Isn’t this just an amazing shot.

The neighbours love him!

Oh. Whups.

…people use Geocities?

Well… Not quite, unfortunately. A heavily car-centric right-wing party has been the ruling party here for decades now. Fortunately, they know trying to get rid of our bicycle culture would be bad for votes.

Thanks for writing all this! I have to mention that @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com argues that weather is not (or should not?) be a big factor in infrastructure choices around bicycles, though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXDP9WQe0io&t=0

I’m not sure! It’s not just Utrecht, the Netherlands as a whole has arguably the best bicycle infrastructure in the world.

There is a very successful “Fietsersbond” (bicyclists’ union) that’s been around since the fifties, I believe, which probably helped. And the country is very flat, though that shouldn’t be an excuse for cities.

I suppose in the past we must’ve had quite progressive governments, too. Though these days the biggest centre-right party would rather form a coalition with nazis than anything left-wing…

I live in Utrecht… I sometimes see how it is in car-centric countries. It really is a relief to come back home. I don’t even have a driver’s license, I use my (folding) bicycle+public transport for everything.

What a nice article. I use Kodi as my music player, or rather my multimedia center. My PC is hooked up to a 7.1 surround amplifier and my TV and I basically run Kodi all day.

Perhaps it would be more power efficient to use something else if I’m only playing music, though. I used to use MPD.

Unless you do it all yourself? What more do you need? An unlocked bootloader means custom roms and rooting are possible, right?

Very nice!

I suppose we could all band together and send them email after email asking for it… I suppose…

Still, it’s good to know there’s at least some open source effort for this device. Better than nothing…

Something I noticed when reading your excellent posts is that you don’t capitalize your i’s. I have no opinion on whether you should or not, but it did get me thinking—the English language has always seemed a bit interesting to me in that regard. It’s the only language I know that does this.

German capitalizes all its nouns, and lots of languages capitalize God and “You” if they’re talking about Him (not me though atheist fuck as I am), but only English capitalizes “I”. Almost seems a secular statement, if I didn’t know better 😅

A locked down Linux system on a device you own and paid for sounds like it should be a crime 😑

Lemmy (or in my case rather, Mbin) is increasingly all I need. And I love that.

Wow, very interesting. But being able to root it is pretty much a must, for me. I wonder if this will give users that freedom.

Now there’s a tip! Hang on walking to my fridge.

I did not know this. I guess I do now.

I’ve come to the point where I don’t think I could use the “normal” method if I tried. This site is a gem. I also enjoy the different lacing methods that are listed,