*IF* you want a flight ban that's MEANINGFUL, do this

- 4 hours by train, not 2.5 hours

- apply to ALL flights, inc. transfers and private jets

- turn connecting flights into connecting trains with guaranteed passenger rights in case of delay

Anything LESS than that and it's gesture politics

@corentin @jon That would be the best option (imho), and Trenitalia in Italy signals it very well imho: it has an option marked "Paris (all stations)". DB in my experience has not been so consistent: I just booked a train to Milan and I had to spell out the station, otherwise looking for trains to Milan would not find the one I was looking for 🙈

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@sil actually the whole problem of naming objects and ideas in mathematics is fascinating to me: ideas tend to be quite abstract, but you still want to give them a name which is as evocative as possible... And this can lead to many outcomes: poetry (for example, imho, étale morphisms by Grothendienck), antonomasia and also... Well, let's say more graphic examples (the monster group, the devil's staircases and blowups to name a few)
(Ah, we like to kill stuff in maths too 😅)

@sil to be fair, as a maths student, learning the terminology is often quite puzzling and amusing (what is a perverse sheaf? What did it do to deserve its name? 😅). And I think I sometimes find myself thinking intently about nomenclature, as soon as I learn it. But then I just hardwire it to mean the mathematical concept and it stops sounding strange (maybe the fact that I'm not an English native speaker plays a role here).

@JokaJukka though does this mean that you don't disable the touchpad while typing at all? In the sense of, even when there is no external mouse attached the option you don't disable the touchpad while typing. In case is it not annoying when you type even without an external mouse?
Or how is it different in the two cases, I am a bit confused 🤔

@PseudoSpock @Bro666 I am just reading this as an outsider, but I can say that if the first message was something like "I hope this time features are going to be preserved. I still remember the transition from KDE 3, where I lost x, y and z" it would have sounded different than "watch this end up like the KDE 4 fiasco". In this second sentence I assume that your expectations are already set, for a bad release.

Now I'm genuinely curious: is something important to you being removed from Plasma 6?

@golden_trashcan @graphito @Techaltar I see, and I'm sad to see that also the fairphone 3 turned out to be quite subpar as an experience compared to the competition.
In any case thanks for replying! I hope your experience is better with the next phone 🙈

@toothake @Techaltar as for software I can tell you my experience with fp3: we get a software update about every couple of months with security fixes. And it seems like they want to release every other (major) android update, but I might be wrong on this.

@golden_trashcan @graphito @Techaltar I am genuinely curious: what led you to declare the fairphone experiment failed?

@Techaltar
- Battery life

- I understand it's difficult to check, but now for the fairphone 3 some replacement parts have been out of stock for 1+ months, making it hard to repair your phone. In a phone they plan to support for more than 5 years, have they done anything to ensure that the supply of replacement parts is going to be there also after 6+ years? (Hence making it possible to have a really long lasting phone)

@woelkchen @Thwompthwomp
I know it's not your message, but I think it's related and it points to a deeper pattern: clicking on a folder in dolphin is essentially a link. On a web browser everyone is used to single click to open links, on a file manager it's unthinkable for many people.

My whole point is: what to you seems highly related, to other people might seem completely unrelated.
In this case the two interactions you cite are, for some, unrelated. Hence everything looks normal to them

@gbraad @sil I have to admit that the countries I've lived in all belong to the EU... Though also here there is some variability from one video to the next. But do I understand correctly that in your experience a given European country tends to give more consistently the same amount and kind of ads than Asian countries? Or am I parsing your comment incorrectly? 😅

@gbraad @sil the enforcement part seems to be the case to me: in the last three years I lived in three different countries and I've seen different levels of ads displayed by YouTube (on average of course). In one of them usually only one ad was displayed, mostly skippable, whereas in both others it was almost always two, one of them usually being 20s

@oskar @Techaltar I see, I was very far off 😅 But thanks a lot for the explanation! (And you are already way outside of my knowledge limits, so no need to go any further 😅)

@oskar @Techaltar I'm just a dude who likes to bike. By motor parameters do you mean the aggressiveness of acceleration from a standstill/the response curve of the motor to inputs from the pedals?
As a cyclist I would imagine that being more conservative on this side (i.e. taking a bit of time to reach max power or decrease the amount of power output for short outbursts of energy, especially in a city, would have quite some impact.)
How far am I from what you are talking about? 😅

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Mozilla #Firefox address bar tips and tricks https://wiki.tilde.institute/w/firefox-address-bar-tips

@carlschwan @kde didn't know such an app existed, it's exactly what I'm looking for 😍
(Though I tend to prefer learning on my phone, is there a chance for it to be available also on android? Just checked and it's not in the kde f-droid repo)

So a big thank you on my part!
(Actually a huge thank you for all of the work you do in kde, as a user I really appreciate it! Though I think I vocalize this too little)

@stubbornphoenix @Tutanota @M0YNG
I have the exact same issue. Moreover in the last few days I had really spotty connectivity, the inability to access my inbox when offline is really close to becoming a deal breaker for me.