We have confiscated all the laptops we could find sir. They had a TERMINAL open. Filthy hackers!

To be honest my steam Deck doesn’t go that far beyond 4h either on a single charge when I lower all the settings.

I guess they might lose customers, but the ad revenue will offset it. Which could be a win for them. Less cars to produce for the same amount of money. If they survive everybody else will probably just follow suit. Like the car functionality subscriptions.

I’m just sad we reached this point.

Ban targeted advertising. Ban data gathering. You won’t even have to deal with the f***ing cookie banners anymore.

Best way I can think of to promote carpooling is kind of what colruyt tried.

Employee bus that goes down the main highway ( Belgium ). It has WiFi and you csn keep working on your way home. Every minute worked counts.

You’ll just need a bigger carpark by the highway. 30 minutes delay? It’s not lost time. Still want to use your car? Sure. But you’ll work longer and have to drive home afterwards.

I am not a traffic expert. The approach might be flawed. But it seems like a step in the right direction.

At least it’s better than complaining about overcrowded busses and trains who are delayed again. And while it might not solve the issue, If you can get a 10 people per bus. It should start adding up eventually. The incentive to take public transport doesn’t disappear with the disappearance of traffic jams. Its an alternative to sitting longer in the office and being home later.

I think colruyt did something like this for a while? https://reset.vlaanderen/2017/09/01/kantoorbus/

Maybe its something you can book a seat on and should be scheduled on a larger scale than just 1 company.

One can dream I suppose. Hell will freeze over when most companies will “trust” their employees enough to work on the bus though.

I’m in a similar boat. 45m drive by car. 2h using PT. Including a 30 minute walk for the last bit to my office. This doesn’t include waiting for busses or trains.

Realistically it’d be 2.5h without delays. And that’s just one way. After that I’m expected to work for 8h and do it again.

So if i leave at 7am, +5h+8h +30minute lunch break I’d be home by …8.30pm?

And that is hoping the connections line up after work… Cycling isn’t really an option as there’s no shower in the workplace. And knowing corps I’m pretty sure they won’t appreciate people charging their electric bike battery in the office for free.

RIP work-life balance using PT. And I already feel like it’s shit.

Though I do try to use the train when I can. Even though it ain’t cheap either…

I’m guessing maybe the scheduler? Its the only real difference I see versus the other gaming distros.

Not to mention that if you want to type it in somewhere ( like your car for a Spotify account or whatever ) a passphrase like Hunter7-Tower-Ballsy9 is easier to type than some random gibberish with special chars.

In many places WhatsApp is the defacto standard unfortunately…

If its not that its something like Viber, or badoo or telegram or some other nightmare service…

If you have kids there is also not really getting away from it. Friends of mine have never had Facebook accounts until they had kids because the local football team or boyscout or whatever only uses Facebook to communicate…

I agree you can live your life comfortably without meta services, but sometimes, like in the example above, you dont have any alternatives…

You can’t keep harassing other parents to forward you messages or ask the team to print any messages specifically for you. Not having a Facebook account just gets “its easy to create” responses rather than “completely understandable, here’s our private matrix server to stay in the loop”.