In practice, e-bikes open up cycling to more people and for more trips, likely making them far more net positive than regular bikes.

And this is coming from someone who bikes like mad on non-ebikes

You give up: basically everything Russia wants

You get: essentially fuck all

Hilarious

I bike! Both to work, general transportation (for example grocery shopping) and just for fun.

He’s always lied about the self-driving capabilities of the cars and promised timelines that have never held. Print this statement out and use it as toilet paper

I encourage everyone to watch Skip Intro’s series on Copaganda: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2ac8vr2QyTdlWwd8OQIc1it6bAfMGPPC (also available on Nebula)

I believe there was a 100% tariff in place pre-Trump meltdown on Chinese EVs in the U.S, making them less viable in that market. The EU also tariffs them heavily, which is quite a pity.

Pixels can be configured to limit charging to 80% these days.

I’ve started using it and the difference between using 80% and 100% on a daily basis is negligible, I rarely if ever let my device go below about 35% anyway. So this change is basically free battery life for the device

Yes, iirc Valve popularized the concept in the west with TF2, Dota 2 and CS:GO.

Carbonara was invented around 1950.

No respect will be afforded to Italian cuisine based on this fact

True, I didn’t consider that. This particular instance warrants a user script

Seems like something that should be upstreamed. We’re not on Reddit anymore, the source code is open and contributions get accepted. The need for userscripts has been removed basically

It’s very easy in Sweden - there are plenty of e-commerce alternatives present, and you can use a comparison website to find the best price for any given item.

For various cycling gadgets and other cheap stuff, I’ve started ordering on AliExpress, with a pretty decent success rate so far.

While I broadly agree with your sentiment,

Why can’t you compile Swift outside of MacOS

You can compile Swift on Windows and Linux. There are other tools required to build macOS and iOS-apps bundled with XCode that prevents building those on other platforms, but Swift itself is available standalone.

See the One Book-theory from the podcast If Books Could Kill

Because all self-help books are basically the same and they all fit that bill

A similar thing applies for Sweden, where there’s a quarterly test of the public emergency warning system, which always happens at 15:00 on Mondays.

The system has the nickname “Hesa Fredrik” (“Hoarse Fredrik”).

Since this system will be used in case of an attack in the event of a war, this means we have to contemplate if Russia is attacking or if it’s just Monday each time we hear the signal.

No need to be embarrassed. Basically you turn it to get your gears to index properly, which prevents the need to push a bit extra on the shifting levers to actually get the gears to shift.

You can try it yourself by turning a bit in one direction and then seeing if the gears shift better - look for no sounds being present and the shift completing without any additional push. If it got worse, then turn the other direction. Seems a lot more intimidating than it actually is.

I used to be woefully deficient in mechanic knowledge, but then I started going to the local coop bike workshop, which is probably one of my favourite places in the world.

You’ve never used the barrel adjuster in 40 years of riding?

The lemmy.ml (.ml is for Mali, btw) domain was chosen because ML can also stand for Marxist-Leninist.

Do you have the developers actually claiming this, or only second hand information? I was under the impression that they chose .ml because they were handing those domains out for free.

As I understand it, the gears always being perfectly indexed is the big selling point for electronic gears.

I wouldn’t know since I run mechanical, but this is what I’ve heard.

Idk, I’ve built a very respectable bike for $2k. Sure, if you want to top spec absolutely everything, that will cost you, but you really, really don’t need it.