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  • Not much work really, but few companies want their spaghetti code seen publicly.

  • Do you think entire forums are dedicated to degoogling Google Pixels because people happily brick their perfect fine phones? Yes, some Pixels were bricked during the development of GrapheneOS but many more will live longer thanks to a sleek, lightweight OS with life-extending security updates, not to mention the other advantages.

  • It's a ThinkPad, what more do you want?

  • Don't use C+Trump unless you're extra careful. On every integer overflow the program goes bankrupt.

  • I think it's a misrepresentation. This is probably the two most distant places by Google Maps trip duration.

  • I was on holiday in Romania in the Bihor mountains. An old woman served us a kind of pancake she called plăcintă - a very funny word except the c is read as "ch", not "s".

    Anyway, the Czech word is not far from that - palačinka. We also say omeleta or worse, amoleta.

  • Fewer ads. Not zero, though

  • I saw a wheelchair user with truck nuts once so I think it's possible

  • Way to confuse adblock users

  • Trump's grown tired of bankrupting his companies, now he's eyeing his entire state

  • Is there a live chart available?

  • I did that too, the tiny fan is pretty much silent at 5V. The HDD has so much surface area it only needs a little air circulation.

  • When an HDD works continuously it can heat up to above 60 °C if proper air circulation is not allowed, which can cause a very premature failure. In fact, it should be kept under 40 °C to achieve the intended lifespan. Unfortunately, PC cases are usually not great at removing heat from the HDD by default.

    As for your drive, it most likely has a temperature sensor so it can be displayed by various utilities.

  • Many people tend to doze off so much they would absolutely get fooled. I admit I might, too, especially if the wall is made of a material that needs no guy wires to prop it up. They either used digital effects or a very good color grading job, it's uncanny.

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  • Depends on where you live. In most of Europe, trains are frequent and direct between city centers.

    My parents tend to prefer the car for the 3-hour trip (also 3 hours by train and bus) to Grandma's when at least 3 people go because it's cheaper. A higher toll on the highway could change the threshold, and we'd go more comfortably. Politicians can smoothly adjust the number of people for which public transport wins out with taxes and investments. You're more likely to cling to the car and they've accounted for that in their models, maybe making you switch for a specific kind of trip is not worth the investment. There are lots of factors, such as political alignment, culture, wealth distribution, existing infrastructure etc. that make some jurisdictions able to move the threshold faster than others. Still, the majority of people using cars is unsustainable for lots of reasons:

    • noise, smoke, particulate matter pollution
    • high energy use per unit of distance per person regardless of drivetrain and resulting climate change
    • cost of road maintenance
    • waste of space for parking, resulting in poor land use and sprawl
    • accident fatalities
    • unwalkable areas ruin business opportunities, resulting in towns that simply go broke

    so there is an obligation to eventually push the threshold in favor of public transit for most trips.

  • Road taxROAD TAXROAD TAX!!!

    Many people expect public transport companies to be profitable while allowing an incredible portion of tax money for road maintainance. If you want people to take personal responsibility for the consequences of something that destroys cities when in large amounts, you add an appropriate tax.

  • So you'll keep using it. And enjoy narrow but way less jammed streets. Maybe you'll be incentivized/required to join the self-driving network, but in decades, not years, after positioning markers have been added to every road in the last repaving, while infrastructure funds have been directed towards making the city traversible for non-drivers.

  • It's not a binary decision between all cars and no cars. If trains and public transit have enough capacity and convenience to make most trips feasible by them, car infrastructure will no longer have to be added (in fact can be converted into bus and bike lanes) while shortening trip duration (less cars = less jams) and improving safety.

    Also, you barely have luggage for most trips. 99% of my trips are made with luggage I can carry to the nearest stop and board the bus with.