I don’t really like it, but sometimes those types of cases are the only good ones with radiator clearance in a relatively small footprint.

I still miss this one, it was all metal and very close to an Apple G5 case, minus the compatibility issues.

Unfortunately, this case also couldn’t support radiators in any meaningful capacity, so I had to sell it. Currently using a Lian li case that I dislike, but it has damn good radiator support, and my PC is now completely silent.

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I like foldables, but I won’t be getting another one until Samsung and other OEMs dramatically overhaul their design and durability. When a ribbon connector went bad, they required repair companies to replace the two screens and hinge, a $600 repair on a phone worth $400. The ribbon connector is a 20¢ component, if that. I ended up getting a Motorola on sale for $250 that can do most of what high end flagships can do.

We tried Bromptons, but they are a bit too small for my buddies and I. We demoed one and shrieked with laughter as my friend kept hitting the front tire with his toes, his heel on the back rack, and was unable to make it up a steep hill next to the store. His indignation and the dorky high vis vest the store had him wear only made it even more hilarious.

But man, did that bike fold up nice and small. We were impressed by that part!

My neighborhood is nearly as big as your commute! I’d just get an ebike (or cargo ebike!), it’s completely transformed the city for me. We’ve unintentionally gone on 72km trips as the bike makes it easy to do. I fill the gaps with buses and rail using an app called Transit, which is made by a small dev team out of Montreal.

I always recommend this site: https://theteahouseltd.com/

We’ve visited them in person and their tea was so fantastic that even non-tea people loved it. They ship worldwide. I tend to order in bulk these years.

Only one tea has ever come close, and it was a small Asian restaurant out of Vancouver, BC. This store has dozens of amazing varieties.

We just have an instant hot water tap. Can’t live without it, haha.

Nobody shot off fireworks here because of the grave situation in our country. Just an eerie hush over the city. We’ve lived here for 60 years and never seen anything like 2025.

One lady saw me locking my bike up with 12mm thick chain and expressed sadness that we have to go to such lengths as a society just to keep others from touching things that aren’t theirs. I sometimes think of her now when I’m locking up my bike.

Doubly sad too, since some people don’t have cars, and bikes are their primary means of transit.

If you have to hope, it probably doesn’t.

I miss the worm lights. My cousin had one, and even though I had the Advance SP, I thought the worm LED was super neat.

Er, sorry. Misspoke. Ground-based telescopes!

I don’t need a folder right now, but that’s good to know in case I need to hop on a bus with a bike for work :)

It’s great for cities that have the budget and manpower to build protected bike lanes everywhere. But even the North American cities that are at the forefront of bike infrastructure are still decades away from having a system competent enough to remove 50% or more of cars and car roads from their cities. :/

Until the time when most cities and small towns are safely bikable, I see class III speeds being the only rapid bandaid on a complex and unfortunately, quite political problem in both Canadian and American cities.

In the meantime, we will fight NIMBYS tooth and nail for every square meter of bike lane, boneheaded decisions from city governments, and federal governments complete resistance to funding major continental projects like HSR, or anything that doesn’t remotely rely on cars. I just wish we had the time, but we really don’t, with climate deadlines getting awfully close.

Damn, they have some folding bikes on sale for $419. That is shockingly affordable.

My buddy started balding at 16. He held on for a number of years, but eventually we helped him rip the bandaid off and he shaved himself bald. Instantly looked younger again just because he didn’t have a ring of hair at 27 anymore. Honestly, it can look really cool if you shave it.

Poor man. I wish the Project Veritas “journalist” a very interesting life for inflicting so much pain and suffering on some normal person.

Oooh, you guys are scraping the vertical paint for zippers. Our city dabbled with zippers, but immediately had to put orange cones up, as drivers just ran over them. Zippers would be much more effective if they were rotated 90° so that they were head on instead of a glancing blow to cars.

But at that point, you might as well throw in concrete crash barriers or orange construction barriers instead. Zippers don’t really do much.

Or flexposts covered in anti-slip, high grit sandpaper.

The speed, too, is a safety issue. Studies show that differences in speed between vehicles sharing a road are a statistical cause of crashes, and many of New York’s streets are shared between bikes and cars. A bike that can do the 25-mph speed limit is safer than one that can’t.

The future of personal mobility shouldn’t be autonomous EVs, it should be e-bikes. E-bikes that are lightweight, that don’t spew tire microplastics into the environment, that require little power to move a person from point A to point B.

This is the sort of safe, common-sense stuff that should be a boilerplate on every article.

I lived too close to a hospital. Apparently, the road I lived next to was the road that all fire, EMS, and police used. Tons of sirens at all hours of the night and day. I toured the place on a quiet day, so it never occurred to me about the noise. That was a bit of a suffer fest.

One funny thing about that place, someone always swore consistently on the street between 17:00-20:00 each evening. It was always someone new, but it was like clockwork. Guests wouldn’t believe it at first, but it became a thing, lol. Sometimes it was someone on a skateboard eating shit in the protected bike lane, other times it was a pissed off pedestrian, someone having an argument, someone having fun, or someone clearly off their medication. No apartment has had that before or since.

And the orange menace’s POS daughter is attending, as icing on the cake.