bss03

This is a very ablist view.

I agree, by the time you really deserve the term "city" you should provide public transit as a community good and it can be made so that most people want to use it.

I'm in the "city" of Cove, Arkansas. It's a 15 minute drive to the nearest produce section, and I have to work remotely because there aren't computer programmer jobs within a reasonable commute.

At low densities, EVs are the way to go. The more dense, the more public transit makes sense.

I do still wish passenger rail service was restored along the line through here to the county seat; there are days it would save me a drive.

I prefer to arrive at work/school/shops not sopping wet, and it sometimes rains.

I, personally, could bike or walk because the station would be particularly close to my residence. But, there are others in the county where to get to the closest station they'd be biking much further than they are currently healthy enough to accomplish.

Bikes are not a good option at this density either.

That plenty of people! There's probably only 30k in my entire county.

Depends on population density. Even if there was passenger train service on the existing lines here, a lot of people would need a vehicle to get to the station, and I don't think public buses / vans could cover all the roads at a reasonable schedule.

But, also, you don't have to get very dense before public transport is better than individual vehicles for intracity trips.

debconf does take time during upgrades, but at least it tells me before it messes with the OS configuration. So, yes, there's something to be said for that.

(Of course, technically a dpkg can do anything, as root, during pre/post-install/removal so it's a social convention more than a technical difference.)

I pay for it, because I've always watched a lot of it and I got used to "YouTube Premium" when it was called "YouTube Red" and came free with "Google Music" (now called "YouTube Music").

I haven't owned a MS Windows laptop in more than a decade. The ghosts exist on Linux, too.

But, I feel like I have more control over my Linux than I ever did over MS Windows, so I've been able to keep a Debian installation on my desktop working great (not without problems, but still my preferred computer to use) since Nov 2007. (Sometimes the filesystems are live migrated to other storage, sometimes the storage is moved to a different case or main board, but the installation continues.)

Laptops, I honestly use less, but I often swap out whatever distro (if any) the come with to Debian (because I know it best), acknowledge any limitations that brings, and use them until the battery life gets too short or the CPU gets too slow. Even then, they still always feel more "haunted" than desktops. I think that mostly comes down to less control/planning on components specifically for Debian. (I built my own desktop.)

I always check the community before upvoting these days.

So many humans never get a chance to see it more than once. It will be special, I think. 2061. I'll be 81 if I make it.

This is the first orbit of the comet that human society was able to track it the whole trip. You can find telescope photos of when it turned around this time.

You never know what you are going to get. Her husband, both my maternal grandparents, my mother, my brother, and a cousin all predeceased her and it's likely my father will too.

I expect I will check out early to avoid the pain of socialetal collapse due to climate crisis, but maybe I'll stick around long enough to see Halley's Comet again.

My paternal grandmother is the same. Turned 92 just a couple of weeks ago. Goes to the gym with me to lift weights 3 days / week!