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Software engineer, retired. Loves trains. Anti-fascist. Atheist. Feminist. Disillusioned by the open source "community".

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Quite remarkable that this TGV power car, the one that did the 515.3 km/h speed record in 1990, has a very standard and plain hook for coupling the rest of the train at the end.

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@partim @jon Now that you say it, indeed. No need to over-engineer it.

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Ah, it’s lovely to be in France again. At first when I went out from the hotel in Belfort last night I was a bit disappointed but then I found the “better” part of town and it was nice. Good views from the fortification at sunset. Still here now, the trains to Mulhouse run less frequently on a Saturday. Pondering whether I should bother with the railway museum after all. Maybe I should just do a small random tour with TER trains instead?

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I appear to have arrived in the middle of Tour de Suisse. Pro cycling is far from a “climate friendly” sport, even if the actual performers use just muscle power. Dozens of large buses and hundreds of cars from the teams, sponsors, and organisers. Plus then thousands of viewers who probably take their car to the best spots up in the mountains.

Sorry. I must be fun at parties.

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Reminds me. I never did have that pint of champagne. I suppose Kostbar doesn’t serve those @kupfers @tml (weird UK politics - crossover toot, sorry!)

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@kupfers @jon I doubt they serve it in pint glasses, though.

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@jon @kupfers So in Churchill’s times they bottled different sized bottles just for export to GB? Even the £££ brands that he presumably enjoyed?

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@jon @kupfers The story that pint-sized bottles of wine would be illegal because they are too small is very suspicious. Half-bottles (0.375 litres) have been sold forever in the EU. And piccolo bottles (half of that).

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@partim @jon @kupfers Wonder what the British press meant with “hangover law”? That a pint bottle was too large (and would cause hangover) or too small )and would be misused to cure a hangover), or what?

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@tml signal failure at Leipzig. Not looking good for 21:30 😭 Will message with more info once we’re moving again.

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@jon OK, take your time, don’t rush just because of me;) I am sure we might run into each other another time.

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Hot take: There should be a 24-hour for, say, 10€. Sold in machines like current regional tickets. Would make travelling on local transport so much easier for tourists. No need to figure out what zones you might want to travel during the day and what ticket to buy. @jon

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@mschfr @jon But it wouldn’t be “cheap”. Probably for most tourists the ticket(s) they buy during a day is less than 10€. Having a 24h tourist-D-ticket would just make it easier to decide what to buy.

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Ah, the day ends as usual : Using a :db: sponsored 🚕 taxi home.

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@lewd Sorry, but isn’t the point with a BahnCard 100 that it is cheaper than buying separate normal tickets all the time? So is calling it an “expensive ticket” logical?

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Soon I will finally be able to tick this off my bucket list. But wait, does the use ?

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Linus, creator of Linux, being “woke” as heck. Win.

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@gamingonlinux In other news, ESR gains thousands of new followers.

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Are there other German words than Duisburg where “ui” is pronounced as ü? (Come to think of it, that is not a very common letter pair in German, is it?)

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Nature is taking over. At the Zollverein coking plant.

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@kupfers Völklingen is indeed where I plan to go next.

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@kupfers Great! I love Julian Rosefeldt’s films. Have seen two, in art museums. I will probably stay in Saarbrücken. An IntercityHotel is always (?) a good choice, consistent quality, you know what you get. Although I guess it is hard to find a really bad hotel nowadays… in the 80s it was different.

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Seeing how ”glasshole” was a thing, imagine the backlash to people wearing Vision Pros in public.

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@jhilden I suspect the keynote videos were highly misleading as to in what surroundings the product actually will be used, if it becomes a success. (Hint: “Pro”)

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@jhilden And as Vision Pro is a standalone device, it is not at all comparable to Varjo’s products, that don’t do anything without a computer. They are displays, basically.

But sure, if appropriate software is ported to visionOS (a big if), if there is enough storage on the thing, and any more data it needs can be transmitted speedily enough to it, maybe wireless AR like Apple’s really is the future.

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Tell Me Your Testers Were All Men Without Telling Me Your Testers Were All Men: the Access to Pockets in Clothes edition.

tml,
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@esther @lewin Do you think the same about other VR/AR/XR headsets, too, or are you just an Apple-hater?

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While I lived in London, I had the pleasure of traveling to Belgium (via Lille) and The Netherlands using the Eurostar for work a number of times.

It was great for bringing along my Brompton for riding, rail travel meant I could still get in a decent amount of work done on the laptop, and the entire experience was always above that of flying.

First London to Disneyland, and now this. What other gifts will bring to further isolate Britain?

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/eurostar-london-amsterdam-trains-cancellation-2024-b2352090.html

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@geo Sure it’s sad, but seriously, changing trains is not hard.

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@geo If we want rail travel to become a much more popular way to go relatively far, we need to work to suppress the misconception that unless there is a direct connection, train travel is hard.

To compare: Changing planes often involves walking hundreds of metres between gates or even terminals. Changing trains inside one station is trivial compared to that. When flying even a direct flight, you still need to change twice, from ground transportation to the plane and back.

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@mkivinen @geo So you mean that when people say, “oh, if there isn’t a direct train between A and B I will just fly”, we shouldn’t try to convince them otherwise?

The risks involved with a missed connection depends on whether there are later trains you can take or not. If you miss your intended regional train Helsinki–Kerava, you take the next one. It’s the same for, say, Hamburg–Berlin.

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My first time in one of the infamous DMUs. I like their exterior design, but am disappointed that 1st class has 2+2 seating. Plus the engine noise is louder than in the much older and presumably soon to be obsolete IC3 units, wtf. Going from Fredericia to Bramming where I will change to the fourth and final train of today, to Ribe.

Oh, and the AC is broken. It is only 21 degrees outside but quite warm inside. I don’t dare imagine how it would be at 30+ degrees outside temperature.

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@shipscrewunscrewer @partim @jon Are there other nominally modern DMUs with mechanical transmission? This thing is so weird, it looks modern on the outside and inside, but then the noise of what sounds like a struggling engine, a transmission that causes jolts throughout the train at each gear change… like some heritage railcar.

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