HidingCat @ HidingCat @kbin.social

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Sounds like a lot of young men in Singapore (I kinda used to be like that, so I know that feeling). Once they travel a bit and learn more about the world I hope the entitlement will wear off somewhat.

You do know how small we are right? Even with COE and ERP we still get traffic jams, and they can be quite bad during peak period.

Still the same for me, and they've added some routes that improved the reach and accessibility. Trains are the same as always, and they're way better than they were in the 2000s.

There was a period in the 2000s when the metro was under maintained and profits were maximised (fuck you Saw Phiak Hwa), where there were times even at 10pm I couldn't get on the train because they were so packed, thanks to horrible intervals between each train. Said undermaintence lead to some pretty bad breakdowns (for Singapore anyway) around the mid-2010s . Ever since then they've increased maintenence, decreased interval times during both peak and off-peak periods, and more lines were also added, though some of them were already being planned in mid-2000s.

The bus system has also improved when they moved to a hybrid model, where government tenders for operators to operate the bus routes, so there's private and public aspects into it.

While not perfect, it's definitely better than the mid-to-late 2000s, and I'm really grateful we have it.

That's great, just hope they live up to the promise. I remember having a Note 3 with swappable batteries, but 3 years later all I could get was crappy 3rd party batteries.

Is that from GSMArena's review or elsewhere? Their test wasn't very promising, I have to say.

No.

It's Singapore man, we don't have a real rural population any more.

Honestly, as much as I wanted a car as a 20-something, I do think this is for the better. There needs to be some adjustments as a lot of the buyers are commercial entities trying to corner a somewhat unsustainable ridehailing market, but overall I'm happy with the tradeoff, especially with the improvement in public transport in recent years.

Lol, an American thinking they know best again.

Meanwhile I took a rideshare from a site visit at 5:30pm and there was already some congestion on the expressway. I cannot imagine what it'd be like if it was a free-for-all for cars.

I mean, given they sell Thinkpads, the bar is likely to be easier to reach for them. I do wonder by what metric of "repairable" they mean. The quote has him saying batteries and SSDs, but those are already fixable in most of their existing line up. It's the RAM (so many are soldered, even in the Thinkpad line) I'm mostly thinking about, and there's also the screen and keyboard, two other common failure points.

Wow, that I didn't know. What happened to Irish healthcare?

If this is what you were thinkng of, then yea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICO4

I'd rather get a Quest 3, at least you can use a separate Meta account now.

Hah, it feels like it's fighting fire with fire. xD

Isn't Pico even worse? It's by Bytedance, the Chinese company behind TikTok.

Between this and the general population's preference for videos (even when they could've been a written article), I despair.

Yea, I'll be curious on battery replacements too. No point if you can't get a new battery four years later.

Depending on where you are and where you're going, an airplane ride isn't that expensive. Just a matter of why you need to do so, and if you're willing to put up with budget airline issues. Oh and I guess the carbon footprint.

Definitely does. A bit too well even sometimes. I block genres I usually am not interested in but that means games that feature some element of them that I might like in small doses also gets blocked. eg Stray, which has stealth gameplay, but has been pretty fun so far.

Doesn't sound as bad as the other headline that was lurking in another magazine. I do think it's an unexpected situation and the AI handled it as best as it could.