@tarix29 @futurebird
my disappointment when "chat" wasn't a group chat full of people with weirdly specific interests and niche trivia
@reece
This is a really weird comment to make when I already mentioned Luxembourg, but I guess you dismissed it is not good enough. Which, compared to Hong Kong or Tokyo, it's not, but is that really because they don't charge fares? And America is the richest country in the world, Luxembourg isn't special there.
You didn't come across as arrogant, but it was frustrating that you typed a long response that seemed to ignore what I said. Especially since you've come across my arguments often, I would have thought you'd have more to say then "that's not how anybody else does it."
When talking about fares there's not a false dichotomy of "Luxembourg can have the 10% of revenue from fares or not", it's will the government pay a bit more than it already is and reduce costs by not needing to handle all the associated costs with charging fares and determining who can and cannot get free transit or a discount.
And I really do wonder how tap to pay with credit cards or apple pay or whatever works, because I genuinely don't know. Are transit agency's really eating the fees of credit cards? That seems grossly inefficient. At a glance at translink's fares this seems to be the case, since the "Stored Value" compass cards that have a $5 minimum have a reduced fee. Convenient for tourists, maybe, but so is not having a fare (and zones!) at all.
@reece
There’s literally no reason that people who can’t afford transit need to pay for it, but at the same time, there’s literally no reason that people who can shouldn’t.
It'd be weird to say health care shouldn't be free because those who can pay for it should. I'm not sure what the difference is here. There are many good reasons for free healthcare, it's harder to take away when it's for everyone, means testing is expensive, and people who can pay already do that with taxes.
Most transit systems the majority of their costs are covered by the government and not fares. Fares definitely do not cover the cost of expansion. The exceptions like Hong Kong and Tokyo might be profitable but it's because of real estate and their stations, not fares.
For transit enforcement is also expensive. Beyond turnstiles, tickets or cards, police have to be paid to stand around to catch inevitable turntable jumpers, and this is not a good thing for multiple reasons. I also genuinely don't know how tap to pay with your credit card works. Maybe transit systems are able to negotiate with debit and credit companies, because normally high volume small transactions don't make sense to do. You lose too much money to the credit card because of the flat fee; this is why you may see bakeries require a 3 or $5 minimum to use a card. This is also why you don't see a competitor to patreon for monthly small donations. Even patreon can't really make reoccurring high volume small transaction payments work.
having fares makes sense as a way of managing capacity and travel demand.
I think this is the strongest argument, but I think most places in the US and Canada we're not in a situation where too much demand is a problem yet, and there is also plenty of room for expansion. Inducing demand in transit's probably not a bad thing.
Also, Luxembourg managed to make their transit free. Seems to be doing well. Maybe it's not, I haven't looked super deep into it, but the reasoning they use makes sense to me. Fares only covered 10% the cost of transit there anyway. I'd be interested if you knew more about this, for sure.
luxtoday.lu/en/knowledge/why-public-transport-is-free-in-luxembourg
(Fare systems that have "zones" also suck to navigate honestly, though that's not an inherent quality of fares.)
@raphaelmorgan
I just don't know a solution that doesn't look like .onion, .i2p, or the widely criticized pgp "web of trust"
@lumi
good to know, I thought it was for garlic
@anarceus
ah, a shame. The detailed response was interesting, and glad the place takes safety seriously :3
Good luck with the exam! Wish I could help with the spikes
yet another window manager recomendation
@rixx
Niri is fun if you want to try something different. It's not any easier or harder to setup than Sway, but I don't think either are difficult, the configs out of the box are enough to get started pretty quickly. Of course if you're happy with i3/Sway then feel free to ignore
The one thing with Niri is that if you game a lot and want to run the game at a different resolution than your monitor it can struggle. Hopefully will be fixed
@anarceus
I don't think I can justify the usage of the lathe at work to make tens of spikes of stainless steel even if I buy my own material 💀
Does it hurt to ask? I guess I'm not aware of machine shop etiquette; if the lathe is often busy after your hours or if the wear on bits would be significant. But it does sound really cool to make them if you could
@lethalbit
hmm I dunno why I originyally followed you
must be because you seem to be doing cool stuff, are cute, and sometimes even funny 
@siderea
My bad. Didn't realise that voice over ip meant, voice and not just sms over ip 😅
@siderea
It's possible to do this with xmpp clients and Twilio. You don't need to self host anything either, though that is also possible. wiki.soprani.ca/TwilioSetup
If you didn't want to use Twilio for some reason jmp.chat (run by the same people) might also work. You'd also probably want to message their support to let them know it's a business line, but from what you describe of human replies to customer initiated messages that shouldn't be a problem.
If an Android app is optional (or the website works fine on mobile) chatwoot is another option too. It's currently only possible to map a phone number to one xmpp account, so you'd have to share credentials/wouldn't be able to see who responded, just their response. Chatwoot does not have this limitation.
@siderea @glyph
I use a domain fine in my SPF record? Could be because I'm not self hosting my email, just putting in my provider's domain, I don't actually know all that much about SPF records.
