I've used Wiki.js for a while but was always annoyed of the loading times. It's just one of those applications that render everything in the client.
So I haven't stopped looking for other applications and when I tried BookStack I knew I found my solution: Loads amazingly fast, while running in the simplest environments as it's PHP.
Previously I have also used DokuWiki, which was also simple but I didn't want to write in Markdown, and especially explain it to others.
As someone who only watches OV with (if not English or German) English or German subtitles I would love to have one thing which movie theatres don't get: A filter for "OV" (Original Version). Thing is, they "have" it, but they exclude german OV's for a reason I don't understand.
Example: Go to https://www.cinecitta.de/, and check the movie screenings. You'll find "Andrea lässt sich scheiden", an Austrian movie with original audio in German. But as soon as you go to the menu and select "Original Versions + OmU" they don't show it anymore, even though it is OV! I don't get that.
So, my wish, Niki: Can you identify original German movies played in German as "OV" as well?
That would be highly confusing for a German. OV always means that it is in a foreign language here, in cinema listings. Adding OV to German movies would identify them as not German.
I know that does not follow from the meaning of the word, but it just is how the label is used.
Yeah, sure, people would be confused for a while, but as "OV" has variations anyways it could then be something like "DeOV", "Deutsche Orginalvertonung".
But honestly, it's not even about that being written there. I just want them to show up when I filter by "OV", as a lot of cinemas have that option on their website.
Luckily in Berlin there are the Yorck cinemas where they play OV's per default, so I ended up only going to their cinemas, only using their website to search what's playing. That's why I've only discovered now what Babylon is playing!
I currently use NocoDB with a MariaDB database, so I can't easily switch over as Undb doesn't support MySQL as I see. But it has the feature I'm missing in NocoDB: a Calendar View which funnily NocoDB promoted on their website but doesn't have [1]. I guess I'll give it a try!
We just managed to handle all date time and timezone issues which is quite complicated and made a release like a month ago. When we started, we could not have anticipated the difficulties surrounding timezone issues. So we will be getting to Calendar view soon.
> But the Deutschlandticket is not the end of the story: to make it still more attractive, German Rail is also planning to introduce more modern and faster trains. According to the Federal Ministry of Transport, this will create almost 20,000 new seats on long-distance services.
The mentioned trains are ICE long-distance trains. Exactly those that are not included in the ticket the article is about. It does not make sense to even mention them here, and is wrong to conclude that "it" gets more attractive.
We don't need faster trains in Germany. We need trains that are more or less on time. Punctuality is a complete disaster and probably the main reason why people hate taking the train in Germany. If you have a connection that requires changing to another train, the chance that you miss your connection is too damn high.
If German had designed the high speed network in a sensible way, and had moved quickly on creating all those line, that would improve speed and punctuality.
The problem with the fast trains is exactly that the lines are either missing or end way to early, or start to late, only to then share to few local lines with local trains.
China has 1.4 billion people and 150000km rail tracks.
Germany has 0.082 billion people and 40000km rail tracks.
Japan has a very different train system on an island. Germany is in the middle of Europe with a mesh of trains, long-distance and local - connected to all of Europe. One can take an excellent French high-speed train going from Germany to Paris/France. From my home-town there are freight trains directly going to / coming from Shanghai/China, more than 10000km away. There is a sleeper train going to Sweden, trains going to Switzerland. You can literally see people boarding a train here in Hamburg travelling 1000km to Switzerland, carrying their ski equipment.
> 10 years ago i made the mistake of crossing the whole of germany by train. was a complete waste of my time.
I was crossing Germany by train from south to north just this week. No problem at all.
Lets be real, Germany long distance ICE trains have a big punctuality problem. Other German trains are mostly good, but the ICE system has lots of issues.
A lot of those are political, the planning and execution of their high speed network is totally messed up.
They had a reasonably good plan in the 80s but then the reunification happens and of course building lots of highways into East Germany was higher priority.
All these things can be fixed, but it has persisted for quite a while.
Germany has very few fast trains ... going fast (not many train tracks are built for fast trains). It got better in the last few years, but there is still a lot to do (and catch up with France). As for the "regional" trains (that this offer is talking about), they go really slow and are just for people commuting. This kind of monthly offer would be sort of interesting if it were to apply to the ICE trains, as currently the price is very prohibitive (e.g. I paid last week ~90EUR for a second class ticket from Frankfurt airport to the nearby city of Cologne, not even 200km away - driving a Porsche is cheaper per km...)
As for the reason of many of the delays, it's good to know a problem specific to Germany (and e.g. not France). Human transportation trains and freight transportation trains share the same tracks. And freight is obviously very slow.
> As for the "regional" trains (that this offer is talking about), they go really slow and are just for people commuting.
That really depends on which line you are on. For example Munich - Nuremberg (~170km) takes 1:45 by regional train. That’s pretty competitive, going by car takes the same time. The ICE train on the same track needs 1:10.
The new ICE trains are still helpful for local transit because if non-Deutschlandticket trips switch from regional rail to ICE that will clear up seats on the regional rail lines for Deutschlandticket uses.
To summarize the article: "I paid to show up both in the paid (SEA) and organic (SEO) search results. I switched off the first and the other one is still there!"
For some unknown reason he seems to be surprised by that.
Fell for that trick once. Avoiding Adobe products since. Found Capture One instead of Lightroom, the Affinity Suite instead of Photoshop/InDesign/Illustrator.
I am upgrading Capture One every year, so I probably pay the same as what I would pay for Lightroom.
But it just feels like a fair contract. And I love the product (probably because I know it well by now).
So I haven't stopped looking for other applications and when I tried BookStack I knew I found my solution: Loads amazingly fast, while running in the simplest environments as it's PHP.
Previously I have also used DokuWiki, which was also simple but I didn't want to write in Markdown, and especially explain it to others.
https://www.bookstackapp.com/