Thank you for the suggestion, but I definitely need the air circulation. For whatever reason my body runs hot.

It’s a little 600W emergency power supply, not a generator.

This is going to sound exceedingly lame, but the foremost example is a box fan. I sleep with a fan at night and if there’s ever an outage I just want to be able to plug it in and go back to sleep.

The other use case for me would just be consumer electronics: tablet, laptop, phone.

I tried PeerTube a little, but had a similar experience. Even on the larger instances, it’s just not a reasonable alternative at all.

Looks like there are American variants too. Awesome. Thank you!

Could you link me to the lock you purchased? I should probably research that a bit.

His ban on “assault” weapons was useless since they all come from out of state anyway

I agree with much of what you post here, but not this.

Even if he’s accomplishing making it inconvenient for criminals, gun nuts, and wannabe mass shooters, that’s a good thing. Legislation on guns in this country is never going to be perfectly effective because of the Federal Government, but making things harder on the local level is 100% a good thing.

He’s a billionaire, and therefore, almost certainly invested in LLM’s himself. Probably needed time to adjust his portfolio before making the move.

This should have happened a year ago at least.

About goddamn time.

This is one reason why we need fewer billionaires in government. This should have happened a year ago.

Not sure who the bags of douche downvoting this are, but good on you for asking questions and learning new things. Glad to see people in the thread are engaging with you positively in response.

I went 30% into international funds after the first recovery from Donald’s tariffs in spring 2025, when it became abundantly clear that our former trading partners were all hammering out new trade agreements. (Which take 1.5 - 2 years to take effect, but eventually they will and it’ll affect the US adversely.)

Been meaning to rebalance into money markets and bonds with how crazy this year’s been. This just makes me want to do that faster.

Indeed. :)

That’s great advice. Thanks!

Hey, thanks for the advice! Is it easy to integrate a second battery, or is this just a plug-and-play kind of deal?

Honestly, I’m strong enough to fold and carry it everywhere, so I’m not going to bother with a lock. I’d rather keep it on my person.

Yeah, I was able to beat the price somewhat by finding someone selling one they were using as a demo model in their store, so it’s basically new (only 4 miles on it) but I got it for $850 instead of $1200. They are pricey, and getting pricier thanks to the war and tariffs.

I only need to be able to go just fast enough that cars around me will be less likely to whip around, but thankfully there are lots of residential roads I can use around here, so my hope is to not have to be on the main roads all the time.

That would be lovely.

Fair point.

Unfortunately the current state of the digital ecosystem means that there is no YT alternative, so many have no choice.

But people can still use the product in a more conscientious way.

America is being hollowed out with no plans to address its effects on the poor and working class, apart from cutting the social safety net. This is happening in a time when it’s been criminalized to be homeless in the US and, if you’re scooped up, you can be forced legally to perform prison labor.

I don’t understand anyone who is actively patriotic in this country.