To build on that - despite bike companies trying their hardest to over complicate things - e-bikes are fairly straightforward to build, maintain and modify.
Tons of great (and safe but not cheap) DIY kits out there too which help make old bikes new again.
My e-bike is an old 90s MTB with a 220km range ( at the lowest assist level and 32km/hr top speed). That doesn’t include the benefits I get from regen braking when riding it in urban / suburban areas.
We do both.
A) use the language set by the user in their os/browser B) switcher shows the language name in that language
Done, easy, etc. IMO the hard part are great translations and designs that work in languages where every word is a novel. And yet, here we are.
There was a really interesting podcast on the AP style and its entrenched biases - but only available to subscribers:
https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/bonus-who-writes-the-rules-of-news/
Scummy landlord’s gonna scummy landlord.
I really appreciate your response. It’s incredibly helpful and deeply thoughtful. Thank you.
What comes next is not directed at you but rather provides some other color based on a few things you touched on.
I worked for the guy. He gets no slack from me. He changed my life in many ways both wonderful and not. And while it’s unlikely I’d work with or for him again he was a net positive in my life.
I don’t see product the way he sees product which is exactly as you note: it’s for him. Some of that “for him” approach has resonated deeply with the OSS community and still does. He changed Cloud Computing in the best of ways. He’s a giant. And we’re lucky he’s around.
This small ghostty issue (and some others I can’t recall now) was emblematic of our core disagreement about how we build systems for a broader user base. That’s why I said I get their PoV but disagree with it. I think it would be fair to say using the product reminded me a lot about this particular tension. Reading the GitHub issues even more so. That’s wholly on me.
I am thankful to ghostty for helping me explore many more options. I had been using iterm2 on my laptop and struggling to find something I liked on my Linux workstation. Checking out the new hotness after all the hype still resulted in a net positive.
Nevertheless I am genuinely happy it’s working for you and, again, thanks for your kind and calm response.
Yep - but seeing the thread about it in their github repo was also a turn off. I don’t have to do it with other clients.
I also believe that has to happen on each server - and we’ve got a lot of servers. I’m not particularly keen on needing to change anything to get my terminal emulator to, well, work.
While I get the ghostty team’s PoV - I don’t agree with it.
Ghostty has lots of issues ssh-ing into remote systems that aren’t on the bleeding edge.
I couldn’t get it to work reasonably well enough for me and tried a bunch of others. Currently using Alacritty on both my Linux desktop workstation and Mac Laptop.
I use Zellij anyway and it has all the tab/pane/floating window support I was looking for.
Won’t you be my Neighbor is a wonderful documentary whether you’re a fan or not.
Jones H-Bars for life.
Great ride, thanks for sharing.
As someone who loves bike tech I recently toyed with tyrewiz - but came to the conclusion it was one step too far (both in terms of installation and also surpassing any real world use case - as I have none).
I’m not saying people shouldn’t be into whatever they’re into but I think your sentiment is correct - there’s simply no need to have yet another piece of information fed to the average rider constantly.
Over the years I’ve slowly divested myself of most devices on my main bikes. No more head unit, no more cadence or speed sensors. I don’t and have never had a power meter fitted to any of my bikes (though my indoor winter trainers all them).
I do love me some electronic shifting but I don’t have it connected in realtime to anything. I just want to ride.
I check my pressures before every ride whether it’s road, gravel, bike packing or mountain biking (or almost every ride) - but that’s enough and more than most riders do.
One other thing a lot of these gadgets do, is make the setup to go ride often a little more annoying. “Oh today my front wheel tire pressure sensor is acting up.”
That said; if anyone wants this stuff go for it - I just think the market is small (albeit very very well off - and the fact this is Zipp wheels supports that.)
I’m often reminded of this satire piece: https://www.lavelocita.cc/opinion-page/data-disconnection
It reinforces, at least for me, that I love riding and everything else is just noise.
Something smells funny. Musky even.
Hot take: what most people call AI (large language and diffusion models) is, in fact, part of peak capitalism:
I could go on but hopefully that’s adequate as a PoV.
“AI” is just one of cherries on top of late stage capitalism that embodies the worst of all it.
So I don’t disagree - but felt compelled to share.
I have a desktop which has / had a similar problem.
Originally I built it with a g-series Ryzen which has integrated Radeon Vega graphics. Upgraded to a 3060 and wanted to run Linux for gaming instead of windows.
I couldn’t get a distro to reliably use my graphics card without the issues you describe. Stuttering, crashing, generally unusable.
Garuda was the answer (to be fair I’d try Bazzite too but I just didn’t get there as Garuda worked). In fact, it worked out of the box for me and I enjoyed it so much I made it my work OS.
I like the GUI utilities they’ve made for front-ending a bunch of Arch CLI utilities and I’ve been saved by BTRFS snapshots more than once.
I’ve built many many bikes in my day. I have a full bike mechanic setup at home. I ride road, gravel, adventure, and regularly use both my dirt jumper and my full suspension mountain bike (which is a Norco).
For the life of me, I have no idea what a “rear brake insert” is. There’s a calliper, a disc, some pads, some hydraulic hose. WTF is a rear-brake insert?
Halp. ;)
There aren’t many adventure-specific (or bike packing specific) Pinion transmission / Belt drive bikes. So this one builds off of the success of the Priority 600 in a more adventure-friendly package.
Also a collab with Ryan Van Duzer and his audience.
It’ll be interesting to see how it does.
Here’s to hoping we see some real inroads into mainstream cycling (I’m including commuting in that) for belt drives and transmissions.
What is success here? The few founders and VC get filthy rich as the larger population dumps their money into Discord stock while the users and teams with limited foresight, who’ve moved their communities to discord, suffer?
I mean yeah I guess that’s the success Cory Doctorow warns us about again and again.
But that’s not my definition of success.
For context I’ve been on the receiving end of an IPO and the founders and investors made out like bandits while a fair number of employees were stuck holding the bags thanks to lock-ins, dilution and over priced shares.
His recent interview on Pod Save America was so off putting, so filled with his own narcissism, that I simply couldn’t finish listening to the interview. There was little of substance there; just a very out of touch very rich guy loving the smell of his own shit.
It’s a fair question.
Carney is a Center-right corporate kleptocracy bureaucrat. I have no love for the gentlemen. He’s the 1%.
His primary opponent however is owned by the far right and will likely govern even more dictatorially at a time when that’s particularly dangerous. He will sell out healthcare, social safety nets, and the environment in a way that puts Harper to shame.
As I see it, the choice is picking stability, crappy as it is, or selling out the most vulnerable among us for a chance at change.
It’s not a great choice - but it’s what we have. Wishing for something else won’t make it so. The NDP won’t rise from the ashes in the next ten days.
So my vow is to swallow a bitter pill and get involved - be the change I want to see.
In the meantime I believe we need (and have) a unified front against fascism and rampant fear/hatred.
I feel very similarly.
I was incredibly put-off when they accepted to not raise the issue of electoral reform as a requirement to sign the agreement with the Liberals - who themselves ran on electoral reform (at least in part).
I’ve received a single email from the NDP this election season - announcing their new t-shirt designs.
The liberal rep - part of the crew responsible for ousting Trudeau, came to my door.
:(
The Littlest Hobo.
80s kids in Canada.
Link: https://youtu.be/0kabcD3r1Bs
Also: Today’s Special and The Polka Dot Door.