Yeah, the hornyposts have been great for my ability to think about anything other than politics for 5 fucking minutes. I’d like more variety here.

Do the masses not like discussing Kierkegaard?

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The US really needs both. I’m only kinda aware of what you mean by medium rail, so I’ll describe the four kinds of rail we have here.

First you’ve got subways and the like. It’s generally a city itself, and largely concentrated in the urban core. Great examples are like NYC or Washington DC both of which are world class, less great examples are like Baltimore. These often overshadow busses in their areas.

Then you’ve got metropolitan area light rail systems, which hit suburbs though may require first and last mile bussing/hiking and may not hit every area. Seattle is a great example of this, with their building a light rail system largely connecting major districts of the city, suburbs, and cometropolitan cities. These and the subways can blend together, and can be thought of as the two extremes of short range rail.

Regional rail is what I suspect you mean by medium rail. It’s also similar to metropolitan rail. The northeastern corridor is our only example. It’s administered in conjunction between the state departments of transportation and Amtrak (the federally owned rail corporation). If you live in it you can just take a train to the city or town you want to go to. It just works and is a good end goal for metropolitan rail, but also only in one region.

Then there’s long distance rail. It’s all Amtrak and it fucking sucks here. It’s slow, it’s expensive, and it shares tracks with freight. Amtrak is routinely hindered from improving it. There are major cities it only departs from in the middle of the night. We focus on replacing it with high speed rail specifically at corridors not served by regional rail. The main proposals are New York to Chicago, both of which have local rail, or Los Angeles to Seattle which would hit multiple major cities with local rail.

You also have some major cities with none of these like Columbus. Regional rail isn’t really on the table in much of the country right now so the focus is largely on high speed rail and metropolitan rail here. High speed to replace airplanes and uncomfortably short flights/uncomfortably long drives and metropolitan for commuters and alleviating traffic.

Fair enough. It was actually for my batocera, so maybe. My desktop is nobara, so things should be similar to bazzite

Ok so no worse than Xbox controllers (and actually probably better if I learn to use wine). Good to know. I should’ve asked on here when I was looking

The ability to update Xbox controllers, though when mine dies I’m probably switching to a similar priced high end brand with better joysticks.

And on that note, I also miss being able to assume anything I want to use or install is available for my operating system. I was looking a month or two ago at buying one of 8bitdo’s pro 2 controllers, but it didn’t support Linux. I never had to check if anything was windows compatible, everything either was or loudly said it wasn’t.

Still not going back

It’s wild to me that that’s legal here. Devices should have to be carrier agnostic.

No, I’ve got nobara on my gaming rig, batocera on my wife’s retro console that’s just turned into a kodi device, and proxmox on my server

Try a live boot of nobara to see if it works for you

Here in America it’s the same. Some places always check everyone, some just check young looking people. I don’t love it, but it’s better than face scanning