Tuukka R

The search seems to function very well at least in Helsinki. The suggested routes do make sense. One bus line has a slight error, though, as the map shows the 77N as turning away from Hämeentie, going 50-ish metres along another road, making a U-turn and returning to Hämeentie. This is not visible in Openstreetmap.org or at HSL.fi.

Apparently an Openstreetmap frontend. Seems like a very good one, actually! At least when traveling in countries with alphabets other than Latin, because Openstreetmap.org shows everything in the local script only 🤣

Well, you either get something cheap that manages to still not be worth its price tag. Or, you can buy something that is of good quality, but sold in other shops with yet a little better quality for a little lower price. And also, not made of rainforest wood.

“Wero” (or, with modern spelling, “vero”) is Finnish and means “tax”.

Will be difficult getting Finns to use this with such a name, especially since we already use the Danish-made MobilePay very VERY much.

The furniture typically disappoints with its quality. The rest is mostly fine.

FreeBSD is not Linux, though…

Seriously: there is a train. Yes, it takes probably in the ballpark of five or six days, but since it exists, I really think that’s what should be used. Because the friction between steel wheel and the rail is so low, even a diesel train causes about 70 % less climate-warming emissions per kilometre than flying does.

I’m about to go from Helsinki to Ragusa and back with my child who is under 10-year-old, and that’s going to be more rail kilometres than your trip through Canada would be. It should be the standard to always travel in normal ways and only fly when no other options exist. (I’d say countries’ leaders meeting up or a close relative being about to die any minute are examples of when it’s okay to travel in a way that kills people)

I wish some kind of “this many person-kilometres of flying kills one person” numbers would be published. The number exists, we just need to figure out what it is.

I would guess MÀV stopped sending its wagons beyond the border of Ukraine in February '22, and Ukraine doesn’t have 1435 mm wagons it could.apare for that traffic, so probably the Hungarian trains don’t currently serve Mukachevo.

The two broad gauge routes – to Poland and Slovakia – have been constantly in use all the time from Soviet times, and are still in use. A passenger traffic on the broad gauge line to Poland, at least to Hrebenne, was opened for evacuations in March 2022, IIRC, and the route remained in use after that.

I just began using Tuba while ago. It’s got its good sides, but I also occasionally need to launch Mastodon’s site on the browser because Tuba is missing features, such as a proper search. Still, that us no really a huge problem, because most of the time I can just use Tuba and switching to the browser for minute once every few days is not the end of the.world.

The site of German railways does the same, but is missing a few nifty features. That’s why I typically recommend ÖBB’s site.

Then again, the German site, http://bahn.de/, has an address that is faster to use because it loads directly to the search without first needing to click a “show timetable only” button and then even waiting a few seconds for “Scotty” to load. But indeed, it’s nice to be able to set a third via point in the search and see the route on the map, so if you can spare the extra 15 seconds or just have the link bookmarked, ÖBB’s search takes the win. Both sites use the same timetable database.

This is the second one, actually. Hungarian trains started serving Mukachevo already years ago.

Should you want to travel within Europe once you’ve made it this far, here’s a search tool for all train timetables in Europe: https://fahrplan.oebb.at/webapp/?language=en_GB

(Okay, it’s missing Euskotren, in Ukraine it only shows long distance trains, and in Estonia and Latvia only the one international connection is shown. But I think this is the full list of exceptions)

There are occasionally flights from the northeastern end of Canada to Scotland. That’s a surprisingly short trip! Checking different airports’ destinations on Wikipedia was a useful way to find out about this!

What you’re looking for is PostmarketOS. On their website you can also see what tablet devices it runs on more or less perfectly and on which ones some of the features are missing.

I think their website answers all of your questions.

While I disagree with the teenagers’ ability to find my banking passwords regardless of where I hide them, for example because I can make a copy of them that has been altered with a password I can calculate in my head and that takes the location of the password on the table into account in the calculation, the rest is true.

I remember having seen things I really wouldn’t want to see even as adult when I was browsing Internet for stuff that wasn’t supposed to be available. Shady websites can be shady in so many ways! It is true that making an age verification system for a basic porn site will probably direct the youth to other sites with content you wouldn’t see on PornTube. I hope my children won’t ever watch porn, but if they ever do, I hope it’s from a source that doesn’t allow the worst things to be shown. For example PornHub does remove the worst stuff and is quite commonly used. If that one cannot be accessed, then probably something else will. And it’s likely to be worse. Though, PornHub has a lot of really bad abusive things as well. Checked it out now and one of the first videos it showed was something that looked like the woman is really unhappy, even distressed, about the situation she’s being filmed in :(

Beautifully said. I wish people on Internet could behave like you in this comment. Have a virtual hug, you are awesome! :)

You can’t build a completely teenager-proof system. But you can build a system that is almost completely teenage-proof. And that’s definitely good enough!

All such systems exist only to support parents in their parenting. It gets easier keeping your children safe and developing well if the amount of ways the teenagers can be idiots is narrowed down.

Despite what who think? I don’t think there are people who think people in USA are not human beings. (Or if they are, they are less than one percent of the world population… Of course within 8 billion people you will find a proponent for any opinion…)

But yeah, since you care about humanity’s liberty as a whole, you could maybe kindly stop undermining that goal by assuming that what is done by under 5% of the population on this planet is the standard that the remaining 95 % are following.

I wasn’t being eurocentric. I was being Asia-Africa-Australia-South America-Europe-Canada-Mexico-Central America-Caribbea centric. The only country where most of the right want to reduce gun safety is USA. We are talking in an international forum, so here international concepts count, not nation-specific. Typically in the world right-wingers are for safety and typically in the world the politics of the Democrat party count as right-wing.

When in a conversation not specific to USA it is not okay to speak as if everything was about USA. It is not okay to speak as if there was a left-wing party in US Congress or Senate and it is not okay to claim that the right wants more dangerous gun policies.

And here we’re talking about something that takes place most prominently in UK and secondly in a bunch of other countries, but absolutely not in USA. USA has nothing to do with this, so don’t be as insolent as you were.

(Also, for example Australia is not in Europe. Learn some geography.)

Doesn’t change political narrative being pushed by both major political parties in the US, where in the left supposedly wants guns banned, and the right wants everyone armed.

How is US relevant in this discussion?