If you can move somewhere with public transit, it has changed my life
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Public transit might be great, but it is certainly not ad-free.
Read a book and it might as well be.
At least you didn't spend $40k for the privilege
Mobile phones and earbuds solve that problem for the most part.
Yeah, but I don't own the bus
Does it have to be? Are you not exposed to billboards while driving? Radio ads?
Public transit has other benefits. You can read a book, play on your phone, and don't have to worry about parking.
"Does it have to be? Are you not exposed to billboards while driving? Radio ads?"
Not really in the UK. Minimal bill boards and ad free radio if you stick to the multitude of BBC channels.
At this pace, I'll either never change my car or will never buy a car again.
!micromobility@lemmy.world is an option.
But yeah, with all the telemetry they've tacked onto vehicles, feels like you need a digital and electrical forensics team to disable it all
My 17 year old car is at almost 200k miles and I just dumped over $2k into it to keep it going to a quarter million miles to try and hold off having to buy something new.