PLUS the extra weight of the machine and empty battery pack

In a lot of ways, there are parallels here to how 4WD on a motor vehicle has a tendency to get people into more pickles than out of one, due to human psychology. The go-to example would be snowy weather: the driver of a 4WD automobile can use their car to go deeper up an unplowed road, but then get stuck further from help. Meanwhile, a 2WD driver would have turned around earlier, and might just wait out the snowstorm with some hot cocoa by the alpine hotel’s fireplace. The fact is that 4WD has an advantage by using all wheels to get the car moving, but has a negative advantage when stopping, since all cars have brakes on all wheels.

All good treks into nature need to be well-planned, and although I support the idea of getting more people out and about, I also agree that lowering the barrier to entry means some people will indeed bite off more than they can chew, when things start to go wrong. With any hope, they build an emergency beacon into these things.

I’d love to personally see if people that use ebikes only, have any stamina for actually biking or of it’s made them lazy and weaker.

Not a direct answer to this scenario, but I recall seeing some early research that does indicate that riders of even throttle-only ebikes do exert modest effort, raising their baseline bodily parameters. If I had to guess, it may have to do with the activity of balancing a two-wheeler. Though some follow-up to that would be whether motorcycle riders have the same benefit, and whether the increased heart rate isn’t due to something anciliary, such as the increased fear of being struck by a motor vehicle (specifically in the USA).

You might consider posting to !indiegaming@lemmy.world as well

For a second, I thought that thumbnail was of the world’s littlest skyscraper.

IMO, motorcycle haulers are readily available, handle weights well in excess of typical ebikes, can accommodate fattires as needed, and have the only drawback of requiring the bike to be secured using tow straps or chain. Though depending on the weight of an ebike, this may very well be preferable.

A mono FM receiver – with zero support for stereo whatsoever – should indeed exhibit greater sensitivity and selectivity when tuning stations, because they need only electronically filter for a ~15 kHz mono signal within the assigned 200 kHz band for each distinct station.

A wider filter suitable for stereo reception could have similar behavior, but it would require better/pricier components or a greatly modified design for the radio. In most cases, sensitivity is sacrificed to keep the price point of a stereo receiver, since people care more about properly selecting nearby radio stations rather than faraway stations. Even when a stereo receiver were – somehow – receiving a mono broadcast, the penalty is already paid because of the receiver’s design.

Source: Wikipedia

Having previously been on the reviewing side of job applications, if you have GitHub/Codeberg repos with your work, please, please, please include those links somewhere on the resume, ideally spelled out and also clickable in the PDF. It’s a neat trick to showcase more work than what fits on a page.

Although the non-technical recruiters might gloss over links, the technical reviewers very much look at your code examples. Why? Because seeing your coding style and hygiene, Git workflow and commit messages, documentation, and overall approach to iterative improvement of a codebase is far more revealing than anything that AI-nonsense coding tests can show.

So while this won’t necessarily get your resume past the first gate, always be thinking about the different audiences whom your resume might be passed around to, within the prospective organization you’re applying to.

I use LibreOffice has my word processor, and no substantial amounts of automation to speak of. And each time I intend to submit a resume, I save off a new copy and tailor it specifically for the recipient employer. After all, what’s relevant and worth highlighting (not literally!) to one employer won’t be the same as for another.

Yes, I’m aware that a lot of recruiters/reviewers use LLMs as a first-pass filter, but that’s precisely why my submission should be crafted by hand each time: if it’s an LLM, then I want its checkbox exercises to be easily met, and if it’s a human, I want to put my best foot forward.

In days of yore, where paper resumes were circulated by hand to prospective employers at career fairs, having a bespoke resume for each would have been difficult to pull off. But with PDF submissions, there’s no reason not to gear your submission to exactly the skills that a company is looking for.

To be clear, tailoring a resume does not mean adding fake or hallucinated qualifications that you do not possess. Rather, it means that you copyedit the resume so that your relevant skills are readily apparent. If you already listed an example project from a prior employer or internship, but a different project would better align to the prospective employer, consider swapping out the example for max appeal. Bullet-points are particularly easy to rearrange: if you have web-dev skills and that’s desirable by the employer, those should be moved up the list of bullet-points. And so on.

Although resumes are now mostly PDFs, the custom remains – both as an informal fairness criteria between applicants, but also because it would be more to read – that one’s resume should fit on a single sheet of US Letter or A4 paper, barring unique exceptions like professors that have long lists of published papers or systems architects that hold patent numbers. And so the optimization problem is how to most effectively use the space on that sheet of digital paper.

I’m gonna keep this link for non-gym use. My house has hardwood floors, and this would be quite useful.

Perhaps something like this would help? https://www.roguefitness.com/abmat

!fitness@lemmy.world would be intrigued by this setup.

IMO, if it works, then it works! But if the tow strap is a bit wobbly, you might consider some sort of apparatus that can clamp to just one of those posts, which ideally would have two protrusions parallel to the ground, in order to anchor your feet there.

I’m informed the British do read the time 6:30 as “half six”, a shortened form of “half past six”. So “inch an a half” might become “incuax”, pronounced as “in-cha” and containing the unnecessary U, and an X for that Norman/French faux lineage.

Naturally, Americans would instead pronounce it as “in-coh”, which would destroy any understanding when also speaking about Incoterms.

Oh, also: 1 1/2 inches is 1/8th of a foot. 3/4" is 1/16th of a foot.

It’s not often that I’m surprised by some of the divisors that appear in US Customary or Imperial units, but I’m now shuddering to imagine what sort of horrific system of unit names have been built atop this fact of twos-powers fractions of a foot.

Knowing the English, they’ll likely have invented a name during the medieval time for 1/8th of a foot (1.5 inches), like dozebarleycorn, since a barleycorn is already 1/3 of an inch. And then 3/4" might be a demidoze, or some such insanity. The horror, the horror.

Although I suspect this particular quirk of dimensional lumber stems from the British, the result is not too unexpected for modern-day America. After all, we (insanely) deal with sales tax the same way, where the advertised price is pre-tax, and consumers have to do math if they want to compute the final bill before reaching the checkstand.

So having to measure the lumber to acquire its actual dimensions is entire above-board [pun intended] for anything beyond putting together a wood-frame structure.

I did, but like, there wasn’t much else that I could say. So I figured I wouldn’t spoil the video for anyone.

“Ladder two-wheeler with underglow” was not on my 2025 bingo list.

Without the video specifying a locale, I could fill this comment with how California law has a weird prohibition on bicycles with handlebars higher than one’s shoulders, but that would first require that I determine if said ladder would even be a bicycle. It might actually be an e-scooter. But instead, I’m just going to roll with it [pun intended] and enjoy the spectacle. Everyone needs some joy from time to time, including us watching and them riding.

Never forget to just go out and ride.

Let me make sure I understand everything correctly. You have an OpenWRT router which terminates a Wireguard tunnel, which your phone will connect to from somewhere on the Internet. When the Wireguard tunnel lands within the router in the new subnet 192.168.2 0/24, you have iptable rules that will:

• Reject all packets on the INPUT chain (from subnet to OpenWRT)
• Reject all packets on the OUTPUT chain (from OpenWRT to subnet)
• Route packets from phone to service on TCP port 8080, on the FORWARD chain
• Allow established connections, on the FORWARD chain
• Reject all other packets on the FORWARD chain

So far, this seems alright. But where does the service run? Is it on your LAN subnet or the isolated 192.168.2.0/24 subnet? The diagram you included suggests that the service runs on an existing machine on your LAN, so that would imply that the router must also do address translation from the isolated subnet to your LAN subnet.

That’s doable, but ideally the service would be homed onto the isolated subnet. But perhaps I misunderstood part of the configuration.

It took me a few reads to internalize everything that you wrote, and it’s food-for-thought for when I level-up to adding another machine to my garage. It does seem that I can wait on the jointer for a long while, and on the thickness planer until my projects start using wider boards or I get really tired of hand planing those.

Good to know that the combo planer/jointer is not exactly optimal, and I’ll have to keep an eye out for either separate machine that happens to be for sale on the used market.

I have no other tool that could take a quarter inch off the thickness of a 10 inch wide board; the only tool I have that is appropriate for this task is my thickness planer.

As it happens, this was precisely what I also had to do for an earlier project, and I ended up using my router table to do it. It was an awful slog of a time, and I hope to never repeat that ever again. Throughout the ordeal, I kept thinking about how a CNC mill would have made quick work of it, but I suspect a used thickness planer is going to be a lot more affordable for me

If a normal bench plane is a chisel wearing a pair of steel toed boots, a shoulder plane is a chisel wearing strappy wedge heeled sandals.

This made me laugh, but was also effective at explaining the difference, as did some more image results that specifically show the iron of each plane.

At last, my collection of 3M Super 77 comes in handy!

Yes, most of what I typically have on hand is dimensional lumber. So it’s already mostly alright, but the surfaces might not all be square and I need to figure out ways to keep those errors from propagating.