I see the root of your point being open source and right to repair, but given the electric assist bike format is a relatively new one, I think everyone here would settle for getting people on two wheels, regardless of form or repairability.

Out of curiosity, what form of cargo bike are you seeing? Regular-ish bike with racks, or something more exotic like an Urban Arrow?

I’m with you there.

Not too long ago, my company was informed by letter (as you should have been) of a price increase. I can’t remember exactly, but I want to say it was a 600% increase on the company’s rates. There’s never been any claims on the policy, they just decided they could do it to enough of their clients, and probably enough would pay it that it wouldn’t matter they’d lose a bunch.

I understand the provide we switched to actually provides greater coverage for less than the original amount we paid the first provider. Unbelievable.

It wasn’t specifically for insurance reasons, but I got rid of my car after I noticed I wasn’t driving very far. Now we have a couple cargo trailers and we do the shopping and the errands just as easily and we’re saving tens of thousands doing it. We go through the winter as well, it’s not for everyone but dress appropriately and have lights and you’ll do great.

I have Viofo 129 Pros. Looks like they now have a 229 Pro in various bundles.

At the time, I looked into various brands and models and was consistently finding so many models were the same device with a different brand on them. That was a huge turn off because it means no firmware updates, support, or a real company behind the product.

Here’s what I was looking for and think is good to be mindful of:

I didn’t realise I had quite so much to say on this topic. Hopefully the insane parts were outweighed by the useful parts haha.

Goes to show how strange modern life is that it was easier for them to cut a cheque than send someone down there. Happens all the time unfortunately. I wonder if someone at the impound lot rode it home.

I realised in a similar, though less detrimental, encounter that true insurance comes in the form of dash cameras. For the equivalent of an insurance payment or two, a high fidelity video of the entire vehicle surroundings can be had.

Honestly though, with a few witnesses and half a plate, it’s a surprise they couldn’t find the car that drove into you. Decerning the colour, and style of car, surely it’d be only a handful of vehicles matching both the description and the numbers.

I’m sorry that happened to you.

What commonly goes unsaid in these conversations of insurance cost is the immediate disputes that occur with the provider.

Why am I paying tens of thousands a year to engage in an argument when making a claim?

I’ve been annoyed by a minor change in the stock Samsung clock app for some time now. I just installed the Fossify one you linked.

Minor nitpick: 24h time doesn’t start with a leading zero.

Everything else seems exactly how it should be.

Thanks.

Ah okay, I like that implementation. Good to have it be eye-catching and not just a bunch of text. Thanks for letting me know.

Par for the course with online discussions, I’d say. Always difficult to discern the tone of a comment when it’s written down. No harm done.

Cheers!

Do you ever find there are a lot of these signs at any given time? Having them in a designated area by the entryway then maybe again by the shelf where they stock it seems like a good combination.

In my head I worry it might become overwhelming to the point no one reads them anymore. Though I suppose that could be mitigated with a large image of the recalled product, to make it easier to check at a glance without having to stop and read for a minute. I can’t remember ever seeing signage at the shops near me. I wish we had that.

Maybe I’m overthinking it and it’s a rarity to ever have more than a couple products be recalled at a single time. Can’t say I’ve put much thought into any of this before.

I understood that from your comment. I wasn’t contradicting you or challenging what you said, just wondering aloud how we might go about it and pointing out some flaws in my own point.

That said, even if this article was published the day of the recall, I imagine only a minority of the affected purchasers would ever see it. I couldn’t say I’ve ever looked at a recipes website to inform me of important consumer news.

I’m not quite sure how this would done in a timely-er fashion. Signage in the stores? In theory, anyone paying with plastic could have been contacted through the card company.

That would involve the manufacturer alerting the store, the store alerting all the various card companies, then the card companies alerting the customer. That’s a lot of infrastructure to keep running and to do so fast enough that the customer finds out within a day or two of the recall.

Expensive. Worthwhile given the potential to save lives or hospital stays, but you know how companies are.

This would also involve admitting all your purchase history is collected and stored in a way that is not anonymized, which I don’t think people would quite like to be explicitly told about.

Just looked again and noticed this from their inventory sheet available on this auction page, emphasis mine, spelling errors theirs:

$707k = cost of on hand inventory $530k = cost of available inventory

On Hand inventoy means inventory is physically present in a building, regardless of whether it is committed to a customer or not

Available Inventory means on hand inventory that is not committed to a customer

This means they are auctioning off nearly two hundred thousand dollars of product that customers have already paid for.

This news will always be sad, but it’s hard to feel compassion when the entire organization stops communicating with its customer base.

Paid orders left unfulfilled for months; bikes in for service effectively held hostage; company vehicle being auctioned off.

It shouldn’t be handled in silence. This type of decline isn’t sudden. Juiced should have stopped providing service months ago so they didn’t end up with customer bikes in their possession by the time this all came to a head.

We won’t know specifically what caused this for some time, but assuming it’s not a case of greed or gross mismanagement, it’s a shame a company building alternative transportation options couldn’t be bailed out. Maybe that’s reserved for the auto industry.

And here I thought jeans were problematic.

Sure, gram for gram, Tony’s has 34% more lead than California would like, but their chocolate is still sold in the state.

To add to what @Maalus@lemmy.world pointed out, the Mast bar is 70g for $8, while Tony’s bar is 180g for $6.

Gram for gram, Mast is more than triple the price.

If more people held themselves accountable, these products wouldn’t exist. I know it can be an awkward situation to deny a gift for ethical reasons. Kudos to you.

I feel the argument is a little different when it comes to physical goods.

Stealing a Nestlé product takes away revenue just like if it were left on the shelf, never purchased, and discarded by the shop. The main benefit there is the edible portion of the product doesn’t end up in a landfill.

Not sure why people are beating up on @nxn@biglemmowski.win for saying his opinion. Different people value different things.

I think I can answer your question though. Buying a console is a plug and play experience. Building a PC is not. Not everyone has the time, the patience, or the technical experience required to purchase compatible components, assemble the machine, and install the various software.

Anyone that’s ever bought a prepared meal has overpaid in comparison to acquiring the ingredients, prepping them, and cooking the dish. It’s worth the price to do so because I sure as hell don’t want to spend time making a bowl of French onion soup.