I love it! It's a beautiful combination of many things I am interested in. Open source software, micromobility, cooperative ownership.

Last mile delivery is becoming more and more important with more people choosing to have groceries and food delivered since the pandemic. There seems to be a push to handle it with robots but I doubt that's going to be widespread soon if ever. The real world is difficult to handle and humans are good at handling complex tasks.

I clicked through to their map which shows active collectives. There's a ton of them in Europe but I live in the US, so I wanted to see what's going on in North America. Unfortunately there is just one in Quebec, one in British Columbia, and two down in Mexico City.

Since I live in the Pacific Northwest I clicked on the one in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I watched their promotional video and was impressed. It would be great to get something started in my area. Unfortunately the US is very antagonistic to these types of organizations.

Yes! and I made a second post about it. It's going well for me. My legs are starting to get used to the stresses of riding.

It's an inmotion v9... Yeah the gear is a bit annoying. It really detracts from the vision I had in my mind of a handy little tool to hop on and just go with. I'm wearing Leatt knee and shin guards, some cheap (Killer 187) wrist guards over leather half finger gloves, and a Bell Servo mountain bike helmet. Right now I'm still just wearing my sneakers, but I am looking to buy some boots.

2 more days riding and I'm not really getting soreness in my knees any more, but still plenty in the calves and feet. I've been riding a ton, and I've got some skin wearing/tearing in the side of my calves where the EUC is pushing the straps from the pads against my legs.

Braking came really naturally to me for some reason. I was able to lean back to brake like right away. I don't ever feel like I'm not braking fast enough. I'm sure I could work on technique to get better still though.

I'm mostly interested in getting a lot of control over the wheel right now rather than pushing speed. The total max speed of my wheel should be 28mph (45 km/h) but I'm leaving the speed cap well under that.

I'm working on the quick twists of the wheel at low speeds right now and trying to balance at the lowest possible speeds.

I REALLY want to be able to ride backward. As someone who used to roller blade that's a big deal to me. The coolest stuff I could do on blades was turn around and keep going backward, and to spin in circles. I'm trying to bring back that kind of vibe.

Another thing I want to learn is seated riding but on this wheel, at my height (6ft 2in) (188cm) it's gonna be a bit silly. I'm considering in the LONG term MAYBE buying another wheel with a lot more range. In that case I would definitely want to be able to sit.

I'm a little unsure what the settings do. I watched a video about it a while ago but I think the different companies have different names for settings. I have experimented a bit with balance angle and pedal sensitivity.

At first I put balance angle a bit forward, which made the wheel want to lean forward so it was easier to accelerate which made my feet feel like they didn't need to work as hard. Eventually I turned that off.

Now I slid pedal sensitivity way down from 100% to 15% which changed the way it feels but I'm really not exactly sure how. The best way I can describe it is it feels like there's lag from the time the wheel starts going before the pedal straightens out. I'm not totally sure if I like it but I'm leaving it that way for now.

There is also a setting for "ride assist" that I can turn on which gives me options for acceleration assist and brake assist but I haven't messed with that yet. I will change those settings next I think.

Yeah I need to get some riding boots. I wore some work boots for one of my rides and the heavy leather gave me confidence but the heeled sole is not great feeling.

I like how the path curves behind the bench after the bench goes up like people are choosing not to walk in front of people sitting on the bench.

I mean anything made of real materials that aren't plastics and fiberboard is luxurious to me. So yes I would consider a floor or a countertop made of actual stone luxurious.

I work at a golf course and I'd rather be doing something meaningful like building homes so this post speaks to me directly.

Unfortunately the big thing lately is we've been dropping a bunch of trees.

A netbook was always just a very small cheap laptop. They still exist but nobody really calls them netbooks any more. Most of them run chromeOS now and they call them chromebooks.

Rage, disappointment, fear. Also for now the strange feeling that despite everything my life isn't any different than it has been for the most part. I do feel some hope as I have been going to protests and watching the numbers of people there rise every day.
The scariest thing about everything is just how absurdly powerful the US military is, and knowing that they have chain of command which has Donald Trump at the top. My instinct keeps telling me I should flee, but to where? Canada? I could see a possible future where that would make sense, but I also see a possible future where Canada becomes just as bad.

I have a thing with 6 hooks on it that attaches to the top of my bedroom door. That's where I put clothes I've worn already that I intend to wear again before I wash them. Also my coat and hat.

pretty sure the buttons are "keyed" in a way that doesn't let you put them in the wrong slot. It's been that way for controllers I took apart.

Costa Rica is the happiest place in the Americas. I wouldn't have guessed that. Guess they're doing something right. Quick look at Wikipedia showed high education spending and no standing army.

Aliexpress if you want a good deal, and Amazon if you want fast shipping and easy returns. There are a lot of devices. Solid ones come from companies like Anbernic, Miyoo, Powkiddy, TrimUI, Retroid, Ayn. There's some bad products from some of those companies too so good idea to do some research. Youtube channels that cover their products include Retro Game Corps and Techdweeb.

I do not. I don't feel awkward necessarily just sitting there doing nothing but I also tend to avoid situations where I am like that because I do get bored and impatient fairly easily. I also just don't like phones. I don't do much with mine other than the things I find very useful like calls, text messaging and maps. I much prefer my PC whenever possible.

I'm American, and I'm 40. I didn't have a mobile phone until I was like 19 and didn't have a smartphone until I was probably about 28 or something.

I understand why people would feel awkward without their phones for sure. Especially if that's what they are used to. I used to smoke cigarettes and I remember kinda feeling silly just standing there not smoking after I quit.

When I was a kid in the 90s I had a PC that came with Windows 3.1 and it had QBasic. I messed around with it a lot. I spent a lot of time reading the built-in documentation.

I remember making a random password generator, a text-based blackjack game, and some "screensavers" that were basically just drawing a bunch of stuff on the screen and then scrolling it off the top by printing blank lines.

It took quite a bit of time to do that pretty basic stuff, so it's really not a surprise to me that most people aren't making computer programs today. Most of anything an average person could hope to program has already been done and made available for free.

I have been keeping up with my dishes lately more than I ever have in my life. It came about in kind of a weird way for me. My dishwasher broke and I suddenly had to hand wash all my dishes. I knew it was going to be a major problem so I made a goal. I decided I was going to make sure I washed every dish every night before I went to bed so they would never stack up to be a nightmare. Eventually my apartment manager got around to replacing my dishwasher and now I have kept up with doing dishes every evening only it's a lot easier with a dishwasher.

Now I run the dishwasher almost every night, unless it's really empty then I just leave it. Every morning I unload it while my coffee is brewing.

To some people this might not seem like a big deal, and to others it might seem impossible to keep up this routine. To me it has been a big improvement to my quality of life. If I feel like cooking something I always have a kitchen that is in a state that will allow me to do that and it always feels so good.

Sometimes I make a save just before some part of a game that I think is really fun. When I go back to play the game instead of like starting a new game or loading my save that is the furthest way through I just run through the part I really like.

There are a ton of games I consider my favorites that I have never played all the way through. I don't really care that much about completing a game and I generally think the beginning is more fun than the later stages of many games.

Speaking of Project Zomboid I often, but not always, play that game with the infection turned off or set to bites only at least because I don't want my run to end just because I made a tiny mistake or something really janky happens with the user interface that gets me scratched. I also play Project Zomboid with a game controller which isn't how the game was originally designed but luckily someone on the team decided it was worth coding and I love them for it.

Sometimes I play Rust on a private server by myself with no other players just messing around and doing the PvE content.

I live in Oregon, I'd prefer it if Oregon joined Canada as a province, or like Washington and Oregon together. I don't think it's realistic. There's a lot of unanswered questions of how things would work but I have daydreamed about it.

I like Austin Plowers and Plowabunga a lot, but I think Meltin' John is my favorite.

My username. If you enter urata as your name when you play Castlevania III for NES you start with the mage character (Sypha Belnades) available from the start.

Also iddqd for god mode and idkfa for all weapons in DOOM because that game was way too hard when I was a kid.