I like foldables, but I won’t be getting another one until Samsung and other OEMs dramatically overhaul their design and durability. When a ribbon connector went bad, they required repair companies to replace the two screens and hinge, a $600 repair on a phone worth $400. The ribbon connector is a 20¢ component, if that. I ended up getting a Motorola on sale for $250 that can do most of what high end flagships can do.
If it were me, I’d still change it. That sounds like something is wearing out, not something you want to surprise you when you are traveling downhill at speed.
They must be mounted to poles just like traffic lights. Then, people can’t mess with them. Or just do my favorite method: narrow the shit out of roads until it is physically impossible to speed. Make the sidewalks and protected bike lanes massive, and the curbs lined with beautiful, reinforced steel poles painted to match the city they are adorning.
Throw around some steel planters that burst with flowers and trees, and also happen to weigh over a metric ton. Add BRT lanes with buses that carry cameras that automatically ticket cars in the bus and bike lanes. These problems are quite solvable and have been solved in NA and EU cities already.
The best thing is that these changes open a city up to being walkable and really pretty, especially with lots of greenery and landscaping being put in on previously busy roads. We have giant granite boulders and native plants on several of our major roads, now. It’s done wonders to control speeding. :)
I always recommend this site: https://theteahouseltd.com/
We’ve visited them in person and their tea was so fantastic that even non-tea people loved it. They ship worldwide. I tend to order in bulk these years.
Only one tea has ever come close, and it was a small Asian restaurant out of Vancouver, BC. This store has dozens of amazing varieties.
We just have an instant hot water tap. Can’t live without it, haha.
Nobody shot off fireworks here because of the grave situation in our country. Just an eerie hush over the city. We’ve lived here for 60 years and never seen anything like 2025.
One lady saw me locking my bike up with 12mm thick chain and expressed sadness that we have to go to such lengths as a society just to keep others from touching things that aren’t theirs. I sometimes think of her now when I’m locking up my bike.
Doubly sad too, since some people don’t have cars, and bikes are their primary means of transit.
If you have to hope, it probably doesn’t.
I miss the worm lights. My cousin had one, and even though I had the Advance SP, I thought the worm LED was super neat.
Er, sorry. Misspoke. Ground-based telescopes!
My buddy started balding at 16. He held on for a number of years, but eventually we helped him rip the bandaid off and he shaved himself bald. Instantly looked younger again just because he didn’t have a ring of hair at 27 anymore. Honestly, it can look really cool if you shave it.
Poor man. I wish the Project Veritas “journalist” a very interesting life for inflicting so much pain and suffering on some normal person.
The other thing that’s kinda cool is that you get to see a bunch of people who normally are kinda invisible, but make up a considerable part of your city and life. It’s incredibly fun to see people from all walks of life and backgrounds all having fun together. It makes us all stronger and more unified. It reminds me that we absolutely can do anything when we all work together as a team. Also, about 60% of the crowd there is probably running your city’s IT infrastructure ;)
Also, the triangle part is just really cool as well. I love both, but the progress pride one feels much more officially flaggy to me :)
Gearing, tires, and geometry make all the difference in the world.
My Transition Sentinel is only geared for mountain biking. It’s a terrible city bike. Tons of shock, high torque gears for steep hills, cannot go very fast. But it’s insane when you need to climb or descend mountains. It has knobby, 2.4in tires.
My city bike is an ebike, and even though it’s a single speed, it’s pretty comfortable going between 10-30mph on that gear alone. The battery allows me to haul lots of groceries or baggage (and climb steep hills), and it’s tires are wide enough to not get stuck in tram rails or gaps in the concrete road. I have knobby tires to avoid popping tires, but smoother, thinner tires will be more efficient.
Edit: if you have a shock, try locking it out if it has lockout.
I’d also recommend checking out city bikes, such as road, gravel, and upright bikes. There’s an incredible amount of diversity, and a downhill mountain bike is about as far from a road bike as one can get. One can roll over a rock the size of a watermelon, the other can coast for meters off of a pedal stroke. Ebikes also are phenomenal as car replacements (or even just as car offsets), but generally cost $1,500+ with tariffs.
I lived too close to a hospital. Apparently, the road I lived next to was the road that all fire, EMS, and police used. Tons of sirens at all hours of the night and day. I toured the place on a quiet day, so it never occurred to me about the noise. That was a bit of a suffer fest.
One funny thing about that place, someone always swore consistently on the street between 17:00-20:00 each evening. It was always someone new, but it was like clockwork. Guests wouldn’t believe it at first, but it became a thing, lol. Sometimes it was someone on a skateboard eating shit in the protected bike lane, other times it was a pissed off pedestrian, someone having an argument, someone having fun, or someone clearly off their medication. No apartment has had that before or since.
The book is so good, I don’t know if I wanna see the movie.
Black mesa is worth it, full price. I played both the OG and black mesa back to back. Fantastic game!
Sweater weather. I already didn’t like the downtempo vibe, but it got painfully overplayed back in the day. Unfortunately, I still hear it occasionally. Anything but that, please.
I don’t really like it, but sometimes those types of cases are the only good ones with radiator clearance in a relatively small footprint.
I still miss this one, it was all metal and very close to an Apple G5 case, minus the compatibility issues.
Unfortunately, this case also couldn’t support radiators in any meaningful capacity, so I had to sell it. Currently using a Lian li case that I dislike, but it has damn good radiator support, and my PC is now completely silent.