Notices by Cinnamon (cinnamon@mk.absturztau.be), page 5

@kaia@brotka.st ...and DVD readers that could "simulate" that they were a USB stick with a FAT32 filesystem (marketed as AV Connectivity), so TV/phone/tablets that only supported USB sticks or hard disks (but had no CD/DVD device drivers) could read the disks. I know because I have one of those.

@puniko Gets the tootbrush from her pocket...

RE: https://mastodon.ml/users/ZySoua/statuses/113182889068600503

Trade offer:
- You give me a headpat :blobcatpat2:
- I give you a flower to cheer up your day :blobcatflower:

Oh, no! This vending machine knew my weak point :blobcatfacepalm: :bocchi_hehe:

CC @enigmatico

:blobcatdab: Kernel panic
:blobcatghost: Hypervisor depersonalization, derealization and dissociation

@sun@shitposter.world @mametsuko@mk.absturztau.be Tofu could become friend of @nova@lunar.place. I would ship it! :blobcataww:

@puniko It'll be fine. Think that most people will be on your same situation. Environments that are new for all the participants (eg: "first class day"-like) are good places to create bonding experiences and make new friends. :blobcatanime:

@puniko apurrrr... :catpurr:

Anxiety test passed! (I hate needles and had to get an extraction today)

Now... a treat (minus the orange juice)

Version of a popular meme going on these days:

@phnt@fluffytail.org @kaia@brotka.st A variation of this is to open 2 documents (the one you want and a blank, unsaved one) and first closing the window of the one you want, then closing the window with the blank one. It may crash on the last pending opened document (the blank one), but if you manage to close the other before after saving, it should be "saved and well saved".

@puniko Who's the best fedi admin? Who? :blobcataww:

@pierogiburo@tech.lgbt She will say "yes"

Work email inbox after holidays, FPV:

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@enigmatico Bruh! :loadcat:

@sun@shitposter.world @feld@bikeshed.party @lucy@netzsphaere.xyz Yes, regarding bubbles being awful. What I don't think may hold is to create overcompetition by completely deregulating the taxi market (infinite medallions). That only contributes to create jobs/business that give loses instead of benefits (for the workers).

@feld@bikeshed.party @sun@shitposter.world @lucy@netzsphaere.xyz Ooooooffff!! Seeing those bubbles form and later explode hurts my eyes. Poor people! (the ones paying $1M and the ones seeing the price drop after they got into debt). Reminds me to student credits (which, fortunately, we don't have here, at least not yet). :blobcatcry2:

@sun@shitposter.world @lucy@netzsphaere.xyz Yeah, but giving much more licenses than what the market can support only causes problems to everybody: if taxis start to compete fiercely among themselves because there are too many, they're going to drop the prices below the cost price (earning too little or even losing money). That only serves to ruin taxi owners-to-be, when they realize that they've entered into something that's not a business, but a trap.

Actually, something similar to that (oversized taxi pool) happened in my city and the solution they adopted was to divide the pool into "7 colors" (one sticker of a color on every taxi), and one day per week, the taxis with that color can't work (it's forbidden). That way they create a little bit of artificial scarcity and ensure that all the taxis in service a given day get their fair piece of the cake, plus they have a rest day every week (otherwise they would be too greedy and work everyday, and that's not healthy).

Something similar happens here with cafeterias: people got used to such low prices that the owners have to stretch to make ends meet. Who pays for that? The cafeteria employees. They usually work more hours than what's on their contract ("it's a secret that everybody knows") and earn low salaries. That's not good. Letting the taxi business become that, wouldn't be a good idea, IMHO.

@sun@shitposter.world @lucy@netzsphaere.xyz Except... in some countries taxis don't give profits to any company because they're not a company.

For instance, in Spain at least, all taxi owners are freelances. They must get a license from the city Council to operate and the prices are standard for all of them (set by the Council). This system (even if expensive) is fairer with the owner-drivers than a big company exploiting drivers.

It has downsides too, tho. The fares are generally expensive (compared to buses/trains, although I think that's normal anywhere) and there's a "license bubble" (licenses can be re-sold when the owner retires, and their prices increase more and more with time, up to the point that in my area a taxi license can cost as much as a flat).

@kaia@brotka.st I knew that building reminded me something...

Nice piece of Sacher cake near there, but I can't remember the exact place now. :blobcatdroolreach: