Dude doesn’t mention reduced greenhouse gas emissions. If an ebike gets someone out of a car, and reduces their overall emissions, it’s a win IMO.

Anecdotally, I’ve seen a bunch of people in my small town riding ebikes and escooters. I think that’s either replacing a car or reducing car trips, which is great.

what if the spores get thirsty?

lucky guess

I love shitting on Python, but I feel like all those problems are present in libraries for other languages as well. There’s a tonne of that crap for JS/TS.

Similarly, I find a fair number of Rust crates (that I want to use) have virtually no doc or inline examples, and use weird metaprogramming that I can’t wrap my head around.

no one at Microsoft gives a single fuck about their users anymore

I don’t think they ever did.

Labeled arguments are always nice.

Teenage Engineering

sounds expensive

I am brainstorming right now.

M E T A

Let me guess, the downside is infinite teeth.

This looks similar to the Hobson bike seat I’ve been using for the last couple of decades. I recommend the Hobson - it’s very comfortable. Maybe this one will be great too.

It will vary by actor. For example, the US military doesn’t like Strava because of its social running feature.

You need to think of the threat model for different actors and groups. There’s a lot of talk now about menstrual tracking for women in the US. Most of it won’t be obvious.

We can care about both.

Sidewalks need to be safe. Personal mobility devices need a safe area to drive, separated from pedestrians. Both need to be separated from cars. The endgame should be car-free cities.

In the meantime, nobody should be hurt or killed just because they’re trying to get around town.

A three year old was left with a broken leg after being hit by a teenager on a fat bike in Sydney’s south in April.

ugh

dirty onanists spilling their seed

Older than what? Here are self reported stats from lemmy.ca:

people are still criticizing the Tiananmen Square massacre, and hasn’t anything happened since then? It’s like still making conspiracy theories about Kennedy’s assassination or 9/11, those are old news.

Lemmy skews old. For some of us, those are foundational events in our childhood.

(Kinda joking/kinda serious)

I’m not into home automation, but if I was, I’d much prefer a locally running solution that didn’t involve tech giants. I hope this works out.

Source: I occasionally ride a (street) e-skateboard.

I’d be worried about riding a skateboard on gravelly or rocky surfaces. The wheels are small, so you’ll have a much harder time with rocks/bumps/roots than you would on a bike.

One of the problems I’ve encountered in my board is that there’s nothing for me to hold onto when the board hits and kind of obstruction. In my case, it’s large gravel on bike paths. Basically, the board slows down or stops, and I get launched.

No injuries so far, but I get use out of my knee/wrist pads and a helmet.

I’d go with a bike for anything other than flat asphalt.

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