troutsushi

@troutsushi@feddit.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck out there⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that I don’t have any personal gain from proliferating biking as a means of personal transportation, I’d rather consider myself a bike preacher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good luck out there⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A decent bike needn’t be expensive. For as little as 300€, you can have a new bike that’ll do just fine for recreational use and simple commutes. Used bikes can usually be had really cheap, too, but for that you’d best know how to check the components and what to look for.

  Race bikes, mountain bikes and pedelecs are a different thing, but those are either specialty sports equipment or luxury items.

  Either way, (normal) bikes are easy and cheap to maintain, if used correctly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What technological mega project is practical to build today?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Property acquisition in the US more expensive than in Europe? I think not, at least for the immense swaths of land that make up most of the US’ land mass.

  The legal fees I see, but that’s why most developed nations have legislature for disowning property owners of land necessary for infrastructure at a set compensation. Whether that’s fair or just is up for ideological debate, I’m sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The difference⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there an SCP for this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’d be more fitting to mandate every product to include its ecological price. Disposable vapes, for example, would disappear instantly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Oooooh, that’s a neat idea in light of the current EU legislation concerning the Right to Repair: Introduce a mandatory, highly visible, and standardized seal that all electronic devices have to display on the front of their box:

  Repairable

  or

  Disposable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity’s new “per-install” pricing enrages the game development community⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope Unity’s legal team is prepared.

  I really hope they’re not, because this practice needs to crash and burn brightly as a warning beacon to other corpos’ grubby fingers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good news, everyone: Apple’s Polishing Cloth supports the iPhone 15 Pro Max⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  More like when someone leaves a fingerprint on actual professional image editing equipment (refer to this insightful post by another lemmyng) and just rubbing spit on the screen will damage to screen.

  For a phone screen, this cloth is overkill and absolutely unnecessary. You should put a sacrificial glass screen over expensive-to-replace phone screens anyway.