Yeah - if you have built a payment system and a subscription service, there will be a guy in a suit with a spreadsheet who has calculated that he can earn more money by moving features behind a paywall.

email is a standard protocol. You can run your own server using FOSS software in 5 minutes if you start now. One of the biggest problems is that you will have a hard time “federating” to gmail and others due to the spam problematic, but that is something that we will see with Lemmy, too. Currently I can spin up my own server and start pushing shit to lemmy.world and other bigger instances, but I feel that this will change with the coming spam waves

Yeah, those old forum threads really were great. Many forums had threads that were discussing topics for years, all in one place. There were people posting how they were building something and they would just reply to their thread with an update. It’s a great way to collect information and better than we are doing it here

It’s also quite steep: One lap has 560m of elevation

Just FYI: Data is from May till June 2023. Musk took over Twitter end of Oct. / Nov 2022. A lot of stuff has happened since then, so that study can’t tell you much about the current X

check out https://brouter.de/brouter-web/#map=5%2F50.990%2F9.860%2Fosm-mapnik-german_style

And let us not forget: Those marginal gains at the top, that is something that counts for highly trained pros who are racing. I’m not trained as much, I’m not racing, so a lot of things really do not matter

You can work around that - eBikes have a battery, this really doesn’t use much power and therefore you can just keep receiving the current time while nobody is cycling without any issues.

Not sure about your part of the world, but here there is some time signal coming through by radio and that allows us to set clocks automatically. They are also dirt cheap - I recently bought a whole alarm clock with that feature for 5€, so the component itself can’t be that expensive. So I’m not sure if that really is the reason for Bosch to not include that in their eBike controllers

They are trying and trying to close the doors and create a walled garden. It may be time to ditch them.

Yeah, those do work - and if you want to try this out, just cut open a PET bottle or a bigger plastic container and ziptie them somehow to your handlebars. That does look totally wonky, but it works by keeping your hands out of the headwind. Wear your normal gloves underneath

Yeah, sounds like a bad idea, but also a bad tour guide. Throw someone who really has not much MTB experience down a difficult mountain trail? And when he injures himself, just tell him that he is fine?

Just imagine how people back then would be thinking about women riding in lycra

I was talking about stuff like “Let’s drill a whole in the body for no purpose” and “destroy the wheel”. That video would have worked without destroying the bike - without those action you would be able to put everything back together.

They can be lighter than tubes. Even those fance Aerothans weigh 80gr, but you can get inserts starting from 40gr. Foam is really light weight.

There are some really, really stupid design decisions made. But I really don’t like that they are destroying the bike in the process. It might be a piece of crap, but it totally is a cool collectors item.

Exactly this - Join-Lemmy.org has some (minor) UI and text issues. I’m also not quite happy about the sorting of the instances and the selection there. If f.e. you chose “General -> English” during onboarding, you get this screen here:

Hexbear? Some random 11 user instance from finland? Lemmy.world nowhere to be seen? They are randomizing the instances, which kind of makes sense to prevent the bigger ones from growing even more, but which might confuse new users.

But those are minor UI quirks that can be solved. All those reddit couch warriors that claim that everything should be completely redone exactly how they want it to be are insane. Normal users are able to understand the concept of instances.