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From my view, komoot got a lot better since it was bought by BS. I don't know how they did this while laying off a lot of devs, but compared to the years before, a ton of useful things got shipped.

Disclaimer: I have the yearly subscription. Maybe the new features are only available for customers who are subscribing, not the one-time purchases.

My guess is that analyzing the recorded activities is what komoot did to get useful elevation data.

Yes, agree. Some services (e.g. komoot) apparently have good data, or can work around it. Others are struggling with lack of precision in the DEM data. As much as I like the tweakability of BRouter, the tracks generated never give realistic elevation info.

I am surprised at the other comments here that state sketching is a skill worth preserving. That's something the author of the article clearly states, hist call to discussion is about technical drawing by hand. And I'm surprised this is still a topic. I studied architecture more than 25 years ago and at that time hand drawing was already phasing out. I have never practiced architecture since then and never thought there would be a debate about drawing by hand again. From what I heard of friends being in the business, doing 2D-drawings isn't a thing in bigger projects anymore, as it is way more economical and less error prone to do the plans with 3D modeling.

Another name: bio bikes

You don't have to use any plugins. You can put your obsidian vault anywhere you like, e.g. in a folder that is synched by nextcloud. I use a git repo for this, which works fine also on mobile.

In addition to that, many public libraries offer a service where one can lend ebooks. And this is integrated in the tolino. This is based on some DRM system from Adobe, though. But still, a nice thing as an additional source for ebooks.

Modern cartography is awesome, but the mechanical/optical devices that were used before the advent of the computer are just as cool. And hand-drawn maps like the swiss topo maps are a work of art.

I am biased, though, my father used to work in photogrammetry, Kern was one of the companies he worked for. We had lots of nice maps, and I have still some things from Kern in use (just some low level stuff like magnifying glasses, compasses and pencils).

Living near a stretch of the Maginot line it amazes me to no end how much concrete is still around and will be for long time.

In my personal perception, Mercedes AMG (do these count as Mercedes?) drivers are the worst by far.

I use it for developing inside docker containers. We have a dockerized Apache Airflow setup for which I am adding plugins. Remote VSCode allows to work inside one of the containers spun up by docker-compose, so I do not have to simulate the environment the final system is running in. Think of it as python venv on steroids.

Another use case is remote ssh where I can work on a headless system with a graphical editor. I use it e.g. to work in a minimal Linux VM from my Windows desktop.

The remote docker plugin is a little fiddly to setup, but once running works pretty good.