knexcar

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

This smug attitude is why vegans get a bad rap. Sure eating vegan helps, but you don’t have to go all the way. For instance, eating chicken instead of beef or reducing the amount of meat you eat. Imagine if the same thing was applies to transportation: it’s a lot easier to convince people to make your next car electric than to have no car at all (assuming America where commutes are long and public transit ranges from mediocre to nonexistent).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, unless you emulate it of course. It’s not a direct sequal, but it’s heavily inspired by A Link to the Past

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic. It’s one of the most complex city builders made, and while the interface isn’t great and there are lots of obscure, weird, and downright unintuitive mechanics, it’s so rewarding to play because you can actually construct your infrastructure with materials and time, and so unlike Cities: Skylines or Transport Fever, the game doesn’t become trivially easy when you get a late game map. Those games you can eventually afford massive bridges and tunnels, but that’s not the case in Workers and Resources, because no matter how much money you have, bridges take time to build, and you’ll have to reroute traffic during construction, so you’ll only use them when you really need them.

Also I love the scaling, things like gas stations only require a single truck very occasionally, shall industries require a few trucks, and only the big industries like steel require trains (and only a reasonable amount too). As opposed to Cities: Skylines or Transport Fever where every industry ends up with a massive number or trucks or a silly number of trains.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Have you tried A Link Between Worlds yet?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I admit I kind of prefer the Gimp site. Are you saying Lemmy isn’t an accurate random sample of normal people in reality?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So far the news and downloads pages still haven’t been updated

If I can’t download it, and the site says the latest version is 2.10.38, is it really released?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It makes me think of the original release of the iPhone app store.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

But it is a classic

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

What does curl even do? Unstraighten? Seems like any other command I’d blindly paste from an internet thread into a terminal window to try to get something on Linux to work.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Are alarms ever not being raised in this day and age? Seems like business as usual.

 

It's well-known that the US used to have a highly functional public transportation network that was dismantled for the car, but I'm really curious on the details of how that happened. Obviously there was National City Lines who dismantled streetcars and replaced them with buses, as well as interstate highway construction gutting cities, but I feel like there's a lot more detail and nuance that's missing.

Does anyone know of any books or other reading material that goes into the details of the decline? I'm hoping for something in-depth, think comparisons of big events vs ridership numbers vs average public transit speed, public opinion, ideally a case study on some actual cities. When the streetcars were ripped out, did the buses still provide adequate service, or was there a large decrease in frequency/quality? Were there frequency cuts later on? What happened when the private bus company inevitably went bankrupt? Did people without cars protest as service was cut, or were they left behind as people and jobs moved to suburbs, where service didn't exist to begin with? What did people in small towns without cars do?

 

Hello! My sister sent me some images on the .RW2 format, does anyone know any programs I should use to easily open/covert them to jpeg? Using Linux Mint if that helps.

I know this could easily be googled, but someday I'd like to imagine people tacking site:lemmy.world to their google searches instead of site:reddit.com

 

Weight limits for bicycles need to be higher and more transparent, especially if the majority of people want to use them.

 

It works with most websites, it syncs my bookmarks across computers, lets me reuse my existing Google account instead of needing to make a new one, and I really don't care about my data going to Google because I already give up my data in exchange for free services (which feels like a win-win).

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