dx �so it turns out it was a bad idea to leave the airport without wifi or mobile data or solid idea of the plans of where to go next. data roaming for my simcard exists, but it doesn't have enough money to use it. so i got to ostbahnhof and the wifi didn't connect and crap i'm lost
whew what a day. got a proper bed for the first time in 48+ hours. also recovered my suitcase. everything is in order again.
fun fact: that post in which i said i had no internet? it was written in bitlbee in mosh with the "roaming" of my own simcard, which blocks everything except UDP (for DNS) and my carrier's site.
it lags massively, one frame per 10-15 secs, but saved my ass
it lags massively, one frame per 10-15 secs, but saved my ass
and to keep things interesting:
- the flight that had my suitcase delayed. i visited the airport 3 times today.
- my airbnb host locked herself when i got there. she fixed it with a borrowed ladder.
- phone ran out of battery at 10pm, had to use visual memory to reach the airbnb
- the flight that had my suitcase delayed. i visited the airport 3 times today.
- my airbnb host locked herself when i got there. she fixed it with a borrowed ladder.
- phone ran out of battery at 10pm, had to use visual memory to reach the airbnb
oh to be clear i consider yesterday's ~adventure~ to be fun overall. seriously.
today had less chaos that personally affects me and more chaos that i can do things to improve. had a blast. i love chaos*
*terms and conditions apply
there's a small river that somehow has waves and a bunch of people taking turns to surf them
munich (or this part of munich) is extremely green. sounds like it would be a lovely place to live in, you know, hypothetically,
[meanwhile, the schengen border guy who noticed that my website links to this twitter notices these posts and calls the police for implying things about staying while on a tourist visa]
(the madrid passport control guy didn't even look at my plane tickets. the luggage check-in girl from my airline put more effort validating that, for some reason)
65536 hours of play time of papers please modded so that you get paid either way even if you make mistakes so you approve anything that vaguely resembles a legit passport
i like how i adapted so quickly to this timezone, i'm doing my usual midnight shitposting five hours earlier than usual
so far munich airport (on my way to AMS) was the first to force me to stay hydrated^W^Wempty my water bottle
oh i also got 80 grams of gel of unspecified density through human validation, but i guess that's trivially below 100ml if you do the maths, unless i did it wrong. was mostly worried because the total volume of the container is above that.
transavia cancelled my flight without providing any alternatives, cool. guess i'm stuck in germany forever.
come to münchen hbf in the next hour, frankfurtmflughafenfernbf in the next 5 hours and a half, köln hbf in the next 8 hours, or amsterdam centraal in the next 11 hours if you want an ass kicking
while waiting for this first train i had a nice conversation with a guy who recognized me from the cancelled transavia flight because of my hat :3
he knows dutch, english, german, latin and a little spanish so we talked about grammar and word roots.
i'm in first class like some sort of rich person, because at 170 eur it's cheaper than 2nd class, and as expensive as a hotel night (i'm not a fan of oktoberfest). it's comfy but not enough to replace a proper bed. it'd be easier to sleep if people stopped talking.
a staff person walked by and offered to take one from a tray full of those. TL note it says "train train i love my station"
did i really hear train staff announce "ladies and gentlemen please take care of your belongings there's strange people walking around"
neat, as soon as the train crossed the border i got two different 'welcome to the netherlands' SMS from each simcard (UK / AR, former has free EU roaming, latter has free UDP roaming)
where does the EU fit in the OSI model anyway. proof that OSI is a bad model imo
going to paris, o rly no wai!!!!!
heheheh my UK simcard from carrier "EE" has free roaming in .fr through "free". fr ee. heheheheheheh
what, did you expect relaxing vacations just chilling and not doing much? too bad! here's three time limited activities that need to be done today because there's no tomorrow
(this is fun tbh, altough oof owie my bank account hurts)
oh i get it, french trains announce in 5+ languages to avoid acknowledging that english won
back in germany they told me to follow the rules, always wait for traffic lights, always be on time, etc, so i did.
apparently here in france i'm supposed to jaywalk everywhere and be late to everything, so that's what i'm doing
apparently here in france i'm supposed to jaywalk everywhere and be late to everything, so that's what i'm doing
i'm having decent luck getting people to speak english. even an old lady who was asking me how to use a machine! i can pretend to know written french but spoken is gibberish to me.
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it's one of those days that make you go "bitcoin is good, actually"
i successfully configured a SIP calling app, "zoiper" (after two failed attempts with linphone and sipdroid) to use callcentric to be able to call visa to try to unblock my cards, with partial success (credit is fucked, debit will allow extractions in two hours)
anyway we're in this very long train from paris to lyon part dieu: electric boogaloo
void friend@dx beware: although the train departs from Gare de Lyon in Paris, it does *not* arrive at Gare de Paris in Lyon. This is one of these small details that one needs to be careful about.