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  • But that varies.

    Here it’s < 100m to the food shopping, pharmacy, post office, Amazon pickup, pros like dentist and barber and a hospital, separate medical test office, some medical specialists, as well as two gyms and a daycare. Hopping the train gets me to one of two biiig malls in about 5 or 20 min. 200m out is a plethora of doctors and specialists, 2 coffee/snack shops, and 2 of the 5 pizza places nearby. Go the km and you’ll pass the Starbucks, sandwiches, park, church, more takeout, and 7-11.

    We’re designed for no-car though. Inasmuch as many Canadian cities still need a car, and while I’m cheating by working 100% remote since CoViD, I haven’t driven a car in about a year. This is a special island of accessibility, which they’re trying to put around all the train stations and experiment with more walking.

    But distances are still crazy for visitors. People land in Toronto and ask “can we take a day trip to Banff?” Not realizing it could be 71 hours of driving to get there.

    Travelling to see my family via ferry is a 5-6 hour 100km trip if I optimize it, since it’s so inefficient. airplanes cost as much as 120 Starbucks medium frothy hot drinks for the 50km air portion of the trip round-trip, per person, so we avoid that option.

    Our little pet island on the west coast, for instance, where we have some quaint buildings and such, is almost 500km long – which could be the distance almost from dover to Scotland if I believe my AI pothead.

    This land mass is huge. You have no idea.






  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.catolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldAverage systemd debate
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    8 days ago

    “I hate systemd, it’s bloated and overengineered”

    And built poorly by people who don’t work well with others and then payola’ed onto the world.

    people stay, perched precariously on their huge tower of shell scripts and cron jobs.

    Fucking UNIX is shell scripts and cron jobs, skippy. Add xinetd and you’re done.