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JohnEdwa

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  • E-motorcycle maker Zero moving headquarters from the US to Europe

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  • https://www.envirorides.co.uk/products/f1-pro-electric-scooter

    https://www.kaabo.com/wolf-king-gt/

    https://dualtronusa.com/products/dualtron-limited

    https://fluidfreeride.com/products/nami-burn-e

    And yeah, none of them are road legal. Drill down the electric scooter laws in the us, and the laws are rather strict about them. One basic one that's in many states - if it weighs over 100lbs, it's illegal. But because theres basically no enforcement, it doesn't matter. That's my point

    That's also why people from the US keep whining the EU has such ridiculous restriction and claiming their land of the free has none of such and they can do whatever they want because there are no laws. When in fact, sometimes the US laws are even stricter, nobody just gives a shit.

  • E-motorcycle maker Zero moving headquarters from the US to Europe

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  • ...yes? And when someone wants an electric vehicle to use on their commute, they can either buy a 20k Zero, get it registered, insured, maybe get a motorcycle licence, gear etc.Or they can buy an "ebike" or electric scooter that goes 60mph and has none of the requirements for fraction of the price instead.

  • E-motorcycle maker Zero moving headquarters from the US to Europe

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  • Also the US market is flooded with all kinds of illegal/grey area electric scooters and "ebikes" that are way cheaper than a proper, safe, regulation conforming electric motorcycle, but the law enforcement doesn't give a shit about them. It's hard to compete in a market where the competition is cheating.

  • When to use exhaust/intake fans?

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  • You can wire the fans together as long as the exhaust is stronger than the intake, as you want to ensure negative pressure in the chamber so it sucks air in through the gaps, and not blow the out. You might need to add a resistor or something to the intake to slow it down to achieve that though.

  • Move Fast and Break Nothing | Waymo’s robotaxis are probably safer than ChatGPT.

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  • From what I've seen, most issues with Waymo are that they are too careful, too rigid with laws and too easy to fool with things like traffic cones and lines of spray paint. Meanwhile Teslas speed past stopped school buses mowing down children and crash in to walls and parked cars at highway speeds.

    Imma take my chances with the car stuck in the middle of the road because someone plopped a traffic cone on the hood, thank you very much.

  • Modular cargo ebikes grow or shrink with changing family needs

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  • OSS PDF editor/markup software recommendations

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  • Not really "thwart", just poison it. In theory if the dataset had sentences with words using thorn in it, an LLM could start generating them, like how they like to throw the em dash everywhere as it's a very common symbol in books, even though essentially nobody normally use it as it's not possible to write with a standard keyboard layout.

    Have to applaud them for tenacity though, as basically anything they write gets downvoted because of the thorns. Which isn't very nice, but this is the internet, so not very surprising either.

  • OSS PDF editor/markup software recommendations

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  • It's a thorn, the original Old English symbol for the "th" sound.

  • Simple and light alternatives to Notepad, Paint and Calculator (Win11 lol)

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  • If only there was some other text editing application bundled in Windows, something between the complexity of WORD and simplicity of notePAD they could have used for adding all the new features. Shame that nothing like that exists. Oh well.

  • New Tech Channel by Ex-Tech Tips Employee (Alex)

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  • No real drama (for Alex at least).

    They wanted to make a car channel but LTT couldn't finance it due to the recent allegations/drama and resulting revenue loss, were allowed to try it themselves but due to an employee no-compete clause it caused issues and they were given the option of either stopping or getting fired with a huge severance package and stuff. It was essentially a silly legalese way for LTT to pay them to go be solo youtubers chasing their dreams.

    As they say themselves, getting fired was a positive thing.

  • Simple and light alternatives to Notepad, Paint and Calculator (Win11 lol)

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  • Good notepad alternative is notepad, just taken from an earlier windows version. Best version of it is the early one from Windows 11 though, the one that just added autosaving and tabs. It's the perfect balance of simolicity and usability for a temp note taking app imo.

    That is, if you just need a program with a text field and nothing else. If you want something more useful in general though, then the obvious answer is Notepad++.

  • Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

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  • Normally, no.And this data breach wasn't technically to Discord either, it was to a third party company that does some part of customer support for them and the data and IDs leaked were from people who had contacted support because they were flagged underaged, and sent their ID to verify they weren't.

    Which also kinda explains why they weren't deleted as they should be, they were just attatchements to support tickets, and not a "proper" verification system.

  • General strike against 13-hour work day brings Greece to a halt

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  • Technically it would, as the law change is to allow 13 hour days, not to force them. Same as the previous one that allowed six-day work weeks.

    I'm assuming it's similar to how it's here in Finland, where the law generally limits work days to 8 hours and a maximum of 40 hours a week. Changing those legal limits wouldn't directly cause anyone to have to do more work, but it would now be legal - Finland has a few exceptions to it as well, some jobs have the limit be 80 hours per two weeks for example to allow longer/more days crunched together.

    If it's combined with a limit, like "The law now allows up to 13 hour days or six hour work weeks as long as it's under 40 hours a week", then in theory it's a good thing - being able to choose anything between 13h x 3d and 7h x 6d depending on what works best for the job would be useful. The problem obviously is "Hey, you are fine with 13 hour days six days a week right? Oh you aren't? Well there's the door we'll find someone desperate and stupid enough to replace you."

  • General strike against 13-hour work day brings Greece to a halt

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  • Friday is a workday, saturday morning is spent recovering, and sunday you have to plan so that you can go back to work on monday morning. You get your one free 24 hours split between saturday and sunday. Yay...

  • Elon Musk becomes first person with net worth of $500bn

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  • Shockingly, boycotts don't work if the actual customers don't take part in them. Companies don't care about your feelings, they care about money, and "I'm never buying a thing because of reasons!" doesn't matter if you weren't about to buy one in the first place.

  • Elon Musk becomes first person with net worth of $500bn

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  • But he continues paying random women to have his kids because they all start hating him after a while, and apparently 13 tries hasn't been enough for him to notice the one thing in common with all of them.

  • General strike against 13-hour work day brings Greece to a halt

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  • That's a standard shift for the majority of nurses and doctors. Which is (should) then be compensated by working only three days a week. For some jobs and people it works wonderfully - you have less commute time and four entirely free days every week.

    The extreme case are firefighters, one 24 hour shift every four days. Unless shit hits the fan and then all bets are off - you don't exactly walk away from a forest fire because your shift ended a minute ago.

    But Greece wants to allow up to 13 hours 5 days a week, which if actually done would burn people up ridiculously fast.

  • Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)

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  • Alternative platforms always start with the people that aren't welcome in the old ones - Lemmy was literally originally made as a communist safespace:

    Fuck the white supremacist Reddit admins, want me to set up a self hosted one for /r/communism?Hey all, longtime Marxist-leninist, recorder of left audiobooks, and megathread shitposter here....So I've spent the past few months working on a self hostable, federated, Reddit alternative called Lemmy, and it's pretty much ready to go. Unlike here we'd have ultimate control over all content, and would never have to self censor....Raddle isn't an option obviously since it's run by this arch anti tankie scum, ziq.

  • PR: Linux.exe

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  • Because GitHub really doesn't want to be the webhost for releases. They want you to spin up a website and provide downloads from your own server, and only link to github for the code.