Plutoo is also an option

Ebikes aren’t even that heavy compared to normal bikes. Normal bikes are like 15 kg, ebikes more like 25 kg. That seems like a lot in %, but when you include the rider at like 70-95 kg, it seems negligible. Even when talking about lifting them, if seems not really like an issue?

I don’t think this “barrier” is gonna stop any rider under the age of like 75 or so.

I like the use of color. Only where needed. Good emphasis.

You are severely missing what YouTube is for. The vast majority of people, probably significantly more than 99%, just go there to watch stuff. Very few ever make videos.

So yes, for almost everyone, content just magically appears there. Because of how many people use the site, that still means a very large (absolute) number of people make very diverse content. YouTube is excellent in figuring out what I want to see. Think of it like TV with the ability to comment, and having more variety and being on-demand and custom-tailored to my personal taste and interest. If there’s nothing I like on tv, I turn off the tv. I don’t start a broadcasting company.

In other words: me making content I want to watch doesn’t solve me wanting to watch something, and if I made it I already know it and it isn’t for me.

What makes YouTube worth visiting isn’t the site itself or how it was coded. But for the people that are on it. That makes it so hard if not impossible for alternatives to ever appear and be viable. You need the people for the site to be good, but people don’t come unless the site is good. The is no likely solution to this, not now, not soon, maybe not ever.

If there’s a description what the video is about, then the video.

Otherwise an article, but that I open any link and not just read the comments is pretty rare. Articles also very frequently have a summary directly in the post, as is more technical to copy it from an article compared to a video.

If it gets suggested, you can select it with arrow keys and press shift+del, problem solved.

This is such a weird stance given the actual change that was made. No actual age verification, no external communication of any kind. All that got added is a number field. The ability to store a number labeled “age” for user accounts. That’s it.

There already is a field for first name and last name. You can leave them blank as well (most probably do). If any software requires a number to be there, just enter 99 or whatever. Unless this gets severely worse this is such a nothing-burger.

I’m not happy about any step into that direction either, but pick your battles (or hill I guess). This certainly is a weird one.

Mailbox.org is another candidate worth looking into.

Yes, but most people don’t even have one of those 3, let alone all 3.

The Carbin in the woods (2012)

Or another TV of the same manufacturer that has Internet access.

Also sick of hearing about it. Not because I want to play it, but because I don’t care about it, at all.

Congratulations, you added to that kind of noise. For no reason, too.

Similar to NetGuard there is Tracker Control. It also uses the VPN “slot” but it can additionally run a wireguard tunnel itself now. So you can combine access control, adblocking on DNS level and actual vpn.

Edit: added link

This has been in an experimental branch for quite a few months, and it truly is a great patch. Has been for a while, too. Honestly not sure what made them really so long to push it out to everyone on stable.

There is absolutely no chance for that, no.

Fortunately, Windows is also optional.

No they aren’t slowed down for “human factors” or safety. They are in cages or behind barricades (at least in Europe). If you open them (like a door or cross a laser barrier), the whole line or at least the cell cell just stops and all of the red lights come on. You can believe what you want, but you can’t speed anything up significantly without massive investment or work. Or they would be running faster, cause money.

Source: I work in the industry and have been in running car plants.

I understand what you’re trying to say, and even agree with it, but the car factory example is just wrong. Those have a design speed that is generally limited by cycle times for individual steps. Like a robot has to place say 10 spot welds. You can’t speed that up. To stick with this example: in theory you could add a robot so both place 5 spots, but that rework takes probably a year and costs millions. Plus you don’t have one bottleneck like this, but a lot of them with similar speed (hence the “design speed” of the whole factory).

You can slow the whole factory down to run under capacity (or not run it during night shift), and then you have room to speed it up. But if you’re running at capacity, there is very little you can do.

It’s physically impossible to speed up the factory to 1.5x, let alone 10x.

That’s not what I was saying. What I was saying is that if they are light in mass (kilos, tons) they need to be dense. Didn’t wanna write a book just for that one point, and it already got long-ish anyway.

My understanding of it, probably not fully accurate but should explain the basic idea: A black hole is a mass so dense that it’s own gravity will not let anything out, including light. If you make the mass small enough (like kilos or a few tons) you can theoretically achieve this by compressing it into a tiny volume (probably on the order of the size of an atom or something). That’s gonna have that property, but it is also not going to be stable as it’s own gravity can’t actually hold itself so compact and compressed, hence the short life span (basically it explodes). Obviously the more mass, the longer it’ll hold together, until it’s enough mass for it to be stable, at which point it becomes unlimited in life time.

When you see articles that describe how they made a small black hole in a lab, that’s what they mean: they compressed matter to an absurd degree, but probably only for nano seconds (if that).