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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • Yeah exactly, people talk about how flying used to be so glamorous like it’s somehow not the same as international first class is today. I walked through the first class section on a transatlantic flight once and they had fully reclining lazy boy style seats with blankets and nice food/booze. All the seats were staggered so they could fully recline and had privacy screens you could draw shut. But those tickets are thousands of dollars, like $1000-$1500/hour of flight time at minimum, if you want to spend 20k USD you can basically cross the ocean in a flying hotel.



  • The apps are fine, it’s content quality and quantity which can only happen organically. You can’t force an increase in quantity and keep quality high. Plus the fediverse is a fairly new concept with new issues that arise as it scales up. By it’s very nature the fediverse cannot react and change quickly so a slow growth allows for communities to try their own solutions and eventually settle on a more universal fix.









  • Compressed air is not a very efficient way to store energy. The storage tanks are expensive and require inspection periodically. With a single stage compressor like the article shows you’ll be lucky to crack 10% efficiency so most of you’re pedaling is getting wasted as heat. Then you have to find a way to convert it to useful energy which probably incurs at least a some loss.

    A normal ebike could be equipped to do the same thing far more efficiently. Lift the drive wheel off the ground and pedal against the re-gen brake, just unplug the battery and it can charge whatever you want.



  • I just finished repairing my dads old head unit because even though he had a new unit from audi, it needed go to the dealer for pairing. You used to be able to do it over the phone with them for free but now you have to bring it in and pay.

    I get that they have a code to deter radio theft but charging for something you used to do over a free hotline is BS. It could even be one or the other, like I’d pay to use the hotline or bring the car into the dealer if it was free but not bring it in AND pay.