Yes, this is my experience with EV too (France)

When doing a long trip I actually enjoy having to stop for recharging. It gives me a 15-20 min break to pee, her some coffee and stretch my legs without having the impression that I’m losing time.

There was a huge network of pneumatic tubes under Paris used by the postal services between 1866 and 1980.

With that you could send a letter to any address in the city that would arrive in less than 2 hours.

https://youtu.be/Ns5SKH-ooy0

Apparently when doing saturation diving like that you can’t even understand what the other person says, between the helium and the pressure the voice is too distorted to be intelligible.

You can communicate with a computer that transforms your voice to be intelligible but it is really not a pleasant conversation so you can stay there for weeks without having a conversation except for the bare minimum.

All the plants still work in summer during heatwaves. When they stop it’s because they are not essential at the time (electricity consumption is lower in summer than winter) and to protect the river ecosystem. Since the water is already very hot and stressing the ecosystem they don’t want to add more heat into the river.

In the mean time the carbon intensity of France was 31CO2/kWh in 2024, Germany was at 364gCO2/kWh. 12 times more.

But it is going down for both countries, so it’s a good point.

Yes,

If it has an operating speed of 450km/h this would be impressive.

But just reaching this speed is far from a world record, the French TGV record from 1990 is 513km/h, it reached 574.8km/h in 2007 which is the current world record.

J’adorais le marché de Noël quand j’étais a Liège en Belgique.

J’y ai perdu un paquet de souvenirs vu le nombre de stands de bières belges et pequet.

The fairphone 5 is on android 14 and android 15 has only started to be deployed 2 months ago.

Idem, j’ai dit a mes proches que si possible j’aimerai être composté.

Ca existe et ca se développe de plus en plus et l’idée ne plait bien.

D’une manière métaphorique ca me permet de me metarphoser en arbre ou plante vivante, de continuer la vie au lieu de moisir égoïstement dans un cimetière bétonné.

From another article

The GDM724x is removed for supporting the GCT GDM724x LTE chip based USB modem devices. This driver was merged back in 2013 but is being removed now as the driver isn’t being maintained and yields a maintenance workload, the manufacturer GCT doesn’t respond to any emails/support, there doesn’t appear to be any of the said chips easily available for purchase, there is not any hardware documentation available, and no apparent usage of this driver remaining in the Linux community. Removing the driver clears out 3.6k lines of code and lowers the maintenance burden for other kernel developers.

There was also a vulnerability discovered in July linked to this driver.

So yeah I understand that they chose to remove some drivers from the kernel.

Not really, buying 2nd hand implies that people still buy 1st hand. The second hand market is subsidizing the 1st hand market.

Notre mozard de la finance en action !

He will fit right in as a cop

It’s not that surprising once you know that their goal is to be completely independent for their US for their military equipment.

It includes the nuclear bomb, missiles, fighter jet, aircraft carrier, submarines, even space capabilities (even if this last part has been lacking a bit lately).

They don’t have the US military budget but they want the same level of technology without any ties to the US.

It means that they are exporting a lot to compensate for the high investments they are pouring into military technology.

Here is the share of global arms export per country.

Germany, Italy and the UK are also big exporters but still behind France.

France’s military industry is having wet dreams thinking about it.

If the US pulls out of NATO France becomes the biggest arms exporter of NATO and I would expect other countries will become less enthusiastic at the idea of buying US weapons systems.

Une bonne nouvelle !

On l’a vu avec la guerre en Ukraine, les câbles sous marin sont une cible stratégique.

Elle est livré dans sa propre boite, c’est mignon.

4 more hours to wait !

J’ai mon Rdv pour dans un mois, j’ai hâte !

Le nord de la France c’est tout de qui est au dessus de Valence, non ?