I think trees especially are cool. What was once a tiny seed that could fit at the tip of your finger grows into a massive tower that you can barely see from top to bottom. They house entire ecosystems within their roots, bark, and branches, and they will probably outlive you and your entire family. Combined.
Old growth trees are something everyone needs to see at least once. They are breathtakingly huge.
The entire airline industry in Canada needs to be gutted and rebuilt from the ground up. This is just straight up theft. Most of the crap Air Canada nd WestJet pull are just straight up theft.
Sometimes, yeah. I think the issue would just be finding the right one. LTE hotspotting, basic text email, and GPS would be important, as well as having an OS that isn't just some chopped up version of Android which entirely defeats the point in my opinion. I don't use 95%+ of the apps on my phone. I hardly even use the web browser.
"Huge environmental challenge"
It's actually quite simple. Stop using single-use plastics for absolutely everything. Regulate the creation of plastic post-consumables. Regulate companies that disallow repair and/or create products that are designed to fail prematurely. etc etc
We need less plastics in circulation, not encouraging the production of more. We need regulatory bodies that actually have the teeth to go after these big companies and force them to comply.
SEO and AI-generated clickbait have basically ruined most search engines. I've yet to find one that can really tackle this properly. I believe Kagi offers higher quality results but I can't really verify that myself as I don't have an account with them.
Honestly? As I get older and as the tech industry chokes itself to death in pursuit of infinite profit, I find myself doing more and more things away from the computer or the internet at the very least. Spending time outside doing stuff, exercising, reading books, partaking in art or other creative pursuits, having pets, etc. I have really dialed back my social media involvement and I hardly ever use my phone now.
The internet is absolute garbage now. It's a completely unregulated trash fire that is only getting hotter as more gasoline gets dumped on it. The internet I grew up with, the internet of seemingly endless possibility and unfathomable amounts of information, is long gone. Search results (from any engine) are all SEO trash, websites are just AI-generated garbage covered in ads, and every app or service is a subscription that promises to suck even more money out of my bank account for basic services. Not to mention that all of the above will also monitor every single bit of my activity and sell it to third party buyers. If tech is just going to exist to be an ad-delivery platform then I can do without it. People did for decades, centuries, and we can too.
This bubble is going to pop eventually. It not might be today or tomorrow, but it is going to happen. This is not sustainable.
It's an old Easy-Motion Neo Xtrem ebike. Long discontinued and the company doesn't even operate in my country anymore, but because the bike uses generic parts I can easily keep it going.
And this is why I will never spend a cent on any of those fancy high-end ebikes. They are loaded with proprietary software and hardware that make repairs difficult or downright impossible.
My daily workhorse ebike is from 2013 and uses generic parts all over. Even the battery has been re-celled and the internals replaced with generic parts.
If your bike requires an app to function then there is no other way to say this - you just got scammed.
CBC comments are always atrocious.