

I’m finding this all quite ironic
I’m finding this all quite ironic
Fairphone’s current line-up almost makes me wish my current phone would break, so I’d have an excuse to upgrade.
I’m no fan of Musk, Tesla or FSD, but this headline is quite sensationalized.
This is the video of the moment they are describing, and I would not call that “driving into oncoming traffic.” It’s driving on the wrong side of the road (which is not good), but there is no cars coming in the other direction while it is doing it.
That is not entirely a fair equivalence though.
A road is built once and after that it exists. Its a matter of maintenance and upkeep to make sure the road doesnt deteriorate over time. But even if you neglect that, the road will still exist… only now with potholes.
There are many places around the world with shit roads like this.
Public transit requires staff pay, fuel costs, upkeep, etc besides the initial investment and maintenance. If that money doesn’t exist the busses don’t disappear, but there will be noone to drive them. Same for trains and other modes of transit.
So when public transit has funding issues they are more immediately noticeable than when the road authority has funding issues.
AZERTY is not really about being similar to QWERTY. It’s the French standard keyboard layout.
Similarly QWERTZ is the German standard keyboard layout.
Most (European?) countries use some variation of QWERTY with the symbols and special characters moved around to fit their respective languages better. Over here in the Netherlands we are a bit of an outlier in the sense that we use the US layout of QWERTY, but with additional modifier keys to make special characters available (It’s called US International)
There is also niche layouts like DVORAK (optimized layout for English) and BÉPO (optimized layout for French).
What is the reason you switched to AZERTY, if I may ask? I’m quite curious.
It is currently unknown whether the two are related:
It’s very unfortunate regardless. Especially considering the two people shot were teenagers, one of them apparently shot in the head.
I hope it wasn’t a hate crime, but I fear that it might have been
(Note: This was still a developing story when I wrote this comment. We might know more later)