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7d ago

I now have call recording on Android
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grue @lemmy.world 7d ago

No, I can be sued and ignore the court with impunity because there's a thing called "jurisdiction" and they don't have it.
You don't seem to get it: there is absolutely nothing wrong with me recording without the other party's knowledge and they have no power to impose their will on me otherwise because the governing law is the one in my jurisdiction, not theirs!
Don't like it? Too bad.

7d ago

Academic specialization can be absurdly precise

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grue @lemmy.world 7d ago

Depends whether you're talking about the theatrical release or the special edition.

7d ago

I now have call recording on Android

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grue @lemmy.world 7d ago

Suggesting that I need some other party's permission to record is as absurd as saying I need their permission to remember.

1w ago

New Zealand bans puberty blockers for young transgender people

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

Kids are stupid and can't consent.

Right, which is the entire fucking point of blocking puberty: to put off the issue until they can consent!

The least-risky/least-permanent option is to give them the blockers, not withhold them from them! I am sick and tired of conservatives' ass-backward nonsense trying to pretend the opposite.

1w ago

Parents Are Accidentally Buying Their Kids Electric Motorcycles Instead Of E-Bikes

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

I understand your use case for the throttle here, either getting to a cruising speed, or even just enough so you're balanced and not wobbling. I'm sure this could be resolved with higher sensitivity on a torque sensor or having a great-granny gear, so to speak.

Kinda, but you'd still have trouble if you forgot to downshift or were trying to start uphill. And since we're talking about a heavy vehicle used for utility cycling (often carrying kids), you might be in traffic where you need to be able to get moving right now and can't just pick it up and carrry it to the curb to get out of the way. In that sort of situation, a throttle is a safety feature. It just needs to be designed not to facilitate misuse.

What you describe with your old ebike reminds me of the Reevo. It was designed so poorly if you were walking it, the pedals could still turn and activate the power assist and produce a feedback loop that saw the bike take off away from you and into the sunset.

I knew what video that was gonna be before I clicked it, LOL.

For the record, the bikes in question are the first and second-generation Lectric Xpedition. (Mine unfortunately had a problem that caused it to be replaced under warranty, and they gave me the new version.) The second-gen definitely has some important improvements (notably the torque sensor and a much better kickstand), but the first-gen was still a good bike — nowhere near as bad as a Reevo!

(I'm a big fan of my Lectrics, but damn I wish they'd make an affordable bakfiets.)

1w ago

TFW you colonize Africa in the late 19th century

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

Liberia and Ethiopia are weird special cases.

1w ago

'Rebellion!' Stephen Miller flips out after Dems tell troops to 'refuse illegal orders'

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

That will never happen unless we the people force it to happen.

1w ago

Parents Are Accidentally Buying Their Kids Electric Motorcycles Instead Of E-Bikes

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

I'm of two minds on the whole throttle thing. I agree that tooling around on a high-power vehicle without bothering to pedal at all makes a mockery of the notion of it being a 'bicycle.' However, I appreciate that my Class 2 cargo e-bike has a throttle because I often blip it when setting off from a stop because it can otherwise be hard to get going before the cadence sensor (on my old bike) or torque sensor (on my new one) has a chance to kick in.

On a related note, I really appreciate that my new bike modulates the power output somewhat based on how hard I'm pedaling rather than treating the cadence sensor as a glorified on/off switch. On the old bike, if you were pedaling, you were accelerating all the way up to the speed cut-off unless you were on a steep hill. With the new one, I can pedal with light or moderate effort in assist level 3 and actually go slower than 20 mph, but still faster than the level 2 cutoff of 8 mph.

Frankly, I would almost be inclined to say that a torque sensor should be a harder requirement for a thing to count as an e-bike than the presence or absence of a throttle (as long as said throttle cuts off at a decently-low speed).

1w ago

Windows users be like

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

As long as you're whining to the game publishers, not Linux people who are not only technically unable but also legally prohibited from doing anything about it.

It's important to place the blame where it belongs.

1w ago

Windows users be like

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

More like Parabola, judging by the trajectory!

1w ago

Windows users be like

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

That man's home address? /dev/lp0

1w ago

On a 2025 Tesla? Quit your bullshit rule.

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

Eventually every Tesla will be owned by some right-wing POS and the shame will be deserved.

1w ago

On a 2025 Tesla? Quit your bullshit rule.

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

OG Teslas were off my want list because even though Musk crowed about "open source," they weren't actually open in the way that mattered. AFAIK there's DRM you have to work around if you want to use Tesla parts in a kit car, and it shouldn't have to be that way.

1w ago

Ocasio-Cortez Says ‘We Should Not Be Entertaining a Bailout’ of AI Industry as Bubble Fears Grow

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

Also, it's not even just AI actually using more energy, it's also more capacity being constructed in anticipation of it. The upshot is, even if the demand from AI goes away the higher costs would remain because all that extra infrastructure still needs to be paid for.

1w ago

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

Except Linux isn't the dark side; Windows is. They are being freed from their cell, not entering it.

1w ago

Deep Thoughts - 6x7=42

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

Earth was destroyed before it finished calculating. Of course the Question, as expressed by Arthur (who was part of said calculation), was wrong.

Never mind the issue of corrupted data from Ark B...

1w ago

Trouble with Dual-booting

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

It's a work computer. Talk to your IT department.

Frankly, you have no business setting it up yourself at all, unless you have a good reason to need it, explicit permission from your boss, etc. Or if you're a software engineer or IT admin type employee yourself (but if that were the case you probably wouldn't be asking this question).

Also, my experience is that if you as an employee need multiple operating systems (e.g. developing an app that supported Windows and OS X, as I did in a previous job), you should be furnished with a second machine instead of being expected to dual-boot. For a company, the hardware cost is trivial compared to the labor cost of your lost productivity screwing around with dual-booting.

I understand everybody's got to start somewhere and I'm sorry if this comes across as harsh, but outside of a very limited set of circumstances (e.g. being the sole IT guy at a small company trying to self-teach), this is literally Not Your Job.

1w ago

Quick little render to celebrate the Blender 5.0 release

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

Upvote for bicycle and Free Software

1w ago

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

*from, you mean. Welcome from the dark side.

1w ago

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

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grue @lemmy.world 1w ago

Choices which don't matter nearly as much as people like to pretend they do, no less.

If you're having trouble deciding, just pick a popular (general-purpose) distro at random. Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Mint, Bazzite, even Arch -- whatever, it'll be fine, don't worry 'bout it.