I can certainly see situations to face the other way, and wouldn’t think twice if I got in an elevator and someone was facing away from the door. It just seems less of a social construct and more of just practicality.

Now, who gets to press the buttons in the elevator, and whether you should ask for someone to press it for you or ask them to move aside so you can press it, are definitely things I struggle with if there is a group of people getting on an elevator at the same time. (I usually just let that one go without me and wait for another one)

Not saying there is a wrong direction to face while riding an elevator (without further context), but it always just made sense to me to face the door you expect to open when the elevator gets to the floor you’re traveling to. Like, nothing stops you from facing sideways on a moving sidewalk, but facing the direction you intend to go when the ride is over is more convenient.

I had to scroll back up because I wasn’t paying attention and my brain initially just saw two dogs… I need more coffee

Maybe anymore Minecraft is different, but when it started it was about mining and crafting tools to mine more efficiently.

Terraria always evokes terrarium to me, which makes it feel like a whole little world, but also felt like it was more contained to me (from title alone).

My experience with the log cabin method reduces the flame and smoke aspects of a bonfire, and keeps it at a steadier, more even burn rather than the quick, higher heat of larger fires. We mostly used it for cooking.

Again, I’m sure that with deeper knowledge of fires someone could get better results. But for consistently made fires that were good for cooking, and didn’t burn through fuel as quickly as a teepee fire would, the log cabin method was easiest to consistently reproduce. We’d usually cook using a Dutch oven, so coals were more important than flames, and high flames were often not allowed at the sites we stayed at.

The neighbor leaving their own garage open and having only themself to blame is exactly how I read it. I was assuming the HOA was planning to put surveillance cameras around the entire neighborhood, partially because I’ve only heard HOA as referring to suburban residential communities, and usually have heard “board” or “committee” being used for building or townhome setups.

Isn’t the log cabin fire just doing that in a more organized and structured way? It allows the tinder to catch in the middle before catching the fuel logs, instead of having to add onto them. And sure, you can always restructure the fire once it’s going, but you can also plan it ahead.

Not questioning your ability, rather the opposite. Sometimes structured fires are a standardized way to help people that aren’t as skilled or intuitive for fires.

When I was in scouts we exclusively used firewood gathered on the spot and we’re only allowed to do a minimal of chopping (never allowed to chop down a tree, only break up fallen logs into smaller pieces), and we made log cabin fires most often.

From the context of the post, I’m assuming it is personal garages attached to houses, and the theft was from specific neighbors that left the garage door open, not from a parking garage building.

It’s not pointless, they could walk back home, sure, but if they are going for a longer walk and are a couple of blocks away from home, that’s a couple of blocks closer they get water. Or if they are active and playing outside, giving them water would likely be much appreciated.

Water in disposable plastic bottles is wasteful, sure, and maybe you’d have a point saying it would be better to offer cups of water. Maybe there are other people, further away, that could use the water more, sure. But providing something to someone in an act of generosity and good will is nice.

It’s a nice thing to do?

And here I came specifically to comment “now this is an actual unpopular opinion!”

Dude, no one said “America is bad”, they called out the American idiot who got mad. You need to chill, you’re being as embarrassing to us as the guy in the video is.

Yes, driving a car is fun. I didn’t say commuting was fun.

I take offense to this

Ah, yes, the kingdom where they secretly reign, the land where they invisibly rule

Currently replaying the Sly Cooper series, it will always be a favorite of mine

Driving is fun, but it also shouldn’t be the default mode of transportation. Society and infrastructure should not be designed around the expectation/requirement of driving a personal vehicle to get there.

My reply was more about special use cases not being a good excuse that Linux isn’t ready. You’re right, most stuff people can easily do on a tablet or a phone, and that same stuff works just as well on a Linux machine. So someone that wants to do that stuff, but wants a machine more powerful than a tablet, can run Linux without issues.

I mostly just game and browse the Internet and my daily driver is Linux. I have not come across anything that I needed Windows for so far, in a year and a half of not using Linux. There may be some games I was vaguely interested in that don’t run easily on Linux, but day to day tasks, 3d printing/slicing software, basic image editing software, browsers, coding IDEs, all work native on Linux.

Sure, if there is a specific software that you really want to use, maybe that specific software isn’t available on Linux. But one individual running into multiple things that only run on Windows sounds like it is a fairly specific use case. At best, someone might need to use an alternative program. At worst, maybe that person needs to keep a windows environment around. But that doesn’t seem like the case for the majority of people.