This undercover warranty investigation is a one-year follow-up from our series that investigated ASUS for motherboards incinerating AMD CPUs, at the end of which ASUS promised a number of improvements to its then-anti-consumer warranty processes. Spoiler alert: They’re still anti-consumer. We sent our ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme...
The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...
We've also got an updated aero bike from 3T, another 3D-printed saddle that weighs just 100g and new lids from Rudy Project to tell you about this week
The light is a gimmick, because red light being cast onto a person isn’t very visible. I DO, however, love the Nitecore BR25 front light, which makes your body and bike visible from the front and side as it casts down.
If you actually want to be seen from behind, you should have reflectors around your ankles so the movement and brightness will catch the attention of those behind you.
It’s crazy that modern pedals do away with those reflectors, which would arguably be safer to have on your bike than a flashing light.
Nurse practitioners could help fill the void, advocates for the profession say, if more provinces would adopt policies to integrate them into primary care and pay them fairly for their work. Some physicians’ organizations have pushed back against that approach, arguing that NPs don’t have as much training or education as...
For RC car batteries, you need something called a “bat-safe”, which will also filter the smoke to a certain extent.
In the case of an E-bike or e-scooter, those batteries are far too big, and often integrated into the frame, which makes them nearly impossible to fully protect without total isolation.
This is why if ANY government is serious about reaching climate targets, achieving “vision zero” goals, or improving the quality of life of their people, they should be highly subsidizing the industry and also offering rebates to anyone (including businesses) who wants an e-bike.
Even just nixing one road expansion project could likely pay for tens of thousands of e-bikes in a region.
While I am a Cyclist™ and truly enjoy leg power to get me all over the place, if I were to get an e-bike, it would for sure help with those errands that are 30km+ away. Even shorter errands where I’d prefer to get to my destination in regular clothes would be easy with an e-bike.
Not just that, but it also puts significantly less wear and tear on the road vs cars. So you can save money there by getting more people to bike.
Yeah, there was a video or podcast, I forgot from whom, where they talked about costs. They showed that cycling infrastructure actually MAKES cities money, and car infrastructure always loses money.
When you factor in lowered healthcare costs, less infrastructure costs, increased local business and community involvement, more equitable transportation options, and climate - giving everyone an ebike could be one of the best things that any place could possibly do.
I love that modern cities like Paris and Amsterdam and unfucking their transportation system by making fewer car roads available (or making them narrow, rather than expanding them) and putting an emphasis on cycling and other forms of micro and public transportation.
Every city in the world should be following their lead.
Look, if the excuse is a lack is resources, we need to up fines and tickets for people caught breaking the law.
The bulk of police funding should be coming from fines, not taxpayers. Those fines would pay for more police, which would result in more fines. It’s a simple system.
For example, the maximum fine for a conviction of theft over $5000 is up to $5000 with or without a jail sentence. Why not make it $15,000 or $50,000? Fighting crime shouldn’t be at a loss to society, it should generate enough revenue to at least cover the costs, unless the city’s crime rate drops so low that law enforcement isn’t needed.
Anyway, good on these folks. We need more people taking the law into their own hands, since it seems to be the only option available!
do you re-watch enough YT videos that you need to archive your subscriptions?
Well, if I can get it working, I would much rather be watching via Jellyfin on my TV and not whatever crappy, privacy-invading, ad-shoving Youtube app I’m forced to use.
But realistically, I want to keep some how-to / maintenance videos archived, because I’ve lost track of how many times they went “private” and can’t be accessed anymore. Some really niche product use/maintenance videos tend to disappear.
I have no real interest in data hoarding vlogs or other crap. Just informational stuff.
Well. I just installed it and the folder/file structure is definitely better! Now I have to figure out how to get Jellyfin to “see” the download directory. LOL
Thanks for pointing me to another solution.
EDIT: Got that sorted out. Goddamn, it just works! Thank you!
As frustrations for Canadians grow along with grocery store bills, some say Canadians are ready to think outside the big box store when heading out for groceries.
Our mission is to make the skies available for everyone with our safe personal electric aerial vehicle.
NO. PLEASE DON’T.
I don’t trust people in vehicles that are grounded to the road and don’t have propellers 360 around them. There’s no way in hell I want to see these anywhere near public spaces.
But they are cool. No doubt about that. Keep these in Dakar or the Mojave Desert.
Since the start of Ottawa’s $10-a-day program, Sandra Christian has had many families leave her private child-care centre in B.C. for a spot in a subsidized centre....
some of these families have said the money they’ve saved on child care has helped them buy a second property.
If this is true, everyone should be furious. We’ve been trying to find childcare for our two grandkids for YEARS. Their mother is in healthcare, and if we weren’t able to care for them (at our loss), she wouldn’t be able to work or survive.
Why are daycare services even offered to families who aren’t in desperate need? Those families can afford a babysitter.
Single parent homes, low-income homes, parents who work in an industry in crisis (education, healthcare, etc.) should be at the top of the list for $10 a day childcare.
Not only was I spending 100% of my grocery budget at a Loblaws owned store, but I can probably count on one hand how many times I’ve visited one in the last 6 years.
Switching to alternative stores saved me thousands over the years.
The major downside is it just doesn’t “feel” as responsive as a chain. I don’t quite know how to describe it, it’s not like there is a bunch of stretch in the belt or anything, but it just feels different in a way I don’t entirely love.
From what I heard, a belt drive has an efficiency loss that’s greater than a chain drive, so that’s what you could be feeling. The energy you put in isn’t being translated into the same energy output you’d get from a chain.
ASUS Scammed Us (www.youtube.com)
This undercover warranty investigation is a one-year follow-up from our series that investigated ASUS for motherboards incinerating AMD CPUs, at the end of which ASUS promised a number of improvements to its then-anti-consumer warranty processes. Spoiler alert: They’re still anti-consumer. We sent our ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme...
1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...
A bike light that promises to get you seen "5.5 times sooner", plus a hologram-powered smart bike, propeller-powered Seabike + loads more tech news from 3T, Oakley, Continental + more (road.cc)
We've also got an updated aero bike from 3T, another 3D-printed saddle that weighs just 100g and new lids from Rudy Project to tell you about this week
Could nurse practitioners fill the primary care gap? (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Nurse practitioners could help fill the void, advocates for the profession say, if more provinces would adopt policies to integrate them into primary care and pay them fairly for their work. Some physicians’ organizations have pushed back against that approach, arguing that NPs don’t have as much training or education as...
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Burning LiPO Batteries • IMPORTANT LESSONS LEARNED • Do LiPO Bags Actually Work? (www.youtube.com)
Why these immigrants to Canada say they're thinking about leaving, or have already moved on (www.ctvnews.ca)
For some immigrants, their dreams of permanently settling in Canada have taken an unexpected twist.
'Pretty remarkable': UBC study finds e-bike rebates led to decreased car use (bc.ctvnews.ca)
Toronto couple recovers stolen vehicle on their own (toronto.citynews.ca)
Tube archivist + Jellyfin. Anyone have luck getting thumbnails and titles working?
I’ve tried a few jellyfin plugins that are supposed to sync metadata and thumbnails from tube archivist, but it’s just not working right....
Americans have now spent all $2.1 trillion of their pandemic savings, San Francisco Fed says (fortune.com)
Small grocers, co-ops receiving boost from Loblaw boycott: ‘A lot of anger’ | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
As frustrations for Canadians grow along with grocery store bills, some say Canadians are ready to think outside the big box store when heading out for groceries.
Watch the Newest Version of the 'Jetson One' Personal Jet Phenomenon in Action (www.autoevolution.com)
Subsidized child care not helping low-income families: operators (www.canadianaffairs.news)
Since the start of Ottawa’s $10-a-day program, Sandra Christian has had many families leave her private child-care centre in B.C. for a spot in a subsidized centre....
Anyone else doing the Loblaws boycott?
Is anyone else boycotting Loblaws? I don’t have many alternatives, but I’m doing my best to take my business elsewhere.
How many of you have something with a belt drive? What do you think of it? Any regrets?
cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/18598029...