Greece sounds like a hellhole.

Six-day work week. Get out of here.

This makes me physically ill.

Cars are the only weapon in the world where you could injure or kill a few dozen people “by accident” and be let off without being held responsible. And it happens all the time.

Even when someone is charged with anything, it never accounts for a loss of human life. It’s always some BS traffic violation that might as well be a parking violation.

Maybe that’s why you don’t have problems with most of sites from Europe?!?

That’s an interesting observation. I’m not sure, since I’m in Canada.

I use FF as my primary browser on my desktop, laptop, and mobile devices.

As much as I love and support FF and the Mozilla Foundation, I find that some websites simply need a Chromium-based browser to function properly. It’s frustrating as hell.

I wonder how many people tried FF, had their favourite site stop working, and then switched back to Chrome.

How much should I read into my results this weekend? Could it just be chalked up to a hard week and a bad nights sleep?

For a one-time poor result, yeah, I would.

If I had a really hard day going for 120km on June 9, should I pull back on trying to go for 157km on July 1 and 200km in September?

What has your previous max distance been, and how did that go? If you base it on average with other long rides, then you’ll get a better idea of what you can expect.

On a side note, do you have or use a fitness tracker or bike computer? Having some insight to your health/performance can be helpful, especially for distance rides. For example, helping you to pace based on heart rate or power.

If anyone is a toddler-parent who works full time and engages in long-distance cycling, I’d love to hear how you make that work

My kids are grown up, but now we have grandkids to watch, so balancing time to cycle is always a major challenge. I did get an indoor spin bike to help fill in the gaps, but nothing compares to actually get outside and putting on those miles.

Right now, my longest rides happen only on weekends, with errands and some other rides throughout the week ( much shorter stuff).

Good luck! Long rides like those are better than a week-long “regular” vacation, IMO!

If you’re on the sidewalk in public, you have no expectation of privacy.

Under normal context, that’s correct.

But if you are purposely being filmed as part of a movie, project, “prank” or anything else that makes you the “talent”, it moves into a commercial licensing/permit/consent realm.

I’ve been to loads of public events where I’ve had to sign a release form acknowledging that my photo may be captured and that those images may be used in marketing/social media posts, etc. That’s because being at the event makes me the subject. While this wouldn’t be a concern if other people in the group are taking photos/video for their own personal use, the fact that those images may be used for commercial purposes changes the context.

If social media asshats want to use someone’s photos or video for their own commercial purposes, they should be following the same rules as any other professional.

For clarity, we aren’t talking about randos being filmed while on a walking tour of a city; we’re talking about specific people being targeted and recorded as the main subject without consent and with the explicit purpose to use their video for commercial content.

Nearly every country has laws protecting people from having their images used for commercial purposes without consent.

Generally speaking, it is “OK” if you happen to capture people on video while you are recording a public space.

However, the article is referring to situations where people are being video recorded, without their knowledge, as the main focus of the video.

In this case, it should be treated like any TV or movie set, where consent must be given.

I see it as video recording for commercial use, so permits should also be required by these social media degenerates, before a single frame is captured.

Good. Hopefully this will put an end to idiot parents who illegally park in the bike lanes near schools, putting cyclists and kids at risk, just because they are lazy AF.

Floccus is what I use for bookmarks.

Works across pretty much any browser and on Android (maybe iOS, I’m not sure). I’ve got it set up on my Synology NAS through webdav, and it’s been reliable.

I do also use Linkwarden, but that’s more to collect web pages, and not just bookmark them. The archive feature is great, since it doesn’t rely on the page still being live to work.

Linkwarden and Floccus are very different, IMO.

+1 for Floccus. Been using it for a least a year. 👌

Been using this for a few weeks on my synology nas. Absolutely love it!

I want to see the video. Sounds like a great idea.

Picked up a used, steel vintage MTB for $150 Canadian late last year. Already put over 2400km on it through the winter. It’s also taken me on a 180km+ adventure ride, so it does a good job for less than the cost of two tanks of gas.

Bikes don’t have to be expensive or a hassle.

I can see a leasing service being useful to some, but it really depends on how the lease is structured (cost) and what kind of bike/service/guarantee you get with it.

I use Rustdesk for 99% of my remote desktop needs (RealVNC only for my Raspberry Pi).

I will add that self-hosting Rustdesk makes it reliable and fast. When I use the public servers, it was not a good experience.

I’m running it off my Synology NAS through docker.

I always wanted to contribute to OSM but found it a bit daunting.

Any contribution helps! Hell, I went around town just looking for bike parking racks to add, and was able to put dozens of new ones on the map. You can even just label house numbers (with the aforementioned apps listed in the comment you replied to).

My wife is using Smarttube on a TV that has one of there Chromecast dongles, but our main LG TV doesn’t have that option.

I’ve been using FreeTube through Windows on a MiniPC, but it’s not an elegant solution. LOL It does work, though.

I’m using pinchflat

Well. I just installed it and the folder/file structure is definitely better! Now I have to figure out how to get Jellyfin to “see” the download directory. LOL

Thanks for pointing me to another solution.

EDIT: Got that sorted out. Goddamn, it just works! Thank you!

do you re-watch enough YT videos that you need to archive your subscriptions?

Well, if I can get it working, I would much rather be watching via Jellyfin on my TV and not whatever crappy, privacy-invading, ad-shoving Youtube app I’m forced to use.

But realistically, I want to keep some how-to / maintenance videos archived, because I’ve lost track of how many times they went “private” and can’t be accessed anymore. Some really niche product use/maintenance videos tend to disappear.

I have no real interest in data hoarding vlogs or other crap. Just informational stuff.

Yes, that’s the first one I tried.

Maybe I’ll keep trying, but I don’t want to commit to tube archivist until it plays nice with jellyfin. 🤞

I appreciate that! Thanks.