Apparently so.

For now I’m going with this one alone. I’m trying to keep this 9s drivetrain cheap. Will likely be running it for commuting during the winter in TO.

BTW I used Endurance chip and the wax seems stronger physically. It seems that the wax that’s inside the roller on the hard side of the link causses the plates to be slightly wider than normal and when the link plates are assembled around it, there’s too much fricting between the outer plates and the inner plates. I’m probably gonna rewax it so that it melts and reflows, hopefully not recreating the same effect.

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The green plates are the inner plates of the chain. The red is the roller. The blue are the outer plates - of the link. The distance between the two green plates is a little wider than normal. I think because of the wax that’s between them and the roller and in the roller itself. The difficulty in articulation comes form friction between the green and the blue plates.

Of course beef production constitutes the vast majority of the water cobsumption:

It never sat well with me since the start of the “special military operation” but I tolerated it in my circles. After seeing the further horrors dehumanization allowed in Gaza, I no longer can.

Reduce the burden on Social Security to pay for more tax cuts. 💀

The last report on Russia’s debt-to-GDP from 2023 clocked it at under 15%. That’s a huge headroom just on the basis of debt spending. That’s before they start looking into taxing. I suspect they can squeeze a lot from various oligarchs as well as the general population. Remember that countries don’t run out of financial capital in their own currencies. If you’re hoping for an economic collapse, watch for real resource shortages. Materials, labour, machinery, etc. Many financial economic collapse predictions turned out wrong so far.

In the short term. Both threaten their wealth in the long run. Fascism still wins out.

Yes. I’m just thinking in terms of which solution would produce larger effect and therefore would like to see first. I would very much like to see Dutch-style bike infra too.

That’s true. That said, I think we need to solve this prinarily by removing these vehicles from the city streets. By perhaps taxing size/power/etc. Similar to how Japan does it. Perhaps not to the extent of putting everyone in K-cars but most single-passenger trucks and SUVs used for commute should go away from most of the city. That would leave more space for tradespeople, supply trucks and vans getting where they need to go in reasonable time. And it would increase the safety on all bike lanes, separated or otherwise. It would also increase pedestrian safety.

This is refreshing.

Loosened the link a bit. Still stiff but the noise is a lot lower and there’s also less overall noise. Still clacks a bit but I’m pretty sure it’s gonna get to normal and there isn’t anything to worry about the drivetrain.

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Sounds like a hardware problem.

I feel like this problem should be solved via some form of federation within Jellyfin, but if Jellyswarm works well enough… I’m not gonna make a fuss.

Don’t they realize how this looks over the backdrop of austerity they’ve been doing?

Imagine if our government demonstrated the competence to plan a long term program for Canadian open source digital infrastructure. Then staff and execute it instead of paying fat margins to some faceless corpo to get one service or another.

I’d sign up to work on such a program.

For the vast majority of use cases about anything, we rely on a firm and we don’t have an option but to trust it to one extend or another. Very few things out there can operate with E2E which isolates us from this trust. This is something often missed by peope in the tech circles, as well as the corrollary that it’s the firm that needs to be improved and not the technology, because often there is no practical technological solution. In this regard Proton being a non-profit is on a different level compared to the publicly-traded profit-maximizing multinationals like Google etc. I’m not saying one has to have complete trust in Proton. Instead that one is in a very different boat using a Proton product compared to a Google product.

Always has been.

This is why the oliharchy is fighting Mamdani.

Playing NFS III, split-screen on a Pentium MMX on a Zida board in a beige box from Taiwan…