Is it a viable way of short to mid distance urban transport? Can you bunny-hop it to overcome e.g. curbs?
I’ve learned to appreciate simplicity in machines. For a long time I thought of a skateboard as the simplest one for transport but this got me thinking.
You can absolutely bunny hop (and so much more). With a 24″ or larger wheel, you can pretty confidently do short trips. If you're looking to do a few kms, 27.5″ is the sweet spot I've settled on for the size/speed/comfort trade-off.
Where I live you're even permitted to take them on the bus/train, assuming you're not being too much of a pain. Unicycles are specifically outlined in the terms.
This is exactly why I just bought one! I take the bus to work, but I live about 1.5k from the nearest bus stop and it's pretty flat.
Unfortunately it's just starting to be icy here so I probably won't be able to make much use of it for several months, but at least it's something to look forward to!
You can bunny-hop to go up curbs. I've witnessed a friend go up an entire staircase (something like 60 steps I think) doing it. He then proceeded to ride straight down without issue (somehow).
Spotify is so cheap that it is worth it for the convenience alone. Not to mention Spotify is legal while piracy is not.
However, I agree that if you enjoy music (or any other art/content) someone produces, it’s only fair (and natural) to support them in a more direct way.
I suppose the qualifier here is "there's no moral point in paying for streaming". If you're fine listening to your favorite artist but paying Taylor Swift for your convineinece, cool.
You'll benefit the artist much more by throwing a real dollar at them and pirating their music.
EnGenius EWS377AP WiFi 6 4x4... Been pretty good for a few years now... Considering going back to Ubiquiti for Wifi 7 at some point, but this has been good enough for my needs, and my work/personal desktops are all wired 10/2.5gb so no real issues practically.
It doesn't reach as far outside of my home as my older Ubiquiti AP seemed to reach though... I could get almost a block away before my phone would drop when driving. Now it cuts out in the driveway... and less than halfway into the back yard... single AP on middle of second floor ceiling. Had considered additional unit for back yard coverage.
Doesn’t really surprise me. I remember reading the article linked below from which I quote:
> Forced to raise their game, carmakers are only now realizing they cannot repeat past mistakes such as letting others build up parts and services businesses off the back of their core product. "They stole the business from us," Martinet says, referencing as an example windshield replacement companies. "So I don't want them to steal the next one."
Xavier Martinet is the President and CEO of Hyundai Motor Europe.
That's an insane way of looking at it. One of the reasons I'll never be a CEO, I guess. "Why are they making money off of our broken shit, we should be making that money fixing our broken shit instead". Like, talk about perverse incentives. Seems like the kind of thing that should be regulated.
Yep, I'm sure that part of the reason luxury vehicles break so easily (considering their cost) and are so expensive to fix is that HQ is handing out revenue to dealerships in the form of repairs. I've had simple stuff break on a BMW that never failed on any of the cheaper cars I've owned. And it was hundreds or thousands of dollars to fix.
Windshield and brakes are normal service items though.
They're not talking about making money selling broken shit. They're talking about forcing you to give them a cut every time you do normal service things with the product (something they have much more fine grained control over).
They're angry that Jiffy Lube exists, not that autobody shops exist.
IDK about the European market but US OEMs don't really want to be in the business of fixing things. GM for example DGAF about dealer service departments. They're happy to sell replacement parts and make pennies doing it but they see themselves as being in the new cars and car financing business. When they sell shit that breaks they don't do it so you can pay to fix it. They'd much rather the dealer try to sell you a new car.
It's the mindset of being as lazy as possible to achieve the most reward. That is a useful mindset to have to some extent, but excessive laziness can be detrimental, even harmful to other people especially when companies are seeking to manipulate the economic and regulatory conditions without producing new wealth.
Economists have a term for this called "rent-seeking", and even endorsed by society at large at time, such as land speculation and NIMBYism.
Yep, and looking at this and every other mega-company...
Is that capitalism itself, once at the top, encourages and benefits neo-feudalism.
Feudalism itself is the creation of 'city states' where the lord has all the power over his subjects, and then does token nice things for them. Neo because it uses computers with DRM to enforce the real owner's wishes, instead of guards or servants.
Now we see all the biggies engaging in this techno-feudalism because people are trapped into ecosystems, or people did not understand what a "sale" really meant (it was IMHO, a fraudulent sale). And international laws thatcame out from the US's DMCA are a specific reason why this is even allowed to exist.
Competition is considered good by proponents if capitalism. But when you're on top, competition means to take you down a notch. So, erecting walls and feudalist digital-states is how you stay on top.
Laws are how we can start attacking these horrific structures. But at least for 3 more years in the USA, I'm not seeing it. Hell, we can't even hold fast with 'keep ACA benefits', let alone pro-human laws.
Hyundai has a pretty average or bad reliability reputation, especially with engines with a lot of problematic ones, and has only managed to be average since a few years.
I had a car with a Hyundai engine. We loved that car. Unfortunately, we did not love the engine. At only 90k miles, it started burning 1 quart of oil every 1000 miles.
I want to be clear that I know what I'm doing around cars and an meticulous with regular maintenance, so this wasn't caused by neglect.
Doing some research online, it turns out this happens to pretty much all of them at some point after the warranty is up. There is also a separate issue with these engines where they randomly grenade themselves which caused a class action lawsuit.
These issues are so common that you simply cannot buy a replacement engine from Hyundai, because there are no more left. There are remanufactured ones available, but they cost more than the car is likely worth, even before labor.
Anecdote but I've been super happy with my 2010 Santa Fe. It's at 135k miles and has had zero issues with the drivetrain. In fact literally the only problem with the car after 15 years is that one of the passenger doors no longer automatically locks.
I sometimes tell myself maybe I should buy an EV, but then realize I can drive this thing for another 50k miles, which I'll probably end up doing.
GM hos long had the same. Even in cases where GM has had toyota put a GM name on a car the GM is rated 3 stars and the Toyota name is rated 5. thus I put little weight on rattings
This. Current generation has failing ICCU's at staggering numbers. They replace them but haven't confirmed they fixed design issues. At least $2-3k.
Older ones (Kona) has reduction gear with some design flaw and Hyundai recommend changing its oil. Aaaaand it fails right at around 100k when most warranties lapse (cleverly their 8yr warranty is only for battery - likely most reliable component).
Bonus: just seen today Mercedes EQS has a motor seal design issue that at around 120kkm causes coolant intrusion. Tesla had same issue, but at least it was permanently fixable (aka coolant delete).
From my esperience, Hyundai has never been a reliable brand. Thankfully it seems these anti+ownership scams have been most common to brands who are unable to make worthwhile vehicles, At least for now.
Had a Kia (Hyundai's sister brand) towed recently. Tow truck driver knew right where it needed to go for service, I asked him if he tows Kias a lot, and his answer was "Just Hyundais and Kias all day". (Car is about five years old.)
Meanwhile, my Toyota is having its first major problem, it's age twelve, and I'm hoping to drive it until it's old enough to drive.
In case of YouTube I wouldn’t be so sure. Yes, it’s the central hub for making your name but many YouTubers came up with their own platforms for exclusive content to have more control over their business once they got big. PeerTube is inline with that idea and because of that might be promoted by big creators soon.
I think you’re missing a forest for the trees. Android desktop and iPadOS are the same thing. Next-gen OSes with advantages stemming from their different paradigm at the cost of control/freedom. It’s happening slowly but IMO the end game isn’t to merge macOS with iPadOS, it’s to make macOS obsolete and deprecate it once possible.
I don't disagree. I just don't think these "next-gen OSes" are going to stand in the long run. I'm optimistic that the current situation where we're buying $1000+ devices, handicapped, but perfectly capable of much more, is gonna change sooner or later. At the moment, Android desktop seems like the most likely candidate, it could see a lot of 3rd party support.
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