Anyone got suggestions for instances to join for a new account?

And they are being built and encouraged in Europe. I’d recommend anyone travelling within Europe first check for train routes before booking a flight.

That said, while they are improving the situation, building new rail lines, tunnels, bridges, etc., and changing the regulatory environment to allow more competition, these are slow improvements to make.

I checked and Zurich-Bilbao has few high-speed sections. They’re building new high speed lines near Bilbao, but infrastructure takes time…

Have you heard about looking under the stem to check ripeness?

I mean, this kinda only applies to devices that need the highest energy density.

For situations where space isn’t much of an issue, it can make more sense to use other forms of batteries that are cheaper per MWh. I agree Li-ion won’t be replaced in phones etc. but for some applications that are stationary, it can make commercial sense to use something else.

While I’d like to believe this, if Putin comes to some peaceful agreement with Ukraine, the international community will just wait until people are distracted by the next big news story and then let Putin back in.

I’d rather be cynical and happily surprised than optimistic and disappointed.

Yeah I can imagine it would take a lot of energy to both do your job well and constantly justify its existence to your peers.

I get the sense that is changing… People are worried that many jobs will soon be automated and see that the trades will be safe from that for quite some time.

Damn, that’s tough. Working in a new field must be hard enough, but it must be even tougher when no one understands why it exists or values it’s existence.

If you don’t mind, what was your “dream job”? It seems incredible that you could study for 8 years in a topic and get no working experience that would indicate that you’re going to hate it when you finish.

I never had a clear idea of a specific dream job, just a field. Now I have such a job I’d say 60-80% is interesting stuff I might do as a hobby (if not doing it at work), with the rest being bureaucratic bullshit most jobs involve.
It’s not super high paying considering the field, but it is often satisfying.

Same here. Do you also use pi-hole or another ad-blocker?

tl;dw
HDR is broken (or all colour grading)

But that would require caring enough to put the effort into deleting the account.

I’d rather just leave my account unused and taking up space. Then I don’t have to visit the site.

Considering any new electric cars you buy would have to be made from materials mined and processed, manufactured into a vehicle and then shipped long distances before it even gets to you, keeping your existing car and maintaining it well is possibly better for the environment when the entire life cycle is considered.

There’s only so much you can say in a chant. Not a lot of room for nuance…

Another commenter summarized the nature article linked in comments… Yes, the salt is left in the pipes, so they are flushed out at night to prevent buildup.

I sometimes like to subscribe to the YT channel of some creators for a few months. Get some bonus content and no ads (if no ad blocker).

AFAIK the changing thumbnails are not made by YouTube. The creator uploads a number of options for thumbnails and video titles, then YouTube randomly? shows those options to users and provides statistics to the creator so they can apply the best performing (in terms of click through and watch time) option to improve video performance. It’s all of course linked to how the algorithm works, so is indirectly influenced by YouTube.

Source: a video I watched a while ago but I don’t even remember who made the video, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

Until earlier this year I just watched the ads because in some small way it supports creators and I could deal with it. Then they increased the number of ads per watch-time to egregious levels.

I certainly wasn’t going to reward a company for making the existing service worse by subscribing. Started using the apps people mention immediately and also setup pihole to block more ads.

Isn’t that a Windows 11 thing?

If they break it into bits, maybe they can allow it to move to the side of the screen!

Then I can move directly from 10 to 12.