They have nestled themselves into an entrenched position, lol
lemann
joined 1 year ago
The door is waiting for you π out now
Yes, although I try to take precautions to prevent or catch it. For shopping I carry two u-locks and a wheel wire for my loaner ebike, and on my personal dutch-style non-e bike I rely on the built-in lock and chain.
Out of the several years I've owned my personal bike, there has been one attempted theft (they made off with my light, action cam, and bike computer) and that was during an hour long shopping close to midnight.
Look into whether your area has secure bike parking, such as within train stations with key card access, maybe ones attached to your local authority's office, or even run by any local bike charity of some sort.
I personally have left my loaner ebike locked up in train station keycard storage overnight while visiting another city, there are cameras everywhere which is reassuring, and the bike was untouched when I returned for it. On a separate occasion I left some of my clothing on the locked up ebike to dry, and they were exactly how I left them when I came back to ride home.
Nowadays I just try my best not to use general public access bike parking lol
Edit: should also mention that I keep all my bikes indoors now when at home. Last time I kept my old one out, cats kept pissing on & scratching the wheels, and it rusted so badly
If I could hop on a train from the country side
Yes please!
This reminded me of that Caojiawan metro station built in the middle of nowhere lol
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Please govt start doing what the US railroads did in the past, why is expanding train structure approached with such scepticism outside of asia π public transport should not be viewed as a profit machine IMO
My nearest city has got the right idea by making public transport in general more like a right - I can bike 30min from my village to free (staffed) bike parking, and get around on the city's free shuttle bus.
There's another shuttle (or, BRT as it skips loads of bus stops) free for hospital workers and paid for everyone else, which jumps between various shopping/housing areas, hospitals and main train station. I used to take it a lot as the drivers could freely divert off route to skip traffic, due to not needing to stop at every single bus stop. Sadly it gets very packed at multiple times of day, wish it was a tram or metro sometimes TBH
My work maintains a legacy AutoCAD addin written in Lisp... we are considering dropping support because it's so difficult to maintain with the original dev gone
It's a shame Opera dumped their in house rendering engine, but it's understandable when the ~~market leader~~ monopoly keeps making changes that are hard to keep up with... not to mention the "Not compatible with your browser" stuff
That VW Golf is absolutely massive, was the selling point for these not on the basis that they're supposed to be compact and small? π³
unity: 2 greedy 2 fast
When one of the owner family's board members fell sick a few years ago they were monitored at a Samsung hospital in Korea if i'm not mistaken
For a short period of time GTA 3, VC and SA were removed from storefronts... replaced with the "GTA Definitive Edition" which was essentially a buggy mobile port, ported back to PC, not supporting any of the existing mod ecosystem.
During that time the only way to get your hands on the real "definitive" versions of these games was the high seas.
I believe the originals are restored now, but IMO Take2/Rockstar have fully lined pockets already so π΄ββ οΈπ’
I've found recent celeron/pentium and i3 nucs are really great for a balance of low power consumption (<13W) and reasonable performance. Their BIOS allows you to specifically set a power limit and customise other low level things like TAU etc, so you can tune the boost performance to your liking.
It's a shame Intel discontinued them, the form factor itself was not the only thing setting them apart. The software was well thought out and the hardware just worked π
The (6th gen??) ones with programmable ring LEDs are extremely handy for telling system status at a glance, I've got three of them π€«. If i'm not mistaken, a few nuc generations also had onboard GPIOs too?