yeah the antennas for higher frequencies are different. the signal is the same but the antennas need to be a different size.

most likely there’s one 4g tower and multiple 5g base stations around you. if you’re on the edge of a city that’s most likely it.

5g has very short range. like, half a km tops for mid-high speed. so when you move it makes sense than it would disconnect. it’s also built on top of the 4g stack, so switching should be completely seamless. when did you last reboot?

i don’t think embryos produce any reproductive cells right away so that handwave would have to cover… everyone

i just got a mental image of the cross between her and Roy from the IT crowd

Hello, Ghostbusters…
have you tried turning it off and on again?

joke’s on him, with his new anti-trans legislation this means we’ll get hundreds of new pods led by trans women, which i am all for

listen to kill james bond

i have a replica PDP-11 that i built from a kit. i think it’s very cool looking.

i also have the first version of the espruino. it’s a tiny microcontroller (a computer on a chip) that can only run javascript (the thing you build websites with). and not modern javascript either, the wonky 2010 kind. it’s completely useless.

isn’t his entire schtick nowadays than people don’t recognise him?

no respect.

oh i read your post as if the show was an example of woke without substance.

people have been very uppity about the new dragon age even though i hear that’s good.

i have only ever heard good things about that show. it apparently brought in a lot of new players (who then promptly left because they realized what the game and community were like).

we did look at interrail passes but they are not valid in my part of europe so they would have been useless for half the trip.

i’ve never travelled in france but here you can’t buy rail tickets on intercity trains. you need to buy them beforehand. that way you’re never stuck on a platform waiting for hours. regional trains go every 15 minutes and they work like you describe, with mostly tickets available.

they did sell me a seat reservation, and i did not react to any messaging that told me it was wrong. i still have the receipts.

i did see that office, but it was closed for the entire trip. we tried finding someone to ask but as previously mentioned it was after midnight and there seemed to be only two people working the entire train.

that’s such a weird system.

it didn’t when i took that train. instead of warning people they should just require a ticket for a reservation.

that reservation footnote is very strange to me. here it’s fine to sit wherever as long as you move when someone comes along with a seat reservation. then you can go back to your reserved seat.

but just entering the ticket number when doing a reservation would be so incredibly easy to add. as it is now, i can buy up seat reservations without even being on the train, forcing multiple people to stand.

we were trying to keep costs down, the total trip had something like 15 changeovers, three in germany, and cost us €800.

i am european, i mostly travel by train, and we have mandatory seat reservation at no charge for intercity trains. if you don’t select a seat, one is assigned to you. when there are no more seats, no more tickets are sold.

it would never in a million years occur to me that people would be left without a place to sit for a nine hour trip. that’s just inhumane.

also, it would never in a million years occur to me that you could be fined for buying a ticket and a seat through the official system.

what you’re describing is how regional trains work. not long haul express trains.

those are a different kind of train where i live. regional trains have mostly passes (that also work on buses), intercity trains do not.

disagree.

i want to add that this was a long-haul night train (münchen to hamburg), so no dining car, few stops, and a travel time of about 9 hours. in that circumstance, selling more tickets than there exists seating seems negligent. the bathrooms were all closed, there were no sleeping cars, there was a police inspection at four in the morning, people were propped up against every wall in the train trying to sleep in peace… it is without exception the worst experience i’ve ever had on a train, and i was once stuck in jörn for four hours in a train car without electricity in -30 weather. i don’t understand how the separate reservation system is better in any way.

this is what i meant about the rules thing: it is expected that you know how it works, nobody will tell you, and if you do it wrong you will be yelled at and/or fined. i would much rather that the site told me “hey, you need a first-class ticket for a seat reservation in first class”.

but what’s the difference between first and second class except the seat? why not make a seat reservation require a ticket?

but… why? i reserved the seat. there were no seats available in the rest of the train. would they rather i sat on the floor?

there was an older woman who tried to sleep next to the door in an adjoining car. she had to move every time the train stopped. that seems insane to me.