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European timezones are wild

So much politics going on in this map.

The eternal UK 🤝 Portugal alliance and the awkward space it creates between them.

Spain and Poland are in the same timezones.

The weird corridor created by Belarus.

Ukraine is in a separate tz from Russia, I wonder when that was established

What the hell is going on with the light blue in the east?

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TIL The Katy Freeway in Houston, TX was expanded in 2008 to 26 lanes (one of the widest in the world) and 5 years later had longer peak travel times than before the expansion
  • Driving is the most expensive and dangerous way to get around, ironically championed by the party of "fiscal responsibility".

    Train tracks would have been cheaper to build (and maintain), take up far less space and be far better for the local economy. Hell, just investing the money on buses would have been far more efficient.

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  • Agree, it's great for gaming or using custom kernels and such. It's an excellent base because it generally goes with the defaults provided by package maintainers.

    These strengths are also weaknesses though, because oh my god I just want to connect my Bluetooth headphones and use them for the most obvious use case without needing to look up and enter commands in the terminal.

    And I say this as a lifelong hobby amateur computer scientist. It's not that I'm afraid of the CLI, it's just that defaults are kind of nice sometimes. Arch is great because it's an un-opinionated Linux install, but it also refuses to make anything "plug and play" which is more than a little painful.

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  • I ran Arch on my gaming machine for a few years.

    It's a great learning experience, but impractical as hell. I remember the exact moment I decided to stop daily driving it. I was using my laptop for work, trying to convince my boss to let me keep using my Linux box instead of the windows horseshit they wanted to make me use. I was on a Slack huddle and trying to use my Bluetooth headphones, but they wouldn't even connect. Over an hour later I had figured out that Bluetooth didn't start by default and required being started manually from systemd. Nothing in the GNOME UI indicated any of this. Soon I was using a Windows computer that could at least connect to fucking Bluetooth out of the box 😐

    I love Arch. It made me a much better Linux dev. It's impractical as hell for a daily driver.

  • How difficult is it to get around the UK without a car in 2023?

    Burger here, I've been living in Yurp for a while now but still haven't made it to the UK. As a 'mercan I take it with a grain of salt when Euros tell me transit is "bad" anywhere, but I do hear its supposed to be "bad" outside of London.

    Do you guys own cars? Is owning a car necessary to live where you are?

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