My local bike shop guy heard about my quixotic quest to adapt a 40 spoke Sturmey Archer hub to a 36 spoke rim with machined adapter plates, and give me another hub to play with.
It looked nice on the outside, but it did not make the expected ratcheting sound that a freewheeling hub should make when spun. It also did not work correctly.
I thought maybe it would just be full of gummed up grease inside so I poured a bunch of paint thinner in there and let it sit, but that did not fix it, so I disassembled it and found it to be extremely crusty, rusty, and gunky inside.
I'm going to try to make it work again, even though this hub still won't work on my bike because it's drilled for 28 spokes lol. It just seems fun to see if I can clean it up and fix it.
Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots. This is a great reason to ditch windows altogether. Switch to #Linux 🧑💻 They don’t care about your privacy or safety anymore and not hiding it either. Source https://youtu.be/uHEPBzYick0?si=2ekH11gESoyDeq3D
@verge PSA there are a few tools out there that can mass delete/edit comments. I changed my thousands of comments to a an NYT excerpt to encourage DCMA takedowns against Reddit.
this is a World War II simulator series, originally released in the 90s, each which is a tactical RTS
price: individually, each game is C$7.79, but there’s currently a -15% discount at C$6.62. You can also buy all games as part of a bundle, which has a regular price of C$38.95, but there’s currrently a -43% discount, available right now at C$22.20
I’m also grouping the following games together since they’re part of the same series:
a fantasy turn-based strategy series where empires struggle for supreme power
price: individually, each game is C$7.79, but there’s currently a -15% discount at C$6.62. You can also buy all games as part of a bundle, which has a regular price of C$15.58, but there’s currrently a -32% discount, available right now at C$10.60
a first person interactive thriller about a sea explorer and the mystery of her father’s disappearance, featuring low poly cell-shaded graphics with attractive dithering
gamepad supporded
price: C$6.49, but currently discounted -15% and selling for C$5.51
i can’t sleep because i finally understood that a woman i met a few months ago heard I was autistic, and that’s WHY she was treating me a little like a 10 yr old who needed a lot of care and attention and explanation (honestly i loved it)
I just had a conversation with a guy who said, “Yeah, well I’m a capitalist.”
So I asked, “Okay, how much capital do you have?”
Boy, oh boy, does that question put things in perspective. He became a caricature of an old Warner Brothers cartoon character, trying to compose himself as he fumbled for words, all while he avoided actually answering the question.
So I simply repeated the question. I highly recommend.
@martin_piper@MattMerk Capital implies having assets that contribute to income/profit. It's a great question, because it's not just about money, it's a question of control. How much of the means of production do you have? Do you have an investment property? Do you have stocks? Do you own a factory? My guess is a lot of people who call themselves capitalists are probably at the mercy of people with a lot more capital.
@arstechnica PSA, you can run your own private streaming server. It's a tad complicated, but you can pay people on fiverr to do it for next to nothing for you. AMA.
@mighty_orbot@ben@mighty_orbot@ben The argument isn't about profit, which is pretty clearly outlined. OpenAI's explicit and ultimate intent is to replace people and in the meantime it's spitting out garbage information.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell@notjustbikes FYI Vaush was caught with "lolli" porn, he has also abused women in the past. Used to love him before discovering that.