“Prefer”… when you’re young, you’ve got time to burn online without distractions.

Then you get married, have kids, work a demanding job, and you don’t get time for uninterrupted online play.

Eventually, correspondence chess is the only gaming you have time for! /s

No problem. When I decided to look for myself, it seems this question has come up on their forum, and the dev gets really salty over it 😂

Looks like good software, though. 👍

It doesn’t look to be open source, or is it?

hockey game between seven and eight-year-olds

If you’re the type of parent who gets into fights at a hockey game for young kids, just stay at home.

I can’t even imagine the hell that those kids go through having to live with parents like that 24/7.

Keep in mind that this program is for people who likely have no other means to get around, so it would be their main form of transportation.

As a personal example, before my son could get a licence, he used an e-scooter to get to his school co-op placement on a daily basis. He would have used local rentals, but it was cheaper to own one.

But from what I hear about places that offer rental prpgrams on a monthly program, they do get used very often as a main form of transportation. And plenty of people, regardless of their income, use a bike as their main form of transportation, too.

Tell me again why 40lb e-bikes and e-scooters need to be capped at some absurdly slow speed, but we don’t do the same to these multi-ton weapons?

For sure on the same page overall.

We can agree to disagree on what’s easier to afford (higher monthly vs lower daily), but I would absolutely love to see better programs to make micromobility more accessible to low-income families and individuals.

It’s not like giving someone a car (re: cost, both ongoing and up front), so I think governments should explore this.

And hell, while they are at it, expand on incentive programs for everyone who wants to replace their car with a bike, e-bike, e-scooter, or anything else. It’ll save taxpayers a ton of money in the long-term.

it’s easy for us to say “why not just pay $70/month instead of paying $12/day”, but… what if they literally don’t have $70?

How are they paying for the rentals? Some would be easily spending more than $70, so it kind of begs the question: how are any of these people able to afford the rentals? Buying would be cheaper!

The saying “it’s expensive to be poor” certainly rings true here. I’m not really suggesting that those folks finance an e-scooter, since that would imply they have the financial means and credit rating to.

But it would be more cost-effective and provide a greater benefit for that state or local government to cover the cost of owning e-mobility devices, since these are really only going to a small percent of their total population.

And in my example, $70 was for a brand name, high-end of the <$1000 e-scooters. You can get a different model for half that amount, which would be like three days of renting one of those bikes, and you’d still end up saving money in the end. It’s like spend a dollar and save 10!

But I do get what you’re saying. I’m hoping these people can afford whatever allows them the mobility they need in their lives (plus, riding an e-bike will improve other aspects of their mental/physical health, too).

Non-income-qualified users pay $1 to start and $0.15 per minute for a maximum cost of $12 per day.

Ouch. I’m not non-income, but $12 a day to get around sounds crazy expensive compared to owning an e-scooter or getting a used bike.

On this program, just two short, 20-minute trips, and you’re already at $7! Do that a few times per week, and you’re at $100+ a month… wait at a couple of red lights per trip and you’re bleeding money away.

To compare, you can get a Ninebot Max from Amazon USA with a zero-interest, 12-month payment plan of under $70 / month. It requires no maintenance, can be ridden in all weather (except deep snow, obviously), is super portable, and gets excellent range. And you get to ride it for hours a day without paying by the minute!

I wonder if the people who put together these programs actually do the math, because I can’t see this being of tremendous value to low/no-income families.

Believe me, Google does enough a/b testing, and has enough experience in psychological manipulation to know where “the line” is for most people.

Sure, some will never use their product(s) again when pushed too far, but they don’t really need everyone to be using their products.

Only the users they can profit from the most are of value. If a terrible UI, awful UX, or even a paid subscription doesn’t scare them away from using a Google Product, then each of those users becomes a cash cow.

“There is nothing to be gained by further custody,” Rose (Justice David Stewart Rose) said.

Can this judge possibly devalue the life that was taken, any more than he already has? Or does he just not care because the victim was homeless at the time he was stabbed to death?

A real human being, who did not want to die, was murdered by a group of girls. Probation is spitting on the victim’s grave.

And these strip searches should be punishing the guards, not rewarding murderers!

Those are mostly operating costs, offset by revenue, but are they actually losing 1.5 billion dollars a year? I mean, I hope so, but are they really?

Source? Where is that money going?

When did it get this bad?

Bad? Google just proved that they can get you to stay on their search page (or come back to get a different answer) for way longer than you need… this is a WIN for them.

The enshittification of the internet + the greed inherent in these mega corps have caused websites to be designed to grab steal your attention for as long as possible. The longer they can keep you on their site, the more money/data/attention/time they can get out of you.

If search was designed to benefit the user, a typical visit would result in maybe 5-10 seconds of someone’s time to enter a search and click on the relevant result. You proved that when you compared it to DDG 😀

That’s frustrating, for sure. I can’t stand devices with built-in batteries for that reason.

I don’t remember the exact model, but I’ve got a Logitech mouse on one of my computers that uses maybe a single AA battery. It lasts like 1-2 years with that battery, so I’d suggest looking for a mouse with AA or AAA batteries to be more future-proof.

You’d need to explore the topic in further detail, as I’m sure the answer is there.

It may be dose dependent, but it may also be that a “splash” of milk might not impair absorption by much, but would anyone use just a splash of milk?

semi-affordable

Price: $5,599 - $6,599 USD

It’s one study of many showing this effect. I believe they suggest that the protein in milk is the culprit. The same effect applies to tea… Adding dairy to tea reduces its health benefits.

Or prison?

Tech companies only care about making money. If people continue to buy their half-effort products, then they’ll keep making it.

On the other hand, open-source (hardware or software) is designed for maximum longevity.

Unfortunately, the wrong people have unlimited resources when it comes to making our tech products.