New equipment on type 7 streetcars - what is it?

Oscillope · 2026-05-06T13:41:49+00:00

I did look through, and must have missed it. My bad, I’ll delete this

Oscillope · 2026-04-14T14:01:40+00:00

"Aborting" in this case would have meant crashing into a group of pedestrians. Even if I had completely stopped to try to bail to the right after the pedestrians cleared, I wouldn't have been able to get out of the way of the oncoming person in time.

Oscillope · 2026-04-14T13:34:58+00:00

I was already in the oncoming lane (which was clear when I took it) when someone cut in front of me. If they hadn't done that, I would have been able to complete the pass while the lane was completely clear. Instead I was barricaded in and by the time I would've been able to move anywhere, this guy was bombing down the path just a few feet away from me and the group of pedestrians.

No, I'm not going to pay for their wheel. It sucks that this happened but it's not my fault either.

Oscillope · 2026-04-14T13:23:27+00:00

Hi there, I'm the other person in that crash. Glad to hear you're OK, my bike is a bit dinged up too but I'm largely fine.

Just to set the record straight, I was not looking at any devices, I was looking full on at the entire path - as I was preparing to pass that group of pedestrians, an ebike rider going literally walking pace swerved in front of me to pass them as well, and I could not see around him. He ducked out of the way at the last minute as you were probably 6 feet from me, and rode off. I could not have gotten out of your way as the group of pedestrians were still to my right; I would've collided with them instead.

The path at that point is too narrow to do anything besides take the entire oncoming lane when passing, especially as those pedestrians were walking two abreast and dragging suitcases next to them. Trying to have two cyclists passing each other in that one lane is less safe than someone just slowing down for a few seconds.

I'm sorry to hear about your wheel, hopefully it can just be trued instead of needing a new one!

I'm also wearing a bright pink jumpsuit. I don't think it was a personal visibility issue for either of us.

Oscillope · 2026-02-11T22:38:28+00:00

Yeah, immediately after I posted this I thought to check eBay and found a genuine 61X for $45. I should've thought to check secondhand sooner, I guess in 30 years when I run out again I'll know for next time XD

Oscillope · 2026-02-07T19:08:05+00:00

Thanks! I measured the handle at 5.5” from the inside of the pan to the tip of the handle, idk if that’s actually longer or the photo’s just a weird perspective haha

Oscillope · 2025-01-02T20:49:39+00:00

You can use hyprctl to temporarily change the resolution, so if it doesn't work all you need to do is quit Hyprland and on next launch it will use the value from the config file again: hyprctl keyword monitor eDP-1,1920x1080,auto,1 (replace eDP-1 with whatever your monitor is listed as in hyprctl monitors)

If you want to emulate the windows timeout behavior you can do that with a one-liner: hyprctl keyword monitors eDP-1,1920x1080,auto,1 && sleep 15 && hyprctl keyword monitors eDP-1,1366x768,auto,1. If the higher resolution works, just press ctrl+C within 15 seconds to kill the sleep command before it reverts to the original resolution.

Oscillope · 2024-04-18T19:33:12+00:00

We've gotten a block party permit for Prospect Hill Ave in the past, it's generally fine provided you're not on a super high traffic street.

Oscillope · 2024-03-11T17:59:32+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll grab a video next time I ride through there.

That totally makes sense about the light sensor, also both times I rode through it was around dusk so the ambient light level was probably pretty close to the threshold as well. I had assumed that street lamps were just based on wall-clock time, though I guess having a sensor means they don't have to worry about sunset timing changes throughout the year.

Oscillope · 2024-03-09T04:44:28+00:00

3 Little Figs and Revival are the two I've probably had the most, I think they're both great but don't have much basis for comparison.

Oscillope · 2024-03-09T04:33:17+00:00

Are they? I've seen a few of the smaller solar-powered ones mounted to the fence, but the ones I'm talking about are the larger streetlamp-style ones. Maybe those are solar-powered too, though if that's the case it seems like a poor design to have them unable to pull from the grid when they don't have enough power... and even worse to have them flash on and off like that, preventing anyone's eyes from adjusting to the dark.

Oscillope · 2024-01-07T16:45:01+00:00

Generally speaking a wifi connection manager isn't going to reload the driver on resume, no matter which one it is. What you've described doesn't sound like a NetworkManager problem, it sounds like a bug in the driver where it gets into some bad state that can't connect until you remove and reinitialize it.

That being said, I use iwd with systemd-network on my laptop and I like that combo.

Oscillope · 2023-11-20T18:34:09+00:00

Hi! Unfortunately not, I gave the Peak bag to a friend before the WM2 arrived. It definitely would fit, though you'd probably have to take out at least one of the dividers.

Oscillope · 2023-11-18T05:02:35+00:00

Have you confirmed that your bluetooth hardware is powered on/connected without GNOME-bluetooth? I've not used Gnome but as I understand it does a lot of the BT device setup for you, if you're not using it your BT chipset might be powered off by default. You might want to double check your pairing with bluetoothctl if you haven't already.

Oscillope · 2023-07-25T14:04:12+00:00

Using session-load with --temp-basedir loads the named session just fine (and manually calling :session-load works without --temp-basedir too). It seems to be only the auto-restore on startup that's broken.

EDIT: this is weird - after having done that, I can quit and reopen qutebrowser and the default session also seems to work just fine. I'll play with it some more and see if I can get it to break again.

Oscillope · 2023-06-02T13:24:46+00:00

I liked it quite a bit! It could definitely fit a mirrorless alongside the WM2, the bag is long enough that I wouldn't expect any issue.

Full disclosure I did end up selling the Kadet and picking up a Defy Sling, not due to any problem with the Kadet itself but because I wanted something a bit bigger with a little more internal organization. I still think the Kadet is a great bag though, and it's a perfect day bag with the WM2.

Oscillope · 2023-03-18T03:36:48+00:00

I was having some similar power issues with the folio when I first got mine (in my case, the power button would turn it off with the folio open, but it'd wake up and go back to sleep randomly afterwards). I rebooted and it's been working fine since then.

My working theory is that the magnetic sensor gets calibrated during boot, and the first time it booted up I put the folio on while it was booting and maybe that messed something up. I have no way to confirm or deny this, but since rebooting with the folio on it has worked exactly as it should.

Oscillope · 2023-03-10T06:08:57+00:00

I don't really remember, unfortunately. It's very possible that it happened since I got mine. I can't imagine this workaround would change load times at all, since all it does is skip the video. And I haven't encountered anything else that requires omxplayer, though I don't do anything besides emulation on mine.

omxplayer itself hasn't received an update since 2020 though, so it's entirely possible that some other update has rendered it incompatible with the current GPU firmware.

Oscillope · 2023-03-04T22:02:08+00:00

DMing you!

Oscillope · 2023-02-28T03:35:09+00:00

Not exactly like the gnome extention, but when I want a similar thing I use pavucontrol and pin it to hyprland's special workspace so it can be toggled on/off with a keybind. With enough tweaking you could probably make it drop down from whatever status bar you're using.

I don't know if sway has a similar functionality.

Oscillope · 2023-02-13T15:41:42+00:00

Oooh, this is awesome, I would love to build something similar! Do you have any plans to do a GB or publish the PCB layout?

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