If you do get an e bike later know that some brands are very bad with reliability and support so you can end up with a $2000 brick on wheels. Case in point: Rad Power Bikes, their batteries can die just a year after purchase even with good maintenance and their support will simply ignore you if you try to claim a warranty repair/replacement.

The Zacua only goes up 85kph. While it may be good for intra city driving it may not be ideal for much else, even in Mexico with somewhat lower max road speeds.

You know LoRa hardware is getting cheaper and the reliability of these TVs are just terrible. This is likely to happen sooner rather than later. For now just don’t plug it in to WiFi unless you’re willing to go further and desolder its module? I don’t think we can do much via legislation other than write to our congressional reps.

What happens when it no longer needs your WiFi and uses something like LoRa to phone home with your data and location? It may not know who you are exactly but it’ll have a good guess.

It’s already started for me today. Teams now snitches on those who are remote and there’s no way to shut it off. My status is no longer just “Available”, it’s now “Available, Out of office”. Fuck Microsoft!

It does sound pretty marketable. Hope it gains traction.

The Alamo’s a story of American expansionism by an ungrateful group of settlers welcomed by Mexico.

Mint with Cinnamon is great if you like the start menu style of Windows 7/10. Generally speaking Linux distros are mostly the same under the hood.

I built my Gen Z nephew a PC with a GTX 950 a few years back. When I went by to gift him a new video card I found out that he hooked up his video output from the motherboard the whole time. Don’t know how that reflects on all kids from his generation but it was kinda funny.

Imagine how far you can go on 8GB of RAM if every piece of software were still well optimized and free of bloat.

I didn’t realize they were like Apple. Is there a source you have I could check out?

This is why I don’t mourn Western car companies getting slaughtered by Chinese EVs. They can’t really provide value by nickel and diming customers with subscriptions for components already installed on their privacy-invading overpriced cars.

Y’all should read Unauthorized Bread from Cory Doctorow. This hits so close to home.

And it’s better implemented than LA’s. Our system has stations in the middle of barren areas in many places. NIMBYism is a cancer in California.

As opposed to just using a flip phone? I’d happily use a FOSS based Linux phone if it were well developed and readily available.

Some of us are from there. We can’t all be that bad.

It doesn’t hurt to hide or disguise the cameras to make them difficult to spot. That way, burglars wouldn’t even try to find and break their server if they’re not noticed.

I thought OneDrive was a Windows thing. What’s it doing on Linux?

I recommend Linux Mint. It’s very beginner friendly and you don’t need to use the console too much if that kind of thing bothers you. The GUI even looks very similar to a Windows 10 environment.

Pop-tarts are dumplings for sure. They’re cooked dough wrapped around a filling.