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Comment Why not vertical instead ? (Score 1) 167

I don't understand why vertical-axis wind turbines are not more common: they take less horizontal space, you can potentially stack shorter pieces as high as you want (and use guy lines for stability), have various heights spin at various rates, etc... I'm no expert so I guess they have good reason for this race to gigantism, but it seems a bit like the dinosaurs...

Comment Re:Legal/illegal bikes (Score 1) 146

[I bike a lot (no ebike though)]. More accidents with ebike, sure that's a given: they are heavier so in a collision will do more damage; many are unlocked and can go to 80kph and that's scary as shit on a footpath, and they are often driven by people who are not used to biking (old people with poor reflexes, mothers with 2 kids on the back seat...). As for banning those e-fatbikes, they are still way better than motorbikes (slower and quieter), so maybe just restrict them to roads.

Comment Re:Where are these safe roads? (Score 1) 180

I just came back from a month-long vacation in the England and Wales. Back roads are incredibly narrow: no shoulders, just hedges or walls directly on the side of the road, with no space to walk and no visibility at all in curves. Of course you have to drive slower, you can't see shit. But do you drive slow enough to brake in time ? That's the 10k£ question. You can't walk safely at all on those roads; and we had taken bikes with us but decided not to use them: too dangerous.

Comment Re:Also Restless Leg Syndrome (Score 1) 84

How much caffeine was in there ? I know other posters are making fun of you, but I have one observation that others don't believe as well: I never drink nor eat artificial sweeteners, but I drank a diet Coke recently after lunch. It left me with a horrible aftertaste (like continuous chemical burps) that lasted until I ate dinner in the evening. Washing my teeth didn't help. I'm pretty sure it fucked up my gut microbiota.

Comment Start by making the actual ones work (Score 1) 33

I have an Android TV projector and use it to play movies off a local DLNA server with VLC. Half the time the local srt files are completely ignored. I can find no reasons for it and I've tried everything. It's annoying as fuck as I (and family) watch movies in multiple languages. I find all the other media player systems (Plex, Jellyfin, etc...) highly cumbersome because they reorganize everything.
Yesterday I even tried merging avi and srt into an mkv and even that wouldn't display the subtitle. WTF ?!?

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