I don’t see any Arch sticker. If it was Arch, it would be the biggest sticker.

I imagine then that for an equivalent battery our sodium battery would weight 3 times as much and take up twice as much space as a lithium battery (plus any extra weight a larger housing or heavier mounting brackets add). Most of the ebikes I’ve ridden have batteries approximately the size of a 2L of cola.

My battery would no longer fit fully in the downtube, or would have to be paired with a second battery. Perhaps putting it in the frame triangle would work. For larger bikes, like cargo bikes, I could see a large flat battery being put in the bottom of the wheelbarrow part without really being that noticeable. Even if only half of bikes changed over, it would still be a win.

I’ve also visited a lithium mining area in the salt flats and what we’ve done to the indigenous folks’ land, communities, and to the people themselves is abhorrent. We can do better. Let’s hope these sodium batteries become available sooner rather than later, especially for circumstances where the weight/size are less of an issue.

I have never had to make a claim on my bikes, so I can’t make a recommendation, but the insurance through my car insurance/ home insurance company.

Probably pretty low.

Congrats in the bike! I hope you have fun zipping all over town. If bike theft is a thing where you live, grab the serial number andsee about getting it added to your insurance under a personal articles policy. Mine is only $100/yr and I feel so much better about leaving it locked up out of my sight for a second.

I spent around $3750 for my ebike. As an example of what that gets you, I tested a lot of bikes, cheap and expensive and here’s what stood out to me:

• Torque sensing rather than cadence sensing for pedal activation means my bikes torque scales with my own. A cheap bike just goes “oh, the pedals moved a half rotation, engage electric motorcycle mode”. This makes my bike feel more connected, it’s the difference between putting on an exoskeleton versus driving a walking robot from a cockpit.
• Torque specs and maintenance info clearly listed, bike shop can get spare parts. While I’d like to see parts availability commitments become more common, right now the best you can do is go with a well known brand.
• Frame geometry is often better on bikes from bike brands making bikes with tech than tech startups making bikes. This relates directly to on-bike comfort
• As we’re all discussing here, battery quality can make a difference in safety and functionality.

I hope this helps. I still think you can get a reputable bike at a good price, but I would generally skip the Temu, Amazon, no name rebrand ebikes out of concern for their quality.

I’m seeing that sodium ion batteries have lower energy density than lithium ion batteries. I’m not a chemist. So I had to do some searches and it appears this is measured by weight, not volume.

Using hypothetical numbers to explain my question imagine that…

• lithium battery weighs 1kg and has 5 stored energy units
• sodium battery weighs 3kg and has 5 stored energy units

How does this effect the space needed for the battery? If the physical density (not energy density) of sodium was 10 higher, maybe the battery weighs 3 times as much but because it is dense, that weight fits in a smaller (say 100 cubic units), heavier package. Conversely, if the physical density was 10 times lower the battery would be 3 times heavier but be 1000 cubic units.

My question is basically what is the difference in physical density of the materials (kg per cm^2)?

Unfortunately, ddg and google keep assuming I want to know about energy density.

The change was 95% unnoticed for me. I looked at the session one day and thought “oh yeah, I have been using Wayland”. I don’t mess with many games or AI GPU stuff though, so it may be that more complex use cases result in a worse experience.

Your point about the small companies is valid, and it used to be better. When Glassdoor was at its peak, you could find smaller companies more frequently and I would read up on the companies I did business with to get an employee’s perspective on whether they were functioning effectively. If your employees hate your guts or think their job is pointless, that’s also a bit of a red flag for me as a consumer. This Glassdoor research worked well for renovation contractors, larger service providers like electrical or plumbing, commercial real estate management companies. Sometime you could also find info that made it easier to navigate call centers designed to frustrate you into giving up. It looks like someone posted a few alternatives and glass door stopped being useful for company research almost as dramatically as google became ineffective for other research. Someday soon, all we’ll have is the company’s marketing slop and any honest opinion will be buried and hidden into non-existance.

With regard to review manipulation, I knew a company with an abysmal rating, a real w2 farm. The people I knew spanned entry level to the c-suite. Said company would have bootlickers in HR and elsewhere post 5 star reviews to try to move the needle. They also asked people to rate them well after training had completed and everyone still had “new-job glasses” on. Despite their efforts, I think they were still sitting at a measly 2.7 stars, which is still way higher than the 1.5 they deserved. The 0.5 is mostly based on the bottomless supply of decent coffee in the break room :D

I don’t have interactions with many people from this company anymore, but what I have heard is basically “different people; same shit”.

Thanks, levels looks really useful. This will help me fill some of the gap that was left after glass door enshittified and started data mining everyone’s real names and attaching them to their profile as well as pushing their “fishbowl” thing.

This is why I have dozens, if not hundreds of tabs open. Usually I open links in a new tab so I can easily tab back to where I came from. Using a hierarchical tab manager makes this work better because when you’re done with the topic, you close the whole branch… theoretically.

This tactic also seems targeted at mobile users where it’s harder to break the loop.

I used the base model and it ran at a very acceptable speed with CPU only. Decent accuracy considering the recording was mediocre quality at best. Thank you for the suggestion.

I was able to quickly set up and use whisper (base) using Speech Note without issue and it saved me over 80% of what I would have had to manually do. Thank you for the recommendation.

Whisper worked for me. I’ll have to go back through and tag speakers and fox a few spots but you guys have saved me 80-90% of the work. Thank you.

Transcription of numerous voice mails and phone calls for a legal matter. Would like to supply transcripts with the audio files so we don’t have to pay as much time for the lawyer’s paralegals to review and decide what is actually going to be useful.

Love the sketch and the picture. Us Germans call them “wimmelbilder” and they tend to be super colorful, high detail, picyures for kids (and adults) to stare at and find more and more stuff. The R site had a community dedicated to them that was pretty cool. Would love to see one here.

In my opinion, one of the strengths of your design is the contrast of old and new. The skatepark makes me think of Burnside in Portland

In my area, bikes are allowed on all sidewalks except for a street-bounded square around the downtown core where we must ride in the street. When on the sidewalk, we are expected to yield to pedestrians. This works in practice, mostly due to low volume of bikes and pedestrians, and in some places 12 food wide sidewalks specifically designated as class 1 urban trails that even allow some ebikes. In practice, this works okay but you are definitely forced to have little micro interactions with people to negotiate sidewalk space or signal your intentions. Cyclists go to the sidewalk as a last resort because it’s often not a comfortable place for us to ride, just less likely to get us killed. I will never understand cyclists who don’t ring. It’s a bad look for our ability to share space. Unlike cars, bicycles and pedestrians are close enough in speed to occasionally mix.

I do agree that in city centers and high traffic areas, riders should dismount.

I also thought it was a bit of a wild request for bikes to only cross where bike infra exists. If we can’t make progress in driver behavior, we should build more mode separation to contain the thousand pound death machines in their own physically isolated section of the street. At no point should we be compromising bicycle or pedestrian mobility. We have a right to the street also, and it’s the cars who have trouble co-existing with the other modes of transportation without murdering a bunch of people.

This answers my question. I wasn’t sure if the server would have to download the whole file from the NAS prior to serving it.

I run my Nextcloud on Debian, ran Debian based distros for a few years, and I’ve done nfs on my synology with my laptop. I might be able to do it!

Wish me luck, and thanks for responding.

That’s a great idea, eat shit butthead. ;-)

Yes, and the desktop is delightfully simple. Makes older hardware feel new but still looks good enough on modern hardware.