However there are often pedestrian crossings across the roads or the volume is low enough pedestrians can easily cross. A local roundabout got busy enough we had crossing added less than 10 years ago and the biggest road there was a minor B road.
I am a pedestrian due to sight issues and have found very few places where it is difficult to cross when needed.
MacOS has no problem with hibernation because hardware and software are designed together: it uses TPM to manage swap encryption. I assume "BIOS" is also optimized to enable fast boot on sleep.
Linux can work with TPM but it's never as smooth. (Unless I guess you make it custom for your specific setup.)
These days with cryptenroll and friends, using the TPM is hardly an issue anymore. LVM and swapfiles both work well if you just create one large "everything but EFI" encrypted volume.
You'd need to keep secure boot on, preferably with your own keys loaded, to get all of the benefits, and that's a bit harder to automate.
Windows does all of this and more. It's harder on Linux because of a lack of tooling/interest/business incentives, and because on average Linux users want more control over their hardware than Windows users.
Windows has no problem with hibernation and FDE and it uses a swap file.
Windows and Linux run on the exact same hardware. Windows hibernation doesn't rely on secret bios features.
Unreliable hibernation is 100% and undeniably a Linux problem, there is no secret advantage or conspiracy to keep it down. It's just that nobody cares enough to make Linux not suck.
I have FDE with keys in the TPM. It's pretty smooth bit required a one time additional step in Fedora. It's also probably not very secure, but my threat model is simple theft.
Assuming things are configured correctly, the TPM would only provide the key to unlock the drive if the correct OS has been booted. Attempting to boot from a live usb to have a look at the data wouldn't work, since the TPM wouldn't present the key required.
I read but on my phone or ebook reader and have done so for nearly 20 years. Especially since mass market paperbacks were replaced by larger ones that do not fit in my pocket or bookshelves.
I am in England – It is considered very odd to talk to strangers on a train or bus
I would say it's pretty common to talk to strangers on the train in England. I could just be the "Northerner terrifying Londoners by saying Hello" though. I do know not to start a conversation with a stranger on the tube.
I think it depends on the train journey personally. I'd never dream of striking up a conversation on the Tube or a busy commuter line; personally I'm the definition of 'not a morning person' so I've no social battery to spare in those circumstances. On the other hand I quite like a chat when I'm not in a hurry or it's not the morning, makes the time go faster.
Mind you most of the talk seems to be along the lines of 'GWR couldn't organise a piss-up in a brewery' these days.
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Do you want your house blocked of by someone elses' wall. Do you want to be kept up all night by load industrial noises next to you?
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