I’m not sure. I ended up with the eeros because of the mesh and the fact that the upstairs office always had weak signal. I don’t like them and I’ve been generally de-googling and de-amazoning my life. The self-built route appeals to me too. Ultimately, I’ll settle somewhere between off-the-shelf and DIY, but there’s no better way to learn that to do it the hard way from the ground up. In regards to actual hardware, is there a Lemmy community for honest reviews by real people?

I managed to get a workable solution for now, but if I get fiber in the Spring, I’ll be rebuilding everything with the things I’m learning now and I’ll probably want to use a nicer router.

Thanks this put me on a track to fixing my issues and learning something new. I cleaned up my DHCP, checked my incoming and outgoing ports in the firewall, and everything seems to be working as it is supposed to. The eeros don’t have a “true AP mode” from what I read online, but bridging them and turning off the wireless on the modem worked.

I saw this the last time you posted an update and am finally going to have some time to try it. I also gained some docker knowledge since then. Right now, it looks like a nice AllTrails replacement, and below the surface, I see a Strava killer developing!

Also, consider sharing to #bikenight on Mastadon. Lots of nerdy cyclists on there.

Thanks for giving me the push to try some more third party apps. I’ve been playing with docker for a few days now and am feeling far more comfortable than before. I still worry about mounting shares in the right places with the right permissions and the right way of handling that, but overall, this community’s encouragement helped me take my self hosting to the next level. Maybe I’m begintermediate now :-)

I never appreciated snapshots until I ran a server. I used to just install a new distro whenever anything significant went wrong. Now I use them everywhere.

Thank you for the incredibly detailed and patient reply. I will try some additional applications like Jellyfin and Immich instead of the built in synology stuff. It was always my intention to have docker images running on a separate server but stress went up and free time went down and I settled for using the built in applications. Luckily, I havent significantly invested in video center as I just used it to preview files while sorting in DSM.

I had some issues with copying files over SMB. I can write fine, I can delete, but copying seems to fail. My guess is because the local user on my laptop is different than the user on the SMB share. In any case, I was using the file explorer in DSM in Firefox to sort through old media by hand. I’ll have to use NFS and continue to sort via Dolphin.

I’m glad to hear the situation isn’t as dire as I had initially imagined. Perhaps I’m a bit shell shocked from all the enshittification that I jumped to worst case scenarios.

I can’t switch from Celsius to Fahrenheit, the switch just reverts. I do think it looks beautiful and has weather stats that I use when I bike but other apps don’t always have (air quality, UV) .

I haven’t completely switched and still own a registered and insured car, but I didn’t drive more than 2-3 times over the course of a few months and that was already several hundred dollars in gas alone, plus the increased productivity from getting exercise and feeling less shitty than usual. Overall, even a single ride has a positive effect, but I imagine you would save several thousand a year (then spend it all on cool new bikes).

I don’t see any Arch sticker. If it was Arch, it would be the biggest sticker.

I imagine then that for an equivalent battery our sodium battery would weight 3 times as much and take up twice as much space as a lithium battery (plus any extra weight a larger housing or heavier mounting brackets add). Most of the ebikes I’ve ridden have batteries approximately the size of a 2L of cola.

My battery would no longer fit fully in the downtube, or would have to be paired with a second battery. Perhaps putting it in the frame triangle would work. For larger bikes, like cargo bikes, I could see a large flat battery being put in the bottom of the wheelbarrow part without really being that noticeable. Even if only half of bikes changed over, it would still be a win.

I’ve also visited a lithium mining area in the salt flats and what we’ve done to the indigenous folks’ land, communities, and to the people themselves is abhorrent. We can do better. Let’s hope these sodium batteries become available sooner rather than later, especially for circumstances where the weight/size are less of an issue.

I have never had to make a claim on my bikes, so I can’t make a recommendation, but the insurance through my car insurance/ home insurance company.

Probably pretty low.

Congrats in the bike! I hope you have fun zipping all over town. If bike theft is a thing where you live, grab the serial number andsee about getting it added to your insurance under a personal articles policy. Mine is only $100/yr and I feel so much better about leaving it locked up out of my sight for a second.

I spent around $3750 for my ebike. As an example of what that gets you, I tested a lot of bikes, cheap and expensive and here’s what stood out to me:

• Torque sensing rather than cadence sensing for pedal activation means my bikes torque scales with my own. A cheap bike just goes “oh, the pedals moved a half rotation, engage electric motorcycle mode”. This makes my bike feel more connected, it’s the difference between putting on an exoskeleton versus driving a walking robot from a cockpit.
• Torque specs and maintenance info clearly listed, bike shop can get spare parts. While I’d like to see parts availability commitments become more common, right now the best you can do is go with a well known brand.
• Frame geometry is often better on bikes from bike brands making bikes with tech than tech startups making bikes. This relates directly to on-bike comfort
• As we’re all discussing here, battery quality can make a difference in safety and functionality.

I hope this helps. I still think you can get a reputable bike at a good price, but I would generally skip the Temu, Amazon, no name rebrand ebikes out of concern for their quality.

I’m seeing that sodium ion batteries have lower energy density than lithium ion batteries. I’m not a chemist. So I had to do some searches and it appears this is measured by weight, not volume.

Using hypothetical numbers to explain my question imagine that…

• lithium battery weighs 1kg and has 5 stored energy units
• sodium battery weighs 3kg and has 5 stored energy units

How does this effect the space needed for the battery? If the physical density (not energy density) of sodium was 10 higher, maybe the battery weighs 3 times as much but because it is dense, that weight fits in a smaller (say 100 cubic units), heavier package. Conversely, if the physical density was 10 times lower the battery would be 3 times heavier but be 1000 cubic units.

My question is basically what is the difference in physical density of the materials (kg per cm^2)?

Unfortunately, ddg and google keep assuming I want to know about energy density.

I live in a suburban part of a medium sized US city. There is a school nearby that has similar problems.

• situated on a 2 lane collector road with bike lanes
• lots of no parking signs -they set up a bunch of cones and have crossing guards all around
• there are school zone flashers

Despite All This

• people park in doubled up bike lane/no parking area all the time and the way the cones are set up encourages it
• people swing their doors open into traffic and cross wherever they want
• during off times, the school has a sign forbidding use of their parking lot so people park in the bike lanes

Luckily, the speed limit is only 30 so when school is in letting out I take the lane and anyone that doesn’t like it can choke on a bottle of tire sealant.

My city is generally responsive when enough people comment on something and in general, you are likely to get a sentence or two back no matter what you comment on. I’m afraid to comment on this because the people picking up their kids in cars outnumber the cyclists and I forsee the school holding firm on closing their lot and they’ll probably quote something stupid like liability or security. Is it not also a liability if a kid steps out from behind a parked car and gets squished by an F350 Crew Cab Mega Hemi Coal Roaler? In any case, I think the more likely outcome would be accommodating the cars and moving the bikes into the road with sharrows or doing something like that.

If I was in charge, I’d put a speed table at each end of the school zone, narrow all crosswalks to the minimum acceptable distance and put the bike lanes behind a 6inch wide curb to make it more obvious that you cannot park there. I also want these lifted Ford Excursion drivers to watch us casually pedal past the traffic jam they create every single day. I’d force the school to open their lot where capacity permits and I’d start ticketing the shit out of anyone who stows up traffic in the area or parks where it is not allowed. There is a trail just south of the school that leads to a grocery store maybe 1/4 mile away. That’s where the car drivers could best pick up their kids. All the tickets should easily pay for the speed tables and upgrading the bike lanes and walking paths.

The change was 95% unnoticed for me. I looked at the session one day and thought “oh yeah, I have been using Wayland”. I don’t mess with many games or AI GPU stuff though, so it may be that more complex use cases result in a worse experience.

I used the base model and it ran at a very acceptable speed with CPU only. Decent accuracy considering the recording was mediocre quality at best. Thank you for the suggestion.

I was able to quickly set up and use whisper (base) using Speech Note without issue and it saved me over 80% of what I would have had to manually do. Thank you for the recommendation.

Whisper worked for me. I’ll have to go back through and tag speakers and fox a few spots but you guys have saved me 80-90% of the work. Thank you.