The user-experience of physical books is pretty bad. They are bulky and heavy, unlike an e-reader you can’t keep 1000+ books in your coat pocket. You need an external light source, which limits where and when you can read. If you want to read a new book you have to go to a physical store or library (both have extremely limited selections due to the aforementioned bulkiness) or you have to order online which takes at least a day for delivery. With an e-reader I can pick a book and start reading it 10 seconds later without even leaving the comfort of my bed.

Then there’s small things like full text search.

Disregarding that you completely fail to understand OP’s question; physical books suck. We used then until a few decades ago because we didn’t have anything better now we do. It’s called an e-reader and it’s superior to dead tree books in every single way.

You can put money and source code in escrow for this exact eventuality.

I can’t even imagine what it must be like to not be safe at school. The whole obsession Americans have with guns is completely alien to me. I don’t even understand why anyone would want to own a gun.

I just looked it up. It would have been a 10-mile (16 kilometer) ride for me, starting at 7 am each morning.

Plenty of kids in my high school class who rode 18-20 kilometers each way. We may not have any mountains but we have shitloads of rain and wind (the downside of a flat country is the wind has free reign).

Like any Dutch mom would say: “you aren’t made of sugar” (sugar melts when it gets wet).

Mind, students weren’t allowed to have backpacks on account of school shooting fears. So, carrying supplies home would also have been an issue.

No backpacks allowed here either. Books were leased from the school and backpacks were considered to not protect the school’s property enough. You had to use one of these. Thick leather books bags, that weighed a ton empty. They were actually so heavy that it was causing health problems (back issues) and they had to introduce a rule that the bag cannot weigh more than 10% of a student’s body weight. You’d bring this to school every day on the cargo rack of your bike

No school shootings though, because we have proper gun regulation.

There’s literally an intersection with no traffic lights where the rural road crosses the highway.

That’s not a highway as I understand the term. When I read ‘highway’ I expect something like this. By definition they are conflict-free (no crossings, traffic lights, access only through on/off ramps that allow you to match speed, etc.

Do you not have safety/design standards for roads where you are? Because that definitely looks like a road that would be required to have traffic lights. What is the max allowed speed on that road?

It looks like what would be a 80 or 100 km/h road here. 80 km/h roads are fine to cross safely if they are single-lane, dual-lane (2+2) or 100km/h roads always have traffic lights. Highways are 130km/h and never have intersections.

And no street lights.

That’s just insane. A road like that would be required to have street lights here. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a road that size without lights. The only roads without street lights here are narrow, low-speed rural roads (the kind where you have to slow down and drive partially on the shoulder when you meet an oncoming car) and they usually still have a light at intersections.

I don’t know what a “level crossing” is

A place where roads cross at the same level, so a normal intersection. As apposed to a non-level crossing like a tunnel or bridge, where roads cross at different levels. Traffic on highways moves too fast and is too dense for level crossings so crossing a highway is one of the safest crossings you can ever make because you never have to actually cross traffic.

Highways don’t have intersections, it’s one of the defining features of a highway.

Are you really unaware that four-lane highways criss-cross their way through the American countryside?

Sure, we also have highways that cross the countryside as well as E-roads (european international roads, which would be comparable to interstates). Not sure why that would be dangerous though, highways don’t have level crossings, ever. Doesn’t really matter if you go by car or bike, a level crossing on a highway would be suicidal.

First you’re talking about living in a rural area, then you’re talking about 4 lane highways. Which one is it?

It’s always fascinating to me that some people think everyone lives in a city.)

I grew up in a rural area. I had to cycle to high school every day for 5 years. Regardless of weather. 12 kilometers each way. Not just me, everyone in my school and pretty much every other school in the country. Plenty of kids who had to cycle much farther than me as well.

Walk?

Then fix that.

Or they could just bike to school like normal kids.

I don’t think it’s a token gesture. Microsoft is a software company; they want to sell software, not hardware. They don’t really care about xbox other than as a means to sell more software and gamepass subscriptions. Selling their games on as many platforms as possible is a logical move for them.

You’d rather have your evenings be useless? If anything we should move the clock an hour back in summer.

Well, there is this guy

I do think that using the phase changes of water as the sole point of comparison is a bad argument.

Why? Water is extremely important to life and very abundant. The phases changes of water are something that you are confronted with in every day life, all the time.

For most people, the interaction with temperature is through the weather, and I don’t think Celsius is inherently better for that.

I do, because the temperature being above or below freezing is a very important boundary. Freezing temperatures means slippery roads, frost on windows, car locks freezing shut, etc. A lot of our interaction with the world outside is affected by the temperature being below or above 0ºC. By comparison, 0ºF is completely arbitrary, nothing changes when you cross that boundary.

I like that in Fahrenheit 0 is a cold winter’s day, and 100 is a hot summer’s day.

10ºF is also a cold day, so is 20ºF and 30ºF. Just like 90ºF is also a hot summers day.

I find that more relevant in day-to-day life than the phase changes of water.

None of those seem relevant to me. I don’t need a round number to know that 37ºC is a hot day. There is no significance to 100ºF. 99ºF is also a hot day and so is 101ºF. Nothing interesting happens when you cross the 100ºF threshold.

When you cross the 0ºC or 100ºC, potentially dangerous things start to happen of which you need to be aware.

IIRC it also had a clip of the Apollo 11 launch and moon landing. Amazing stuff.

I use dnsmasq on my router (I use a small server-grade PC as a router). It’s both a DHCP server as well as a caching DNS. Next to that it also runs a TFTP server. TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) is a standard for simple file transfers mainly used for network booting.

If you tell a machine to boot from the network, it will basically request an IP through DHCP and with that DHCP response comes a list of available network boot options. Each option is contains the name of a file it can load from the TFTP server. If you select one of the options, it will download that file and execute it. That file will usually be a bootloader (like Grub) which will then take over the boot process.

I have set up a bunch of different network boot options, including a Debian installer, a small Linux rescue system and Memtest86+ . That way I can always network-boot any machine on my LAN to either install an OS or diagnose problems.

I always put my PS5 in rest mode so I don’t see those very often either.