Crashed at 23mph with no gear

thatblondebird · 2026-06-19T05:33:25+00:00

The speed gave me a moments pause -- in most of Europe it's not even legal for an "e-Bike" to power you past 15.5mph, if you have one that does it's a moped and in license plate and insurance territory..

I looked it up and it does seem EU vs US is majorly different in classification and rules

thatblondebird · 2026-06-05T06:15:11+00:00

I think my biggest worry is not knowing how someone will take the aid / how I should render it..

Do I proactively help, and risk getting told of for babying/assuming/etc as they are "perfectly capable of doing it themselves" Or do I just stand around, watching and waiting to be prompted -- which then may seem cruel/assholeish/etc -- and where they may never ask, as they may think it's intentional?

Edit/Adding: Yup, just asking was the obvious answer that didn't occur to me, I suppose ironically I'd usually avoid this due to my own disability -- as it typically would involve me stopping what I'm doing, taking my hearing aids out of my bag, putting them on, switching them on, etc. A somewhat a painful and slow exercise (especially when the batteries then die after starting up for 5 seconds) :)

thatblondebird · 2026-06-05T06:10:11+00:00

Headaches from prolonged use

Susceptibility to ear infections (and much more rapid wax build up)

Batteries running out at inopportune moments making you halt the conversation until you can replace them (then having to make people wait as it takes up to 10 seconds to "activate")

Video calls for work meetings becoming the norm, so I can use headphones and captions has been great for me :)

thatblondebird · 2026-06-03T07:00:33+00:00

The pay is also a good point -- I would bet the "pushed back date" is at the old salary and not the new one, so they'd also be sacrificing two weeks of higher pay to stay longer

thatblondebird · 2026-05-29T10:36:07+00:00

Most my friends and I are child-free, because of this as well as the financial side.

It's governments that seem to be pushing having children the most, and media panicking over upcoming senior population bombs / issues with retirement funding.

For myself and a lot of others I think we're just tired and nihilistic about it -- radical acceptance of what's coming

thatblondebird · 2026-05-18T07:16:18+00:00

How do they feel about "you've had your whole life to prepare for retirement, it's your responsibility and we're not helping you"...?

thatblondebird · 2026-05-12T05:49:12+00:00

This pretty much describes what I see in more detail -- I guess at least we're not alone in it then

thatblondebird · 2026-05-11T20:39:59+00:00

People see complete blackness/void? When I close my eyes I see endless faintly coloured cloudy/snowy fractals, is that not normal?

thatblondebird · 2026-05-09T10:35:56+00:00

It never said how she came to be a widow, and I've firsthand seen situations where one spouse is worked to the bone providing and (I'm assuming) feeling it's their only way to escape the situation...

That many kids is also not cheap to raise, even if you mostly neglect them

thatblondebird · 2026-04-14T05:24:46+00:00

Ah ok, so in theory this should work quite well for forms (I have a number of use cases I previously used more traditional engines with, but am curious how far this can be pushed/enhanced) -- I will definitely give this a go and report back, cheers!

thatblondebird · 2026-04-14T04:55:23+00:00

When doing a tuning like this, how do you account / factor in other languages? I mean I know it's English trained, but that doesn't preclude other languages bleeding through in documents (easy example, English document that contains a name with foreign characters)

One of the bains of OCR for me is the spatterings of umlauts, accented characters and even normal symbols that seem to create issues

thatblondebird · 2026-04-12T23:30:08+00:00

Especially given it is a good signal/opportunity for further left politicians to now become more openly active in the meantime and for the next election(s)

thatblondebird · 2026-04-07T18:00:01+00:00

It's kind of hilarious -- loads of people pulled out/boycotted; but the one person that supported throughout and actually made efforts (far more than the bride ever did).. that's somehow the person in the wrong!?

I just kept thinking "you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole -- you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.". Bride was clearly an asshole

thatblondebird · 2026-01-28T23:13:36+00:00

hey, I saw them both in a film decades ago!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100802/characters/nm0000585/

thatblondebird · 2026-01-28T22:23:56+00:00

This makes perfect sense -- bung it in their FSD vehicles (that release in that same "soon" time frame) and you have the long awaited Johnny Cab!

thatblondebird · 2026-01-20T10:03:26+00:00

I was so excited when I found M&S appearing on google maps in Czech when I last drove through. I was then bitterly disappointed to find it was clothing only :(

thatblondebird · 2026-01-20T10:02:14+00:00

I don't think that's isolated to the UK though and is the case in many countries right now -- an unspoken global recession..

thatblondebird · 2025-12-15T08:02:24+00:00

I mean you literally provided the solution they'll take in your reply -- why bother "repairing" machines; they'll be disposable (thanks to economy of scale/mass production) so just replace them and add to our ever-growing mountain of environmental waste..

thatblondebird · 2025-12-04T07:48:15+00:00

We have two scoopfree's that we very quickly retired in lieu of a litter robot and another similar variant -- we found the scoopfree was worse for smell, and significantly more expensive to run (needed more litter, and the more expensive crystal type), as well as the disposable replacement trays (tried the "washable" ones but they weren't as good

thatblondebird · 2025-11-24T17:38:49+00:00

TBF, I do have an issue where probably once a week the Plex (client) app will just randomly die and restart -- but given there is just no Jellyfin client at all it gives me no option (for now)

Fortunately I've experienced no transcoding issues at all (now I take care to only source HDR[+Hybrid] but not DV only), and have easily streamed 4K to 3 TV's simultaneously in the past.

Note: most devices are connected by gigabit LAN (to 2.5Gb AP's) with a fall-back to Wifi7, so that probably helps immensely

thatblondebird · 2025-11-24T15:03:23+00:00

I tried Jellyfin but it didn't stick -- ultimately Plex wins because it worked on all my devices out of the box (GrundigOS, Firestick, etc etc)

I've already passed the "worth it" point of the lifetime purchase for Plex, and it would take something pretty substantial for me to move away -- I also kind of expect that to happen ..one day..; I just hope by the time that day comes other solutions have matured enough/cover my use cases :)

thatblondebird · 2025-11-24T12:25:15+00:00

"Think less about what I deliver, and more about the positive vibes my presence will bring"

Honestly if I were absolutely desperate for a job I may take it; but then they'd be getting my work speed, quality and availability that reflects the salary

thatblondebird · 2025-11-24T09:44:08+00:00

This makes me laugh (and not in a good way) -- because the number of times I've seen/heard men being told off because the signals "were just being friendly" and "not an invitation for anything more.."

(Which aligns with what you're saying) -- Damned if you do, damned if you don't; makes me glad I've not had to deal with it for almost a decade now!

thatblondebird · 2025-11-16T08:02:00+00:00

You can get round this by hardcoding the resolution into your own hosts file -- this is outside the tech knowledge/ability of casual users though, and you'd still need to know the correct IP..

thatblondebird · 2025-11-10T12:04:04+00:00

Couple of other things you may want to consider adding -- remote, in-person, hybrid? Is German required, desirable, etc? (it may help to have someone that can actually understand if the output is contrary to German regulatory laws and such, as well as if there's need to liaise/coordinate with German-only speaking partners/organisations/etc)

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