!metalmemes@lemmy.world

Beastwars?? As in The Beastwars? I’ll just leave this here: https://beastwars.bandcamp.com/

That stuff will all come soon - it’s the new technology becoming common

Not for me. I’m quite fatigued about the constant churn of obsolescent shit in the bike industry. Its just become gross

That’s brilliant!

Yeah, that would be ideal

I know, right? I can’t wait to get some creative control in their SOE and fix things…

Someone, somewhere has a little fiefdom of stupidity, I’m sure of it.

Aww man - I just found out that one of the hospitals I work for has an active license for WinZip…

In the scale of dumb things to waste money on, WinZip is about as low as it gets (esp. in healthcare!), but still - it’s not like the poor bastards had any to begin with!

Yeah, you can listen to CDs if you put them in an audio CD player but is just awful noise

I remember making a directory structure with all kinds of sentence names and then symlinking them to.tell various mental stories, hoping some poor idiot would explore around

I had way too much time in my 20s

Damn, for a hit n run that’s pretty high

Gotten!

Thanks

Wow, that’s a lot of work someone’s done

Or it could be: Managed service provider.

Generally a shitty vendor that hates the customer and vice versa

I’m pretty sure I remember them using a cell phone late in the first movie(?).

I’ve got clear memories of it falling and spinning because it’s not tethered

That felt really ‘off’ to me as well. In his 3rd update there were some good examples.

It looks like he’s generating different patterns so the uniqueness is upheld (otherwise this would all be defeated with software update), which probably limits his potential somewhat

Raaad!

A dump from the article:

When New Jersey passed one of the country’s most restrictive e-bike laws earlier this year, plenty of riders, advocates, and bike shops warned that it would have consequences. Now, just a few weeks after the law officially took effect, those predictions appear to have come true.

Bike shops across the state are reporting declines in e-bike sales ranging from 20% to an astonishing 90%, with many saying customers are simply deciding that owning an e-bike in New Jersey is no longer worth the hassle.

The law, which took effect on July 19, requires every e-bike in the state to be registered, from the slowest Class 1 pedal-assist models all the way through faster Class 3 bikes. Riders under 17 without a driver’s license must pass an MVC licensing test to obtain a special e-bike license, while Class 2 throttle-equipped e-bikes and Class 3 models also require insurance, similar to owning a car.

The result has been widespread confusion. Some customers reportedly believe e-bikes have simply been banned outright. Others tell dealers they’ll just buy online and ignore the requirements. And many are choosing not to buy an e-bike at all.

The impact on local businesses has been severe. One New Jersey dealer said sales plunged 90%, another reported a 63% decline, while others described losing between 20% and 60% of their e-bike business. Several shops have already laid off employees, closed rental operations, downsized, or warned they may not survive through the end of the year.

Perhaps most troubling are the unintended consequences for the very people e-bikes help the most. Dealers who specialize in mobility-focused transportation say disabled customers are returning newly purchased e-bikes or abandoning plans to buy them altogether because they fear they won’t qualify for licensing or insurance requirements. One retailer described customers losing transportation to work or school because of the new rules.

What’s particularly frustrating is that many of these problems were predictable. The law treats a low-speed 15-20 mph (25-32 km/h) throttle-equipped Class 2 e-bike much more like a motorcycle than like a bicycle, despite its similar performance to a standard Class 1 pedal-assist bike. Bike shops and advocacy groups have instead urged lawmakers to exempt low-speed e-bikes under 20 mph (32 km/h) from licensing, registration, and insurance requirements while focusing regulation on higher-speed, higher-powered machines that more closely resemble electric mopeds.

It’s hard to argue with that logic. If the goal was to improve safety, discouraging people from riding bicycles and pushing them back into cars seems like an odd way to do so, especially when cars are the very things supposedly making e-bikes “unsafe”.

Love the old ASCII art in warez releases

Yeah, I think so? It’s completely intentional, the gap is wide enough to sick your feet in, etc

Only on that wall, sadly. I think its from the 90s