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Cake day: July 27th, 2023

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  • You likely ran an outdated version of appimagelauncher

    I’m just curious how you think this would have happened. Did I install it, not use it for months, never update my system, then start using it?

    I am not sure it matters why or what issues I had, but I had a few, enough to look for an alternative. In fact my experience with AIL is part of the reason I avoid appImages. They just don’t seem to work well in my experience. In any case you were dismissive in your first message and really negative about software that works fine for me, citing reasons that don’t seem relevant to my use case, about details that never seemed to impact me. I just know I tried to use AIL for a couple of years and had issues multiple times, the last time resulting in breaking an app. So I stopped using it.








  • I thought of different ways to word a response and then I saw another user put it perfectly already:

    If the goal is to reduce speeding, road design plays more of a factor more than cameras.

    A fine means that it’s a revenue grab.

    I would just also add that anecdotally they don’t seem to slow many people down in my city. I have gotten at least 5 speed camera tickets since I moved here, and every time I was going the speed of traffic and was unaware a camera even exists there. This city also has a huge problem with horrific driver behavior that goes unaddressed. I’ve seen some of the craziest shit ever here but I’ve yet to see anyone pulled over for a reason that didn’t appear to be related to a “worse” crime, as in they’re searching the person’s car and it looks like they’re about to go to jail. So I have to believe that the primary concern is making money, and if they work overall (providing the data people always tout) it’s a coincidence/accident. Most of that money goes to corporations too so even if you wanted to argue it doesn’t matter if money is the main driving force, you have that additional layer of the whole thing being corrupted from the start by capitalism.