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They aren't crap at all, stop projecting your opinion as fact.

At worst they're niche, but provide tangible and easily understandable benefits that you might not care about that others love. That's like me hating on the newest Samsungs camera, just because I personally don't value mobile photography.

Your complaints about durabilitu are pretty tied these days, the technology has improved a lot and you can realistically be as careless as you can with any other cell phone. There are valid concerns , such as Samsungs issue with hairline cracking along the hinge, but you can stop parroting points addressed over the past 5 years now.

Mad respect for answering this and not causing an xkcd moment

https://xkcd.com/979/

Hi cycling commuter and weekend bike packer here, welcome to the club!

Before we start I just want to warn you that cycling, while a simple hobby is full of money sinks and gear envy. It's very easy to spend 10x more for something marginally better, I only mention this now because it took me way too long to figure this out.

On to gear recommendations:

A good lock - this should be at least 10%the cost of your bike, also make sure to learn to lock your bike properly (not just through the front wheel)

Spare tube(s) - while I agree a patch repair kit is great to have, repairing a tube when you're late, it's cold, and miserable is a hellish experience. especially for newbies, id recommend carrying a spare tube instead and just changing that. That way you can patch your original tube in the warmth of your home with a cuppa, much better experience. Swap it back when you're done and you're gravy.

Gloves - Everyone falls. Everyone. Gloves not only make your ride more comfortable, but they also protect your palms on the event that you scrape them after a tumble (I write this with scraped palms after not following my own advice and falling last weekend)

A basic repair kit - puncture repair, tyre levers, pump, multi tool w chain break, zipties and a metre or so of duct tape

Sunnies - bike specific glasses are a scam (at least for beginners), just have a pair on the bike at all times. This will make riding at dawn/dusk and in the rain more comfortable. Id recommend polarized with a fairly light tint, too dark and it'll be hard to ride in the rain with them.

A bike bag to store it all in - nothing fancy just good to have things off your body and on the bike so wouldn't recommend a backpack. This is the first place where you can spend a lot of money, but a good bike bag is never a bad investment.

The more you ride the more you'll come to realize what you need and don't need, you'll add a bunch to this list but I doubt there's anything you'll remove so it's a good starting place.

Thanks for this, something to listen to over my lunch break :)

I forgot about Chinese balloons lol, did anything ever come about after that one was shot down by the Americans?

Nah "average" is fine, just using the wrong one here. Means are better for roughly bell shaped data sets. I'm the case above, looking at the median and mode would help understand the data better

"pretty phones over privacy" is a wild take ngl

Nice try hacker man!

I'm weeks late but I just want to let you know that given the context and blase nature, this comment had me in hysterical laughter. Thank you stranger.

Sorry let me be more clear, specifically an android app that has an announcement and can record the call with permission, or terminate the call without

Out of interest, what does you use? I have the Kensington expert but have been looking at the thumb operated options lately. Never had anyone to ask directly for opinions 😅

I read that as SMBC and was ready to throw down in their defense

Thanks for that I forgot they had released a whole new game in between, hopefully winter sale has a decent deal and I can give it a crack

Remember to wait til the end of the day, that way you can get everything important done early in the day and then just coast into the holidays.

I haven't actually tried mhw on stead deck, does it run well? I bought the game (having never played one before) on a whim and fun with it for a few hours, seems like a great handheld game if it runs ok

Hi, non American here. How is the hot tap different to the cold tap?

What do you mean? Having three seperate settings buttons with options divvyed between them makes perfect sense

Well that explains the smell!

(I know very little about Europe or New Jersey)

I remember signing up and putting a couple Hundy down at like 4 in the morning after a night on the beers, bit my finest moment.

Leveraging is definitely a whole other beast, glad there's no temptation there