It's annoying when people complain that my content is "too eurocentric". And after making my Shinjuku station video a lot of people are saying that "finally" there's some "non-eurocentric" content. 🙄
I make videos about MY experiences in cities. I don't summarize a bunch of facts you could easily find on Wikipedia, Twitter, or news articles, and then lazily recite it over stock footage.
I actually GO to places, experience them in person, and over 90% of my videos is footage I filmed myself.
@notjustbikes From another angle, it means you're respected as a world-class authority to the point where people just assume you're an international team!
@notjustbikes I find your videos insightful and I like watching them. In many cases, I put them in my bibliography to later link them in posts, as they are way better than my abilities to express the same thing in text.
Nearly 3 million people pass through Shinjuku Station every day, which is an insane number. But despite the massive number of people transported, the area around Shinjuku supports some great urbanism, with vibrant street life and lots of independent shops
My first video from my trip to Japan is now up on Patreon and Nebula.
I visited the world's busiest train station, Shinjuku station in Tokyo. This station transports 3 MILLION people every day!
Shinjuku station is really interesting because it isn’t just a ridiculously efficient transportation hub, it’s also an excellent example of how an effective train station can make the surrounding neighbourhood truly great.
These guys actually tracked down a copy of Archie (including the source code) and now have a public Archie server back online!
Archie was the Internet's first search engine (before the web existed). I remember using it in the early 90s.
It's pretty funny how usable 90s tech is: imagine, a search engine that just gives you direct links to file downloads without any other nonsense involved!
What's crazy is that China is subsidizing the shit out of EVs, but also that Chinese EVs are also just way the fuck better than everybody else's.
Legacy manufacturers are just handing the market over the China. They're going to try to ban them with import taxes, but eventually the Chinese automakers will take over.
Of course, all of this will ultimately suck for cities where we need fewer cars, not different cars.
@notjustbikes not only EVs, asia is absolutely styling on on everyone else in terms of mopeds as well.
Gogoro is making mopeds that are borderline scifi and have deployed a really good battery swapping system in like 10 countries, it's despicable that the EU hasn't even started working on its own battery swap standard..
@notjustbikes@implicitdeny There are "USB-PD breakout boards" that allow you to just get a requested voltage and amperage out of a USB-PD power supply and those aren't too expensive iirc, so combining that with another negotiator shouldn't be too expensive
@krt3k yeah, I know they exist. I own lots of them! 😁
But the trickier part is re-negotiating USB-PD to the phone. This isn't rocket science, and just would require a microcontroller and another USB-PD chip, but the cost would add up for a low volume commercial product.