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  • “As far as I can tell Kolari to Lagos, Portugal, is the longest journey you can take on multiple trains within the EU,”

    5000km in a week probably. Does Portugal even have high-speed rail? And if it did, I’d be surprised if they had one in Lagos.

    Meanwhile, Ranne has backed a long-range plan to build a parallel European-gauge track alongside the existing Finnish tracks from Haparanda to Kemi and perhaps eventually Oulu.

    That’s great! Eventually getting rid of Russian gauge will be good for Finland. If they are ever successfully invaded, it won’t be easy to transport everything by rail through the country.
















  • Windows and Linux are like an operators in a warehouse. Windows knows some ways to store stuff and keep track of what is stores, Linux knows some ways too. Sometimes the way they store stuff overlaps, sometimes it doesn’t. If you put Linux into a warehouse that Windows operated, by default, Linux will be able to find boxes and stuff, but the Windows operator has some small tricks up their sleeve to make it harder to put things back at the right place, remove boxes, or add new ones, and of course Windows has kept it a secret.

    If you want to find all your boxes in a Windows warehouse and continue using the warehouse without being afraid of squishing a small box with a big one because the piece of paper Windows uses has some secret handwriting that was misinterpreted for “there’s no box here”, it’s better to take out all the boxes, let Linux setup it’s storage system, and then put the boxes back in.