Punch nazis, trebuchet TERFs.

I am building Voyager, a client for lemmy!


I mainly post under @aeharding@vger.social now.

  • 41 Posts
  • 31 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 13th, 2023

help-circle























  • Buying locally you get a bike shop that is willing to service the bikes it sells, with a warranty for free service if anything goes wrong.

    So buying locally bikes are more expensive because:

    1. There is a warranty (cannot be understated how nice this is), and
    2. Much better quality components and serviceability, in part so the bike shop can afford to offer warranty and servicing in the first place (if the bike had cheap components, customers will bring it in a lot more often)
    3. A brand that is also willing to back up the bike shop with any parts that can be ordered for repair

    Even outside of warranty, your bike shop will still provide service. Many bike shops simply refuse to service online e-bikes because it’s a huge hassle.

    If I were you, I’d go around to local bike shops and ask about their cheapest e-bikes. Something like the Trek Verve+ 2 Lowstep is the cheapest trek branded e-bike trek makes, for example, and the quality and support after purchase is worth it imo










  • One change in iOS 17.4 is that the iPhone now supports alternative browser engines in the EU. This allows companies to build browsers that don’t use Apple’s WebKit engine for the first time. Apple says that this change, required by the Digital Markets Act, is why it has been forced to remove Home Screen web apps support in the European Union.

    Apple explains that it would have to build an “entirely new integration architecture that does not currently exist in iOS” to address the “complex security and privacy concerns associated with web apps using alternative browser engines.”

    This work “was not practical to undertake given the other demands of the DMA and the very low user adoption of Home Screen web apps,” Apple explains. “And so, to comply with the DMA’s requirements, we had to remove the Home Screen web apps feature in the EU.”

    So apparently Apple is a special snowflake that cannot fathom implementing something that Android has had forever (installing PWAs with third party browser engines).