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You’re not wrong, but in my anecdotal experience, I’m biking a lot more with my e-bike than I was with my regular bike. I’ve got some awful and long hills that I just wouldn’t bother with otherwise.

Also, I think it’s a misconception that e-bikes function as electric motorcycles.

E-bikes set a minimum speed. If you’re pedaling and fall below that threshold, the motor will kick in and offer support. But that’s the thing, you have to be pedaling. If you don’t then you’re going to lose velocity and stop.

To be fair, you can use the electric throttle to run without pedaling, but that kills the battery quick without pedaling easing the load.

The article is weird…

Fat tires are off-road tiers. If the bike isn’t primarily being used there then that shouldn’t be a consideration. Thinner tires are more efficient on flat surfaces.

The battery and motor specs are important—if you’re dealing with long distances and steep hills. I don’t know why the author is just skimming over that.

I’ve personally burned through no less than 3 bread machines, and I heavily used mine. (It’s the paddle. It’s always the paddle that dies.)

I find it’s significantly cheaper to pick them up at your local thrift store. They’re quite common and cheap there.

I think 2 and 3 are the same link

Does Lemmy have a concept of a moderator queue? It could strike a happy balance between the bot overwhelming the community and having a diversity of content.

It wasn’t specifically posted here. It was posted to Electrek, and we’re reading it here in a hacky RSS format.

It’s also why we get redundant posts, as the same story is echoed on the other Ev themed news sites.

Q’s involvement is from the computer game Star Trek: Borg. It’s a fun, if mostly linear, Choose Your Own Adventure type game shot on the Voyager set.

I liked the little look into the lower decks of the Orions, especially the plagiarism line; but the mysterious ship is getting less mysterious in the not-so-fun way.

Boimler and Rutherford are absolute dweebs. It was different having such a low stakes B-Plot. I feel like their story was missing a little something though. Still good fun.

Really enjoyed the A-Plot. Tendi does such a great job balancing being sunshine and rainbows and underworld assassin. I’m a little surprised her ride home wasn’t stolen/stripped for parts.

It was weird seeing T’Lyn, not just admit, but volunteer that she was friends with Mariner and Tendi. I don’t think we’ve ever seen a Vulcan do that. I mean, sure Spock and Tuvok have admitted they were friends with their respective captains, but only ever in some form of private non-sexual intimacy. But, as established, T’Lyn is a rebel, so it somehow fits her really well.

In general, I’m indifferent to the cyber truck’s Nintendo 64 design…

But in the application of a police vehicle… I don’t think the unfriendly angles will do anything to repair the damaged reputation of the keepers of the peace. The opposite in fact.

Except that isn’t guaranteed. Unless I’ve got 7.5K+ in taxes I’m not getting a $7.5K federal discount. And even if I did, I still have to front that $40K bill until taxes hit.

If you have money, then 40K is nothing. If you don’t then it’s untenable.

I mean, I get the point you’re making, but 40K, even if it is the industry average, is yikes money.

Tesla specifically isn’t unaffordable.

Cars in general are unaffordable.

Who even benefits from this? Even Toyota is on the EV train.

It feels weird living in a timeline where a major ecological shift for the better was spearheaded in part by such an awful excuse of a human being.

I feel like this is some attempt at damage control, considering the sudden influx of Tesla trashing as of late.

My problem with Assault was that I went in wanting to play on-rail shooting like in 64… and it had that.

But it was in a minority, and the all-range mode levels were optimized for on foot or land master, so the Arwing segments were often either underwhelming or you were being herded to play the terrestrial based gameplay.

The game was certainly good, and was by far the best written Star Fox game at the time (IMO), but it didn’t quite scratch the itch I was desperately hoping it would.

But you are absolutely right that it doesn’t deserve the hate it got, and it would probably be an amazing first Star Fox game for someone new to the franchise.

Contrasting what Shaxs said about his experience at the black mountain… I feel like the Koala intervened in this episode. (And possibly as well in the S2 finale)

Considering how LD loosely follows the plots from the original movies… I guess that just begs the question: What does a Koala need with a space ship?

When choosing a VPN, always read the privacy policy.

If the policy mentions anything that can be interpreted as sharing with advertisers/partners then keep searching.

They will never be upfront about mishandling your data on their website, and will try to obfuscate it in the privacy policy.

What I meant with whistleblowing in terms of the fediverse is:

Whistleblower posts to instance A, and it gets mirrored on instance B.

Someone like Musk erases the post on instance A.

As the Fediverse currently works, the whistleblowing still exists on instance B, and cannot be deleted by an admin on instance A.

Asking a Musk to divulge who did the silencing is an exercise in futility.

That said, I’m totally on board with better tools to handle spam.

The Mac’s biggest defense has long been that it plays second fiddle to Windows.

But with iOS, arguably, being top banana, and Mac now running iPhone software in a Mac costume, I expect a lot more in-the-crossfire vulnerabilities.

Any update on that VPN breaking issue?