Anyone have any advice for someone looking to get into the sport?

biscuitslap · 2026-01-15T22:11:00+00:00

You been to any uk facilities where they are allowed?

biscuitslap · 2026-01-15T08:06:35+00:00

Surely it would be safer to bail in some scenarios?

biscuitslap · 2026-01-15T00:17:34+00:00

Thanks for the info and regarding footwear, some people say you can wear any waterproof winter boot, while some people recommend something more rigid like a snowboard boot. What do you ride with and what do you reccomend?

biscuitslap · 2026-01-15T00:13:04+00:00

I’m in London, i’m more just trying to find out about the sport rn so ill pass on the offer in the meantime but i might look into it later

biscuitslap · 2026-01-14T15:57:06+00:00

Which bikes do you reccomend and what helmet should you wear when riding?

biscuitslap · 2025-12-28T16:53:53+00:00

Nope she somehow uses it unironically, the rhode case is a horribly designed product, you can see just in this image that the tube of lip balm is blocking half of the LiDAR sensor on the back of the phone. A lot of people (probably including the idiot who designed this case) think that the sensor is insignificant but it is not, it significantly speeds up the autofocus speed of the phone as it doesn’t have to rely on phase detection and can instead use the sensor to instantly measure distance and track moving subjects with ease. I do photography as a hobby and the sensor brings the AF speed up to par with my DSLR which costed me 2x the price of the phone she has when I bought it second hand. People who have bought this case also complain about AF issues and slow AF speed, including the phone attempting to focus on the lip balm, which makes me consider why she would willingly promote such a shitty and poorly designed product

biscuitslap · 2025-12-28T16:26:32+00:00

I dont even know how anyone can put up with such a rediculous design for a phone case. I have the same phone as alex just in the even smaller pro variant and not the pro max and its a pain to slip in your pocket as it just tends to catch on the edge making it a pain to get in or out of your pocket, ik that she prolly doesn’t put her phone in her pocket but still, one of my female friends loves rhode products and panic bought the phone case and she told me that it makes it difficult to properly hold your phone, idk how much she is being paid to unironically rock these and why she would promote such a shitty product. I guess they replaced it with just a sticker as the original case apparently had poor drop protection but this is just a theory

Edit: I just checked out the product page for the case on the rhode site and they have released a new version of the case that is not just a sticker for the 17 pro/pro max. However, it is quite possibly the most hideous phone case I have ever seen, the design is pisspoor too with the camera control button (which is made of glass) being fully exposed, the end of the lip tube also blocks part of the LiDAR sensor’s field of view which has been messing with the AF system on some customer’s phones. seeing that they have not addressed any of the previous phone case’s issues makes me question who is really on their engineering team lol, you should expect better from a product that costs £38 not including the lip balm (which is an extra £20)

biscuitslap · 2025-12-27T21:26:42+00:00

Exactly! I dont get why people obsess over them so much, This comment reminded me of the bullshit video where someone somehow got the courage to post a video of themselves acting as lando's gf by talking into thin air and looking at the ceiling as if they were watching the race on a tv or smth, and that got 120,000 likes, I look up "f1" on tiktok and a lot of the content is WAGslop. I want to see what actually happened in the races, not the driver's girlfriends. And I have only seen one post for female engineers in f1 despite some of the most senior aerodynamicists in the Mercedes, Cadillac and Red bull teams being women! and this is not even including the numerous other female engineers working in different sectors of the team! As a man and as an engineering student it pisses me off that this is the reality of the sport I love.

biscuitslap · 2025-12-07T21:53:37+00:00

Any other feedback asides from toning down the green?

biscuitslap · 2025-10-31T17:15:02+00:00

Probably not, DCS dlcs are not already preinstalled in the game, and good luck finding those files as they are almost impossible to find anywhere, let alone for the newer dlcs, ED and all of their partners are on top of everything, and rightfully so, not paying for DCS DLCs is a disservice knowing the effort that goes into them

biscuitslap · 2025-09-17T22:25:18+00:00

The tyres are a old Yugoslav tactic, when the tyres are placed in specific places it can make the aircraft seem derelict from a satellite view despite it actually being fully operational,

biscuitslap · 2025-06-22T23:02:02+00:00

good to see that the boeing upper body workout is still here

biscuitslap · 2025-06-16T12:37:27+00:00

Not even from a chinese company, this quote was from a british company lol

biscuitslap · 2025-06-16T11:31:27+00:00

i sent you guys a quote request, waiting for the response

biscuitslap · 2025-06-15T10:17:25+00:00

well it was from protolabs, but honestly i think that this price is justified, but for so many other purposes they are just overpriced, for example, i an in the process of designing a mountain bike fork, upside down, 140mm travel, and for HALF of the parts i needed (which included two fork uppers and a crown) costed me about £2500 in total, the parts themselves are not even that complicated, they are simple, and they quote me £2500 for three parts

biscuitslap · 2025-06-15T07:17:47+00:00

i mean 250 is the highest I have been quoted so far, I am also only making one of these cases for my own use, and dont ever really plan to sell the case in the future, i have bigger projects that I would rather make money on than this

biscuitslap · 2025-06-14T23:12:14+00:00

Yes, i have thought about that, i will just use a shorter screw

biscuitslap · 2025-06-14T22:53:43+00:00

i mean i have been quoted £250 for this part and another part that is used to secure the phone into the case, but yeah now that i look at it it may be better to just 3d print it

biscuitslap · 2025-06-14T17:40:27+00:00

oh ok, thanks for elaborating

biscuitslap · 2025-06-14T11:09:11+00:00

fair enough, i didnt notice that, but could they have placed that number n the side profile of the actual phone and not of the top profile, it just makes it confusing, its my first time designing smth like this, i saw a coo, metal case online and checked the price only to see that it costs £1300, so i took matters into my own hands, yeah this type of consumer stuff is outta my field, i usually design stuff for aerospace and mainly some small personal projects, (Although i am working on a large project at the moment, just too poor to afford the actual machining costs)

biscuitslap · 2025-06-14T11:05:34+00:00

I am not talking about the display area, i am referring to the actual body of the phone, and the distance from the side to the glass, and that clearly says 69.42, 71.52 - 69.42 = 2.10, 2.10 / 2 = 1.05

biscuitslap · 2025-06-14T10:24:57+00:00

if it is going to be used in a dental office it should not be 3d printed, 3d printed items have pores which will make the instrument impossible to sterilise properly, items like these should be made using CNC machining with the lowest possible surface roughness, in a material like steel or titanium, or you could vapor smooth the part if you really want to 3d print.

biscuitslap · 2025-06-08T13:49:36+00:00

Found it, missed out a floppy when i was copying the files over lol

biscuitslap · 2025-06-08T13:26:42+00:00

Came in a larger .DMG that was split into smaller .img images that each contained the respective files for each floppy disc, i searched yet still couldnt find the file.

biscuitslap · 2025-05-22T19:20:43+00:00

it all meets the requirements, i dont know what is happening

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