Spyke

Replies

Comment on

Three days riding an electric unicycle

Hi! Nice progres! The pain you feel is normal, you're using your legs in a way your body isn't used to. It should resolve itself after some time. I suggest you practice braking at some point, imo the most important skill. The more you get comfortable at higher speeds, the more you need to be able to lean way back to brake. Also, which model EUC do you have? You should try to experiment with the pedal hardness setting. This can greatly modify the feel and each person likes different feels. I personally prefered stiffer pedals while learning, but now I'm full on noodle mode (very soft) unless I'm goint in trails.

I'm 40 years old, so I can understand you, but I'd say that the community average is a bit older than me. You'll eventually get legs of steel.

My only downside about EUC is the gear. Having to put on and off all the gear when I get out is sometimes annoying, but necessary. Besides that, it's the most versatile, powerful, with the most range for the small package that it is. And by far the most fun mean of transportation there is imo. At some point it becomes intuitive and an extension of your body, it's a great feeling.

Comment on

I'm getting an electric unicycle

Reply in thread

Some of our best riders here use work boots. I personally think they don't protect the ankle enough. I currently use the Falco Advantour 2 boots. They are between motorcycle boots that offer no ankle twist protection and full on MTX rigid boots. I'd like to find wider boots with the same amount of protection though.

Comment on

Take that, China!

Reply in thread

When the US was just helping them (even though they could have done much more), it showed the world that the US and it's allies were unified and willing to defend. That was way more terrifying for any opposing power... Now any opposing power are laughing at what they see about the US. They are now even less afraid than they have ever been since the end of the 2nd world war.

Even the US miraculously elect a acompetent leader for the next president, everyone know they can just wait for the next dumb guy to come in and wreck things up. They've had multiple now, each one dumber than the last, I don't believe Trump is the worst, we can't see the future.

Comment on

Nice work Mexico!

Reply in thread

Yes it's what's happening here in Canada and it's sickening. But it looks like it's better to blame the left for no reason, so why vote for them? Better keep slowly dismantling everything we collectively built instead!

memes

Comment on

Hotel > AirBNB

Reply in thread

Airbnbs were already illegal in the old port before that event. The company still allowed them to be posted. I'm quite sure the province didn't ban them too, there are still legal postings. Unfortunately, not much happened after this event. Media pressure made it so that Airbnb closed a bunch of illegal ads, but without legislation and enforcement its only temporary.

canada

Comment on

Well would you just look at this. Isn't that something?

Reply in thread

While I agree, it surly is not how the CPC sees it. The CPC had an historic participation and only a circonscription had to vote for Pierre. In a way, he was rejected by his constituents, but not by Canada. If it wasn't for the NDP partisans that voted liberals, we probably would have a conservative government. So yeah... I'm not hopeful for the future, next elections might be deceiving.

Comment on

Home automation - why?

As I said to people I know, fun. I have fun setting this up. Its a hobby. I like to search for bargains and build the automations. If you don't have fun doing it, its usually not really worth it. It gets expensive quick and its kind of a lot of work to research and setup if you want to keep your privacy.

Comment on

That's a shame.

Reply in thread

Yes, I do this quite often. There's a thing called bridges that even those cars need.

The thing with this image is that a single bus or 2 would clear this. There is not a lot of people in this image.

Comment on

great to know!

Reply in thread

I think I agree with this. When you look at what apple does, they take their time and wait to make sure the UX is good. Recently, we see it with the iPhone duo where they waited to have a product that looks nice, isn't too bulky and they reworked the UI to make sure the UX is good. They are not the type to dive head first into the AI slop, it's not their type. But internally, I'm sure they are experimenting and trying to polish the features for a good UX.

I personnaly dislike Apple for other reasons, but I must give credit where credit is due. It is imo a good philosophy that I could get behind, but in Apple's case, there are too many red flags.

linux

Comment on

[Discussion] My thoughts about the usability of Linux

Reply in thread

I often had to go to the registry on Windows and the registry is way less user friendly than modifying files on Linux. When we say that we have to use the terminal for more complicated things on Linux, it's usually just modifying files that are well commented so you know exactly what you're doing. If you can read of course which isn't always a given.

For sure there are scripts and 3rd party apps that can modify the registry, but you can have the same thing on Linux too.

And today with how advanced KDE and Gnome are, the user needs to go less and less in the files. Almost everything I do is in the home folder too. I require root less and less, mainly to install packages.

I think it mainly comes down with what users are used to. People are used to the quirks of Windows, so Linux becomes scary and hard. If it was the other way around, Windows would be considered to be complicated. That's my take.

Comment on

Do you guys charge your phone with laptop charger(type-c)?

Yep, best thing ever, I bought a GaN charger, 100W 3 USB-C and 1 USB-A. It's small and light. I carry it around everywhere. I even bring it at my client's office instead of the power brick they gave me since it's so small.

Just make sure you have plenty of wattage. For instance, my job laptop uses a 65W adapter. If I want to charge this at the same time as my phone, I would need at least 90W to cover everything (65+25). So I have more power than necessary In order to be able to charge everything at once. Also, make sure to. Heck the adapter on how it distributes power trough the ports. My configuration could not be supported on a 3 port if for example they decided to split the power 55+45. But mine is 65+35 with 2 ports so I'm fine.