krelvar

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

We chose to do a little bit of "buying ahead." Where I would buy one pack of TP, I bought a second one, and when we use the first I'll get another. Nothing we're not going to use within a few months anyway, not looking to build a TP throne but just a bit of cushion. We were already mostly doing this anyway since covid because it seems like there's random shortages here and there that didn't happen prior, or at least not enough to notice.

Really, nothing beyond what I'd want to have for a natural disaster where we're on our own for a few days. Trying to be prudent without being a weirdo.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My question as well, windows support for multiple devices being as poor as it is, I'm hoping Linux support might be better or at least keep the damn devices in the same order.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Village idiot

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's exactly what we got, an I6. Love it.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We bought a Hyundai EV. Would have seriously considered a Tesla, but.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good. Stop using our groundwater to grow cattle food for other countries, assholes.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://fiido.com/products/fiido-titan-robust-cargo-electric-bike-with-ul-certified

That's the triple battery I was talking about. They claim 250 miles. Puh-lease.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Of course it can, with enough battery. There's at least one bike out there that holds three removable batteries.

The bigger issue by far is the pure lies they tell with the listed range. Don't tell me it can do 80 miles and not mention that's on the lowest assist, with a 100 lb rider and overinflated tires on flat asphalt. What's the range with a 200 lb rider on the highest mode, climbing 500 feet per mile? List both, at least.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I know the argument constantly rages - too left! Too centrist! and I don't know which one would be more effective.

On the other hand, the closest we've come to a real left candidate at least in my lifetime was Sanders and the thumb on the scale against him was pretty corporate blue - and the mainstream lost, so maybe we should try it the other way?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I would support a cutoff for president at say 60 when starting office, that would keep us below 70 for a two-termer. That's plenty old enough.

Also the 18 year rolling term limit idea for SCOTUS.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

This was a great podcast episode that addresses the young men issue directly. Scott Galloway has been talking about it for a while.

https://overcast.fm/+ABEb8GDsq4Q

At about 70 minutes, he states that the greatest innovation from the United States is the middle class, and he makes a good argument IMHO. He talks about how there were about seven million men that came back from World War II having proven themselves, with some confidence, and of course being in uniform doesn't hurt. They had opportunity for education, help with starting a career and affording a home, and all that made them attractive mates and led to the baby boom and the rise of the middle class. (I know it's an oversimplification, of course.)

Here's a fun conspiracy theory for you – what if somebody recognizes that sequence of events and thinks the best thing we could do would be to replicate it? If that was your goal, what would you do to make it happen, but with a twist to the far right?

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 week ago (16 children)

I'd be happy to see an AOC/Buttigieg ticket in 2028.

Warren for sec of treasury. Walz for HUD or even better, cabinet level position in charge of figuring out the young man problem. He's representative of the role model a lot of young men are missing imho.

I don't wanna see another dem pres candidate that's older than me (mid 50s) EVER AGAIN. The problems my kids are facing aren't going to be fixed by old people, and while I'm not quite there yet, I'm fucking close enough.

 

I spend a lot of time on macOS for work, and the muscle memory for option keys drives me crazy, especially when copy/pasting in a terminal on my Linux installs. This fixes that problem nicely.

I haven't seen it shared much so hopefully useful for someone else.

 

A few months ago in a reply in this post I mentioned looking for a camera that would record both forward and backward for cycling, and ran across this kickstarter today for exactly that, thought it was worth sharing.

 

I have been trying to get mint to install correctly on my system for the last couple days. After much messing around, trying different drives (new flash drive, new nvme) and stuff, I finally ran memtest and I'm getting lots of errors on both sticks, tested individually. It's 2x16 ddr4 3600; I lowered it to 1600 and still get lots of errors, ordered a new pair.

Here's my question - I have win10 on a separate drive. It boots fine and doesn't seem to have an issue with the ram at all. Is Linux more sensitive to memory problems?

 

I've made the jump to Mint for my gaming PC. I work primarily on Ubuntu systems (cli, no gui) so it was a pretty simple choice. I installed GE proton, which fixed the lobby audio bug in phasmophobia, is there any reason I shouldn't just use that version of proton for all steam games?

One other question, evolution looks pretty solid for mail, any reason I should look elsewhere?

 

"If you asked most owners of these e-bikes about which they’d give up if they had to, they’d probably tell you “take my 21-28 mph speed but leave me my throttle”."

This seems like a bad take. Do most people really only ride on the throttle?

I'll keep my higher speed and lose the throttle, thanks. How about a non-stupid firmware update that locks to 20 if a throttle is connected, and unlocks to 28 if there isn't one?

 

Interesting video. Doesn't really get into the second half of their title very much but covers the problem pretty well. People in general are just more angry now. Politics, finances, health care (!!!), climate change, etc etc etc.

From a cyclist's perspective (my own) the fix would be MUCH more protected infrastructure. That only addresses the immediate, physical issue tho - and it would 100% be seen as at the expense of other stressed road users. It does nothing to address the collective mental brokenness we seem to all be sharing.

 
 

I do not live in an Idaho stop state, but I do it regularly.

 

https://electrek.co/2024/09/07/in-first-ever-documented-case-talaria-electric-dirt-bike-goes-up-in-flames-in-us/

TL;DR - shitty battery goes FWOOOF

"Hicks explained that Talaria normally only uses a well-respected battery maker known as Greenway Batteries. ... However, due to a “clerical error made by the Talaria team,” some Talaria MX5 electric motorbikes that were shipped to the US included a battery produced by another supplier known as Scud."

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