An overall mixed experience. Its certainly worse with the rise of dating apps. The main thing I found that made it easier was learning to deal with rejection and not letting it break me every time I was turned down. Took a while to do but it does help.
If it is it's probaly a long way down the line. The current poll leading right wing party has a very strong eurosceptic streak to it (well all the right wing parties do) and as long as they're around in any capacity it will be hard to get that through. There's the fact I think the topic is just a massive hot potato too. The political process that led up to brexit and the brexot process itself was a fucking mess and I think there is a level of national exhaustion over it despite polling long showing that everyone has worked out brexit was a terrible idea/ most the folks who voted for brexit are dead.
You'll see some closer relationship being forged in the form of some sort of trade deal or some kind of Norway like situation much sooner, indeed o think the current labour government are angling for something like that but not sure of the details.
How are you finding e/os? I've been looking at it for a while now but haven't made the jump yet. Specifically support for things like banking apps and WhatsApp as I can't get rid of those quite yet.
It certainly seems to be looking better than ever. Proton and the steam deck seem to have really motivated particularly the indie scene to look to Linux even if just for that market. Though the number of native builds not relying on proton is still a little disappointing.
I've had a 12 for a few months now and its a nice low powered, low weight, light use travel machine. Runs pretty nice with kubuntu on it.Generally all around fine though not spectacular a very 5-6/10 machine though that's all I really need from it. Very expensive for what it is though.
Not really no. If the capital that has been invested into EVs over the last 10/15 years had gone into those things we'd be in a much better position than we are now. The choice to go with EVs over rail was always one driven by capital interests and political will particularly in the west were the automotive firms have a firm hold on governments and where the infrastructure money goes. The right now solution is to stop going along a poor path that at its best is a halfhearted fix and move efforts to an industry that can actually meaningfully reduce humanity's overall impact on climate change.
They only really make sense in journeys under 100km, otherwise we're just perpetuating many of the same problems ICE cars cause. Even then a lot of those shorter journeys can be replaced with light rail and urban redesign.
They are and arguably doing the best in the world at it but its still pretty poor. Intercity mode share is still majority road travel and turning that all to EVs is a terrible idea as Tue amount of charging stations you'd need to support it just isn't feasible and stands to waste a huge amount of resources, continue the massive micro plastic pollution issue road vehicles cause and put a massive strain on electrical grids.
Because VHS/CRT was such a fucking hassle even when it was the best possible format option for home media.
The dawn of LCDs and DVD was a glorious thing.
An overall mixed experience. Its certainly worse with the rise of dating apps. The main thing I found that made it easier was learning to deal with rejection and not letting it break me every time I was turned down. Took a while to do but it does help.