Paris opened a new cable car system at the end of their light rail transport system as there was so much infrastructure to beyond that point that it was cheaper and more effective to go over it than under or through it with the train, and it’s a particularly cool and pleasant way to travel through the city.

Here are concrete steps we can take to combat this (the titles below expand if you click them).

Here are concrete steps we can take to combat this (the titles below expand if you click them).

As GreyShuck said, many (most) teabags use plastic. Not only are these not compostable, they also release upwards of 10 to 20 billion particles of microplastic while steeping in your cup, so best not to use them at all if avoidable (you can cut the tops off the top the bags and dump the contents into a stainless steel tea steeping container to not waste what you already have).

Off the top of my head, I know that Yogi brand teabags do not use plastic in their bags, so those should be compostable.

Awesome! Glad you found it helpful ^^

I had the same thought regarding modern screen sizes. And since I rarely need extra width on a 16:9, the I can keep the side bar quite thick to make the buttons easier to click, while making the top bar thinner to maximize vertical reading space on a browser. With the Time/Date/Weather all positioned in the middle of the top bar like Gnome defaults to, Start Menu on the left, and notifications on the right, it’s actually pretty slick looking.

Ah, that sucks about the window position thing. I usually keep my second monitor off, so I haven’t noticed that issue yet. From what I recall, KDE can remember window positions under X11, but not quite yet on Wayland (though there is also an addon that adds that functionality under Wayland, which might be more polished than the one for Cinnamon).

Hm, do they need to be Steel toe? The Jim Green boots are not truly barefoot, as they still have a proper thick tread, they just don’t have a heeldrop and are extra wide. Unless your workplace asks for like, a receipt for your boots where they would notice they’re called barefoot, they wouldn’t be perceived as barefoot from a casual inspection, they just look like a leather hiking/work boot.

The same could be said for the other brands I linked, none of them have like individual toes or anything, they look like normal sneakers, just wide.

Somehow I missed the EU/Canadian requirement in OP’s title 🤦‍♂️

From a Chyrosran22 video on the Matias TactilePro, I was able to spy from the label on the back that they are now made in China, unfortunately.

As a fellow duck footed person, I’ve found that Barefoot style shoes offer the widest and most comfortable experience, as they’re designed to let the toes splay out naturally instead of scrunching them up to conform to an aesthetic.

Another common feature of barefoot style shoes is that they are extremely flexible, and usually have very thinly padded soles to accomplish that, which can take some getting used to. They also generally offer no arch support (by design), and no heel-drop.

This video does a good job of explaining why they’re designed that way.

If you decide to go that route, I’d recommend:

• Freet (Often use recycled material, average pricing, good durability, made in UK)
• Vivobarefoot (Higher pricing, generally more stylish, offer a trade-in program for used shoes which are refurbished/repaired to be resold for cheaper).
• Xero shoes (Average pricing, perhaps slightly lower quality compared to Freet)
• Whitins (Very affordable entry-level pricing, surprisingly well made and durable, downside is they are only available on Amazon).

If you’re looking for something that can be re-soled and last the longest, Jim Green make a couple barefoot-style extra wide model heritage boots that can be resoled almost infinitely, but I personally found them to still be a bit too narrow for me compared to a set of Vivobarefoot boots (thankfully their return process was pretty seamless, with free return shipping). They’re made in Africa. (EDIT: I just noticed that they now offer an extra wide AnatomX model, which wasn’t available when I tried them. That would likely be an ideal BIFL boot for wide-footed people).

FYI, the Matias boards that use the Alps style switch are fantastic to type on, but unfortunately during my research when buying a good mechanical keyboard, I found that Matias switches do not have the durability of the older real Alps switches, with many developing hysteresis in some switches pretty frequently.

Those switches can be replaced with a soldering iron, but overall they don’t appear to be as reliable as MX style switches, nor do they offer the same ease of switch replacement as hot-swappable MX switch boards do.

EDIT: Somehow I missed the EU or Canadian requirement in the title, and thus wrote all this out despite the company I suggest being from China. Sorry about that!

Personally, I’d suggest going with a cherry-mx compatible keyboard that offers a hot-swappable keyswitch mainboard. There are many, many manufacturers of various styles of MX style keyswitches, making replacing any switches that become faulty or die in the future quite easy to perform at home (no soldering).

For brands, I’ve been impressed with Keychron keyboards. Most of their models are hot-swappable, and their build quality is quite good while remaining affordable. Another nice feature is that all of the customizable aspects like lighting settings and such are (or at least they were with my board from a few years ago) able to be changed just with key-combos on the keyboard without any additional software required, making it OS agnostic. They also offer 76 models that are wired.

As for repairs, according to their FAQ, they will replace defective parts within the warranty period, and also offer a paid repair service outside of the warranty window.

For in warranty:

We will only replace the defective parts of the keyboard and not the whole keyboard, as its highly customisable and easy to be rebuilt.

For out of warranty:

We can offer paid service to replace the defective parts at your own cost (which includes the cost of parts, shipping fee and tax if applicable).

The only downside is that they do not, as far as I can tell, offer replacement parts for sale outside of keycaps or switches. So if something like a main processing chip on the board were to fail (unlikely), you would have to send it in for repairs. They also are made in China, which may be a downside.

I figured it would end up like this. There was no way they would ever tolerate what Rojava was doing, and all those calls for unity from the new Syrian state were full of shit.

Yeah, I get what you mean. When I ran KDE, I liked to have a tiny notifications/clock bar at the bottom right of the screen that would autohide, and an icons only application bar on the left, but since cinnamon only allows desktop bars that stretch across the entire screen, I’ve had to adapt to a more Unity like layout where I have both a top bar and a side bar. Though at this point I’ve adapted to it to the point where I think I’ve ended up preferring that setup over my old one :p

I also wish that Cinnamon hadn’t waited so long to start working on Wayland, though hopefully that’ll be ready in a couple years or so.

Still, as you say, everything mostly just works without any issue, so it’s hard to justify switching away.

Only downside is Debian 13 will likely forever be stuck with KDE 6.3.6, which has some noticeable bugs on my hardware that make Cinnamon more appealing for an LTS distro.

KDE really benefits from distros that keep it more up to date, to the point where even the KDE devs suggest avoiding KDE on Debian.

The problem is that the heavier weapons like the combine rifle are only introduced in the later part of the game from what I remember (I think I stopped somewhere around the antlions last time), where as it seemed like the first half was limited to the crappy weapons, interspersed with some magnum revolver ammo as a treat. By the time I would get access to the good weapons, I’d usually have already lost my enthusiasm to continue. If I had connected more with the story I could look past all that, but since that part just wasn’t engaging with me, the combat needed to carry the experience, which it just wasn’t able to do in my particular case.

I didn’t use the gravity gun as much as standard weapons since most of the objects available to shoot with it are usually quite large which obscured the view of the target (not a problem close up, but mid range and farther I’d have trouble with it), and I found it really janky to use in tighter spaces like hallways or smaller rooms, where the object being held would get caught up on the terrain or doorways.

handrails would also deflect objects shot with it, and a lot of the times when ambushed with a combat encounter, I wasn’t scanning the area for objects to pick up while being shot at, I would just engage immediately and return fire.

It’s a cool gadget, and perhaps others got past the issues I had with using it effectively, but overall I preferred just using a standard weapon, and in that realm the ones that were fun to use had little ammo, leaving me with the very weak pistol and smg, which I didn’t find terribly fun.

As I said, I generally found there wasn’t enough ammo to really use the revolver more than a few times in my experience, hence why I cheated infinite ammo for it.

I don’t have any nostalgia for the half life games as I didn’t play them growing up, but I also don’t think their age is really a contributing factor. Personally I found Half Life 1’s combat to actually be far more fun due to the enemies feeling a little less sponge-y, and the gunplay/guns themselves feeling more punchy and overall just better to me. HL2 I consider a step down.

There are shooters older than HL2 that I would consider to have much better combat, like Blood (1998) or Return to Castle Wolfenstein (2001) despite their age. I understand that HL2 was trying quite number of new things, but ultimately my gripes with the combat are mostly down to what I consider to be a poor choice of damage variables in a configuration file, but that’s just in regards to my own preferences for combat in games.

From what I recall, I didn’t really enjoy using the gravity gun all that much since bigger objects had a tendency to clip terrain if they weren’t aimed quite right, and thus miss the enemy I was aiming at, which prompted me to switch back to the other weapons to finish off a gunfight. Admittedly that might’ve been just a me problem, and others had more success using it (I know the sawblades with the gravity gun were quite accurate and easy to use in ravenholm, but I don’t think they show up much after that area).

I felt like most of the game doesn’t really give you enough ammo with the non-standard weapons to really use them outside of one or two bigger fights, then I’d be back down to the smg, pistol, or shotgun (which I also felt was a little under powered unless you used the alt fire, but that chewed through ammo too quickly to be viable most of the time).

As someone who hates open-world ubisoft style games, I’m nevertheless not much of a fan of HL2 either. I tried it multiple times at different points in my life and each time found it to feel like a slog that I end up giving up on a few hours in.

I enjoyed the 1984 aspects of the world at first, but I ultimately can’t get past how bullet spongy enemies are. Virtually every weapon feels extremely impotent except the revolver, which has very limited ammo. I began to dread every encounter with enemies because it rarely felt fun to fight them.

On my last playthrough I cheated and gave myself infinite revolver ammo, which helped me get farther than before, but even then I was struggling to push onward after a certain point, just because it felt like endless waves of enemies being thrown at me with some mildly enjoyable physics puzzles tossed in between them.

Never felt a connection with any of the characters, and without that the gameplay itself just becomes repetitive to me.

Yes. But not every person who is shot or hurt in the future will be surrounded by ICE. Someone may be hurt while ICE is retreating, or towards the back of a crowd where they can be dragged away to be treated by those around them. This happened very often in the Hong Kong resistance and the rebellion in Chile in 2019, where activists began to set up impromptu medic stations to treat the wounded and the gassed.

We have to be ready to support more and more resistance if we’re to avoid them solidifying into a complete fascist takeover.