I think this depends on what flavour of android you have. I can’t answer your question, but if you provide the phone model and os version, it should help whoever comes along and can answer :)

Ride looks amazing, and that tarmac looks absolutely splendid to ride. Definitely one to add to the dream Europe trip! Hope you’re having a blast out there!

I don’t know how true it is these days, but it used to be Crossfit

“Your honor, ‘bonerdragon6969420 llc’ has a long and industrious history…”

They aren’t crap at all, stop projecting your opinion as fact.

At worst they’re niche, but provide tangible and easily understandable benefits that you might not care about that others love. That’s like me hating on the newest Samsungs camera, just because I personally don’t value mobile photography.

Your complaints about durabilitu are pretty tied these days, the technology has improved a lot and you can realistically be as careless as you can with any other cell phone. There are valid concerns , such as Samsungs issue with hairline cracking along the hinge, but you can stop parroting points addressed over the past 5 years now.

Mad respect for answering this and not causing an xkcd moment

https://xkcd.com/979/

Hi cycling commuter and weekend bike packer here, welcome to the club!

Before we start I just want to warn you that cycling, while a simple hobby is full of money sinks and gear envy. It’s very easy to spend 10x more for something marginally better, I only mention this now because it took me way too long to figure this out.

On to gear recommendations:

A good lock - this should be at least 10%the cost of your bike, also make sure to learn to lock your bike properly (not just through the front wheel)

Spare tube(s) - while I agree a patch repair kit is great to have, repairing a tube when you’re late, it’s cold, and miserable is a hellish experience. especially for newbies, id recommend carrying a spare tube instead and just changing that. That way you can patch your original tube in the warmth of your home with a cuppa, much better experience. Swap it back when you’re done and you’re gravy.

Gloves - Everyone falls. Everyone. Gloves not only make your ride more comfortable, but they also protect your palms on the event that you scrape them after a tumble (I write this with scraped palms after not following my own advice and falling last weekend)

A basic repair kit - puncture repair, tyre levers, pump, multi tool w chain break, zipties and a metre or so of duct tape

Sunnies - bike specific glasses are a scam (at least for beginners), just have a pair on the bike at all times. This will make riding at dawn/dusk and in the rain more comfortable. Id recommend polarized with a fairly light tint, too dark and it’ll be hard to ride in the rain with them.

A bike bag to store it all in - nothing fancy just good to have things off your body and on the bike so wouldn’t recommend a backpack. This is the first place where you can spend a lot of money, but a good bike bag is never a bad investment.

The more you ride the more you’ll come to realize what you need and don’t need, you’ll add a bunch to this list but I doubt there’s anything you’ll remove so it’s a good starting place.

I forgot about Chinese balloons lol, did anything ever come about after that one was shot down by the Americans?

Nah “average” is fine, just using the wrong one here. Means are better for roughly bell shaped data sets. I’m the case above, looking at the median and mode would help understand the data better

“pretty phones over privacy” is a wild take ngl

I remember signing up and putting a couple Hundy down at like 4 in the morning after a night on the beers, bit my finest moment.

Leveraging is definitely a whole other beast, glad there’s no temptation there

Your second paragraph feels like a personal attack lol

I don’t think they deleted it, it’s still showing for me at least.

This sounds strictly better than a regular browser, is there some obvious downsides that im missing (I know I could google this but you write very clearly and concisely and if it’s not too much trouble, I’d love to hear your views on this)

Wild to me that theres a whole country out there that has so much influence over my life (an entire ocean away) and they don’t know how much their meal will be before the cheque comes. Incredible.

100% agree with your colleague here, work considerations end as soon as my personal time starts.

ACC are running their “have a hmmm” campaign which originally about “if something bad happens, here are all the things in my life which will be negatively effected” and it was a decent campaign.

Now the messaging has changed to “Hey if you hurt yourself, your workmates might have to work extra shifts” which is a decent consideration but seems really tone deaf without all the other life impacts. Like “Hey if you hurt yourself, you are hurting the company you work for” and tbh idgaf about the company I work for outside our contractual agreements.

I might be overthinking it but this new angle has really put me off their messaging, and I’m not even someone who actually likes my job.

They’re my riding shoes and my camp shoes most of the time, wouldn’t go without them for sure.