Something like a surgical mask can help a bit even if other unmasked sick people are around (though it’s pretty minimal, less than 10% IIRC), but nowhere near as much as a proper respirator. It’s something like 25%-40% more effective vs. without one, and it goes up from there to 90%+ if everyone is wearing one and they are properly fitted. Some respirators don’t protect anyone from a sick wearer (like painter’s masks with cartridges and an unfiltered exhaust) but others do (like N95s/FFP2s). For the purpose of this article, “respirator” refers to stuff like n95s though.

It’s a weird mess. I actually considered getting a 12 speed C-line but after they refused to help me with a referral code I was given after waiting days for their useless response, I decided to buy a Priority Folder for less than half the price instead (plus it has a belt drive and IGH).

Also, Priority’s customer service has been pretty good, especially compared to Brompton.

The term “enshittified” comes to mind when I think of Brompton now.

Maybe they should stop this LiFeStYlE BrAnD bullshit and go back to making bikes people love?

This squares with other reviews I’ve seen: Everyone seems to say Varia is the way to go.

There are some online calculators that might help you figure out the geometry you want.

https://www.bikegeocalc.com/

Feel free to contribute posts you’d prefer to see, I just post what I can find.

I was thinking indie games becoming more popular, people defaulting to refurbs/repairs over new stuff, and developers being forced to optimize their software, games, and OSes, buuuuut, yeah that’s a distinct possibility too.

When you add pedals or pegs I guess?

What an ignorant question.

Yeah, there’s a lot of that going around.

They’re inevitable because companies already know they’re going to do everything they can to fuck us over for as much profit as they think is possible. We’ll see how this all plays out though.

Dying Light 2 has been my go-to for the last few weeks, so I’ll probably play some more of that.

I don’t personally, but they are one of the suppliers where I work.

It becomes a matter of which is scarier: Microsoft or having to try a new thing? The shittier windows gets, the more people will be pushed to jump ship, possibly to Linux.

Never tried it but glad to hear it, games benefit by embracing the modding community rather than attacking it. Minecraft, Skyrim, and other mod friendly games were all wildly popular (they even got modders to help fix stuff for free).

Never.

I’ve spent shitloads of time with users (did stints at repair shops, MSP, desktop support, and analyst stuff), but even the most ignorant, careless user could probably get through installing Linux if they really wanted to.

I think most users, given enough motivation, could definitely figure out how to install a distro from scratch especially for something like Ubuntu or Mint.

Makes sense, I never bought from Lenovo directly (mine’s a refurb), but I wouldn’t be surprised to learn Lenovo started doing it before Dell.

Thanks for pointing this out: It looks like a problem between Lemmy and Mbin. We are looking into it now.