krelvar

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[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Probably be on sale during amazons upcoming thing. I prefer the freerider pro over the base version, it's lighter and stiffer.

Two main reasons for bike shoes - better grip, and a hard toebox. If you mountain bike, very very worth it.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

A+ for setting, but set needs some work

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah, this is backwards. Heat tolerant, take ongoing damage to cold.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

All new cars have the same problems. Mediocre interiors for the price, spyware, and rent seeking behavior for stuff like automated highway driving.

100%. It sucks, the prices are insane. Ours was insane. And those issues apply to all new cars, regardless of fuel.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

We have a Hyundai Ioniq 6, about 18 months now. It has a touchscreen like all EVs (I know, there's a truck) but it still has a lot of physical buttons, unlike a Tesla which has gone way too far with the screen. We tried the Mustang and liked it, but liked this better, plus my wife wanted a sedan.

Biggest pro is it's not a Tesla. Also, I get home, plug it in, and go inside. Takes five seconds, and five more to unplug it. Plus, it's not a Tesla. Way less time than it takes at the gas station to fill my truck. It's also fast, a lot of fun to drive, and finally, it's not a Tesla.

Con would be road-tripping. If I was doing a ton of that, I'd be perhaps looking for an EREV of some sort, although 20-80% in 20 min isn't exactly horrible. Charger is CCS, but sometime this month Hyundai is sending me an NACS adapter, so no more issues there - we did have one time where we had to wait for CCS when a NACS was open, but not exactly a massive issue. The new models are NACS.

Forgot to mention, in US, range about 300 miles or so, and there was a sensor issue that ended up with a harness replacement that didn't cost me anything under warranty, but had an estimate of $8500.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Perfect. Ordered my parts, odds are I'm going to end up building a dozen of these. Thanks!

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Cheaper is good. No issues with it being wireless? Or do you add a wired Ethernet adapter for this use case?

 

I want to set up pi-hole on a raspberry pi device of some sort and I'm having a hard time figuring out where to start with the hardware. I'm running skynet and diversion on Merlin right now for myself, but I want to put together a cheap plug and play box for non-technical family members, aside from repointing the router dns which I will do for them.

I think all I need would be the board (pi5 4gb?), power supply, case plus an sd card? Am I missing something?

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I wear a helmet. Either I'm mountain biking, or I'm in a bike lane along cars, where I'm riding in the 22-25mph range and the cars are in the 45-50mph range. If I get directly run into, it probably won't make a lot of difference, but if I get clipped/knocked down, way more likely, it quite likely will.

I don't think they should be mandatory, but it does bring up the same arguments that get made about motorcycles - if you don't wear one and you crash, will the (horrible, shitty, awful, stupid, American) insurance industry try to reduce their liability? Rhetorical question, of course they will.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I generally take one around 5-6 in the evening precisely because of that, if I wait until 8-9 I tend to be drowsy as well in the morning. A lot less though, usually no more than 10mg.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I tried one of these once, it was ok but seems really expensive. It was I think $4 for a can, 10mg. Serious question - why is this better than a 10mg edible (the ones I like and get regularly are 100mg for about $15-18) and a mocktail or soda or whatever? Not a sarcastic question, I'm really wondering what I'm missing? In all fairness I've only tried one.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

We were at a protest in the phoenix area this morning, it was about 90°F in the shade. There was an 80 year old man who passed out, fortunately there were plenty of qualified people to help and the fire department was there quickly. Heat is no joke.

[–] krelvar@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago

This only works if it's a strongly worded letter.

 

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'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?

 

I'm thinking about picking up a pair of heated gloves; more specifically, heated glove liners. I'd prefer something a little thinner but durable enough to use without gloves over the top of them.

Any recommendations, brands or features to look for? I think some of them have elements up and down each finger, that's what I want, rather than something that just sits on the back of the hand.

Amazon is of course full of highly rated options but we all know what their ratings are worth.

 

"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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