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[–] tal@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Well, you've got Ardour. But I suspect that there are people who do want this software package.

[–] tal@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't know if France24 is doing it because the US uses a leading currency symbol, but if so, we in the US obtained the convention of having a leading currency symbol from the British, so technically it's the Europization of Europe.

I am kind of inclined to think that France24 isn't doing it because it's a US convention, as the date right below it is DD/MM/YYYY, while the US convention would be MM/DD/YYYY (and in my opinion, the world standard should probably be YYYY-MM-DD, but that's another story).

[–] tal@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_Railway

The Vatican Railway (Italian: Ferrovia Vaticana) was opened in 1934 to serve Vatican City and its only station, Vatican City (Città del Vaticano [tʃitˈta ddel vatiˈkaːno], or Stazione Vaticana [statˈtsjoːne vatiˈkaːna]). The main rail tracks are standard gauge and 300 metres (980 ft) long, with two freight sidings, making it the shortest national railway system in the world.[1] Access to the Italian rail network is over a viaduct to Roma San Pietro railway station, and is guaranteed by the Lateran Treaty dating from 1929. The tracks and station were constructed during the reign of Pope Pius XI, shortly after the treaty.

Beginning in 2015, one passenger service runs each Saturday morning with passengers for Castel Gandolfo. Most other rail traffic consists of inbound freight goods, although the railway has occasionally carried other passengers, usually for symbolic or ceremonial reasons.[2][3]

[–] tal@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

south facing windows. That little apartment turned into an oven in the summer.

Can try something like this:

https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/home-window-solutions-us/solutions/temperature-control/

It's an infrared-reflective film you can put on your windows.

Or if you have the windows open, slatted shutters or a slatted screen.

I'm assuming that in the Netherlands, it's humid in summer, so probably can't use an evaporative cooler; that might be useful somewhere like Madrid.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in a city, and where I live it gets up to around 40°C in summer.

[–] tal@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know, the camera formatted them, but I highly doubt that it is NTFS. So propably exFAT...

If you have the filesystem mounted, I believe you can see in /proc/mounts.

[–] tal@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

30 planned today in the north of France

That's 86°F. That's certainly warm, but I do 86°F without an air conditioner, though I'll probably have a fan on. I could see someone using an air conditioner then, sure, but that's not an extreme "I must have an air conditioner" temperature, either.

especially for freaking October.

That's my point. It's warm for the season, but being warm for the season isn't what drives air conditioner use, but being warm in absolute terms.

Go back to summer a couple years ago, and that's the kind of thing that will drive air conditioner rollouts:

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/europe/france-temperature-record-heatwave-intl/index.html

Temperatures reached catastrophic levels in France in 2019, when Paris saw a record 42.6° C in July. According to the French Ministry of Health, 567 people died during a heatwave between June 24 and July 7 that year. A second heatwave that summer claimed the lives of another 868 people.

That's 108°F. That's the kind of thing that'll make air conditioners important, rather than a warm fall.

[–] tal@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

I'm not in Europe, but I understand that it's fairly common in some southern areas, but overall much less common then the US. Air conditioning is apparently more common for offices and stores than for residences.

Rolling out more air conditioning in Europe may not be a terrible thing from the standpoint of electricity providers. As things stand, unlike the US, where peak electricity demand is in the summer (due to air conditioning), Europe's peak electricity demand is in winter, due to electricity-driven heating. Having more-even seasonal demand probably makes life easier for the grid.

All that being said, I believe that the article is talking about unseasonably warm temperatures for October -- which is not that hot -- not so much extremely hot summer temperatures. This may not be a "roll out air conditioning" sort of thing.

[–] tal@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Reddit had the ability to have a per-subreddit wiki. I never dug into it on the moderator side, but it was useful for some things like setting up pages with subreddit rules and the like. I think that moderators had some level of control over it, at least to allow non-moderator edits or not, maybe on a per-page basis.

That could be a useful option for communities; I think that in general, there is more utility for per-community than per-instance wiki spaces, though I know that you admin a server with one major community which you also moderate, so in your case, there may not be much difference.

I don't know how amenable django-wiki is to partitioning things up like that, though.

EDIT: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/wiki/ has a brief summary.

[–] tal@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I would assume that it's neither a UI issue nor a problem with the source data, but rather a limitation of the routing engine.

Looking at your link, it does seem to say that support is experimental.

[–] tal@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

republic candidate

Republican candidate

[–] tal@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

the Pixels are actually worth it and very very good phones.

Not the longest-battery-life devices.

 

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