[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

I have to navigate my city's public transit system every day, so mobile internet has been a game changer for me personally. Thanks to that I'm able to check live arrivals and see which station it makes more sense to walk to in my neighborhood, or figure out exactly when where to switch lines (also based on live arrival times), etc.

Having access to streaming music doesn't hurt, either. IMO it really just comes down to not installing dopamine slot machines (e.g., basically any social media). Keep the thing simple and utilitarian

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

Just mpv for me. Simplest and most versatile option

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

Long walks, swimming and playing drums

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You could argue that China has devolved into a totalitarian state under Xi. There's a lot of corruption surrounding the party's Ministry of Railways, which has led to some perverse incentives to invest (possibly way too much) in HSR and urban metro networks across all of the country. And thanks to the extremely centralized power structure, you have a lot of standardized components used to roll out those networks, making construction cheaper and faster due to economies of scale.

Tldr; China's rail infra is pretty great, especially when so many of its cities are very rough around the edges otherwise. That said, East Asia's democracies (Taiwan, S. Korea and Japan) also have excellent transportation networks, so who knows.

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ideally I'd have access to both- i.e., a 'home base' in the city, plus a small place to stay out in the woods somewhere, preferably less than 20 mins on foot from a commuter train. Continuing to avoid driving would be great

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

No. Actors are participating in storytelling, and 'evil' characters are just an exercise in symbolism and mythmaking.

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

"Freddy Got Fingered". So stupid and obnoxious that it might actually be brilliant. Arguably

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

The project you're thinking of is probably PostmarketOS, though it doesn't look like anyone's started work on an iPad 2 or mini yet.

They're on Lemmy now, so that might be a good place to follow up (or if you're curious to start hacking away at anything yourself)

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I never really 'got' Twitter-style microblogging, and still don't really get Mastodon for the same reason. But I could some use for it if I represented some kind of group or organization that needed to publish regular updates.

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Having both that and Waydroid on a phone would be pretty great. You might want to check out Darling for running Mac apps on Linux in the meantime, since its goals are similar to Wine's (but it's still early in development in comparison)

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Only syncthing, for me.

[-] gzrrt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Can highly recommend the LibRedirect browser extension too, to take care of that 100% of the time

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