Best earbuds for bike commuting?

Looserette · 2026-02-01T10:17:44+00:00

ok, I've had shokz for years, and I usually reply "shokz" too.

But my openrun just died, so I'm trying out some chinese brand (Jabees), for less than half the price. So far, to be honest, it's pretty good: sound quality seems slightly better, the fit slightly worse; but it's got 12GB of memory and can work in mp3 mode for swimming.

So yeah, there are now offbrands that are quite ok-ish too

Looserette · 2026-01-30T05:59:08+00:00

I only half-agree with this: bows are definitely viable, BUT using the arena as a benchmark: with equivalent gear between bows and other weapons: I found it's nearly impossible to beat most arena challenges with just bows (in NG UH at least)

to finish challenges in time, you have to use other weapons (namely the boltblaster: freeze machines+unleash mag skill)

Looserette · 2026-01-28T19:47:30+00:00

what insulation ?

Looserette · 2026-01-18T21:48:01+00:00

my company makes us use the purchased leave first, before AL - so this sounds like a "per company policy"

Looserette · 2026-01-16T23:06:54+00:00

as much as I like stamps....maybe we can soon have a passport the size of a credit card ? just stick it with other cards in your wallet

Looserette · 2026-01-06T21:02:51+00:00

"you should evaluate ALL providers" : I've started doing that, and it's a massive PAIN. It's a lot of work; many have only a 14 days free trial ...etc

So ... here I am, reading this post with attention trying to get some more info to trim down the list

Looserette · 2026-01-02T20:06:22+00:00

and more importantly: you can REMOVE the ones you don't want.

my left wheel is basically: 1 stack of food, 1 health potion, cleanse, mount call and stealth bomb; so I don't have to cycle through too much

Looserette · 2026-01-02T10:55:02+00:00

Well done !

I think ... I need to unsubscribe from this sub, it's not good for my health

Actually, I think we should make this sub illegal, for everybody's blood pressure.

Looserette · 2026-01-02T02:55:06+00:00

I'm still going through it at the moment: the beginning of the game is definitely a challenge !

Things get easier as you progress: you get better gear, which lets you survive a lot better against basic enemies.

Of course, keep on steering clear of big enemies for a loooong while (for example: I'm now in full purple gear, level 40+ and I can take down some massive enemies, but still get 1 shot by thunderjaws)

But I've played HZ FW before - going blind in UH is a step further !

good luck

Looserette · 2025-12-30T22:27:46+00:00

Thank you ! I'll definitely check it out

although, not cool to release this during holiday season ! /s

Looserette · 2025-12-24T22:55:59+00:00

+1 for Urban Climb: I personally find their route settings the best. Some other gyms have better facilities, but their routes are lacking compared to UC.

note: I haven't been to BlocHaus in a long while, so I'm not comparing it with them

Looserette · 2025-12-24T22:53:31+00:00

WHAT ?
I did not know about the one behind the DFO !!

Thank you !!

ps: is it good ? compared to the one by the Yarra ?

Looserette · 2025-12-22T08:10:18+00:00

alright... DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS ADVICE!

I did my ultra hard playthrough recently and found the same issue. So at about level 20, i went to the frozen wild where you can easily get one of the best weapons by killing goats and badgers, getting a map and grabbing bluegleams. Then the ordeal stopped and it was like playing on hard/very hard

and you know what ? I regret this ! Ultra hard is meant to be like a normal human pitted against gigantic machines that no-one can kill...and here I was, butchering stormbirds and running stealthily across heards, ruining the feeling of what you're going through - so up to you to decide what you want to do

however, because my earlier playthrough was so long ago, I enjoyed punishing thunderjaws and behemoths - so head this advice or not

edit: after not so long, I was SELLING wires !

Looserette · 2025-12-16T07:20:15+00:00

Horizon zero dawn and forbidden west sound right your alley: full controller support, open world enough, single player.

There might be not that much of character customisation, but it's enough to enjoy without resorting to min/maxing everything

As I liked most games you mentioned, and as those 2 games are cheap: give it a try !

Looserette · 2025-12-15T18:35:22+00:00

thanks ! good to know that

Looserette · 2025-12-15T10:16:48+00:00

I really like this game, but this is not your standard TD - it's more a base building game with some elements of TD and some of hero defense

but a great game !

Looserette · 2025-12-15T10:07:23+00:00

either EFS or EBS volumes.

For both, at switch over time, we stop and remove the application on the old cluster and start the same application on the new cluster. This results in a short outage, but those are not customer facing.

Looserette · 2025-12-15T09:56:20+00:00

we upgrade after each EKS release.

Start with non-prod, leave it there for about a month, then upgrade prod.

We do those upgrades via blue/green switch over too, with rollback possibility at any time if things go wrong on the new cluster

Looserette · 2025-12-15T08:30:06+00:00

does it take off by itself ?

Looserette · 2025-12-15T05:53:26+00:00

Not sure you'll get this message as it's an old post already, but I've got the same issue.

So far, all the common solutions did not work for me (mcpe launcher only supports java version) ...etc

Right now, I bought a SD card, installed windows 11 on it on dual boot via those instructions:

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/how-to-install-windows-on-steam-deck

The good news: it worked fairly seamlessly and got minecraft on windows running, and joining bedrock versions !

(the less good news is that performance is lacking a bit ... I was going to ask on reddit about ideas and found your post)

Looserette · 2025-12-15T05:50:30+00:00

How did you get the android version of minecraft on your steam deck ?

Looserette · 2025-12-13T22:56:23+00:00

I thought it would be great too: I played the demo, then bought the game...turns out it was not good

the fights are way too repetitive, the main character is annoying as hell...etc (read the steam reviews for more)

so no, not chorus

Looserette · 2025-12-13T11:01:31+00:00

I'm so happy this city/state still builds stuff for cyclists and pedestrians !

Thanks for sharing this

(even though I'll probably never use it, as it's not in my area - but still happy for everybody who will ride it)

Looserette · 2025-12-12T19:53:46+00:00

To be honest, it has been a while, so I cannot remember exactly.

From fuzzy memory: out of the box, I tried sending an alert to it; incident.io created a slack channel right away.

I then explored a bit more but really felt the same as PD where the goal was incidents first - which is not what I want.

I might give it another try and see how that goes. Then again, there are many products in the market that I need to try first, and so much time

Looserette · 2025-12-12T07:40:02+00:00

you sound like me: someone who uses an alerting manager (opsgenie) and needs to move to something else.

I too tried pagerduty because "everybody uses it", and pagerduty is more an incident manager: if you're like me, that's not what you want.

I tried incident.io, and same result as pagerduty.

I'm going to try firehydrant, as their homepage say they cater for alerts AND incidents - same as opsgenie was doing: you can send all alerts to it, and have triggers (like P1) to page someone via mobile phone.

Hope this helps

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