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I installed Gentoo 2004.3 under the watchful eye of a Gentoo developer. (Gentoo did come in handy because I was using amd64 Opterons before most binary distributions had 64-bit packages.) It also took me about 3 years to get tired of rebuilding world "continuously". I similarly switch to Debian on 2007-11 and I'm writing this from that installation, just migrated across several generations of hardware.

"They'll get healthy enough" is an albist view, no matter what else you might believe in.

You don't have to do that at work. You can do that at the library, bar, farmer's market, etc. In fact, I'd rather do it with people near where I live, instead of people that share the other end of my commute.

A car does it pretty well!

There's weather I would prefer a house over a tent. Similarly there's weather I would drive in that I wouldn't bike in (even with a raincoat).

This is a very ablist view.

I agree, by the time you really deserve the term "city" you should provide public transit as a community good and it can be made so that most people want to use it.

I'm in the "city" of Cove, Arkansas. It's a 15 minute drive to the nearest produce section, and I have to work remotely because there aren't computer programmer jobs within a reasonable commute.

At low densities, EVs are the way to go. The more dense, the more public transit makes sense.

I do still wish passenger rail service was restored along the line through here to the county seat; there are days it would save me a drive.

I prefer to arrive at work/school/shops not sopping wet, and it sometimes rains.

I, personally, could bike or walk because the station would be particularly close to my residence. But, there are others in the county where to get to the closest station they'd be biking much further than they are currently healthy enough to accomplish.

Bikes are not a good option at this density either.

That plenty of people! There's probably only 30k in my entire county.

Depends on population density. Even if there was passenger train service on the existing lines here, a lot of people would need a vehicle to get to the station, and I don't think public buses / vans could cover all the roads at a reasonable schedule.

But, also, you don't have to get very dense before public transport is better than individual vehicles for intracity trips.

debconf does take time during upgrades, but at least it tells me before it messes with the OS configuration. So, yes, there's something to be said for that.

(Of course, technically a dpkg can do anything, as root, during pre/post-install/removal so it's a social convention more than a technical difference.)

I pay for it, because I've always watched a lot of it and I got used to "YouTube Premium" when it was called "YouTube Red" and came free with "Google Music" (now called "YouTube Music").