michaelnik

joined 1 year ago
[–] michaelnik 0 points 1 month ago

Lack of schedule coordination is an American thing. Or building suburban train lines which scheduling rarely beats the car.

[–] michaelnik 1 points 1 month ago

There could be dedicated separated bus lanes - I saw one in my world travels but never in USA. IMHO it is a better solution for short distance (i.e non-competing with plane) than inflexible heavy metro transit infra...

[–] michaelnik 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Note that if you are Uber user (idk about driver) their website is good enough; for me it works in Firefox mobile (in "Desktop" mode only). Lyft is app only....

[–] michaelnik 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I saw a real Cybertruck on a street for the first time last week. Looks much worse than in pictures, like a modernized Trabant.... (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant).

[–] michaelnik 4 points 7 months ago

This version of TrumpGPT does not have enough parameters, so it hallucinates all the time. But the presidential version will be much better! /s

[–] michaelnik 3 points 7 months ago

wX (on Fdroid) is a bit geekier alternative. It has a textual weather description, links to AFD (Forecast Discussion by a human meteorologist), and fantastic radar features.

[–] michaelnik 7 points 8 months ago

They were called millionnaires!

[–] michaelnik 3 points 9 months ago

I (a customer) was in a deep chitchat with a bike mechanic about some other outdoor hobby in a big US outdoor gear chain. For like 30min :-) Then I chatted about learning foreign languages (!) with the casheer.

I definitely found the experience memorable and have great association with the store's brand!!!!

[–] michaelnik 1 points 11 months ago

Afaik the mortgage market (setting mortgage payments, type of mortgage: fixed vs floating) is one of the more efficient markets. So choosing rent/own might not be such a big dilema.

Current state (continuous rise of home prices) is, however, concerning. It used to be that USA's flexibility to move (and refi) was its great advantage (in labor market).

[–] michaelnik 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah! How about allowing uninstallation of Chrome from Android?!

[–] michaelnik 1 points 1 year ago

I have debloated Win 11 on a Surface pro. Works OK but I much prefer MacOS (on M1, without Apple account) or PopOS. Much more zen.

[–] michaelnik 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well... my PopOS does not report new updates. I have to go to the "store"(Pop_shop) and install updates manually (which I do every few weeks).

Installing "Operating System Updates" is not always a smooth operation: the window downloads 1 update and crashes (disappears).

Probably the best is just to use command line (sudo apt) but thn i have to type the password which is annoying.

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