We usually go to a small holiday home my dad owns for a week or two in summer - we need to book that early in the year.

Then we do maybe one or two long shorter train trips to other European cities. More often than not that’s to see a musical theatre production, so we book those when they are announced, maybe half a year in advance. Otherwise it could be just days or weeks out!

Fantastic 🙏 thanks again!

Awesome, thank you!

It’s all in the suspended chords

That’s a planning problem imo, from small towns to metropolises groceries, health clinic, some entertainment can be in walking distance.

I live in a small city of about 90k and I love it. We have the important amnesties, eg shopping and a hospital, but in a few minutes you’re out in the open fields. Meanwhile buses to nearby large city depart every 6 to 30 min from my street.

Took on a bit too much recently and this week it peaks with an event/lecture I helped organise, wrapping up a fundraising drive for an NGO, and then there’s piano lesson, German class and sports.

Like I said it’s too much so it’s time to take a break from volunteer work for a bit and I’ve cancelled my piano classes - playing is fun but having to practice consistently is not.

The world turned upside dooooowwwwn 🎵

Please no, Timmermans had his heart into it and got a lot done, Hoekstra however is a Shell alumnus and he nor his party has ever shown any serious concern for the climate catastrophe we’re in.

Loved cheese but not having it any more. Not my milk not my cheese. My pleasure can’t come at the expense of another sentient, innocent being, especially not if that involves forced impregnation, being caged up, and having your children be taken almost right away who then often end up being killed because there’s no use.

Haha don’t need to treat socialism like a taboo, there’s more to the world than the US and laissez-faire capitalism.

“the KDE Plasma 5.27.6 update improves fractional scaling so you no longer see line glitches all over the place”

Yes! I was so annoyed by this but expected people to treat fractional scaling like an edge case because “you shouldn’t be doing that anyway” or something.

It’s silly and sad that Diablo even requires a Battle.net connection 😞

Living in a small Dutch city (~90k) near a major city, where I work.

• Walking to local square with supermarkets/hairdressers/cafe’s/etc. Just a few minutes.
• Cycling pretty much everywhere else in the city, mostly visiting family and friends.
• Public transport everywhere else (which makes up the bulk). Two bus stops in ~5 min walk, railway station <10 min bike ride.

Only in the last few years have I come to appreciate how lucky I am to live in such a well designed place. What my hometown does especially well is traffic segregation - there’s a good network of carfree/lite routes throughout the city. Not just great for cycling but also running.

It’s not perfect though. For example, public transport is focussed on going to and from nearby cities, for getting around within our own city it’s quite terrible. Until my wife got an ebike it was hard for her to get to the other side of town.

Big no from me. I almost exclusively play single player games and tend go back to old games a lot. The always-online requirement is not just annoying in the now but a big problem for the longevity of games.

In the case of Diablo IV I’m also not sure if it was really meant to serve my interests rather than Blizzard’s. The MMO-lite aspects feel like the excuse rather than the reason.