans on implementing new routes but progress seems very slow.
This is the inevitable path for nearly all proprietary smart devices. There’s a handful of manufacturers that will see privacy as a marketable feature, but most won’t be able to resist the sweet taste of data.
It’s a shame there are no “dumb” TVs left, except for expensive industrial options.
Isolate the smart TV in restricted VLAN in your home network that can access your local media server but doesn’t allow internet access.
Segmenting a home network like this is also a good idea for smart home/IoT devices.
So they come to power on a change platform promising to fix our “broken” country, but then invite austerity back for an encore. Urgh.
It seems Britain is breaking because our political class no longer believes in change itself.
The Pico 2 board is still using a Micro USB connector, would have been nice to see that changed to USB C.
I don't remember much problem with the connectivity with SCART. I do remember wasting many hours dealing with cheaply made cables that didn't even wire all the pins however.
Which come to think of it is now becoming an issue with USB-C cables. At least with SCART the connector could be easily opened for inspection, which became a habit of many an AV tech.
Keeping the same pin layout while upgrading to USB-C would have made more sense. USB-C is the future, seems odd to still be a Micro USB holdout in 2024.
The switch has got to happen at some point, and the Pico ecosystem is still young enough the change wouldn't be too disruptive.
Don’t let the fancy bottles trick you into ignoring the potential side effects though, you don’t want to get too spliced up.
They got round that a bit by having the player be a sort of prototype Big Daddy, who was more agile and human like. You still had to fight other Big Daddies to get Adam, but they added a new option to temporarily “adopt” their Little Sister as well as harvest or rescue them.
I haven’t played 2 in a while but from what I remember the gameplay was fairly fun, especially with the drill weapon.