They can’t. Competition for capital is forcing them to extract the everliving profit out of people. Their competitors would not be far behind on this train if it increases profitability.

I outlined some differences that could make it worth it over just interface binding for some. Another is that it makes it impossible to accidentally have another application exit through the tunnel, leaking your identity, like a browser logged into gmail.com. You have to explicitly set the container as proxy in the browser for that to become possible. It also allows using a separate VPN connection, provider or region for the torrent client, while the desktop user is free to use a different VPN connection or none.

This is why the most foolproof solution I’ve found is to use a docker container that has VPN and torrent client built-in. It’ll have the networking configuration done by someone who knows better. The most popular ones, like this, would permit no internet access out of the container outside of the VPN host. Then it doesn’t matter whether the torrent client binds to a specific interface or not, or what its configuration is. It’s trapped, or sandboxed, and the only way out is via the VPN tunnel. Once you have setup one of these, you can also reuse it from other containers with other apps, like your Usenet client, or even outside of containers via the built-in HTTP proxy. I know there’s also a qBit based container but I haven’t read into it or used it so I can’t vouch for it. The Transmission-OpenVPN based one is rock solid. Have used it for many, many years.

If the cost of panels drops significantly, there would be more capital available to spend on inverters, even if they stay at the current prices, still decreasing the cost of deployment. But yes. 😄

Much more important than the enjoyable culture is the material aspect - how much work each developer has to do. Nice vibes help delay burnout but rarely eliminate it. Or they let it happen with a smile on the face.

Pay the developers instead, so they can reduce hours worked elsewhere, if you can. Or contribute code, if you can. This isn’t aimed at you personally, but anyone reading. I can’t contribute code but I can pay so I do that.

I’d argue no state has any shortage of money, not only PRC. Financial capital in fiat systems is factually unlimited. The ability to direct it in areas of public interest instead of private financial capital’s owners’ interest is what the PRC has over many others. The real limits are the real resources that are needed for that industry and a major one is highlighted in the article - the lack of expertise. But this exercise, along with investments in higher education and pushing boatloads of people through it are building that real resource.

Makes sense. They make startups, many startups fail for all the reasons highlighted. Some don’t. That’s the point of using competitive forces to create an industry when you don’t know how to do something well. They did it with their EV industry, among others. I think they’re finishing the competitive stage where many firms fail and entering the consolidation phase.

A significant decrease in the amount of surplus value society produces going towards tech companies producing proprietary software, whicj is most of them. Basically the costs of using software for a whole lotta things are gonna get lower. This would make that society’s products cheaper for itself and export. It would allow its labour to do more useful things, one of which could be new FOSS software. But also helping out with the green transition, taking care of the ageing population, education, etc.

I think I lost neurons reading this. Other commenters in this thread had the resilience to explain what the problems with it are.

The problem is that Grok has been put in a position of authority on information. It’s expected to produce accurate information, not spit out what you ask it for, regardless of the factuality of information. So the expectation created for it by its owners is not the same as that for Google. You can’t expect most people to understand what LLM does because it doesn’t scale. The general public uses uses Twitter and most people get the information about the products they’re being sold and use by their manufacturer. So the issue here is with the manufacturer and their marketing.

A note on tires, turns out there’s another compatible “standard” for 451. It’s called OS20. From what I gather it’s 451 but with wider widths. There are a few models. I saw some Tioga, Kenda.

Is the Suntour damped or just a spring?

Beautiful, so they sell you the pipe to put the other pipe in. Nice. 😄 And yeah, I ride suspension post too. Kinekt in my case.

Excuse me but… how did you put a suspension post on that? The pics show a single continuous, long seat post. The suspension posts I’m aware of aren’t that long. Did you do some tube-in-a-tube expletive?

Thanks for all the info!

Build quality to your opinion?

What’s the country of origin on it?

Thanks for the info! The current model seems to come with 38c tires. I saw there’s very little variety in the 451 diameter and most are 28c. I’m thinking that if I end up needing wider tires and there’s nothing available, I could replace the wheelset with 406. Since it’s using disc brakes that should work fine. I was considering converting the front of a Link D8 to disc but it seems like 20" disc forks are much harder to find than 406 disc wheels. Have you looked into a front rack? Is it Taiwan-made or PRC-made? Have you fit fenders on it? Can it roll folded without the special rack for rolling?

My XT is quiet with original pads on a Mavic rim, currently operating at the rear of another bike, but I think Rim Wrangler (Avid) is better. Those pads have always been fire no matter the brake or rim.

As for disc, ironically the metal pads from Shimano are silent for me while the mixed/resin howled.

Use low power radio like ZigBee or Z-Wave, exclusively, unless you have a good reason to trust the device.

*It fell in the ocean a week after I bought it. Because I’m an idiot.

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Thanks for the musings!

I looked at Bike Friday and they look really nice for travelling, fold-travel-unfold-ride. They only one that looks appropriate for frequent folding on the train during daily commute seems to be the pakIT. I’d definitely go for that instead of a Brompton for a 16" bike in that price range. Seems like they don’t make the Tikit anymore. It looks like the best commuter folder they’ve had.