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Due to China-Indian clashes
Ah was this only very recently
Wow
The area they are disputing is very mountainous
Iirc more soldiers died due to the harsh climate than actual fighting
Are you talking about the 20 Indian soldiers that died like a month ago?
Over the years
Many major credit card providers also banned aliexpress
I've experienced some bs with sellers that generate a shipping number almost immediately
Then when I tried to cancel a wrong order 15 minutes afterwards
SOZ ALREADY SHIPPED
Riperino. Computer decided to crap out.
And it's strange, it shuts off when the magnet passes the sensor
And resets itself frequently too
Possibly a bad battery?
^^ yea, thats generally dying battery, has to be replaced like every year or so on those things, resetting your ODO -_-
Luckily it resets everything except the odo, so that's good.
then again, it doesn't really matter if it resets because i haven't really ridden the bike (as an ebike) yet, so the only distance it has so far is from before it had a motor.
Whatever speedometer app ive been using on my phone has been keeping track track of miles and better yet google constantly logs my trip anywhere i go and somehow knows the difference between me driving my car and riding my ebike so it has all my trips how long i rode for and the distance of all my bike trips logged XD
i need to get an rpm sensor, my gps pings are too infrequent for accurate speed
I care about my privacy so I've disabled all that Google stuff.
But one nice app is Urban Bike Rider
@TheGrayWolf81 Your privacy already gone. Still they will track us. There is no escape and just accept it.
I shall not forfeit
But it is indeed hard to avoid
Even if i have my gps on my phone turned off and its in my pocket if i go somewhere come home and go under my google maps and places ive been it will have everywhere i was even that day lol
It's fine though it helped me figure out the bike store me and my friend bought his bike from back in 2014 that came with a lifetime free tuneups package he paid for and never used till this spring lol
Legit google has every place ive ever been since i got my first smart phone in 2013 saved
Even has pictures i took on some of those days saved to the maps timeline now thats kind of creepy
yup
you enabled tracking
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Well more along the lines of i never disabled it and its on by default lol
I believe it is in the TOS for android
you accepted by turning it on
Ah
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
androuid good ipho0ne bad
iphone does the same
I've only had 2 smart phones so far in my life a 2013 droid mini then in 2016 i got a LG G5 prior to that I was still using my Nokia brick phone lol
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That thing never tracked me AND it had SNAKE on it
if you aren't use to it, I can understand it is creepy
I've had a smartphone for a while and are use to it
I actually use the tracking quite a bit myself so it is handy
I don't really care if I am tracked
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I got really reliant on GPS navigation and now i cant get anywhere using just my sense of direction and road sings anymore lol
honestly, you don't need anything but gps for non daily commutes
custom android ROM gives you the ability to disable all kinds of stuff so apps can't track you
And yeah i could care less if google wants to watch how often i go to the gokart track and then for ice cream lol
And its super useful for finding places youve been before this bike shop is one of the coolest ones in my area and has been around since the late 1800s
It's a huge warehouse sized building with tons of bikes from all eras
Ayyye
I miss the good ol' days
I've had 4 phones in my life and a pager a Verizon flip phone in the 90s with a antena that i swear pulled out like 6 inches and was longer then the phone itself then a nokia 3310 my droid mini and now my lg g5 lol i hold onto phones for a very long time
same, i've only ever had two phones
I had the Droid and the Motorola for such stretches of time just because of carrier changes i went from verizon to tracfone then back to verizon and am now on AT&T
first was a galaxy s3, and now I have a OnePlus 3
I guess I like threes
I still remember all the tricks with tracfone minutes like how if you where quick enough you could enter the same minutes card key 2 or 3 times in a row to get even more minutes then you paid for lol
hahaha
But yeah going back, if you actively go out of your way to maintain your privacy, it is possible, but it's too much of an inconvenience to most people or they just don't know
My major is in cyber security so naturally I'm obsessive with my privacy
Yeah I can see how that would change your outlook especially when you know first hand how unsecure most systems are when it comes to user data
Indeed
@DJeXeCute I just remembered about how you said Google Maps still tracked you even though you turned your location off. This is because GPS isn't the only way to track a device. Google approximates location via WiFi networks and bluetooth beacons as well, so unless you disable tracking, you'll continue to be tracked :P
Yeah its crazy how accurate it is
Although looking at some dates on my timeline it looks like it derps from time to time. There are a few days i stayed home and it looks like i flew a helicopter around my city lol a bunch of paths with no roads right over buildings XD
One of the logs from 2014 show me driving down the road to my friends house and at the half way point im randomly in Georgia for a minute then back up on the road in ohio again XD
Havent had any weirdness like that since 2016 when i got my new phone so it was probably just my old droid mini being funky
I still liked my droid mini more then my current phone because of how small it was and it still had the older version of bluetooth that could pair with wii motes without asking for a nonexistant password
@DJeXeCute you need to turn wifi off aswell because google knows where all the wifi access points are because android phones share it if you have gps turned on
huge security issue aswell because lots of phones beacon out looking for known wifi access points leaking the wifi ssids doing so, meaning you can use googles geo location api, punch in the wifi ssid and you can basically get the home address + workplace of any random person you see on the street
I actually leave wifi off most of the time anyways because my phone tries to use it to handle calls when connected and my isp drops connection all the time causing me to miss calls
http://www.yellowjersey.org/fail.html a collection of fail.
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Pinned a message.
O jesus
Yea thats fine, those bolts are just like guide pins right? /s
Locktite is your friend
I forgot to locktite one of the bolts for my rear rack and lost a bolt the other day while coming home thankfully i had a spare bolt and locktite with me lol
I should loctite more of my bolts
That would be a good idea
I always take a cresent wrench allen keys locktite a spare inner tube a 5.5ah 12v SLA battery and a air compressor with spade connectors to hook up to the battery in my backpack just in case lol
I wish I had a better pump
I have some old slime brand pump i bought about a decade ago that had the cigarette lighter end melt so i cut the end off and crimped spade connectors onto it so i can just hook it up to SLA batteries lol
Harbor freight over here sells a small 12v pump that I might buy and mount on the underside of my top tube on my frame.
I was wondering a while back about a centralized tire pressure system kind of like what military Humvees have. Just set my desired pressure and let the tires both pump up. Would be neat for my fat bike.
Air down for a trail, then effortlessly and quickly air back up for the asphalt
bolts came out of my disc brake the other day, noticed clanging while riding
That Harbor freight pump is great If its the same one I keep in my car its a absolute beast @TheGrayWolf81
It's yellow, right?
It's got a yellow hose on it
The things built like a tank used it a ton on my jeeps it airs 33" tall TSL thornbird tires from 8 to 35psi fast
If your talking about the all plastic yellow shell one they have for $6 ive had that one to and it only lasted for like 3 uses id just say look for a coupon and get the metal one you can normally get it for like $25 and ive had mine a few years now
Ooh that's the larger one I also saw, but it's more expensive :P
Edit: oh. I guess you get what you pay for lol. I'll look into the more expensive one. I remember the metal one being larger. I'll have to see if it'll fit on my frame.
Thanks for the info!
No prob üôÇ