ewenak

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[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, the distance from the station is a good point. And I also probably have a biased view, as a "city dweller" (not sure about this word's usage).

Though quite a few small cities would benefit from having trains again. For example, Pontivy is a small city of 14,000 people, which still has a train station, but only freight trains go there. And cities of this size already have a bus network, so you don't need to walk 40 minutes. Though the time it takes to go to the train station depends on the frequency of the buses, I suppose.

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Well, I'd prefer to have trains rather than buses. Trains are more efficient (once built) and ecological than buses, and they go faster and aren't affected by traffic.

where train made little sense anyway.

Why did it make little sense? It was built in a time where there was demand. Then it was removed because people did not use it as much anymore, but I doubt it was because of buses, it was mostly cars.

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago

Use the nouveau drivers of course

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have had to do it one or two years ago for my previous installation, but that's because I was using Debian on a computer whose WiFi card does not have open source drivers. But in Ubuntu it worked out of the box, and I think it may work out of the box on Debian too now that they include non free firmware by default.

You only need to install special drivers manually if you use a distro that is a bit "advanced".

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well it depends on the keyboard layout, on Linux, at least—but on other platforms too, I think.

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Whether autism is genetic is not related to the question at all. More people are diagnosed with autism because we have better tests now than before and we test more kids.

And finally we also broadened what is considered autism.

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago

Not a Newzealand

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Could you explain a bit? I see main issue with Signal (though I'm not an expert, and they're not strictly related to security): it's centralized (and the server isn't even open-source).

The question is also a lot about your threat model right?

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 19 points 3 months ago

I have a moral objection: backslash () usage in file paths.

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 2 points 3 months ago

You could put the subtitles for videos in languages you don't speak. What was much more annoying to me was the automatic audio translation (it's still available, but it seems YouTube doesn't select it automatically when you watch a video in another language).

[–] ewenak@jlai.lu 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Do you know of PeerTube? It's not mainstream at all either, but it seems more known to me.

It's also in the fediverse, and isn't accused of the same moderation issues (though idk if PeerTube is really better than Odyssee at moderation, I suppose it's just a difference in policy).

Edit: I read a bit about it, and I can see I was wrong about Odyssee being less known than PeerTube. It's strange, I never heard of it, but anyway. Odyssee also includes some crypto bullshit, so yeah...

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