[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Normal bikes that you just push aren't that stable without a rider, but you can get it some distance. They still fall over rather quickly. That's mostly the form of the handlebars like gnu commented. And yes, without a rider, the gyroscopic effect is relevant. A bike weighs let's say 15 kg, and a rider is commonly like 75kg. Of course removing like 80% of the weight changes if the gyroscopic has a meaningful influence. Add the rider back, and it becomes negligible again.

This is of course even more pronounced if you push only a wheel with nothing else, then there's nothing left but momentum and the gyroscopic effect.

The reason you lean into a turn is exclusively the centrifugal force (not sure that's the right twin), if you don't you fall over because you have nothing to turn against. Changing direction needs something to push against.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

The gyroscopic effect of slowly spinning, light bicycle wheels is negligible compared to the weight of the bike and it's rider. If it was what keeps you upright, riding a tiny scooter-thing with skateboard/inliner wheels would be impossible. I mean those without motor, pedals, where you push yourself forward with one foot on the ground), often for kids.

What actually keeps you upright isn't a physical effect, but just training your brain to instinctually keep you upright. While you're moving, turning the handlebar effectively moves the bike below you left and right. So if you start tilting to the right, you turn right (slightly) so the bike/scooter is moving below you to compensate. That's why learning to ride anything that is balancing on 2 wheels takes a relatively long time, but only once. Then your brain knows what to do, and it just works without thinking about it.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

The red light on a camera also means it's "recording". Which is the reason the record-action in audio/video software is still a red circle to this day. This being about audio and video recording capability makes this another way to look at it, in a not complicated way.

What in trying to say is that what's intuitive depends on your perspective. Most of all what you've encountered before that's similar. It had nothing to do with overcomplicating anything.

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The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

[-] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

Because there are laws that specify when the brake light has to come on, and it isn't when the car shows down (slightly). You could be starting to go up hill, or a list of other reasons. The point of brake lights isn't too signify the car slowing, but that the driver intends to slow down. Which is also why it doesn't come on if you're motor breaking" (is that the right term?).

This obviously varies wildly depending on where you are in the world. I'm also sure there are some places where it would be allowed.

[-] [email protected] 41 points 3 months ago

This also makes it easy to block Win 10 from upgrading to 11, just disable tpm in BIOS. From where I'm sitting, that's kinda convenient.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago

The core lesson should be "stop adding useless launchers" and even more so "stop making launchers the only way to change graphics settings". I'm glad the steam deck has rules in place that prevent games with a forced launcher to receive a "verified".

That's what I'm taking away from this anyway.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago

Much simpler and more direct than the other suggestions: LocalSend.

Also fully open source, local only, cross platform. Only works in the same network, obviously. That's the point.

[-] [email protected] 32 points 6 months ago

What low voltage though? Unless it's 5V like USB (non-PD and non-QC), they should and need to be incompatible.

[-] [email protected] 55 points 6 months ago

Literally never heard of it, which is probably the reason and kinda makes it a good call?

[-] [email protected] 123 points 7 months ago

For those that really don't know: Star Trek TNG, episode "the inner light", S5E25.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 9 months ago

The point is to avoid left turns when merging onto or leaving from the smaller road above. Keeps the traffic on it flowing.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I have multiple dozens of headphones that have a normal headphone plug.

I can charge my phone while I listen to headphones without carrying multiple adapters.

We can maybe talk once we get more than 1 USB c connector on a phone. Maybe.

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