The less complex your train network, the easier it is to ensure trains are on time. France, Italy and Germany possibly have larger networks than Switzerland.
Then split your network into segments you can handle. Switzerland receives lots of international trains. Not only that; it has a lot of rail companies, serves even tiny villages, and has the highest use per capita in Europe. Size of the network is a lame excuse. German trains used to be fine. Now they're a disaster.
Switzerland has all public transport synchronized across the country. In any of the countries you mentioned they don’t even gave synchronized public transport at city level.
I recently spoke with the head of a local police station in Schleswig-Holstein. This was an informal conversation, so feedback was quite unfiltered.
We mainly talked about the state's transition to open source. I tried to show him the outside perspective, how much international attention the move is getting and why many see it as a bold step toward digital sovereignty, how much positive (side) effects it has.
His reaction was not that enthusiastic: He described his everyday frustrations, which anecdotally align with the points made at the end of the article.
Especially at the leadership level their workflows are heavily email-driven, with the mail client acting as a universal everyday tool for e.g. team scheduling.
Migration from Outlook to Open-Xchange felt rushed, with seemingly limited upfront analysis of how officers actually use these tools and ensuring use cases were adequately covered. The idea of User Interviews was new to him or - if conducted - didn't reach anyone in his circles.
What were they using for scheduling? Microsoft Outlook has a Tasks or Planner, or perhaps they were using Shifts in Teams. All of these are mini apps that are not useful and serve no benefit. If they just meant a calendar, I would assume that the new thing has a calendar. But I would agree that every company should provide some sort of scheduling tool
> [...] A tiny slice of us are now able to work with passion, on what we want to do. Like artists working on a song or a painting or a book, they do not draw a clear line between work and play. They're always working and always playing. [...]
Yes and this lifestyle is simply unhealthy. Life should be your top priority, not work. Even artists sometimes need a break and care about different things then art itself.
It used to be possible to enable CSS variables support via chrome://flags' #enable-experimental-web-platform-features in previous Chrome builds. Support has since gone again. Hoping for a reappearance soon.
CSS Variables in combination with an additional build step[1] is actually quite usable right now.
