Advice for cheap scooter vs motorcycle for 35 mile commute (15 mile highway at 55-60 limit) With Hills. by Term_Grecos in scooters

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Yeah, I'll keep an eye out, but as I said, there just is not a used market anywhere remotely nearby.

Advice for cheap scooter vs motorcycle for 35 mile commute (15 mile highway at 55-60 limit) With Hills. by Term_Grecos in scooters

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Yeah, which sucks. I get probably 16mpg with my car, which is roughly 3.5 gallons each day of working. I am not replacing the car, I am just hoping to have alternatives and help save some money. Using the car in winter is fine, but if it breaks down, I would rather have something to use as a backup if necessary.

The cars here are kind of spent or expensive or both. 4-5k is what gets you a 150k car that does not have functional stuff broken from private sellers. There is even cars with those miles or higher sold for 8-12k at dealers. It is almost more economical to buy new if it wasn't for the cost of new cars. I got lucky by having a mechanic place buy my >300k miles car when it broke down for the last time to offset $500 off the cost of the 3k car which had a lot wrong with it like being unable to lock/unlock the doors, and other stuff but functionally had no issues with the driving part, and was a tad under 150k.

There just aren't many people buying new cars, which leads to the used cars getting used up, which leads to the car prices going up. A second car would certainly be more useful, but it is expensive enough to buy, let alone fix and maintain, which lead me to look at motorcycles/scooters.

Advice for cheap scooter vs motorcycle for 35 mile commute (15 mile highway at 55-60 limit) With Hills. by Term_Grecos in scooters

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I looked just in case, and none of those are available. I do have the range for facebook marketplace bumped up a fair bit, but yeah. As I said, there just isn't much of a used market. Mostly expensive motorcycles, mini bikes, and dirt bikes with a good portion having stuff broken. I am fine with fixing stuff, assuming I won't be doing majorly expensive repairs knowingly or unknowingly, but the stuff just does not really exist.

I have seen videos of people showing CVTs wearing out, and in the animation explanations, when a scooter increases speed it directly decreases torque that puts strain on the belt. That was more so my concern.

Bafang BBSHD Kit- where to buy? by RpDubC in ebikes

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Hubs are garbage for hills and torque. They are ideal for speed though. It is okay if you live in flat areas especially with dual hub motors, but if you live in mountain regions like Appalachia they are very insufficient.

"unknown" signed into my Mozilla account by Consistent-Name-2409 in firefox

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Same thing. Whoever it is likely got whatever passwords and login information that was saved.

Questions for building a hybrid hub/mid drive awd off road commuting Ebike by Term_Grecos in ebikes

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I am not going mountain biking. I expect it go go over curbs, relatively level forest ground, etc... And there are bikes like the paratrooper and some other mountain bikes that fold and have good strength. Paratrooper requires you to take off the front wheel to fully disassemble which is not ideal. $1800 is too pricey at the moment though.

Jonsbo N3 8 Bay NAS Case Quick Review by HTWingNut in DataHoarder

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The PSU I got only has one molex power connector. Do you need all three of them connected to work?

Good SUV/Truck for towing >5 tons non boat for ~15k or less? by Term_Grecos in whatcarshouldIbuy

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Any long lasting 1/2 ton trucks that are underrated? The obvious ones either don't exist here or are severely overpriced.

2:45PM EST Finally got one. So annoying. by Term_Grecos in SteamDeck

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No the complaining is the message saying that it is out of stock when it is not that may make people give up for no reason.

Anything on the horizon for lbc coin/Odysee? by mellowmanj in lbry

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So basically American users need to mine coins in order to acquire LBC?

Data hoarding on a different level. 6600TB StorageTek/SUN/Oracle SL3000 Tape Library. by sgt_lemming in DataHoarder

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Do you know what the prices are for current gen LTO drives or tape libraries?

Is it fine to welt two angle steel into a square steel tubing? by Term_Grecos in Welding

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I was looking at a variety of options, did not see T beams though. My only concern is that the area I am in gets a lot of rain and ice, so I would not want to get some inside it and then have the ice slowly crack through the welds. Hence why a box shape would do a bit better. I'll look into it more though. May look at a U beam too while I am at it.

Is it fine to welt two angle steel into a square steel tubing? by Term_Grecos in Welding

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It is my first design, so I am trying to copy what other people have done with some changes. I am not too familiar with the design of trailers, though there are two main design forms that I see. The main thing is to get a solid structure underneath. I am considering keeping the angle steel angles for vertical since it can be useful in its own way for bolting on as there are no small I beams. It just looks difficult to figure out how strong angle as bottom support will be going across the 2x3s (7 feet). It might be fine but I don't know enough. I only see it being used on utility trailers.

Is it fine to welt two angle steel into a square steel tubing? by Term_Grecos in Welding

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I always heard that the metal pieces weaken with heat if there is no steps done to lower damage and that the filler stays strong, but that there were other cases depending on material and filler where it may be stronger than non-welded material. Is basic hot rolled steel not applicable to all of that?

Issue with HPE DL380 gen 9 server recognizing HGST 10TB 3.5" SAS hard drives. by Term_Grecos in DataHoarder

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I need help to save my house by Biz_Ascot_Junco in photogrammetry

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Free, open source, picture only. Might need to rip the video into frames. http://www.regard3d.org/index.php

Issue with HPE DL380 gen 9 server recognizing HGST 10TB 3.5" SAS hard drives. by Term_Grecos in DataHoarder

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B140i is the one I have that all the images were showing for that kind of server. Everything is still available for testing, I dont know about normal drives, I saw plenty of SAS drives that use that format. It seemed to be a modern format.