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Haha yes, the car is the German's favorite child, and complaining their favorite pastime.

That being said, I think there's more factors to it. Keep in mind that most German cities were in ruins after WWII, and plenty of buildings have been demolished to make room for cars.

The difference in electoral systems might play a role, where a green party could slowly, but steadily gain influence.

Railway infrastructure was already quite dense before mass motorization.

A lot of money has been spend to get through traffic out of town centers.

There's probably more to it ...

I feel like people mistake YouTube for a video hosting solution.

But that's not the point.

• YouTube a huge archive of content that accumulated over the past 17 years.
• YouTube is a content suggestion machine. Discoverability is a key aspect.
• YouTube sets an incentive by allowing people to monetize their content.
• ...

So, if the only thing you're looking for is a video hosting solution, then, yes, PeerTube might be an alternative. In the same way uploading videos to your own webspace would be, and Vimeo also still exists.

But for all the other stuff, YT is, unfortunately, unmatched, and probably will be for a while ...

For whatever reason, many of the editors mentioned here never worked for me ... like OpenShot, ShotCut or PiTiVi were really unstable the last time I tried (might be a distro or DE thing). Also I found it hard to cut precisely when they worked. Lightworks, Da Vinci, Cinelerra, I had a hard time getting them to run. Maybe that changed in the meantime.

I ultimately stuck with Kdenlive, which is stable enough and allows for reasonably precise cutting.

Hehe, back in the days I was in a similar situation, and I gave a harddisk to a friend who had a more powerful PC, so he could cross-compile everything onto the harddisk. Sneaker-network compilation ...

Yes, well, by playing with the code and modifying it live (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_coding) ... so, not in the sense that you let the code run on its own and it generates the music (even though I sometimes do that as well).

As some people have pointed out, it protects the liver, but from personal experience, I can't confirm the "not getting drunk" part ... so I'd be really cautious about blanket statements as the one in the title of this post.

Schwerer als die Panaracer? Hab' vor kurzem Panaracer Gravelking Slicks aufgezogen und so geflucht wie selten nicht ... ich glaube ich hatte noch nie solche Probleme, 'nen Reifen auf die Felge zu kriegen ...

Bin ja gespannt, aber ich könnte mir vorstellen das es nicht viel schlimmer als die althergebrachten Kopfsteinpflaster-Passagen wird? Die werden ja auch mit den normalen Rädern befahren, oder irre ich mich da?

The idea is to have an 8-channel power amplifier in one box ...

I still have to source the right trafo, but one large one would be both lighter and cheaper (new) than, say 4 small ones. An argument to use multiple would potentially be that peaks on individual channels might have less impact on the other channels. Still working on it ...

Well, it says to use a toroidal transformer between 12V to 32V output, and looking at pictures of other people who bought it, it seems to work on AC directly, so I have high confidence that that's what it is.

Hmm they are rated for 12V to 32V, and the seller recommends using a toroidal transformer to achieve the symmetric power it needs.