I only once encountered it in Czechia near Plzen with 2 lanes. Think it took me 5 minutes before I could/dared. Can't imagine it with 3. Crazy dangerous situation. Stay safe!
Tho not preferable, there's cases where it can work. The roundabout layout still provides a better (easier) entry to the crossroads, the traffic lights can create a "cadence". Technically not a roundabout anymore, it does use some of it's qualities.
Anyhow, pedestrian crossings on 2 lanes right before any kind of intersection without any lights is way more dangerous than a roundabout with lights.
They pick it up, but it takes a while, days or weeks depending on where you dump it. Meanwhile the trash in the streets attracts rodents and vermin. Old electronics end up in the environment, batteries can leak etc.
I get the smell part. I've "dumped" an opened empty can of fish sometimes, because SO can't stand the smell of it so it can't wait until trash pick-up day. I dumped it IN A TRASHBIN at a busstop, not randomly on the ground between houses, soccer clubs and parks... that's just disgusting. The trashbin at a busstop is emptied very regularly and a lot less accessible to most rodents and vermin, yet a lot more accessible to trash collection service from the city. My inconvenience (bad smell) is so not enough to justify just dumping trash anywhere without any care at all.
As for the part "they get paid": it costs a city a lot more to keep streets clean when everyone dumps everything everywhere, than to pay for arranged pick-ups. Everyone including you ends up paying the bill anyhow through taxes and/or less service from city in general because budget's too tight.
But WHY don't they care? They were clearly people who themselves like to have clean new clothes, the car was neatly washed et cetera. They like cleanliness for themselves. Why burden others with your trash when the effort to legally and correctly throw it out seems to me barely any more effort than the effort they put in! For the thrill of it?
when you're in this situation, i can try to understand, tho i luckily have never experienced this. It sucks and I hope you're better now. But these people i'm ranting about were clearly by far not poor or homeless or socially or economically on the fringes of society, that's the part I find very hard to understand.
when i finally thought about taking out the phone camera, it was too late, driving away, license plate is unreadable in the picture. Will try to remember to make pictures sooner if I see someone doing stuff like this again
It is FREE to give old electronic devices at recycling plant. They drove into a little dead-end corner they thought was a "good dumping spot". They had not from this city license plates. Chances are they researched a good spot on maps before driving there. It would have cost them not more effort to drive to the recycling plant and give the vacuum cleaner for free. The recycling plant is literally just a 4 minute drive away from where they dumped it.
Fujitsu Esprimo here... 50 €, before the extra RAM, SSDs, ... Relatively low power usage, lots of SATA, PCI slots, lots of USB ports... Works very well for all except transcoding. Could put a GPU but it would really make power consumption go up
Why not a second hand small "business" or office pc? There are so many on the market now because businesses are replacing because of windows 11, while the hardware runs perfectly fine with Linux for probably many years to come. Buying one of those is cheap and reduces e-waste.
It's a niche where AI helps because there's just decades of so many forums and videos full of how to do stuff in excel and with AI you get the right answer quicker with less noise around it. I use ai assistance for excel formulas all the time, works pretty good for that.
Yeah it's a bit nuts that in a "democracy" 1 nutcase has all the buttons and can seemingly decide almost anything by "executive order" outside of parliamentary control, not even fake voting on policy in parliament.
Shit might hit the fan harder and faster in USA, but don't be fooled: Canada and every other country in the world will be gravely affected: less trade, prices inflate, some goods become hard to find at all at any price, etc. US $ after all is the big reserve currency and all international trade was de facto protected by US military hegemony. Probably countries like North Korea or Iran will see least influence from all this.. It's insane to watch this happening. Their main goal really just seems to be to create chaos. And from chaos... rises whatever authoritarian state they want to create after declaring some state of emergency shit and after the superwealthy gobbled up all the failing companies at bargain prices. It's like they're organising a reenactment of the "shock therapy" that crashed the Russian economy on a speedrun after the soviet union fell apart.
SSD's as far as I know mainly degrade from writing, not so much from reading or idling. If you fill an SSD, delete all files, write again, delete, etc, that is when they can wear out fast. If you're just stacking on top slowly filling it and occassionally reading from it, it should theoretically last for many years. I don't buy brands i've never heard about before and I read many customer reviews. Slightly higher price for way better reviews wins. Reviews like "it's too slow" are not very relevant to me. Reviews like "I used it twice, got very hot and smelled like fire, broke, lost all my data": those are the important ones. I never buy latest generation tech, I buy older generations. They're cheaper, but more importantly they have more review information available about what you can expect from it slightly longer term.
I avoid buying anything from aliexpress, amazon, ... out of principle, don't want to support those foreign (Europe) giants. Any other webshop might get my order if they seem okay to me.
I only once encountered it in Czechia near Plzen with 2 lanes. Think it took me 5 minutes before I could/dared. Can't imagine it with 3. Crazy dangerous situation. Stay safe!