Relevant Technology Connections-video: https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI

Goonmaxxing

It's going to depend on where you are, but there's usually some form of transit here in Sweden in all but the most rural places. Outside of cities, there's a decent chance you'll get a car anyway because the transit is not of high enough quality, unfortunate as it may be.

That being said, where I live in Stockholm, transit takes me everywhere I want to go, including longer distances to visit my family that lives far from Stockholm in the form of decently high speed trains. My bicycle is also a great way to get around the city.

I'm very pleased with not having to own a car, it saves me a lot of money and effort, and my transport time is spent more productively - when biking, I get exercise while listening to podcasts, and on transit I can use my phone freely to do whatever I want. It's also generally a less frustrating way to get around, not having to be stuck in traffic or spend time, effort and money to park. It's also basically at no loss of time compared to driving for the majority of my trips. All this on top of being a better option from an environmental standpoint. I'm very happy!

What level of Early Access would you call this? On a scale of "dev needs more money before the proper launch" to "basically done already and early access as a form of marketing".

It's pronounced more like "sloot". To get the same sounding word as the English "slut" the closest thing would be "slatt" in Swedish, which approximately means the remainder of something - the last drops of a drink can be referred to as a "slatt"

Fart also means Speed, for what it's worth.

I think it might have to do with the broad anti-AI sentiment that seems to be present here at Lemmy.

I don't disagree, but for obvious reasons, we can't access Google from a decade ago, since they've made it unavailable.

I'm not really describing an ideal state, this is a mere matter of practicality.

I've started relying more on AI-powered tools like Perplexity for many of my search use-cases for this very fact - all results basically warrant a pre-filtering to be useful.

McTechnical?

Yeah, they don't care that senior talent left because that was the whole point.

The absolute state of U.S road infrastructure. Jesus.

but doesn’t really help with my impression that there’s something strange in the state of Denmark.

This is what us Swedes have been saying all along.

Popular might be overselling it a bit there, buddy. It exists and some people eat it.

Now kebab pizza, there's a popular pizza for you. With good reason, I might add - it's the god emperor of hangover foods.

My most McGyvered solution to create a bootable USB was to take a really old Android phone and make it into one. Worked surprisingly well, actually.

Summit is the best option I've found, to replace RIF that I used to use back when I was using reddit.

It's still unlikely to pencil out to do this given the opportunity cost of actually going through the effort of building, buying and connecting these things, to be honest.

I'm fascinated by the idea but it's important to remain realistic.

Here's a good article on the concept of bicycle generators: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2022/03/how-to-build-a-practical-household-bike-generator/

Personally, I think the best application of this concept is probably direct use of the mechanical energy, without converting the energy to electricity at all. See the bicimaquinas-concept: http://www.mayapedal.org/index.en

One of the wonderful things about bicycles is how extraordinarily efficient they are - very little energy is required in relation to how much transportation work you get out of it. This works against us in the case of power generation, though - little power going in means little power going out.

It's a tool like any other, appropriate under some circumstances and inappropriate in others.

Blindly rejecting it without considering whether it's appropriate in the context is honestly just as bad as choosing it without considering whether it's appropriate in the context, fwiw.

Good point, I was thinking of even before that FTC declaration though.

I thought non-competes were not applicable in California?