I don’t know if that is really true. Yes apples will be different to the parent tree but I often eat from roadside apple trees which grew from discarded apple cores and plenty taste fine.

Yes I do have my favourite apple trees. Would be nice to get a press sometime tbh. Free cider! Maybe even calvados?

For legal reasons I would rather not give the location of the blackberry moonshine still that doesn’t exist in my shed and can’t be bought or made for under £50.

I know the network as a whole goes a long way, but how far can a single message actually be sent? Don’t both have a maximum number of hops and a hop is only a few km?

It certainly seems interesting, but I am not sure if it could be useful for me. Especially when no one I know is going to buy hardware for it. Is there a reason these don’t extend off the internet? Always thought some kind of internet/LoRa hybrid could lower the barrier to entry as most have internet connected devices already, and exposing them to the network some will realise they could pay less by switching to LoRa instead.

Then you just become a pedestrian, it is illegal to run them over too.

Learn something new every day. Used it for over a decade and never knew yt-dlp or its predecessor had a GUI.

Why does the rider need to be visible? Surely if the bike is visible that is enough. Part of why my bike has bright lights on it. You can’t see me? Sure, but you can see the bike, avoid that and everything is fine.

Probably not, and it is an interesting one because youtube frequently has adverts that do not follow UK advertising regulations, especially from sponsorships.

Skill issue. It could be absolutely incredible for quite a few indie games. Make a good game rather than a graphically demanding one.

In my 30s and never learnt, didn’t have the money so just continued to walk or cycle around. Plus I could cycle anywhere I wanted to go anyway, why spend multiple £1000s to cut 5 minutes off the time it takes to get to Tesco?

I grew up in a small town (15k people) so everything was fairly close. Could probably walk across the whole town in 15-20 mins. Now live in a large town (80k) so cycling is more necessary as walking across town can take almost an hour.

Looking at all the stress cars cause other people I am actually happy as I am. Listening to people complain extensively about problems caused by cars and I just nod along. That car stole your space again, tight fitting in that space, your car is too big but apparently that is someone else’s fault, everyone else is driving too slow or too dangerously. Driving looks so fucking boring too, looking at the car in front of you as no one is moving and you are surrounded by a sea of concrete. Fuck that, walking or cycling down the old railway surrounded by trees and bushes is so much better.

Do they? The UK has generally been saying what Trump wants to hear where possible and then acting in our own best interests instead. IIRC the trade deal for US meat doesn’t change our food standards so we can export ours and the US can’t send much of theirs back because it’s low grade trash below our standards.

I mean the stats speak for themselves tbh…

Payday 2 Peak concurrent players yesterday: 22,338

Payday 3 Peak concurrent players yesterday: 656

I learnt the recorder to get out of having to sing/pray, frequently got told off because I wasn’t doing it loud enough. Well over a decade later I can still remember “miss! miss!! he wasn’t singing/praying!” which resulted in the teacher yelling at me for a while.

The music corner was more hidden away and the recorder was my way in.

Sales of American products have fallen in Europe. That is real change. Or did you expect we would cause the US to collapse into anarchy because of it?

Meanwhile in the real world we have seen a noticeable drop in how many US products Europeans are buying.

Stop using pointless slop no one gives a shit about as a selling point?

Ahh, child abuse to ensure compliance. I like it.

Oh yeah, the parents are almost as feral as the kids these days.

Far more fun to set fire to them at the dealership. They are just sitting there, being all flammable…

Smash the window, you can get one of those hammers for breaking tempered glass and with a belt cutter on the other end.

Now smash a few sensors.

That kind of trauma is probably why I had stopped using optical media by 2005.