You shouldn't text and drive, but I keep noticing myself doing it anyway. As part of my efforts to return to the caveman days and spend at least some of my time disconnected from the internet, I want to stop this. However, I have terrible impulse control. So the only solution is to put my phone in the trunk before I start driving, and use something else for the tasks I would normally use my phone for. Here's what I want:

• gps
• podcasts
• audiobooks
• music (Ideally, music would function as "radio with a skip button". I want to choose a familiar channel that I know I will probably like, and occasionally hear something new - but my local radio stations won't work because they don't play the Tony Hawk video game soundtracks.)
• everything free forever
• no ads forever
• minimal configuration/setup (I don't want to manually download music and create playlists)
• works offline
• lockout of everything except fast forward/rewind/pause/volume while car is in drive
• integration into my existing steering wheel controls (fast forward/rewind/volume)
• ability to run additional apps (like iOverlander) when not driving
• A pony

Things I don't care about:

• Open source
• Not being tracked
• Voice controls
• Having all these features in a single device
• Sleek design (I will mount it using 2x4s and wood glue if needed)

My car is a 2013 Corolla with a broken stereo that I've been meaning to replace anyway. I know there are a number of products out there that more or less fit my needs and/or could be hacked together into something workable, but I'm asking the hivemind. Tell me what to do nerds! Tell me how to live my life!

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Probably I will end up with a head unit with android auto, but I've never used one of these before, and don't know how well it will isolate me from my phone. Will I need to get a separate cheap-o phone to use it with to ensure distraction isolation?

If I do go this route, I am wondering about make/model recommendations so I don't buy something that will break immediately.

Finally, is paying for spotify just the way to go these days? I’ve been avoiding it by using newpipe for years, but newpipe doesn’t have radio-like functionality to just pick a station and listen.

I mean the scenario of a serious collapse of civilization with the use of nuclear weapons.

I wonder what is best grown from vegetables and what is not? For example, what about potatoes, beets, carrots, cabbage and cucumbers? I want to understand how to feed myself and other people, even if there are crop failures, droughts, bad soil, soil depletion, or something else. I doubt that forests will always be able to provide food, they will only be a good addition, but you should not expect stable food from them, as I managed to see, besides, I am planing to survive not alone, but with a group.

As for the location, since after the collapse, hungry crowds will rob villages and farms that they can reach or know about, I will have to build a house from scratch somewhere a hundred kilometers from cities and civilization, Although maybe I'll be lucky to find an abandoned house? and plow the land and so on, and unfortunately, I don't have the ability to prepare everything in advance, and I've never grown vegetables before and don't know how difficult it is in the long run, especially as it used to be, without tractors and other things, but only with the help of a hoe and hard work.

I'm also wondering what healing skills I should know? Will basic first aid skills be enough, or should I write down or memorize how to deal with severe food poisoning, serious illnesses caused by exhaustion or parasites, etc.?

In general, if it is not difficult for you, please tell me where I can get the necessary and verified information without wasting extra time on videos or articles on YouTube, especially if they are edited or completely made with the help of AI including also articles? I don't trust AI generated content, the authors of which I don't know if they check the reliability of the information or if they check for five minutes or a maximum of half an hour, believing that everything seems logical and can be posted on the network.

I'm sorry that the post sounds so strange or perhaps paranoid, it's just that there are so many things to talk about that I decided to cut it down somehow.

Two questions:

1. How do you find new podcasts to listen to, and;
2. What are 1 or 2 podcasts that you would recommend to others?

Could be in any context. I do it a little on UFC fights but that's a relatively low amount and I can afford I to lose any time I do. It seems like it's becoming a really wide spread problem though, at least in the US. At the same time I don't see why it should be illegal. Granted I also don't think any drug should be illegal.

Mine is tow the line rather than toe the line.

I imagine someone as a tugboat--towing the line of what is expected. I like that imagery better than keeping a foot on some fucking line. Plus using toe as a verb is dumb.

What are yours?

My pixel 7 is shitting the bed and I am considering upgrading and just installing graphene immediately on the new phone as part of my degoogling journey.

Is there anything I need to know about this? I work in IT, so I'm tech savvy. This is my first time installing graphene, however.

I'd be upgrading to a pixel 10 probably.

My carrier is verizon

I very recently became paralyzed in my left (and dominant) arm, fingers and foot, which believe it or not, was not planned for.

The timing was pretty bad, as I've just purchased a couple of ESP3266-boards, a soldering kit and two pressure mats with the the end goal of making a basic bad sensor (one mat for my girlfriend and my side). (Here's the guide I intend to follow: Make your own bed sensor)

The obvious issue is how one, as easily as possible, can accomplish this? Main issues right now are that I can't hold the board, the wires or anything in my hand.

Any and all tips are greatly appreciated.

Hey all, like the title says, I'm looking for a robotics kit I can use with my young nephew.

I used to teach Lego Mindstorms years ago so that's kinda the level I'm looking at. Some things I would like for this go round though:

• He's young enough that I think I want to start with a visual programming language instead of real code. I'll gauge his interest and move to real code if he seems like he wants to.
• I would like to have the connection for the controller go to a computer as opposed to an app.
• Linux compatible.
• I would like it to build something that moves with something like wheels or treads.
• No AI

Does anyone have any ideas? I've seen a lot online and have no idea if they are good brands or not.

My grocery bill is steadily climbing and I am not sure what to do. I make too much for SNAP. Any tips or tricks? It's just me in my household, so would buying in bulk be worth it?

Edit: I want to thank everyone for their responses. I have a lot to think about.

I've never been able to do it.

When I'm relaxed, I'm hardly aware of my surroundings and when I'm alert, I'm nervous as hell.

How the hell do people keep their composure in difficult situations and still get through them alright?

Cuz the comments throught Lemmy/Piefed seems to indicate that literally every user on here is a FOSS/Dencentralization Purist and has 100% abandoned mainstream platforms.

I wonder if this is actually true or just a small minority of users being overrepresented.

I might be a little too claustrophobic to go on a ride myself, although I have never tried. And I feel immense respect towards people that do serve onboard submarines. With all my claustrophobia, I have this positive prejudice that it must be amazingly cosy to sleep onboard: feeling slight motions as the submarine moves, hearing the engine hum, having a "sleepover" with people you trust with your life...

Do any of you have any experience sleeping in (why do I want to say "on"...) a submarine? What's the actual feeling like? 😊

They are under water. So, aren't they technically floating?

Occasionally i hear the phrase "there is no morality outside of human society". I believe, what is meant by it, is that you cannot say whether something is morally right or wrong in nature, if it isn't part of human society.

For example, when a turtle eats a bird (here's a video about it), you cannot say whether these deeds are "good" or "bad". It's part of nature, it's part of the circle of life, ... if these things didn't happen, the bird couldn't be alive in the first place.

Now, i've had some interesting talks yesterday with a close friend about what "morality" really means. They very certainly assured me that morality is simply the construct and the set of rules that society uses to organize itself to make itself more successful. In other words, morality aids the fitness of the group, but not necessarily of the individual. Do you agree with this view?

And if so, would that entail that the beneficial effects to the group can overwrite the wellbeing of a single individual? Where do you draw the limits? Like if some republicans claim that some women cannot decide themselves who they are/should be in a relationship with ... does that derive from that view of morality? What do you respond to that? I'm seriously wondering because all these discussions make my head spin and sometimes i wonder truly whether i even know anything at all... How can you find certainty in what's morally acceptable and what is not?

I’m not trying to troll, I’m genuinely curious. Thinking about deer specifically, it doesn’t seem like visual camouflage would really help much when hunting them. Deer sense predators by sensitive hearing (big ears) and smell (long snout). Their eyes are on the sides of their head, so they detect motion rather than high-resolution.

So trying to blend in with the surroundings doesn’t seem to be an advantage in this case. Assuming all this, what’s the point of clothing with camo print on it?

I have access to a small finished rooftop and i want to see if you can think of any use for it. It's hard to get to because you have to go out a window then up a fire escape. And there's a couple of nice places to sit right outside my building, so i never wind up going to the roof.

I considered growing vegetables up there but it's hard enough to access that that probably wouldn't be enough to draw me up there and they'd probably just die of neglect.

It's about 8 x 10 feet, and a pain to get to.

Can you think of anything worth doing with it?

EDIT:

I can't permanently change anything to it, like installing a major solar construction.

It feels like all the joy I used to feel from being an enthusiast has been completely voided as computing has become the modern vector for fascism and surveillance. I find myself recoiling from all online spaces, even independent and open source ones that I'd loved and supported in the past.

It's been an exceptionally strange impulse to go from having an elaborate online presence to now feeling like the only acceptable way to engage with the network is to have as minimal of an online footprint as possible.

This especially hurts when it feels like an issue of skilling, where I know how to do certain tasks with computers, but have to teach myself for the first time the analogue alternatives that my parents and their parents likely already knew well.

How have you chosen to deal with it? Do you find yourself moving away from computing and the internet, despite formerly loving it as a hobby? Have you replaced things that computers used to do for you with analogue replacements?

I'm curious how other people are experiencing this.

Not sure how else to title. So basically I currently shop in various stores for work here in a major city in the Northeast US and am seeing huge price increases when stores are re-stocking as well as going through their weekly price cycles for the last 2 weeks.

These batteries are just one example from this morning with a $20 difference, given one being on sale:

I've noticed a huge price jumps and spreads similarly in various office supplies, paper/paper products, cables and flash storage (no surprise), aluminum foil (doubled in some stores it seems), water bottles, gloves, fruit, and other things.

I haven't saw much talk on it other than basic inflation 3.8% that came out earlier today in the news. Nothing on reddit either from a basic search there so wanted to start a thread here to see if anyone else has noticed the differences. I know most people dont shop 3-4x a day so aren't as hyper aware but might see something they may want to share with the group. I've been sharing them and grabbing stuff for personal if I do spot them while out grabbing things for work so I'm pretty stocked up on what I feel might not come back down in those updated priced stores. Most the talk seems to just be about gas which I get is the most immediate expense for majority of Americans but products seem to be jumping drastically.

TLDR: Prices go up, big spread between stores, do you notice?

Apologies if this has been asked to death already and i haven't seen it. I'm also not trying to be too much of a downer but it's kind of unprecedented.

I'm wondering what you think it'll do to you personally? I think we're just getting started and haven't experienced the full shock yet. Inventories are still being burned down and even if the strait opened tomorrow no oil would flow for 8 months since you need to demine it and line up passages of tankers.

My biggest worry is over fertillizer. The strait closed right at planting season for the northern hemisphere stranding like ⅓ of the world's ammonium nitrate. Farmers in rich nations buy it in advance and have it staged for spring, so I'm unsure how the rest of the world does it or how bad that's going to be...