I got this fork used from someone who claimed it was carbon, but I'm thinking it's not(?). A magnet doesn't stick to it, but it sounds lots like when I hit the key on a steel fork.

I'd like to add a lowrider front rack like Blackburn Lowrider , Zefal Touring Raider, or Axiom Journey DLX if it's not carbon.

It seems like if I create a route using the Lezyne app on my phone, then I can't add waypoints (e.g.: the canned "three route options" are all busy streets, but I want to include a pleasant bike trail in the route).

I can add waypoints if I build the route using the web (Lezyne GPS Root), but that's not much help on the road.

Does anyone else have this issue? Do you build using a different app, export, then import to Lezyne?

If someone retires early, they aren't eligible for Medicare, and need to buy private insurance. While employed, those health premiums can be paid with pre-tax income...

But is there a way to pay premiums in retirement, pre-tax? (e.g. from an IRA or 401(k) after eligibility age?)

okay, this is a new one for me: in the mens olympic 50k classic (@22:28 race time), #13 Berglund (Sweden) is pushing #8 Lapalus (France) using his pole.

Okay, I've had faster skies in a crowded pack, and when the skier in front was standing upright (so I couldn't stand up to slow down), I put a hand on their back to slow myself & speed them up.

But here... there's 3 open lanes for Lapalus. And... that pole tip has to hurt + is unsafe + rip-out Lapalus' race suit (with 100 minutes to go).

I can't even.

Using GrapheneOS, my main profile has a handful of apps from PlayStore(Aurora): 1password, ProtonVPN, ProtonMail, etc.

I think I read somewhere that, for an app to appear in PlayStore, it must be compiled with linked libraries that implement check-ins with Google infrastructure... or something like that.

Obviously I'd expect apps like 1password and Proton to be "less evil," but am curious whether everything from playstore leaks telemetry, or if it's just "up to the developer".

(in my case, I don't have Google services or apps in the main profile at all)

I was surprised to hear that the Olympic course for women's 10k freestyle was "salted to firm-up the base". I have seen salt on sidewalks, and it just melts holes in the snow. I'm struggling to see how this helps.

Do they dust the snow with a fine powdered kind of salt, so it is more uniform?

I think the melted snow would sink down into the snowpack, but stay liquid above -17C. So now you've got slush permanently mixed-in.

It seems crazy!

I was wondering if the $4K(USA) used EV tax credit was still getting applied at USA auto dealers. It sounds like the credit still applies until September 30th, but I haven't heard if the IRS/dealer website and database are still working.

Does Crostini hard-allocate RAM in the way VirtualBox or other VMs do? Is there any way to increase it?

When I'm using Crostini, I'm usually using only Crostini, so would prefer to allocate most of the RAM to it.

Has anybody heard if the upcoming 47-day maximum on TLS cert lifetime will apply to Enterprise wifi auth using private PKI (especally on IOS and Android)?

We have a campus CA that signs the TLS cert used by RADIUS when students connect to wifi using personal devices. Freshman need to accept the cert once (hopefully after checking the fingerprint), then usually one more time before graduation. Every 47 days would be difficult.

I have banking apps in a separate User profile. I was wondering if this was preferable (or worse) than putting those apps in Private Space.

Anybody have a "Separate User vs Private Space" comparison?

I'd like to use the box.com cli from a linux server without X installed. However, during "$ box login -n me@mydomain", boxcli tries to popup a web page with the message Opening browser for OAuth authentication. Please click Grant access to Box to continue.

I've tried exporting BROWSER=lynx , and have tested that "xdg-open http://eff.org" works; but I am not seeing lynx open while running "box login". Do I need a 2nd terminal window, and then set DISPLAY so the "popup" browser opens lynx there?

Wondering if anyone has managed to setup box.com CLI on a headless, X-less server.

I'm blowing the cobwebs out of my mom's 1986 Ward's (Happy Sewing Co) machine. I have been watching videos of setting timing:

adjust timing until the hook passes through the scarf...

...and how to set the needle bar:

adjust needle bar height until the hook passes through the scarf...

(I'm paraphrasing)

It sounds like you could take a perfect machine, then lower the needle bar 1mm, then compensate by delaying the hook 30 degrees, and you'd have the hook passing through the scarf at the correct spot... yet it would be all wrong.

Is there a way to set needle-bar height independent of the hook timing?

Like, obviously the needle needs to rise a few millimeters to make the slack thread form into a loop behind the scarf, ready to be caught by the hook. Is that amount of rise kinda-sorta consistent across machines from a given era?