Alexander Frost

Alexander Frost

@fxfp.com

International man of mystery.

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I just discovered that at some point during the last month SNCF removed the ability to save individual trips in @sncfconnect.bsky.social - their awful mess of an app. Great. I guess I’ll be planning even more of my trips using SBB’s wonderful app.

I wonder how advertisers feel about the latest Instagram trick where it hijacks the usual swipe gesture and opens the linked website / profile instead. Another nasty step in their enshittification that both destroys the user experience and drives fake engagement for the ads.

Do I rant about Deutsche Bahn? Is there a point in ranting about Deutsche Bahn? Let’s just say, events like Tag des offenen Denkmals are pointless if you can’t actually get anywhere.

So apparently the company that runs e-ticketing platform NéMO (formerly known as MyBus) went into administration a couple of weeks ago. And I learned that NéMO was an e-ticketing solution for several hundreds of French municipalities...

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Mind you, their app was shite - "quirky" design at the expense of usability and speed - good riddance! Hopefully something better will replace it soon.

So apparently the company that runs e-ticketing platform NéMO (formerly known as MyBus) went into administration a couple of weeks ago. And I learned that NéMO was an e-ticketing solution for several hundreds of French municipalities...

Which basically means that the e-ticketing in France took a massive step back (to paper). Just near me I know that Colmar, Mulhouse, Nancy, and Belfort used Némo. And looks like some of the affected transport systems won't even provide refunds.

Things are getting better: Not only my train from Kehl to Offenburg this morning was a lovely Régiolis, I also saw a deer 🦌 from it. Not the first time, but still lovely.

Yesterday: thank you, you’ve booked a bus on demand. Today: you are the only passenger who booked this bus, so it had to be cancelled. Fuck you for trying to use buses of @grandest.eu 🖕

And yeah, there’s one more bus running on this route today - 2 hours later - which leaves me less than an hour at my destination (because there’s only 1 bus a day running this route in the opposite direction). Put all the glitzy promo of public transport by region Grand Est in perspective.

Pour emprunter les trains ayant pour départ ou destination Paris, vous devez vous munir d’une réservation à 0€ sur SNCF Connect (dans "Cartes TER Régionales", sélectionnez le tarif "Réservation Pass Groupe Week-end"). But there is no such option 😡

I watched it countless times, 5 of them in the movie theatres.

Simon Hawthorn@simon.insanity.tube

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Always look on the bright side of life… my TER train might arrive 2+ hours late (due to being rerouted around a closed line where a car got stuck at a level crossing) - but at least I’ve got to experience a line that is not used very often.

Régiolis is getting closer and closer :)

Kyleth@kyleth.bsky.social

Long time no post from me. Well, I’m on vacation hehe. Just returned from Sweden, NordicFuzzCon surely was a blast again, what an amazing week of great friends, people, fun and food. Next week back to work, driving Régiolis in Germany for the very first time, cross border, without passengers 👀