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Can you share a link to that? I’m looking for a new light.

This is just one specific line on a particularly steep hillside in Stuttgart therefore it has been built as a rack railway. It’s known as the “Zacke” (German for tooth or prong) though officially it’s just “U10”

There are two cars, going up and down at the same time, theres a station in the middle where they pass each other.

The stops are long enough to take your bike off of the bike cart. It isn’t a particularly fast tram anyways. It also doesn’t run at night because it runs extremely close to houses and it’s comparatively loud.

It’s a bit of an oddity because it’s part of the normal public transport network and included in your ticket. There are only 3 other rack railways in Germany and those have been built purely for tourism and have their own fares.

They were most likely bread and raised in captivity. A lot of parrots raised that way can’t even fly, let alone take care of themselves in the wild, let alone in Britain.

Being kept in a flock of 100 birds at a wildlife park is probably the next best situation these birds could’ve found themselves in and the closest to a natural habitat they’ll be able to get.

I’ve payed more than that for my Canon and while I do save all the RAWs I barely ever use them.

Why go through the hassle of developing the RAWs when the Jpegs look good already?

Reminds me of that time in university tech support where we had to reinstall Win3.11 on a PC with a bunch of floppy disks.

I always read about these new annoying windows features but I never actually encounter them on my Win11 PC…

Is it because I’m on a professional license?

Yeah, Win10 can’t properly handle the efficency cores. So it’s either upgrade to Win11 or disable the cores. (Or play with terrible random stutters)

It’s not running great but also not terrible on my rig (3070ti, 12700K, everything on high). I’ve heard that the FPS in the menu is somehow worse than in game.

Gonna stick with my unfinished CS1 city for now since I am playing highly modded and aiming for a beautyfull city rather than actually playing the game…

Performance isn’t the best but I didn’t really spend time optimising it in settings.

Love the scale of things. Wanted to plop down the international airport to see what it looks like and damn, that thing is enormous.

I think they should improve some of the visual indicators for roadsnapping, building placement etc. Getting roads to like up correctly is a bit finicky, when placing buildings it’s hard to see what they are colliding with. Changing the direction on one-way roads should also just be a click like in CS1.

I’m going to stick with my unfinished CS1 city for now since I’m just going for a beautiful city with a bunch of mods but interested to see where CS2 ends up in a couple of years.

I am running Win11(pro) because the new Intel CPUs require it.

It’s completely fine. I use Firefox without edge annoying me. There are no apps that just pop up out of nowhere (that I know of). It’s fine. I locked down all the temeletry shit like I did on Win10.

The only thing annoying me is the change in the preview in folder icons. I wanna see the pictures that are in the folder not the. xmp files Darktable creates.

Gonna try it on Gamepass, keep playing modded CS1 and get it on Steam in a year or two when there’s more content and it’s on sale.

Die ordentliche Mindestlohnanhebung, der (für deutsche Verhältnisse) relativ unkomplizierte Heizkostenzuschuss und die Inflationsausgleichsprämie kommen irgendwie auch immer zu kurz.

While telemetry is bad the problem here is probably that this windows service pings the server but doesn’t get a response because it got stuck in your pihole. So it tries to pings again and again and again and again…

Koch renamed to Plaion last year btw

CS2 is also going to be missing a lot of the features CS1 has. Like bikes. It’s gonna need some time and DLCs for it to get more features.

While I’m incredibly excited for CS2, I think CS1 is still a worthwhile buy for a long time, especially at that price.

That looks insanely detailed

Can’t help you with the tea but maybe with the music

The lack of karma also makes it worse. Usually if I saw a discussion that felt kinda off I’d check the accounts age and karma. Made it easier to sniff out bots.

No problem.

I’d consider a 500€ camera to be in the mid range for hobbyists cameras. For example anything in the Canon X00 line really, like 800D or 850D.

Well, the speed of your autofocus depends on a variety of different factors. Lighting conditions, subject contrast, lens, focal range, af drive, af sensor type and processor speed are those I’d consider of the top of my head.

AF works slower in low light or low contrast situations because the camera has a harder time to figure out when the image is sharp. Lenses with a large focal range (like 150-600mm) need time to move the focus through that range, that’s why they often have range limiters for quick focusing. Ultrasonic AF drives are generally faster and quieter than “traditional” drives. Mirrorless cameras focus using the captured image and software and need good processors to get a quick focus. DSLRs rely on specialised focus sensors.

Setting up a common test, eliminating all possible outside errors and testing a wide variety of cameras with an even wider variety of lenses seems unnecessary given that even most mid range cameras should have a pretty snappy focus these days.