Here in Tokyo the trains and subways transport 40 million people per day on average. During the morning and evening rush hours, most trains depart every ~3min. During the day it's usually ~7min. And as I mentioned elsewhere, you can get just about anywhere in the city within ~10min walk from a station. Just because your trains suck doesn't mean all trains suck.

Like the person said, look to Japan. Here's what we have in Tokyo: https://www.tokyometro.jp/en/s...

You can get just about anywhere in the city without having to walk more than ~10min from a train or subway station. I take a train and a bus every day, but mostly because it cuts that 10min walk from the train station to a 1min from the bus stop. But when traffic is bad, the train can be the quicker option.

Maybe you've confused cellular data plans with internet speed? The basic fiber service is not 10Gbps. It's available, sure, and a few companies are advertising it, but the basic service plan for FLET's or Softbank Hikari or whatever is still 1Gbps. The only 20Gbps offering I can find is from Sony's NURO and it's limited to Minato-ku in Tokyo (where I happen to be writing this). https://www.nuro.jp/s_plan/20g...

Have you tried ONLYOFFICE? Its UI is much better IMO.

This is why I only go to the theater around 10am on weekends. It's just you and a few quiet, respectful moviegoers.

It seems to me the smart thing would be to put batteries in the wind turbine towers.

20 years of slowly becoming more and more bloated. Yay!

I decided to try out regular Debian a few months ago, and it's absolutely amazing how much lighter and faster it is compared to Ubuntu server LTS.

I guess you guys have never heard of Proxmox?

Imagine being a young person interested in the law, hoping to make a decent living and maybe do some good, and then you end up here. Is the paycheck worth knowing that you're actively fighting to allow this company to poison the earth, cause birth defects, cancer, and other terrible harms, not just to your fellow citizens, but to your own friends and family?

I'm talking about regular users, not mission critical HA stuff here.

why are people so averse to reboots these days? it used to be a daily thing that everyone just did, and now all we're asking is once per week (because guess what? 8/10 it fixes your problem), and people still lose their minds. it takes all of 30 seconds, and your browser restores your 10,000 tabs automatically, so what are you crying about?! is it really that disruptive to reboot first thing Monday morning while you fix a drink or take a shit? or (god forbid) shut your machine down when you leave work on friday, or on sunday if you take it home? OMG but then you would have to log in again and because you avoid ever having to face the absolute torture of typing your password at all costs you've probably forgotten what it is again boohoo :'(

but seriously, what's the deal? I've asked a number of people what the problem is, why they fight it so much, how we might make it less painful for them or how we might help them establish good rebooting habits, and the answer is always something like "I just don't want to". Well you know what? I don't feel like fixing your problem. How's that sound, ass? FFS It takes less time to reboot a computer than it used to take to establish a dialup connection. I don't want to brush my teeth or cut my toenails, but I do it because it's good hygiene.

I live in a smallish island nation with lots of nuclear power plants (one of which had a little meltdown issue a few years ago after a big earthquake and tsunami, you might remember) and also uses pumped hydro on top of being the largest importer of LNG in the world. We also consume quite a bit more energy per capita than you guys, and despite all that, I only pay ~$0.20/kWh. And how the hell are your gas bills so high? You guys are getting screwed.

https://www.worlddata.info/cou...

https://www.statnews.com/2023/...

We had the hottest summer on record this year, and the rainfall was about 1/3 less. There hardly seemed to be a day without poor farm crops on the news. A lot of plants out there just didn't grow properly. It's certainly not up to a loss of habitat.

Nice to see that modern OSs are finally catching up to where BeOS was about 25 years ago ;)