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sam

@sam@social.coop

Cooperator :TwinPines:, neo-luddite 🔨, Atlantan, solidarity forever 🌹, probably wants to be out swing or blues dancing 🕺, backpacking ⛺🥾, climbing 🧗, or mountain biking 🚵.

#biking #bicycles #climbing #bouldering #coops #backpacking #Atlanta #nobot #nobridge

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meganL, to random
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Community participation:

What are your favorite non-monopoly places to shop online? Bonus if they're actually also really cool businesses?

Help folks discover non-Amazon, non-Walmart stores!

Ones I use include:

American Science & Surplus: https://sciplus.com/

Stonemountain & Daughter https://stonemountainfabric.com/

Davis Food Co-op (not mail order, but you can still do "curbside" pick-up) https://davisfood.coop/

sam,
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@DemonHusky @esnyder @meganL +1 for McMaster-Carr. I live near one of their facilities so I can just drive out there to pick up anything I order. It used to be that "shipping" was some guy from the factory showing up in his personal car on his way home from work with your stuff in the trunk. They do normal shipping with UPS or whomever these days, but it was always fun. Also if you ask sometimes they'll custom make some of the things they do in house if they don't have the measurements you need.

sam,
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@DemonHusky @esnyder @meganL (they also sell some weird stuff you wouldn't expect like these awesome factory-floor cargo-trikes: https://www.mcmaster.com/products/tricycles/ )

sam, to random
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What payment methods do people frequently use that can be signed up for without an app?

So far I've tried:
Zelle but it's not supported by my bank or credit union, cashapp but it doesn't have a webapp and requires iphone or android, venmo thinks my phone number isn't a mobile one (presumably they don't allow verification with VOIP numbers, but that's all I have).

This is why I'll never successfully be able to run a small business.

sam, to solar
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Can you spot the difference? Yes, the day is finally here (well, technically it's not yet, the electrician is coming out to do the interconnect with Georgia Power tomorrow)! I'm so excited that GeorgiaBright (free loans for solar installs if you're below a certain income threshold so you don't have any upfront payment) made this possible for me, I never thought I'd be able to do it!

The same small white house, but now the right half of the roof is covered in solar panels.

sam,
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After some confusion with the inspector (who came out but didn't tell me, so I was still waiting for a call), I just walked outside and flipped the big satisfying switch! Power is flowing!

ascentale, to random
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Hopefully your interactions with others who drive cars on the road are not all bad!

Q8. What are some positive interactions you've had with drivers while riding?

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

sam,
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@ascentale A8. This wasn't one I experienced personally, I think I heard it on the Family Pedals podcast a while back, but I can't remember. Whatever it was, the host described riding along with her kids on the back of the cargo bike and someone rolling down their window and shouting "Are you from the future‽"

I think about that driver a lot and how much I hope they're right!

ascentale, to random
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@sam wonders how to respond after a bad driver interaction:

Q6. When you have a dangerous interaction with a driver that doesn't involve a crash (drivers throwing things, pulling in front of you and getting out of their car and attempting to stop your bike, etc.) do you call the police, file a report later, get away and then do nothing, or something else? What factors go into making your decision?

#BikeNite #BikeNiteQ

sam,
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@moira @ascentale yah, I normally have "don't call the cops for anything, they'll either do nothing or make it way worse" kind of views, but I kind of think more drivers at least need police reports filed against them for stuff like this just to normalize it a bit and have whatever cop at a desk at least remember that bikes are a thing that technically they're supposed to care about every few days, so I keep going back and forth.

sam,
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@moira @ascentale oh wow, that's a bad one! I'm glad you're okay. So far I've been lucky and never been actually hit except at very slow speeds (though I've had some very close calls at high speed).

ascentale, to random
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Next question is from @meganL about national cycling advocacy organizations:

Q3. What advocacy item would you like the League of American Bicyclists (or whatever your national/local cycle advocacy group is) to add to their lobbying agenda?

sam,
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@ai6yr @ascentale @meganL oooh, yes, bicycle parking is a good one! Almost no business around here has a bike rack and I'm always shocked that when they're developing new shopping malls and stuff they don't just take one car parking space and fill it with racks so you could get like 10 bikes in there plus a few cargo bikes spaces on the ends. Having someone advocating for municipalities to include this in the requirements to get development permits would be amazing.

sam, to GNOME
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Every now and then I think I should go back to using because it would be simpler than my own weird mix of Mate and i3 and look a lot nicer, and then I try one of their apps… I just tried out their official Markdown editor and it starts running noticeably slowly (menus don't respond, the rendering preview gets locked up, etc.). This is on a very fast laptop and this is just a text editor. This matches my previous experiences running gnome years ago. Maybe I'll go with something else…

sam,
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@gnomelibre yah, that's the one. It's not every gnome app, but I've had similar experiences with a lot of them (and with just using gnome itself. I don't know if it's a python thing (which I think is what Apostrophe is written in, IIRC), a GTK thing, or what, but if you have to have a recent computer to use a text editor we're really failing way more than I thought we were. Honestly, my computer isn't latest top of the line, but it's pretty good too.

sam,
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@nekohayo @gnomelibre I don't really know what you'd need for this or how this works in the Python/GTK ecosystem, but thank you! That's really very kind of you and a great service!

sam,
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@nekohayo @gnomelibre I can provide os and package info (https://share.riseup.net/#7evaE8je0xyLw4tVqqDuRg) but I'm not sure about the rest of it; despite having been in this industry in the past, consider me a non-technical user for the purpose of this as this is all well outside my field. There's no specific steps to reproduce, just from the moment of opening it many things are randomly very laggy. Animations seem particularly bad, and this is not a particularly old or slow computer (i7 vPro 8th gen, 16 gigs ram).

sam,
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@nekohayo thank you, that seems to have done it! Animations are still unbearably slow but something as simple as pressing the menu button doesn't seem to be freezing up anymore!

sam,
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@nekohayo like when you open and close panes and what not. Actually, I thought I had turned off animations, so I'm not sure if it's ignoring that setting because it's got a bunch of custom widges, if that only applied to gtk3, or if I just re-installed my system at some point and forgot to re-do that (or if I just made that up entirely). I should try to figure that out again.

I think it's intel, but I'm not sure? I didn't do anything special, so I'm assuming it's whatever the default is.

sam,
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@nekohayo whoa, this is pretty nifty, I had no idea this was all built in here! I don't see anything about LLVMpipe:

GL_VENDOR=Intel
GL_RENDERER=Mesa Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
GL_VERSION=4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 24.0.6-arch1.2
Vulkan Device=None

Matt_Noyes, to random
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@emi @sam @flancian @dphiffer @ansate @hollie @django @katanova

CWG ops team meeting tomorrow morning at the usual time (7pt, 8mt, 10et, 16cet), but we do need to find a time that works for everyone.

I will post an agenda in Loomio. The basics are:
>check-ins,
>compensation log,
>reports and registration issues (we can talk about onboarding here)
>Ops team elections
>updates from TWG and OC
>other issues
> task list

sam,
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@flancian @hollie @Matt_Noyes @emi @dphiffer @ansate @django @katanova I figured out how to add this to your meet.coop list of rooms on the home page if anyone wants it there! Just message me your meet.coop username and I'll add you. If you don't have a meet.coop account I can dig up the registration form as well if you'd like to be able to make your own rooms for personal use!

sam, to random
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The bike shops I've applied to have offered the same as I was making at or better. Except one yesterday offered me less and no other benefits and then seemed shocked when I asked about healthcare. The owner seemed to care about his employees, but was also confused about not being able to find anyone. I get that bike shops as a business model just don't work in the U.S., but where do places like this expect to find workers with no rent to pay or other bills at all?

sam,
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In the U.S. most people who have money treat like toys, and the people commuting with them generally are doing it because they don't have money for a car so no one is willing to pay much for repairs. At the same time bicycle infrastructure and other amenities that would make a location good for a bike shop bring rent prices way up, selling bicycles is very low overhead, and you have to keep most of your money tied up in huge inventories. It's just not a viable business model.

sam,
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@chris__martin yah, that's pretty common; sorry you had that experience. There are problems with liability there that make a lot of shops not work on department store ones, unfortunately (most of them are designed to be ridden about 100 miles and then literally fall apart, and if the shop was the last place that touched it and then it breaks it can be a problem).

sam,
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@chris__martin There's also the issue of reputation, a lot of shops get bad reviews ie. "I just wanted my shifting fixed and it's no better" because no matter what those bikes can't be fixed due to the quality of the components, so working on them can cause a lot of damage to a shop.

Not that it makes it any better that they turned you away, really sorry that happened, just to explain why it normally happens.

sam,
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@chris__martin if you're looking for a place, I'd recommend seeking out a DIY bike co-op in your city. I volunteer at the one here and we work on those sorts of bikes because our mission is to help low income people who have to buy them for affordability reasons out, so we work on them a lot (whether the person is low-income or not, obviously).

sam,
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@sanedragon sort of, I always tell people to buy used if they can. The cheapest new bike that won't just fall apart is about $500 or somewhere in there, but if you have someone with expertise to help examine the bike for you, which is a big "if" I know, you can get a $200 bike that's a few years old, a $100 tune up and have high end components and a nice frame! Probably depends where you are, but a few used shops around here have great old bikes for super cheap!

sam,
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@chris__martin hah, nice, I've got to remember that if I ever start my own shop

sam,
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@robryk @sanedragon oh I love that idea! I would love to see something like that around here where buyers know that a mechanic has looked it over and sellers get the benefit of more buyers browsing all at once!

ntnsndr, to random
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One of the nice things about 24-hour time is that when it is 17:01, the workday is over.

This is a Star Trek reference.

sam,
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@ntnsndr I don't actually get this, but I feel like I should?

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