It's Google.
I'm certain that "Common violations" = "competes with our own products".
LOL. For real, though. Effort on that was a 1/10.
I feel a wired solution would be better, more reliable and more secure, but wireless is the new black.
And to be honest, a friction shifter would probably still be more reliable than an indexed derailleur. It's too bad this "old tech" gets pushed away for newer, more complex stuff :(
The headline is misleading.
You can buy products from anywhere, including your local speciality shops, which arent safe.
Most supplements, for example, are neither pure or safe, containing ingredients not found on the label or at doses too high to be safe.
And walk into any store and you're likely to find loads of products with literal cancer warnings on them (prop 65) just from using those products as intended.
Consumers should be made aware of these things, but I think it's impossible to avoid them. Not when profits dictate material choices and quality.
For sure, but when every problem has 100 potential fixes, I no longer have time to experiment with trying to fix them.
Every fix in Linux seems like a hack that requires extensive terminal knowledge of small, random patches that seem to be strewn all over the internet.
Every fix in windows is usually self contained, and you just need to know where to look to access it.
In my teens, I would have loved the challenge to mess with Linux. But I have no desire to do that now.
I will get the itch from time to time to try a new liveUSB distro, and if Microsoft angers or annoys me enough, I might just stick with Linux.
If it works, why keep working on it? 😂
But yes, this one looks shabby compared to other nests.
My parents had a console that had knobs for the controls. I remember pong and hockey, but it had other games, too. I'm 99% sure it was a Sears Tele-Game system.
Some of my friends had Atari consoles (with stick controllers), but my first console was an NES, followed by a Game Boy (which I still have).
As in, not selling drinks and snacks that are like 30% sugar
On the flip side, those snacks and drinks are ideal for athletes.
I wouldn't want to stop having those foods available, simply because the majority of the population are idiots when it comes to fueling their bodies.
People need to have some self control, ffs.
As a long time Windows user (~30 years), it comes down to “can I fix this if something goes wrong?”. This applies even more so when I'm talking about a computer that my wife might be using.
99.9% of the time, the answer is "yes" when it comes to windows.
Every time I've tried Linux, some experience breaking issue comes up within hours/days of starting it up, and I simply don't have time to troubleshoot it.
No matter how "stable" and "easy" someone claims Linux to be, I've never had a stable or easy experience in the last 20 years of trying to use Linux. I hate that fact, but that is a fact for me.
I will try, but on a whim I just created a new user in linkwarden and that seems to be generating my selected profiles. I'll wait until I can try 2.7.x before I gather data for a report.
Looking forward to this new build. Since the last update, none of my links generate Preserved Formats, which makes the service useless. Hopefully, this is fixed.
Imagine feeling 30 pounds lighter while tackling that steep trail.
Sounds good, but...
How much does this thing weight? And if you have to lug it around because it stopped working for some reason, is that doable or are you just leaving it out in the backcountry?
Also, does having "powered pants" mean that someone will just load more stuff in their backpack, creating more back strain than normal?
Granted, I'd love to see this being used to help otherwise disabled or older folks enjoy hiking, but only if the pros outweigh the cons.
I see no mention of weight anywhere, not even on their website.
Unless it's 20lbs, I don't see that as an issue. I probably would never use one, but I can see the appeal if it can be transferred across multiple bikes easily.
It's too bad that drivers ignore those speed limits and drive fast enough to give no chance of survival.
This one has been there for over a decade, and it looked the same back then 😂
This was my first time seeing it.
but I have never understood the appeal of electronic shifting.
I spoke with a guy who has the Shimano Di2. One of the main benefits is that you don't have to index the derailleur... it automatically does it and always puts you in gear without any BS.
He also mentioned something about automatic shifting, which sounds interesting.
When integrated with a bike computer, it can do some other cool tricks. The shifters can also control a bike computer, which can be convenient.
At the end of the day, all of my manual shifters (grip shift, brake lever, and trigger...) all work perfectly fine and can't be hacked. LOL
When you make cycling too complex, it takes the fun out of it, IMO.
Is deraileur hacking the new frontier in pro cycling? Your wireless drivetrain might not be as safe or secure as you think.
Another win for older tech?
They should want $60 or $260 an hour. As long as people at the top are making billions a year off the backs of these workers, they should demand a lot more than they are getting.
Never mind a lack of enforcement for e-bike riders, we have MOTORCYCLES on our trails and gas-powered scooters and dirt bikes with "Ebike" plates riding wherever they want.
Maybe it depends on the school system, but my kid's Chromebook was locked down, so they couldn't really explore the full internet. Many sites are either white or blacklisted, so they were researching from a website designed to be used by students - not many ads, but yeah, going off script would get them into ad territory.
Still, they aren't seeing the majority of ads from the few minutes they need to look up a research topic.
“We had a number of individuals who were requesting the use of e-bikes on natural surface trails (because) they had disabilities and weren’t able to recreate with a traditional pedal bicycle,”
Kudos for them looking to accommodate more people.
The policy change allows users of Class 1 e-bikes, which are pedal-assisted and can go up to 20 mph, on non-motorized, natural surface trails and pathways. It also allows Class 2 e-bikes, which are throttle- and pedal-assisted and can travel up to 20 mph, as long as cyclists have a permit from the state.
I live in an area that allows e-bikes on our trails. In areas that have posted speed limits (for cyclists), it's usually 20 km/h (~12mph). I'd say that if I were to break down my own conflicts with other cyclists, 95% are on e-bikes and 5% are road bike users who don't have a bell on their bike and will pass at high speed without warning.
Unfortunately, Michigan is going to see a lot of riders going 20 mph, because they can. E-bikes have made trails more hazardous for other riders, and pedestrians. It's just a fact that anyone using trails can agree with.
I won't say that we need to ban them, but how do you manage so many riders behaving badly and ruining it for everyone else?
Port Perry, Ontario Aug 2024
I've got 32mm wide tires on my road/gravel bike. Currently looking at TPU tubes and I've got two options:
- 32-47mm
- 18-32mm
So, is it better to get one over the other, or will they both work equally well? Never used TPU tubes before, so I wouldn't even have a reference to compare these.
When I want something cheap, I usually hit Aliexpress (website). As I was looking at the Aliexpress app page on the Google Play Store to check its privacy details, TEMU came up as a recommended app.
Now, my wife has used TEMU in the past, but since she often can't find her way around things, I downplayed her negative experience as "user error". That said, I went to the TEMU website and started looking around.
I found something that was a reasonable price, but then get this message saying I could get this item free through the app... sigh. OK. I sign up with my usual fake/random credentials and add this "free" item to my cart.
A spinning prize wheel comes up. Hey, I can get THREE free items now! Sweet. I spend the next 3 hours looking for stuff I can actually use, doom-scrolling through everything from women's underwear to t-shirts with assault rifle print. Literally something for everyone. LOL
Then I select my third "free" item, and another spinning prize wheel comes up. "100% off the next $35". Ok.
I didn't need more stuff, but hey, 100% off sounds like more free stuff!
I spend another hour looking, keeping an eye on the amount "saved" (apparently $600+, for stuff that is sold on Aliexpress for maybe $25).
When I finally get to check out, I get another spinning prize wheel. "100% off $100"!! Goddamn, I'm on a roll here. How do these guys make any money?!!
More time looking... I must have spent well over 4 hours on their app. Time to check out.
$67? Huh? What about 100% off and all that nonsense? Enter your phone number*
- You must agree to get promotional texts, or you can't check out... hmm, maybe my wife wasn't wrong.
In any case, there was no way to actually get anything "free". I deleted the app, deleted my account, and will never touch this scam ever again.
Do people actually end up getting anything from Temu? I thought AliExpress was bad, but the experience is 1000x better.
Hey guys, so it seems that Linkwarden isn't as good as I was hoping, since some websites will throw up a cookie popup or some other screen that basically prevents the capture.
Firefox Screenshot seems to work well, but it saves a PNG, which isn't really text searchable.
FF's "save page as..." feature seems to break things when viewing them back.
Save to PDF is another option, and that seems to be decent.
I'm not looking to copy entire websites, but I like to save web pages for later reference (i.e. instructions/specs).
I use Synology Note Station, but they don't have a web clipper for Firefox...
I'm fine with using a folder structure to store files, despite not being totally ideal when compared to Linkwarden.
Does anyone have any other suggestions that perhaps I've missed? Nothing too complicated... ideally, as simple as a button click would be great.
Ok, so here's my problem.
I own quite a few padded shorts, ranging from $30 - $250 (bibs), and they feel great for the first 2-3 hours, then I get really uncomfortable in them. Not pain, but quite uncomfortable.
I was able to ride 200km wearing only compression shorts with no padding, but I think I got lucky.
Regular shorts/underwear always have issues because of the seams, so they aren't viable.
I heard that triathlon shorts are lightly padded, so they may offer a nice in-between.
Does anyone wear them? How do they compare to traditional cycling shorts?
I heard this guy chirping very loudly and spotted him enjoying a meal. It's rate that I'm able to see them eating this close, since they usually carry their catch away 😂
Near Darlington Park in Ontario.
My current trackball has lost its smoothness and feels "sticky" no matter how well, or often I clean it.
So, I'm looking for a trackball (thumb controlled) with the following features:
- Bluetooth wireless with support for at least two connections (for laptop and PC media station).
- Uses AA or AAA batteries.
- Uses bearings.
- Set at a tilt/ergo angle.
- Repairability is also important, but not a total dealbreaker if the mouse is high-enough quality.
So far, most that I've found will lack one of those features, but I'd really like to have all of them, if possible.
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who offered tips on getting my current trackball working better. Today, trying to roll the ball left became very difficult, like it didn't want to move. I took it out, looked at the little white ball (bearing?) supports that the ball should be rolling on, and noticed that the left-most one was almost pushed in, and flush with the cup that the ball sits in. The other two are higher up, so the ball can "float" on those, but not this other one. The manufacturer is already sending a replacement mouse, so it should work better, but I'd still like to find my unicorn 😄
Five months left for 2024, and Toronto has already broken their record for most cyclists killed in a single year.
This is shameful.
Five months left for 2024, and Toronto has already broken their record for most cyclists killed in a single year.
This is shameful.
Amazon Prime Days ran on July 16th and 17th (at least here, in Canada).
This price jump happened a day before and ended two days later, but this item was "on sale" during those two Prime Days.
I've been seeing this scam far too often, especially with food items. Why isn't this illegal yet?
I'll start by saying that I really love Tube Archivist. It works flawlessly in doing what it does (archiving YouTube videos), and the UI and UX are great.
However, no matter what browser I use (Edge, FF, Opera, Samsung mobile, FF mobile, etc...), I run into issues where the video will play, but the interface freezes... I can't do anything on the screen until I refresh.
I don't have it set to any strange codecs, so videos are in vp9. But I also tried a few different codecs to see if the quality/size could be better optimized, and had the same issues with freezing UI then.
If I run the videos through Jellyfin, they work fine. It's only through the TA web interface where things lock up.
Is this normal? Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this working better?
So, I joined the world of waxed chains. So far, it's life changing. Quiet to the point that your think I'm running a belt drive, but more importantly, super clean and component preserving.
But, I was thinking earlier, if wax fills in the gaps between the parts the wear, how would you actually get a true chain wear measurement?
I've never heard of someone stripping the wax off to check for wear, and that would get incredibility wasteful to do it often.
Zero friction Cycling doesnt mention anything special in regards to checking a waxed chain.
So, would I go about checking the chain, waxed and all, and assume the numbers are pin point accurate?
Hey guys, just a quick update regarding my question: https://lemmy.ca/post/22882437
I did end up successfully riding from Oshawa to Vaughan and back over the weekend, using Finch as the bridge between Pickering and Scarborough.
For the most part, I'm really happy with my route choice. The total trip was just over 162 km, and some highlights included:
- The trans-Canada trail along Duffins Creek in Pickering was amazing.
- There's a long-ass hill on Old Finch, just west of the zoo, that almost killed me on the way back (my folding bike is NOT geared at all for climbing, and I burned off any glycogen reserves by that point).
- The Finch hydro corridor was nice... taking McNicoll before and after was not. Poor roads and aggressive drivers.
- The Duncan Creek trail is also stunning. I'd 100% do this trail again if I'm in the area.
- The cycling infrastructure in Vaughan was great... until it's not. There's a section of road along HWY 7 West of Centre St and east of the 400 that's just downright terrible. Where there is no bike lane, the roads are garbage and traffic is fast and aggressive. Where there is a separated bike lane, it was COVERED in rocks, metal, plastic, wire, and pretty much everything else you can imagine; the road, FYI, looked as if it was cleaned using a toothbrush. The raised cycling lanes west of the 400 were really, really nice.
Overall, a really great ride. I'm not sure if I'll attempt the same ride using Taunton/Steeles at some point, since aggressive motorists going far in excess of 80 km/h just doesn't sound like fun.
As a side note, my Varia radar clocked one guy going 126km/h...
I'm seeing fake roads everywhere, and the map looks like a spider's web.
It's like this on every website that displays the cycleOSM layer: the official cycleOSM site, Openstreetmap, brouter, etc.
Hey guys, hopefully this isn't too far out of the city to offer suggestions, but here's my problem:
I'm planning a ride from East Oshawa to central Vaughan.
I'd like to keep the route safe, but don't want to detour so far out-of-the-way, so a 4h one-way trip becomes a 7-hour one, since I'll still need to come back on the same day.
I'll obviously need to avoid the waterfront trail, as it's quite out of my way. So, my options are either taking HWY 7 or Taunton/Steeles.
Google street view shows me some pros and cons to both, but they also lead to totally different parts of Markham, and some cycling infrastructure there seems either disconnected or forces me to take some rather busy roads.
Has anyone taken HWY 7 or Taunton/Steeles between Pickering and Markham by bike? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.
EDIT: Finch Ave. looks to be another option.
The photo was from a site that no longer seems to be up. The pedal on the right, measuring at 15.7mm is the same size that the pedal on my indoor spin bike uses and I want to use standard 9/16 threaded pedals instead.
Has anyone come across this size??? Do adapters exist to step up standard 9/16 to 15.7mm?
Context:
This guy landed on my shoulder and just walked around for a few minutes.
Southern Ontario Around 2:30pm in bright sun; 24 Celsius.
(S)he was loaded with pollen and the bands on their abdomen were white.
From a list of possible bees in Ontario, I have narrowed it down to the polyester bee, but if anyone can confirm, I'd appreciate it.
It's been pretty depressing seeing fewer pollinators around year after year, so this guy really made my day!
This has been bothering me long enough that I figured I'd check to see if anyone else is having the same issue, and more importantly, if there's a fix.
Some websites, like Google Earth or various weather radar sites get so slow that they are unusable in Firefox.
When I load the same sites in Edge, it's blazing fast, as I'd expect.
Even Librewolf chugs on these sites.
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS: First, thanks for all the input, guys.
I wanted to say that I've tried a fresh FF profile, and the same slowness happens in Google Earth.
I also confirmed that hardware acceleration is enabled.
This problem isn't on all websites. For example, playing www.slowroads.io actually gives a higher framerate on FF than it does on Edge. So it seems to be that certain websites just suck ass.
Some of you have said that Google Earth on FF works perfectly fine... on linux. At least it seems not to be a FF problem. LOL
EDIT: Opera browser is just as smooth as Edge with G Earth.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION?? Ok, so even though I was able to confirm that hardware acceleration was enabled, and the GPU was active while using FF, and the about:support showed that webrender was enabled, I noticed that on about:config the gfx.webrender.all setting was set to false.
So, I enabled it, and tried again. Google Earth seems much smoother (not as good as edge, but better than before), and Tube Archivist no longer seems to freeze while a video is being played.
Could this be the reason for my issues? If so, why was this option set to false by default?
What on earth is going on?
- May 17th and 18th in Ajax, at the same house (https://www.drps.ca/news/shots-fired-at-residence-in-ajax-1/)
- May 19th in Whitby (https://www.drps.ca/news/shots-fired-at-residence-in-whitby/)
- May 20th in Oshawa (https://www.drps.ca/news/no-injuries-after-shots-were-fired-at-a-home-in-oshawa/)
Nearly all of these happening in the middle of the night, with police finding shell casings, but no victims or suspects.
"Investigators are continuing to look into if any shootings this weekend are connected."