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    27 days ago

    Not sure if the most important crop ever but at least around here near where it came from is highly important. And it makes me proud my dad devoted all his working life, since he could until he couldn’t, growing potatoes of all sorts. My favorite is what we know around here as “papa criolla”




  • Last time someone tried making a feature-complete FOSS Instagram client, they stopped after a cease and desist from Meta.

    Meta (Whatsapp, Facebook, Instagram…) is the worst of the worst offenders for private instant messaging and humanity would be a little less miserable without it. I miss my pidgin days when one could use messenger, gtalk, jabber and whatnot and nobody gave a shit because “features” and so-called “privacy” wasn’t an excuse to rob your, ahem, privacy.

    Sorry for the rant









  • Thank you for this post, it happens I’m actually eyeing a redshift suspension seatpost. Have heard positive reviews about them though everyone seems to agree it’s not like you’d get the suspension level of a double-suspension bike.

    Though now that you mention you’re thinking about your steel tourer it makes me wonder if you have considered one of those brooks-type of seatposts that have springs on them that act like a bit of suspension.



  • I feel like the punishment/weight ratio is rather logarythmical, as in it increases with route steepness but not in a linear way - you’ll start noticing it on really steep gradients and with tiredness.

    If you have a somewhat decent shape and don’t ride over too much steep gradients I’ll say just keep the steel fork. It’s cheaper if you just lose a kilo yourself than in your bike. And depending on the builder, steel frames and forks can feel as flexy if not even more than carbon.