“Pedal cycle” for any number of wheels.
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“Pedal cycle” for any number of wheels.
“Pedal cycle” for any number of wheels.
Beat the ill climate, that’ll heal it!
4·6 days agoThe affordable cost of doing genocide.
Surely the root cause is the drug prohibition giving billions worth of trade to criminals. If all drugs were sold in pharmacies, drug gangs would stop being profitable.
4·11 days agoQuora is being recommended in some circles:
https://www.quora.com/How-are-there-so-many-scammers-and-intrusive-ads-on-here-lately/answer/Franklin-Veaux
5·18 days agoEspecially ages 46-62 now.
2·18 days agoHow can a whisky taste like a TV-series?
Mental health is a skill and an innate ability:
- Healthy thoughts can be learned, unhealthy ones unlearned.
- Some are born off center; happier, angrier, sadder - people differ in many ways.
1·21 days agoFirst I thought it was:
Meta’s business model is collecting, using and selling data from users of “free” services. Obviously they didn’t buy WhatsApp for charity.
Meta has been caught lying before. Even if there’s no backdoor right now, the next closed-source update can add one and take all message history. Would you trust Zuck?
71·22 days agoMy recommendations on Quora’s feed follow closely what I’ve said with an Android phone present, even someone else’s phone, as my presence is detected by Google from my voice and my /e/OS phone’s radio traffic.
I highly recommend GrapheneOS, /e/OS, Jolla Sailfish OS Linux phone, or anything that doesn’t work for Google or Apple. My battery life (idling) went from 2 days with Android to a whole week with /e/OS, because spying consumes energy.
Back when electric cars were uncool, BMW tried adding a little bit of steam to their cars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurbosteamerAnything to avoid giving up the toxic unreliable rube-goldbergian fossil-fueled mess, anything but the beautiful simplicity of electricity.
See my other comment for degoogled alternative phones:
https://piefed.social/comment/11434905
Degoogling communities have many posts about non-big-tech phones that run most Android apps, such as:
- The easy French Murena /e/OS (open source based on LineageOS, which is based on AOSP unfortunately) on a Dutch Fairphone or a German Shiftphone (both bootloader lockable, a security feature against persistent restart-proof OS modification by malware and pickpocket USB-hacking that these open-source alternatives rarely support)
- The secure GrapheneOS (also AOSP = Google-sabotageable future development) on a Google Pixel (the only hardware fulfilling the OS’s requirements) or on the future phone promised by Motorola (both bootloader locked obviously, among many other security features)
- The seriously independent Linux phone OSs:
– Jolla Sailfish OS on a Jolla phone or a Sony 10 or something
– PostmarketOS installed to many phone options
– Ubuntu Touch installed to a few phone options
https://murena.com/products/smartphones/
https://doc.e.foundation/devices
( and another similar company and OS with some devices bootloader lockable:
https://shop.iode.tech/
https://iode.tech/iodeos-official-supported-devices/
)https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
https://commerce.jolla.com/
https://buy.jolla-devices.com/product/sony-xperia-10-iii-sailfish-os/
https://docs.sailfishos.org/Support/Supported_Devices/https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/
Just keep the old Android as a spare for when Google successfully prevents something from working on the healthier alternatives, or an app requires genuine Google to work. My old Android phone stays powered off at home and I almost never need it. Any old clunker worth 20€ will do.
I use /e/OS btw - it’s not very secure against hacking, but it blocks almost all big-tech surveillance. I disliked the default iPhone-style Bliss launcher, so I installed Lawnchair to make it feel like my old LG with Android.
Agreed. Cars don’t have power limits, they have speed limits, which is good, but maybe they need speed limiters too.
High power only allows you to accelerate quickly to the speed limit(er). That’s not dangerous. Speed is.
The arbitrary power limits have been used by the fossil fuel industry to cripple velomobiles (pedal cars):
https://xfwnofqagsnmdxuf.quora.com/Lawfare-against-tiny-cars-velomobiles
“Pedal cycle” for any number of wheels.