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[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The US has a pretty severe urban / rural divide in most of its states, but I don't think it's enough. You'd usually need a pretty clean split along territorial lines for that.

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Bald. Being bald looks cool, no shame in it whatsoever.

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Long walks, swimming and playing drums

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I could handle an overpriced phone if the device were viable for day-to-day use. Unfortunately the battery life is so compromised that even if we had a totally flawless mobile OS running on it, it still wouldn't work out as a phone.

In this case it's better to think of it as a development platform.

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Japan's urban design is pretty excellent as well, for different reasons

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

You could argue that China has devolved into a totalitarian state under Xi. There's a lot of corruption surrounding the party's Ministry of Railways, which has led to some perverse incentives to invest (possibly way too much) in HSR and urban metro networks across all of the country. And thanks to the extremely centralized power structure, you have a lot of standardized components used to roll out those networks, making construction cheaper and faster due to economies of scale.

Tldr; China's rail infra is pretty great, especially when so many of its cities are very rough around the edges otherwise. That said, East Asia's democracies (Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan) also have excellent transportation networks, so who knows.

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Will try that out, thanks! I've enjoyed the Libby app a lot on an old ipad mini, bet they have a similar infinite scroll feature somewhere

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Haven't listened to any, but think I'd have a hard time hearing someone talk for that long. Really enjoy the silence of books

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Reading novels (or just fiction, in general). Not sure why but I simply lost the ability to do it a few years ago. Still like to read a couple of nonfiction books every month, but feel like I'm missing something lately

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ideally I'd have access to both- i.e., a 'home base' in the city, plus a small place to stay out in the woods somewhere, preferably less than 20 mins on foot from a commuter train. Continuing to avoid driving would be great

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (12 children)

What's the advantage vs. the current version?

Also looks like it's removing an important visual affordance (i.e., which areas you can click to drag the window), unless I'm misinterpreting it

[–] gzrrt@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a heads up, here in the states I haven't been able to use a OP6 as an actual phone- without VoLTE working on t-mobile yet, all incoming calls go straight to voicemail:
https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1878

Might want to look into what the situation is with your carrier, or if there's a workaround for you. Think as soon as this is fixed, it could actually work as a daily phone for me (aside from the missing camera)

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