r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 40 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I generally reject all. Then check for those sneaky sites that keep "legitimate interest" cookies ticked. I really doubt their idea of legitimate and my idea of legitimate align in any way.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 15 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

These days only the major ones. Like the H1/H2 updates. I agree there's zero excuse for it in the EFI boot world. But, Microsoft gotta Microsoft.

Often you can just find the boot again in the bios and choose it. And that should be assured if you don't put grub and windows in the same EFI partition.

Microsoft has always had his arrogant idea that the PC they're installed on belongs to them and will just delete anything else they find in the way.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 14 points 4 weeks ago
[–] r00ty@kbin.life 0 points 4 weeks ago

Really? I see them when travelling to London all the time. I used to live in London too. A very common occurrence and if you want to keep traffic moving, allowing people that can proceed to do so, just makes sense to me.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 4 weeks ago

Nope. People are on a roundabout and in the UK you will be going clockwise. So traffic on the roundabout is coming from your right.

I've driven in Italy/Germany and it is the opposite. People are going anti clockwise so you have to give way to your left.

The principle is retained on mini roundabouts where you give way to people on the entrance/exit to your immediate right (or of course traffic already on the roundabout) even though those work most similar to 3/4 way stops.

Stop signs don't need to follow logic of traffic movement direction so you I suppose give priority to the right because being on the right side of the road they are easier to see? I'm not sure where those rules were formulated though.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I think allowing a write in answer is too risky. You will end up with 12 unique text answers otherwise.

I do like the idea of the equivalent of an open verdict. Which is probably a mix of options 1 and 3 from your list. If you don't believe either of the provided options are suitable and you don't want to skip then this option would be a nice thing.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 53 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Needs a skip option for questions you're really not comfortable giving a reply to (I maybe missed it if there). I hit one I really did feel was far too subjective to give a reply to that might even potentially be taken seriously.

Otherwise a nice idea.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 12 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

This seems quite similar to what we call I'm the UK inverse snobbery. It was quite a big thing (apparently) during ww2.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Depends on the size of the roundabout. For one big enough they could both join simultaneously and maintain a safe distance, that's fine. If not, if you drive on the left the one on the right has priority and vice versa for the rest of the world.

In fact it's only a problem if people arrive simultaneously at all junctions, since now there's no person to the right of everyone.

In this case usually everyone stops (unless one of the cars is a BMW or audi) and then someone will start to move first. After which normal operational rules are restored.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

There are specific times when this might be appropriate. For example if I am turning off at the exit after where the car is joining from, I can see they're indicating to making a move around the inner part of the roundabout which is clear, and if I proceeded I would join a queue for my exit and block them. I'll usually stop short and gesture they move in.

But otherwise it's usually safer all round to stick to the rules.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 4 weeks ago

Well couple of things.

You don't know how long C has been incorrectly yielding. There may well have been enough time for them both to move onward.

Also there's nothing to say that A isn't a yet undiscovered C.

I'm from the UK so roundabouts are second nature. I've been an accidental C before. Where I had to wait for a lot of cars that had priority over me. When it finally was open for me I was zoned out. Luckily the car behind me was very polite and just used a short beep of the horn to bring me back to reality.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 1 month ago

OK now see, if I saw that I'd think it was a parody. With the alpha male, right there in the name still.

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