Practically speaking that’s true, but we shouldn’t just accept those chilling affects as being somehow okay.

Exchange it until you get one that isn’t destroyed by improper packaging.

Let’s be honest: that was just an idle exclamation of frustration, not a true threat.

I think it’s a failure of imagination that the people running things believe public transport should turn a profit.

It’s not a failure of imagination, it’s deliberate sabotage. They don’t want transit to work because they’re classist and transit is egalitarian.

Plus, I don’t see how we could effectively get rid of cars without making everyone move to the cities.

80% already did, and the other 20% can be ignored.

I think the most important thing to remember is that even if 100% of rural folks drive, that’s still only 20% of the total population. The notion that transit doesn’t work for them does not excuse failing to provide it for the other 80% that it would work for.

Saying “but whatabout my special-snowflake rural lifestyle” to attack transit in general is always dishonest concern trolling.

How do you buy kitchen knives without becoming a felon?

Sometime before 2007:

Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuckerberg: Just ask
Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend’s Name]: What? How’d you manage that one?
Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks

Facebook was NEVER not evil, regardless of your rose-tinted glasses.

“Most common” (i.e. statistical mode) is often such a misleading thing to pay attention to because it’s so sensitive to how the person doing the study chooses to group things. For example, also on the Steam Hardware Survey, it looks like Arch is more popular than Ubuntu, but that’s because Arch (being a rolling release) is only one entry, while Ubuntu is separated out into versions.

Similarly, “16GB is most common” is easily confused with “most people have 16GB,” which is very much not true. It’s just that the majority, which is less than 16GB, is divided between people with 4, 8, 12, etc.

Pretty sure that’s an X (and I guess now Wayland) thing, not a KDE thing. I could be wrong, but I think you could sit down at a VAX from the '80s and expect it to work.

Is the Wahoo computer absolutely tied to the Wahoo app (as in, that app being the only way to get data off the device), or are there other ways to do it (a third-party app or mounting the bike computer as a filesystem and copying files off)?

Does either the Wahoo device or app ever behave badly (e.g. nag you to upgrade to a paid tier, display other ads at you, try to trick you into sending Wahoo your data even after you said no, etc.)?

(Basically, if I settle for a proprietary device and/or software, I want to pick the stuff least likely to abuse me that way.)

It’s also easy to get lost in chasing the “is this ride improving my performance” trap. If training is your interest and you’re genuinely wanting to see stats improving all that can help and more power to you. But if you also like riding your bike for fun, mental health, getting into nature, etc. remember that it’s ok to skip all the data and just have a ride that puts a smile on your face too.

Right now I mostly ride for utility/transportation purposes, but that isn’t enough to keep me in shape. I’m trying to “game-ify” it a little bit so that I exercise more consistently. (Speaking of which, I’d like an open source alternative to Zwift too, LOL)

Of the various proprietary bike computers, are they all equally sketchy/enshittified? Or are some brands less bad than others?

Right, that’s why I’m asking about bike computers (or a smartphone with an ANT+ dongle and appropriate software). I wanted data from several types of ANT+ sensors (speed, cadence, heart rate, maybe even a power meter eventually) and that’s part of why I was questioning your suggestion of a smart watch instead.

A Pebble has a heart rate monitor built in, I think, but can those other sensors pair with it?

It’s the only open source heart rate monitor that Im aware of.

Are the ANT+ heart rate monitor chest straps not just sorta generic? I realize that’s not the same as being open source, but if they’re too single-function to be running nontrivial software at all then I don’t care that much.

I mean not for navigation. But what do you need other than that? My friend send me safe routes to ride and I need some way to navigate them so that’s why I have one.

Well, I was thinking it’d be nice to see info like speed, cadence, and other sensor data while I ride. And I admit, the fancier features on some bike computers, like “hill climb planning,” seemed kinda neat.

Are there major differences in bike computer brands re: compatibility with third-party services and devices, or does everything just support standards? I get the impression that Wahoo and Garmin are the most prominent brands, but does that translate into “ecosystem” advantages?

Hmm, looking at Gadgetbridge, iGPSSPORT bike computers are "mostly supported, " so that’s helpful. The page lists a bunch of them individually but not the cheap BSC100S I was thinking about, so I wonder if that one doesn’t work or if it just isn’t tested.

Aside from it being open source, is there a reason you mentioned Pebble? Would a smart watch instead of a bike computer give a good experience for biking?

Do you even begin to understand how fucking presumptuous it is to assume I need to be told that? I have been riding bikes for decades and have never used a bike computer. I wanted advice for the thing I don’t already know plenty about, not the thing that I do!

You two need to get a clue that this discussion is supposed to be about bicycling and your high horses aren’t welcome.

You just want to pontificate and aren’t paying attention to anything I’m actually saying. I don’t want the proprietary shit normies think is good. A random LBS employee will not be able to help me – case in point, you sure as hell aren’t!

What I need is advice from people at the intersection of bicycling and being Free Software weirdos. Hence asking on Lemmy.

This.

No, not “this.” That guy is an asshole trying to tell me that what I want is wrong. For the record, I actually do want what I asked for and do not have an X/Y problem.

Thank you for the advice about using old pre-enshittification versions of apps, though.

What an absolutely disrespectful, trash comment.

First of all, who the fuck do you think you are, to be calling me “neurotic?”

Second, I don’t want to “be tracked;” I want to track myself for my own use. Get it right.

Third, if I didn’t want that I wouldn’t have posted to begin with. So WTF do you think you’re accomplishing trying to condescendingly tell me my wants are wrong?

If you don’t have anything useful to say, delete your bullshit and don’t say anything at all.