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Why aren't there adult only flights?
  • "Oi, you got a licence for that baby?"

  • ‘Hard to argue against’: mandatory speed limiters come to the EU and NI
  • My car uses a mix of GPS and camera, and I'm using Android Auto, which uses only GPS. There are several cases where both are wrong either

    • because the camera got confused by signs
    • the GPS data are not up to date

    So yeah that's going to be fun... Like my car telling me I should drive a 30 limit instead of 110 on the highway (did happen several times)

  • Literally France right now
  • I don't think 2016 is the right comparison actually. It was not a presidential election, but more something akin to midterms I guess?

    The true question now is 2027, which is the next presidential election. Since 2017 (and even before I'd say) the far right has been gaining influence year after year. They have been in the second round of the last two presidential elections, and with a margin that's getting lower and lower. And even in those elections, they had a majority in the european elections, and they have more seats in congress than they had before this election. (Previous one was in 2022).

    Tldr: they are gaining weight, and the next big potential moment which will probably look a lot like 2016 in the US will be the 2027 presidential election

  • So much for Blockchain's real life use cases
  • You mean PoS, which feature is literally that the more you have, the more you can stake, and the more you can earn in return? So basically the system that has built-in wealth concentration?

  • You're not allowed to be lazy on your vacation
  • Yes, but many big hotel chains have a buffet style breakfast that does not only include typical local food. For instance in France a local breakfast would be bread, croissant or other pastries, and a coffee, but you would also find scrambled eggs, bacon, cereal, etc.

    Smaller hotels will be more local though yes.

  • How do y'all feel about using summons in Soulslikes? [Lies of P endgame spoilers]
  • You said it yourself: you had spent a lot of time learning the patterns, but had grown frustrated by that time. Basically you'd have two choices

    • what you did, and finish the fight easily using summons (which is easy only because you already spent a lot of time learning the boss)
    • decide to do it without summon, and maybe have the satisfaction to win without help, or submit yourself to too much frustration, rendering the victory meaningless because at the end it had become a chore, and not fun at all.

    At the end of the day, the most important element is to have fun. But even with summons, victory is never underserved, those games are still brutal.

  • What universally beloved videogame you just can't enjoy?
  • Yeah Sekiro is one of those games where being in the flow, parrying everything almost without thinking is sooooo satisfying.

    The issue is that there really is just one way to play the game, if you don't parry you probably won't go too far, so of the gameplay doesn't click, it's just not a good experience

  • French elections: Left projected to win most seats, ahead of Macron's coalition and far right
  • It seemed to have been a bet that the left would be completely divided so that he could place his party as the defender against the far right in order to get an absolute majority (he only had a relative majority until now)

    That didn't work because the left parties managed to create a united front in less than a week.

    But let's not forget the following: yes, the left parties have a relative majority (or at least should given the last estimations), but the far right did gain a lot of seats in the elections compared to last time. So yeah it could have been worse, but it's not exactly a comfortable situation either

  • America, Don’t Succumb to Escapism
  • Yeah no, don't go to France, seems like we're trying to speedrun the road to fascism, so might not be a great plan either...

  • What’s the worst piece of technology you’ve ever owned?
  • Yeah you can. Although it's hard on the computer, and depending on the type of plane, it might not be really playable in terms of controls (an airliner for instance)

    Games like Elite Dangerous or Star Wars Squadron are really fun in VR though

  • Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?
  • Who talks to their neighbors in this day and age? They'll probably vote for the party who wants my death anyway so yeah...

    I mean yeah sure we could be surprised, but things aren't really going in the right direction

  • Europeans of Lemmy, what places in Europe should foreigners avoid at all cost?
  • Yeah, I'm not getting my hopes up unfortunately

  • Mommy, why is the Apple Pie so spicy?
  • Wait, isn't it very common? I always thought of the nutmeg+potatoes as a very common combination

  • Need suggestions for VPS
  • That's good, because otherwise your data might end in a blaze.

    (Totally not speaking from experience)

  • Need suggestions for VPS
  • Yeah I went back from Contabo tbh, as you said, I had several outages, the worst of which lasted several days with absolutely no information, nor response from the support. (My VPS had all the symptoms of a broken disk, which was extremely worrying)

    That, plus the subscription fees, it's not something I would advise today

  • Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats
  • Yeah, this is one of the seasons the Pirate party is pushing for a unique ballot, because the current format is really unfavorable towards small parties that don't have the means to print the ballots among other things

  • Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party lose EU Parliament seats
  • Concerning your edit, not sure about other countries, but I can speak about the process in France.

    We get (normally) ballots with the programs in the mail before the elections, so we can also bring ballots from there. Then the way it works when voting is

    • there's a table with ballots from all lists that provided them (so missing the ones we're talking about here) and you can take any number of them
    • then you go isolate in a cabin where you put the ballot you want, or nothing, inside an envelope
    • finally your identity is verified, your vote is counted and you put your envelope in a transparent box

    So there's not really a way to definitely know you're voting for an unlisted candidate here.

  • Samsung is sunsetting Tizen and fully ending support for the smartwatch OS
  • As far as I know, gadgetbridge does not support tizenOS smartwatches

  • Innovation makes useful things smaller - overconsumption makes them bigger and more meaningless
  • So it's useful and does not suffer from overconsumption, got it!

  • streaming or torrenting today vs. 5 years ago
  • Actually yeah I do. I followed this guide which is really nice. I did need to add a few more sources manually depending on how popular a given anime is, but it's really useful anyway