chrisbtoo

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[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would you do it at noon? It should be midnight.

Edit: duh, I realise now it's a shitty LPT.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google Photos too, apparently, if for some reason you're willing to give up your personal information to them.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My bank used to require internet banking passwords to be exactly 6 alphanumeric characters. Turned out that the reason for that was that they used the same password for internet and phone banking, and by implication the passwords were actually just 6 numbers.

This was in the 2010s, mind you.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It's an Apple Photos feature. It can be enabled or disabled in Settings -> Apps -> Photos -> Featured Content.

It will pull together photos of a person or animal over a period of time, a set of photos from a particular date, a group from a place, or similar and make them into a slideshow.

Sometimes it comes up with good ones (I get quite a few of my daughter and my dogs) and sometimes they're hilariously bad or random/contrived.

Can't say they've ever really made me sad, but I may not be in the same stage of life as the OOP / not looking for internet joke points.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Interesting. Everywhere I've lived for the last 10+ years (3 cities and a rural acreage in Canada, village in Austria and visiting relatives in various towns in the UK) has had a municipal composting programme. I just assumed it was the norm now.

Hopefully you get one where you are soon!

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I might be misunderstanding what you're saying, but don't we already do this?

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So, 1/3 the production rate per tire compared to a car over 100km. Not to mention half the number of tires. I wonder how much of that is due to the weight difference alone.

It actually appears to be per bike per 100km. I find that quite surprising given it's half the number of tyres, there's substantially less initial volume per tyre than a car's and, as you say, there's a lot less weight on them.

Given their focus on MTBs, I wonder if it's related to the type of terrain being ridden (higher incidence of gravel/sharp rocks than your average road) or different tyre compounds between the two vehicle types.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's almost like the entire thing is performative bullshit

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just wish there were a legal way to stream BBC content (i.e. iPlayer) outside the UK. I'd gladly pay the licence fee (as a non-resident) or more, to be able to watch all their content without having to grub around on a million different services.

Whether there'd be enough people in the same boat to be able to make up a $200M shortfall, I don't know, but it seems like it could be a pretty big untapped market.

[–] chrisbtoo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Years ago — late 90s — I used to travel to Vermont from the UK on business. Because of the time difference I'd often wake up at ~3:30 in the morning and since there was very little to do in a hotel room in Burlington, I'd put The Weather Channel on.

Quite often they'd report on "snow coming down from Canada", or "frigid air coming down from Canada", and I always thought it was weird how they seemed to be subtly blaming another country for weather phenomena.

Dunno why I thought of that.

Anyway, electric vans. Cool.

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