I feel like every step governments, leaders, and even many citizen initiatives take is always a step in the wrong direction now. No matter how much we watch them, they’re just up to more shit. We could donate half our salaries to the EFF, FSF, and ACLU and we would still be playing defense. How do we put a stop to this shit?

If it was a German story, someone would have shaved all the heads of all the little snot-noses laughing at him, a la “The Inky Boys”

Vote to build better infrastructure and provide better transit service. Even if it sucks. A train that goes 65mph next to a 75mph freeway isn’t a failure. It’s a gateway to better transit. I myself have fallen into the trap of viewing these projects as unworthy or not good enough when they are a step in the right direction.

I will now almost always hold my nose and vote for things that fund trails, busses, trains, bike infrastructure, etc. Then I’ll go and complain online about how they didn’t go far enough :-)

Styling!

Losing a piece of bike infra always hurts, but the 20mph speed limit is very nice if people stick within 5-10mph of it. Crazy that something that dropped bike collisions so much could be torn out though. They’re blindly murdering someone for parking spaces.

Speed limits are higher out here and the way it usual works out where I live is.

<30mph - ride in the road <40mph - ride in bike lane if present, on the pavement if not 😈 (actually legal here) <55mph - separated paths only 55+ - too much noise, avoid

I don’t like it and don’t even care to understand why. Thank you for sharing this unholy curiosity.

Strawberry is great and so was Clementine before it. It’s really a step up compared to what the average distro bakes into their default bundle of applications.

I test rode a Hase Pino a few times. It’s a sit/lie tandem where the person in the back rides and steers more or less like a normal bike and the front rider is semi-reclined over the front wheel peddling with their feet out in front of them. My wife lost a $100 bet when I convinced a disabled friend to ride with me who was afraid of bikes and they had a blast. Should have made it a $15k bet so I could actually afford to keep the thing. I occasionally daydream about riding the Pino up and down the street downtown offering rides and flirting with the ladies.

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So I rode it from Waterpark to Wesfield and later from Broad Ripple to White River Park and the trail was 99% non-sketchy in the daytime in my assessment. I could see some sketchy areas one or two blocks back from the trail, but the trail has seemingly gentrified the blocks immediately adjacent in a lot of spots. The area just before Mass Ave where it runs next to the freeway is in need of some landscaping work but also didn’t feel sketch.

My biggest takeaway is that Indy traffic engineers slept through the lesson on right of way. The signs say to stop, but the cars usually stop for you. It’s ambiguous and dangerous and I think there is potential for improvement.

Thanks for weighing in so I didn’t go in blind.

Cool project, though I personally want to pick my gear in a car and on my bike.

That sounds very reasonable. I like to see monthly and weekly ticket options that even a visitor could sign up for. Every city could expand their transit reach by an extra few miles with a good bike share. That could translate to a huge area increase for transit coverage. I’d hate to see the option to bring your own bike be removed from busses and trains though. Bike share bikes can be like Russian Roulette.

In this case, I’d be visiting for a week or two a few times a year. But Craigslist/FB Marketplace/pawnshop bikes are looking like a good value. Definitely not opposed to big box bikes though as I have destroyed many over the years.

I’m not super familiar with the area, though I’ve been in Indy and the surrounding cities towns a handful of times always with very little time to actually explore by bike. I’ve also seen Carmel mentioned in regards to their roundabouts. I’m doing some research on how I can make that happen best without bringing a bike on a plane. I don’t want to take Carmel bikes out of their area, so I may use them to explore the Monan further north and figure something else out for going towards Indy.

Its just one of many terms used to differentiate a non-ebike. I like muscle bike because while acoustic/electric bike is funny and clever, acoustic implies something to do with sound.

Very nice. The tall trees make your bike look tiny!

I followed a similar path. When I was on Gnome I hated plasma. When Gnome 3 dropped I tried a bunch of stuff like Cinnamon, Budgie, Xfce, Lxde, etc. and settled on Plasma which has only continued to be great over the hears. I value the tweaks and the fact that it can be configured 100% desktop centric without a bunch of touch/convergence stuff getting in the way.

I appreciate their philosophy. I’ve been a Linux user since the early 2000s and have cycled through 30-40 distros at least. I’m not a highly technical user. I would consider myself a solid intermediate. For a daily use system I prefer arch, but my servers run Debian. Most of the people writing install guides for the software I deploy seem to use Debian so I run into less issues this way. It can be hard to follow a guide for Gentoo when you’re using Hanna Montana Linux, know what I’m saying? Same thing with Debian. It’s just a solid choice with the bonus of having a better, more ethical philosophy, and the benefit of being widely adopted and supported by people who can help when you get stuck. I don’t even mind gnome on my servers since it works well with a single screen and it’s super rare that I actually need the server GUI anyway.

Willingness to independently learn and the capacity to let the frustration roll off of you. You will occasionally want to bang your head against the wall, but give yourself the grace to learn.

Woooow, I did not know about this. Many of these devices easily cost $600+ new and they want us to pay a subscription fee? Also, they can’t even provide data export in a useful consistent and nonshitty format.

I get great utility out of my Garmin watch and Bike Computer, but there are a lot of alternatives now and we may even be able to cobble together a solid open source stack to replace Garmin/Strava/Trail Websites sometime in the next few years.

I’m not in the market for a new device yet, but when I change, I will be sure to give the alternatives a shot.

I went from 40-45wpm on Qwerty to 65-75wpm on Dvorak, but after I stopped practicing, I settled somewhere in the high 50s low 60s. I specifically measured because I wanted to be able to quantify the changes. Speed wasn’t my only concern, but it’s the biggest change. There’s no need to learn an alternative layout, but even people who don’t may benefit from a small adjustment like making caps lock a left backspace and learning to touch type. In retrospect, I would consider more of the alternative layouts before jumping to Dvorak, but I don’t regret it at all, even at work or with games.