theskyisfalling

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I mean, the 6a still has 3 years of support left so whilst it is older it is hardly at the end of its supported life.

Not everyone can change a battery in a phone, I can but I would still rather not do it on a phone that isn't really anything special and whilst yes they could feasibly last that long I think in practical everyday use application by the time you are getting to three years of daily use it will be beaten up and physically not in great shape any more for your average user.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

My favourites are Saucony, Adidas or Hoka. Adidas I would shy away from recommending to other people though as I've had some amazing shoes from them and some fucking terrible shoes so it is some what hit and miss. For me Saucony are always on point but always tend to be harder to find a good deal.

I usually trawl eBay and a few different websites looking for current stock they are trying to move and often end up with different shoes every time because of this, although j don't mind that too much. I have size 12 feet which usually narrows down my choices anyway but I'd say I average around £40 - £45 sort of area for shoes. Sometimes I'll have to buy slightly more expensive. I got some Saucony once that were second hand and worn for about 50km for £15 and they lasted a good 800km.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

What relevance does that have to what I said? If the physical phone isn't going to last that long then I'd argue it is of little importance.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Those look like leg pain incarnate! I used to run every day for a few years and would get through 3 pairs of shoes at least in a year. Depends on the shoes but they always started affecting my body detrimentally between 600 and 800km, I think the best ones I had may have lasted to 900 but it wasn't the norm.

Yes they may be expensive but you can find bargains if you look and the cost is worth not fucking your legs up IMO.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (8 children)

These devices aren't even constructed to last 7 years. I don't see that either of those things are worth £600 personally.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 hours ago (10 children)

Fuck all that noise, Pixel 6a + graphene £130. Why waste so much money!?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Thanks for the heads up on this. My cache was just under 40gb :/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Each book is between around 5 and 7 hours sort of time so yeh, they are relatively short books and I am audio book only so i guess the speed of reading is average?

Sometimes I can listen to a whole one in a day at work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

As the other commenter mentioned you can add games to steam as a non steam game to launch it via that. With pirated games I'm more than happy to launch from an icon though, it isn't the actual method of launching that bothers me as much as it does making different bs accounts from these shitty companies.

Rockstar forces its own launcher if you want a legit copy but I'm guessing a pirate version will circumvent this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Seen as they are adding a proper offline option, does anyone know if I can launch this straight from steam or do I need another shitty launcher with another account?

edit never mind it says requires 3rd party account, in which case even for such a price you can get fucked

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Enjoy Lovecraft! I wish I could go back and read them for the first time again!

I've got a few more Deathlands books under my belt since last I posted, I think I'm up to number 11 now, still enjoying it quite a lot.

As a break however I started Gideon Sable: The Best Thing you can Steal by Simon R Green today. Haven't got very far in yet but have enjoyed the introduction to it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Putting some chump in prison solves fuck all, take their fucking money and actually clean this shit up!

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Zecher - Acid Club LP (subotage.bandcamp.com)
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Bird - Zero AM (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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After a conversation in this community and people showing off their bikes I wanted to share mine too. My Zero AM made by Bird.

Started like this in October -

Over the winter I stripped it down and painted it all myself in pink with a yellow pearl. Replaced a few bits that needed it like headset and BB and serviced everything else.

Current spec is:

XT group set with Raceface Aeffect cranks and Raceface Chester pedals.

DMR wingbars, grips and stem with a nukeproof headset and Rockshox Revelation upfront

Halo Vapour 50 rims with Maxxis Minion DHF 2.8 on the Front and Vittoria Mazza 2.6 on the rear

Generic dropper post and saddle.

I even colour coded my brake levers -

I'll post my commuter / training bike after I've given it a good clean next, if anyone is interested :)

 
 

Community about says mainly bird pictures so not sure if this is welcome or not but I don't have a more appropriate community saved and relevant content whilst the communities are still small I would imagine is welcome?

If not please remove or suggest somewhere it would be better posted :)

 

Following on from my post a little while back over the winter I stripped down my Bird bike to paint it up a fresh. These are the results!

Things I've changed-

New XT BB

Nukeproof Headset

DMR Defy stem

DMR wingbars

DMR Death Grips

Raceface Chester Pedals

No brand bash guard / chain device

Vittoria Mazza rear tyre

Everything else I've just cleaned up and refurbed as best I can. I also decided to colour code the brake levers whilst I was at it and they came out pretty well considering i had to "mask" the mechanism where it wouldn't disassemble any further with blue tack xD

 

What were you guys riding back in the day? This was the final form of my bike back when I was a teenager.

One One Gimp frame

FSA pig three piece cranks

Single speed conversion

24inch Atomlab rear wheel with DMR moto

26inch Atomlab front with DMR moto digger

Manitou forks

DMR wing bars and zip grips

DMR V8 pedals

I was chasing that slack head angle before it was cool apparently, not that I knew that was even a thing back then :D

My brakes were always my feet and I only recently got a saddle in these pictures as I rode without a saddle for around 4 years prior to this.

I wish I still had this bike but sadly it moved on a long time ago now.

 

Getting in as many rides as I can before it gets really shitty over the winter. Once it gets too wet it is gonna get a full strip down, service or replace everything and give it a fresh look via paint!

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