This title mis-characterizes the report. Basically people who use the car less than 5% are much less happy. Everyone else is about the same. Indeed people who use the car between 50% and 95% of the time are the happiest. 😟

https://news.asu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/full_body_width/public/2025-01/The relationship between the share of car trips and life satisfaction_0.jpeg

In practice range seems to be a few kilometers, in places with lots of nodes.

Very sunny places, like Los Vegas.

I’m literally designing some code now and realized that I used DuckDuckGo to find man pages for system calls… from my Arch laptop. 😑

By self-hosted you mean you have hardware geographically distributed? Like… boxes at friend’s houses or…?

All of these were taken by the state, not the workers, which was the question.

I know it’s asking a lot, but you could give an example instead of insulting me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I can’t think of any examples. Taking over the company requires capital, which is the one thing that capitalists constantly extract from workers so they don’t have any.

The workers of xs4all tried when their new corporate owners, KPN, decided to dissolve them. But a combination of lack of funding and unfriendly courts prevented that. They did end up starting a new company though…

Sort of. They can be, but are not always.

We’ve already got free software for filing taxes, kthxbye!

Is it? Almost every time I use it I end up hitting a bug or missing feature. Just last week I was trying to get Word in Office365 to keep some lines together. I followed the instructions from Microsoft’s help and it didn’t work. Last month I was trying to get “slide M of N” on the bottom of PowerPoint in Office365, but apparently getting the N is just not supported.

LibreOffice almost always works for me, far more often than Microsoft Office.

I put a tl;dr sentence or two at the top of any e-mail more than a couple of paragraphs. Sometimes for those too.

I run my own email and I have to say I wouldn’t recommend it.

The biggest hassle is dealing with either Spamhaus or Microsoft, who apparently at random decide to put my IPs on blacklist, and who provide hurdles to working around this (for Spamhaus) or just say “no” (for Microsoft).

I was about 80% successful switching to Signal from Telegram. So worthwhile.

Yeah I took the train from Chicago to Springfield, and was shocked that I had to go through security and also present the same credit card that I used to buy the ticket. In Europe I literally just get on the train most times…

A huge portion of the Netherlands works part time by choice. So, yes, many people voluntarily waive parts of their salary.

Can you? When all businesses start using AI for customer interaction…

Reality is stranger than fiction:

https://www.patrickcraig.co.uk/other/compression.htm

I always look on itch.io and GoG first!