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Repairable Bike Tips
  • Get a good quality bike with standard components and you should be able to repair it easily.

    As other said avoid cheap low cost bike but also very high end bike that are more likely to use proprietary parts.

    For the frame the best option would be steel, if it does break you can easily weld it back with a regular welder.

    Aluminum is the second best option, a bit lighter but it will fatigue, so over the years the frame will wear out slightly.

    Carbon is the worst for reparability, very fragile and impossible to repair.

  • Why are people impressed with SpaceX?
  • No, NASA has the budget. They already spent $50 billion on the development of SLS and Orion, Starship development cost is estimated to be around $10 billion.

    So in theory with the money they spent on SLS they could have built 5 starship program.

    The problem is that NASA has to follow political interests, sometimes the political interests align with technical interest and we get great things like the Apollo program.

  • Why are people impressed with SpaceX?
  • Imagine you want to build a cabin in a very remote place in Alaska.

    Getting there is quite difficult, you did it a few times in the 60's but the path is so bad that you had to throw the truck away each time (around $45,000 per trip, for the truck + gas)

    You are still planning to build your cabin but having to buy a new truck for each trip is not great, plus the fact that only one company can make this SLS truck so you can't get more than once a year.

    Building a cabin in these circumstances is close to impossible.

    Now SpaceX makes a new Starship truck that can go all the way AND be reused. The trip from the hardware store to the build site now only costs you around $100 for the gas plus truck expenses AND you can now do the trip to the hardware store multiple times a day !

    Now building the cabin becomes way more accessible.

    Replace the Alaskan cabin with a scientific base on the moon or Mars and multiply the amounts by 100,000 and you have an approximation of the situation

  • UK to consider USB-C as charging standard
  • and if this needs to be the same as the USB-C connector the EU adopted.
    

    The consideration should be quick, "Should we use a different charging standard that the EU ? No"

    If not they are seriously delusional

  • I managed to finished my project thanks to a 3D printed router copying guide

    !A picture of a 3D printed router guide !A 3D Model of a router guide

    My router (makita) was supplied with a copying guide but the opening was too small.

    I've look online but I could not managed to find the right size so I did what any sane person would do: print one

    Edit: more pictures of the result !a dinosaur shaped observation tower !another picture of the observation tower with a kid standing on it

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    A symptom of linux past traumas

    So, I had to reinstall windows as a dualboot, because I need some CAD tools for work. It was painful but it's not thebaubject

    I'm running nixos with systemd-boot and I installed windows on another drive. I started to research how to add the entry on the boot list so I don't need to go in bios to switch the boot order each time I want to change OS.

    Most of the information I find is about grub on nixos but I finally find information on how to add a manual entry. On the Arch wiki I find some information but now I have to blend all that to make it work on my laptop.

    It's late and I'm scared to mess up my boot partition so I go to sleep to work instructions on it the next day.

    The next day I'm ready to do all that only to realized that there is already the entry for windows is already in the boot menu, it has been added automatically.

    So I spent all this time to think about how I while have to adjust my system manually only to realize that nixos already did it automatically for me.

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    Not The Onion: a french group has been arrested 5 years ago and are currently being judged. A picture of macron with a dick drawn on it is cited as evidence of plotting a terrorism attack
    www.laquadrature.net Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case

    This article was written on the basis of information related to the so-called "8 December" case (see the footnotes for a global overview of the case, we focus on the "numerical part" of it in this articleFor a summary of the 8 December affair see in particular the testimonies available in thi

    Criminalization of encryption : the 8 december case

    To be fair they were also using encrypted messaging to talk to each other like WhatsApp and Signal, they even show their mom how to use it which is extremely suspicious.

    > “All members of this group were particularly suspicious, only communicating with each other using encrypted applications, in particular Signal, and encrypting their computers and devices […].

    > The Investigating Judge

    https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/06/05/criminalization-of-encryption-the-8-december-case/ https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2023/10/06/the-beginning-of-the-8-december-trial-is-also-the-judgement-of-the-right-to-privacy-and-encryption/

    > when the DGSI [a French security agency charged with counter-espionage, counter-terrorism, countering cybercrime and surveillance of potentially threatening groups] has questioned Bastien about what he thinks of Macron. A photograph on his computer is mentioned, which according to them details the President's security arrangements for the July 14th parade. (...)

    > The device in question (an aerial photo taken from the press) is highlighted in such a way as to draw a dick. A dick.

    > The link is made with Bastien's passion for drones. The implication is that he could have used a drone to attack this dick-shaped device using explosives.

    https://www.auposte.fr/j7-quis-terroristiat-ipsos-terroristes/

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    Becoming Maman: Use positive psychology to improve your relationships with family, friends, partners and your children.
    sionablaise.com Siona Blaise

    Using positive psychology to improve relationships with family, friends, partners and children.

    Siona Blaise

    I'm wanted to share with you the blog that my wife is writing, she's writing about parenting and relationships and she's making some amazing articles !

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    Collective energy self-consumption, aka "selling electricity to your neighbor"
    www.pv-magazine.com France reaches 187 collective self consumption operations, says grid operator

    French grid operator Enedis has identified 187 collective self consumption operations in France, as of the end of March. The operations bring together 2,200 consumers and more than 300 producers, generating 11 MW total power capacity, mainly from solar.

    France reaches 187 collective self consumption operations, says grid operator

    I believe this is a very good initiative. France is allowing collective self consumption.

    It means that in an appartement building or in a neighborhood (up to 2km radius) people can organize in a collective to redistribute electricity to each other. If someone has extra production one day then he can redistribute to other people in the collective. For free or at the price they agreed upon in the collective.

    It does not need any extra hardware, it's using the existing installation from the national utility grid.

    This is exactly how I imagine a solarpunk community would work.

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