2021-11-23                         from the editor of ~insom
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   NFS Pi is now Network Block Device Pi and that works way,
   way better. I should write this up because I didn't find one
   guide that was totally helpful and I had to spend a bunch of
   time in the initramfs poking things.

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   As a European living in North America I can sometimes be
   prone to euro-smugness about certain things -- healthcare
   and banking and telecoms and the supremecy of cars (to pick
   a few). (Yes, Ontario has OHIP; No, it's not the same as the
   NHS).

   I live in a neighbourhood with almost no sidewalks and for
   years I've considered this a classic case of car centrism:
   Ottawa is so unwalkable that we don't even have a place for
   pedestrians in the suburbs!

   I've only recently thought about it with fresh perspective:
   these roads don't have sidewalks because pedestrians have
   equal rights to the road.

   In a way, sidewalks (like bike lanes) are a way of taking a
   class of road-user who used to have equal rights to the
   whole thing, and sequestering them off to one side. Putting
   in a sidewalk is a signal that the road is for cars.

   (I feel similarly about bike lines: I love to use them, but
   where they run parallel to roads and are _less_ convenient,
   they are really saying: roads aren't for you. Roads are for
   cars).