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Won’t it get hot as hell in there, all that wood and foam and rubber?

You can have nodes on a mesh network which act as gateways to the internet, but such nodes are going to have to go through an ISP. There’s no other way to connect to the internet at large unfortunately.

this is what the mesh networks are that people have mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

It is theoretically possible to create a purely peer-to-peer network where each individual connects to people nearby, and then any individual can in theory communicate with any other, by passing data packets to nearby people on the network who then pass it on themselves until it reaches the other person.

You can probably already grasp a few of the issues here - confidentiality is a big one, and reliability is another. But in theory it could work, and the more people who take part in such networks, the more reliable they become.

You can choose any font you have locally available by setting the “reader.font_type” to the font name in about:config

You can also set “reader.content_width” to values beyond the 9 allowed by the UI to have the text take up even more of your screen width. Setting it to 12 is just about perfect for me.

These values will be lost if you update the font style or the width via the Reader “Text and Layout” menu though. For fonts, you might be able to avoid that by putting fonts you want to be able to select from in the “reader.font_type.values” list but I haven’t tried that.

Firefox reader mode is great. I started using it just to avoid having to tell sites to piss off with their cookies, and to dodge some paywalls, but now I use it on a lot of sites even when there aren’t any dialogs to dodge.

I actually prefer having articles take up my screen width rather than be all squashed into a skinny little column in the centre. It’s also nice when trying to read someone’s blog with questionable text colour.

That’s good, thanks for that info. It does say it’s a “good will” gesture from the various train companies, but it seems to be a firm offer - would be good to have it enshrined in law nevertheless.

From what I read, you need to get a Delay/Cancellation Confirmation somehow. You then would need to book a seat on one of the following trains - on some routes, most trains are full by the time of travel, and in the event of a delay like this, you’re probably not the only one needing to reschedule. You may well need to get a hotel overnight and travel the next day. All possible, but potentially stressful.

I will still avoid getting long distance trains with connections - but saying that, none of the several international train journeys I’ve made so far have been delayed more than 15 minutes.

Missing a connecting flight is no less stressful - and I also always avoid those as much as possible, although because long-distance flights are shorter, the knock-on effects of missing a connection tend to be less (more likely to be able to find a seat on a replacement flight on the same day for instance).

off-topic but wow, it’s great to see so many lemmy instances up and running 🥰

it really looks like we’re well on the way to hitting critical mass

You must thank the Lord every day that you weren’t wiped up with a Kleenex and flushed down the toilet with your other brethren who didn’t manage to make it inside! The Lord’s grace is truly magnificent!

Ah yeah sorry I wasn’t saying that Orban shouldn’t be criticised for supporting this, but those other governments that claim to be better than Orban are showing their true colours by supporting it.

Governments like Denmark, Italy, Spain and France are all dead keen on universal surveillance of the plebs for the exact same reasons Orban is - control and authoritarianism. They’ll use whatever arguments they think are most likely to allow them to get their way - be it children, terrorism, or whatever else.

You only have to look at the UK, where they’re using anti-terror legislation to arrest people just for peacefully protesting.

lolol did somebody actually say that?? Pretty funny either way…

from what I recall though, the zoo prefers small animals (think rats, hamsters, rabbits) because they better resembles the prey the zoo animals would normally eat. And yes they do euthanise them first!

err you seem to have forgotten to mention the other countries that are *not* widely regarded as being run by fascists…

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Definitely good news to hear. Over the last couple of years, I’ve made several long journeys by train that normally would have been by plane.

One rule of thumb I’ve been using is to only get direct trains. I find travel a bit stressful in any case and I don’t want to be worrying about any delay with the first train causing me to miss the second. If the two trains are the same operator, you would at least be able to reschedule onto a later train - as long as there is one with free space which isn’t guaranteed at zero notice. If the trains are run by different operators then it’s presumably down to whatever agreements exist between them. So I skip all that uncertainty by only doing it when there’s a single direct train available. Hopefully the EU will come up with a good solution for this as well.

Reports also have emerged of attempts to stop the spread of chikungunya with even larger mosquitoes to eat the insects carrying the virus.

And if those larger mosquitos get out of control, there’s a simple and obvious fix…