I’ve left my parents’ house at 17 and now when I look back I believe this was the best year in my whole life. Why wait?

Frankly, it depends how much you use your bike. I commute these days with a used 150€ bike, for which I invested 100€ in upgrades. But that’s because my commute is short (5km) and because it sleeps every day in the street next to a big train station. In the past I was commuting 2*10km daily and I had a 1000€ gravel bike that never stayed overnight in the street. It was definitely much more comfortable.

I would say a 300€ is fine for daily commute under 5km, but closer to 800-1000€ is probably a good idea for 10km and above.

So many reasons for parents to give a big push when the children are 18.

So many reasons children want to get out at 18.

Wow, the US website really pushes for the high-end bikes! In France they highlight the low-mid range (between 300 and 800€).

Trek is really expensive. Go to Decathlon or equivalent.

Greggs is my biggest cultural shock ever. I couldn’t find anything remotely edible there but locals keep praising it.

I don’t have stats with me and in very much biased by my experience. Around me, less than 20% smoke but I believe it’s anecdotal.

Between 2000 and 2019 the number of cigarettes sold in France has halved.

Lowering tarrifs on US cars seems a really really bad idea. Are we really encouraging those awfull monster trucks on our roads?

I really wish I could recommend Libreoffice but I have mixed experiences with it. Spreadsheet is really good, I can only praise it. Writer is fine for basic documents but I gave up updating my CV with it - too frustrating. Impress is so far from PowerPoint that I recommend finding an alternative.

I’m 45+ and French. This seems very misleading as smoking has been declining a lot the past couple decades.

Financing parties is complicated by design as the French system tries to avoid interference from companies or wealthy individuals. RN was struggling because they are greedy incompetent pigs. So they decided collectively to use the money dedicated by the European parliament to recruit parliamentary assistants to finance the party’s activities. And they got caught.

This won’t affect their chances as racist voters will still vote for racist candidates, whatever the candidate. We will just have a new racist guy (Jordan Bardella) instead of Le Pen.

I still haven’t been able to read Algeria’s arguments behind their refusals to accept their condemned citizens back. Anyone’s got it?

Thanks for the detailed comment!

I felt completely lost. What is Terraform?

Terraform is a tool that codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files to automate infrastructure provisioning and management

Not exactly sure what that means, but that may help someone!

Hexadecimal, not hexidecimal

And here I am, running projects for the past 20 years mostly using agile, and still very much unconvinced about its supposed superiority over waterfall.

For email hosting only. But yes, they are not as trustworthy as they once were

It looks as if it’s hard to maintain a browser by design by making overly complicated HTML/CSS/Javascript/etc standards.

It makes me want to spend more time using the Gemini protocol.

I don’t understand your comment. They are the good guys browser-wise but that doesn’t mean they are good guys everywhere.