I think considering you started biking 1.5 months ago you are off to a great start! I think many people in your position would be unable to complete a 33KM trip, especially considering your practice is overwhelmingly city biking.

I of course am unaware of your previous physical shape, but assuming your body has not been trained to bike it will take you a while to get into shape.

My average is around 20-25km/h not including traffic stopping etc. It took me over three years to get here by biking to work daily, which is half uphill and half downhill (so I always have to bike uphill somewhat) and whenever I started feeling comfortable with my speed, pushing harder until uncomfortable again.

Some tips I learned in this experience and some I got from others:

1. Your muscles will get good and more efficient the more you use them. To avoid becoming complacent in your speed in the city for instance, consider every opportunity to push yourself.

2. Never going to make that green light anyway? Not today, try to make it as if your life depends on it. If you don’t and have to break hard (you won’t at first) remember you did it to be able to do it in a year if bot today.

3. Similarly racing plublic transport (where safe) can be fun as well as good training.

4. Isn’t it nice biking in the wind shadow of this e-bike? Fuck e-bikes(cheaters(JK)), try to always pass them (great interval training) (the slow ones anyway, in my city some are capped at 20kmh and go more like 15)

5. Nutrition: I noticed after a year or so that certain breakfast items made it easier or harder to push myself biking

6. I don’t know if you are EU or NA, but if EU or similar consider biking places that are relatively nearby, but you usually drive. This way you get new experience and slightly longer trips than you are used too which always ‘stretches’ you a bit more, then you ‘snap back into place’ a bit better that where you started.

Yes there is it’s called procrastination

Yes I realized this too late, after I had already used the private email adresses from proton pass everywhere.

My solution ( while not completely private but better than using the same one everywhere) Is to use my own firstname.lastname@domainicontroll.com for thing already linked to personal info and then set up custom domain for proton pass hidden emails to @fuckgoogle.otherdomain.com

Then if proton ever goes to shit I can still go to another email provider and all I have to do is move the domains. Yes it isn’t free but there is no such thing as a free lunch, self hosting isn’t free either and I don’t have the mental bandwidth to self host an email server right now.

When no lamps are present but two suns, moths will seek the closer sun.

Scroll through OP’s post history a bit, you’ll get it.

Havent verified it myself, but I just remembered this video. If donny desides he can get away with some warcrimes@home™ this might work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXKTBQBugIA

::: Spoiler Tap for spoiler Riot shields also might be great for protests in general, there must be a reason police use them. :::

I always wondered why more homeless people didn’t do this in the us

This is INSANE, my entire household could make imense use of theese with our shitty eyesight! I don’t cary about any reviews because anything like this will be 1000x better than existing bifocals, I will be preordering 3 pairs of theese as soon as possible. I just hope they don’t patent the shit out of them so there will be competitors and the prices won’t be astronomical.

Thanks for the explainer! I think I am in the commuter neglect category, but I am trying to understand my bike a bit more so I don’t always have to bring it to the mechanic, now I have a bunch of words to search for!

Sound cool, but I wonder how durable it is. I pedal pretty hard and I always lessen the torque when shifting to not degrade the components as fast. If my bike is shifting on its own, wouldn’t that cause more untimely shifts which grind down parts?

It’s all fun and games watching the crazy people do crazy things across the pond until you remember the crazy people have nukes and the biggest idiot of them all has the launch codes. Sleep well tonight!

What

Yes it is necessary just as my homelab needs to have enterprise hardware and be georedundant. Statements like yours make my very reasonable self hosting purchases hard to financially justify.

I feel like thats even a bit expensive for a ticket, but the small popcorn is 25$

Not exactly, but it looks good as well, thanks!

But the best time for a womens soccer game is 11am on a Wednesday! I am sure everyone interested enough will take the day off to go watch and if the stadium is empty, thats because womes sports are uninteresting and the men play better.

Semi-related: a while ago someone showed me a website that had sort of a brownish orange theme and was basically a huge list with tonnes of private trackers, with stats and ratings. I cannot seem to find the site via searching. Does anybode know what I mean and have the link?

I know, but the mobile client is lacking in features and I like antennapod (and gpodders client independence)

I have a slightly overcomplicated setup, but I use audiobookshelve to download all my podcasts for archival purposes and then antennapod on android to listen to them (the rss feeds generated by aufiobookshelve) which syncs everything to gpodder for nextcloud. I also occasionally listen to the pods via Kasts on my desktop, also synced with gpodder.

I specifically use audiobookshelve inbetween, since I have some paid podcast subscriptions and I don’t want to loose that content if I ever stop paying or they go under.

I absolutely love Throughline. They have some very interesting content and I like how they fuse it together with with a good soundstage, it can be quite cinematic. The only two downsides: You kind of have to pay attention Some episodes can be a bit depressing, so I’ve heard from people I’ve recommended the show to in the past.

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline

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YT link: https://music.youtube.com/library/podcasts?addrssfeed=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.npr.org%2F510333%2Fpodcast.xml