There should no place even close to residential areas that have more than 1 or 2 lanes for cars. Anything more is a highway, and those should be only to connect cities, not to go shopping.

The way cities are built, we overuse “arterial roads” and put them everywhere. Such terrible design, which is why people get killed far too often.

That’s a Celeron right?

Yup, the Intel J4125 Celeron 4-Core CPU, 2.0-2.7Ghz.

I switched to the ViT-SO400M-16-SigLIP2-384__webli model, same as what you use. I don’t worry about processing time, but it looks like a more capable model, and I really only use immich for contextual search anyway, so that might be a nice upgrade.

LOL. It looks like a IEC 60320 C5 connector.

As a bonus, it CAN still take a powerbrick charger, and high speed chargers are available in that case. Really depends on your use case, but if you’re only riding <10km at a time, you won’t need a fast charger.

Is this something that would be recommended if self-hosting off a Synology 920+ NAS?

My NAS does have extra ram to spare because I upgraded it, and has NVME cache 🤗

I’m partial to the Ninebot Max (the OG dark grey one). You can still find them for sale, and while they aren’t the most advanced, they offer some wonderful benefits.

Mine reliably goes 45km and cruises up to 30km/h.

It uses a front drum brake and electronic rear brake. This combo is reliable, and maintenance free. No worrying about brake pads, bent or contaminated rotors.

The scooter has performed well in rain, heat, winters (not in snow!), and has been reliable throughout thousands of km without a flat.

It’s not super heavy and can be stored just about anywhere.

It doesn’t have suspension, but is still comfortable to ride, and not having suspension means less to worry about.

Basically, it’s reliable, extremely maintenance-free, and has great range.

Oh, it also uses just a standard “desktop computer cable” for charging, so no need to bring around a charging brick.

Is Amazon too poor to pay their employees now?

From 2022 to 2024, the number of fires jumped 162 per cent, from 29 to 76

I thought the numbers would be much higher, tbh.

When you consider that only the City of Toronto has a population of over 3 million, and each person owns a lot of devices with lithium-ion batteries, we’re talking about dozens of fires out of tens of millions of batteries.

Still, lithium-ion battery fires are no joke, so minimizing the risks should be a priority.

I had to read the headline a few times, before realizing they want to do what my brain refused to read.

That area looks like a hellscape:

Thank you so much for the insight!

Bilenky Viewpoint

Every day, I learn about a new gem.

the bridge is 5.5 mi (8.85km) long, the very shortest commutes between destinations on the two sides is about 7mi (11.25km), taking about 40mins each way.

Unless someone is riding at a very slow 16km/h pace, it would take far less than 40 minutes to ride that 11km (without an ebike).

On that note, if someone had the choice of sitting in traffic for an hour, or enjoying a beautiful 40 minute ride over a bridge, I think it would be an easy choice to make 🤗

That has the same vibe as, “I don’t hate black people. I just don’t think they deserve to drink from the same fountain, use the same bathroom, or eat in the same restaurant as me!”

Rather than advocate for the removal of someone else’s active, green form of transportation, he should be advocating for car pooling, better public transportation, WFH to lessen the burden of commuter traffic, and smaller vehicles.

The coalition argues that not only does the bike lane create more traffic,

False. Cars create the traffic, and “one more lane, bro” will do nothing to help. This is a fact played out EVERYWHERE.

but it also creates more pollution from all the cars backed up on the bridge.

Sounds like a car-made problem, man.

He says he’s tired of seeing cars idling endlessly, inching along the bridge with the bike lane empty, or - if not empty - at least under-utilized.

Quite curiously, Google Maps seems to suggest that the BRIDGE never has bad congestion, but the highway leading up to the bridge (without bike lanes) is very congested during rush hour, beginning 4km away.

Trump said he’s sending correspondence to up to 15 countries hit by the president’s “Liberation Day” duties, telling them he will impose a tariff rate if there’s no trade deal.

He’s the one not making (or sticking to) deals! What a fucking idiot.

It will be altered at least 5 more times before the weekend, and a few more after an agreement is made… that’s how yo-yo presidents do it.

this could have easily been a public transit vehicle that crashed.

For sure, and that still happens, but there are considerably more “cars” crashing into buildings than commercial vehicles. And nearly anyone, qualified or not, can drive a car without many barriers to entry.

No one follows the rules

This is why ordinary people should feel a duty to use adblockers, poison AI/data collection whenever possible, and to use alternative methods of protecting privacy (i.e. pirate rather than using streaming services).

If we can’t be respected, then we should give no respect to organizations and governments who ignore privacy as a basic human right.

Youngblood Bicycles

What an unfortunate name in this context. Oof.

killed by dump truck

Was it a self-driving dump truck? If not, then a driver killed those people.

The building should have been wearing high-viz and a helmet so the driver could see them! /s

Jokes aside, this shit happens way too often in North America. If drivers aren’t crashing into buildings, they are crashing into bus stop shelters.

It uses an internal (adjustable) spring, and the design allows the saddle to pivot back, rather than up and down. This keeps your leg length to the cranks the same throughout the motion.

It’s very comfortable, and almost no maintenance (you lube the spring every once in a while).

When I got it, it was just over $100, which was way cheaper than any of the other high end suspension posts. I think it’s gone up at least $50 since then, but that’s still a good value. LOL

What province?

Ontario, which allows them under a pilot project for any municipalities who participate. In my case, I believe all of Durham Region allows them.

Honestly, people should care less about e-scooters and more about the cars who are actually killing people. And the gas powered MOTORCYCLES on pedestrian and cycle trails.

Edit: I was using my e-scooter(s) before the Region participated in the pilot, and was never harassed about it. I also don’t ride like a jackass, so there wouldn’t have been anything for anyone to complain about.