Appreciate the addition to the post body, thanks. However I am not going to open links within a different app just to read them, I’d rather just not read them.

The point of my reply was more the latter rather than the former.

“Become a member to keep reading” fuck right off.

The bits I could read though saying they were pretty ineffective for busy urban areas and narrow roads with high hedges and blind corners basically makes them pointless in the UK. Couple that with having to have some form of “computer” on your bars and it all just seems like a waste of money to me. I’ve done fine for decades by just being aware and riding defensively, I’ll stick to that!

From the UK and in my region they are called Strimmers.

As if a “no balls games” sign has ever stopped anyone before. As a kid we used to use the signs as target practice for balls…

Yeh, they have an EP coming out the end of the month, also on macrocell records that based on the preview track is gonna be good!

There is also this “Fairberry” project that is basically building the same thing but with a blackberry keyboard that I have had saved for years now I just don’t really feel confident with being able to put it together myself and also don’t have access to a 3d printer to make the case part or the skills to modify it for my phone.

I have wanted to look into getting someone to make it for me but when the cost of materials and then paying someone to construct it is going to start costing a similar amount to what I paid for the phone it becomes harder to justify.

Looks interesting, thanks for replying, I hadn’t heard about this. I wonder how it compares to a blackberry keyboard to actually use. A bit too expensive for me as I would have to buy a new phone and all the options currently available are quite expensive phones but I’m definitely going to keep this on my radar and maybe try and get one to try when I can get a second hand pixel 9 for a good price maybe.

I don’t know why your everyday pigeon is called a rock dove but I do love me some collared doves!

I hope they visit you again.

Soggfy was just the first thing I tried that worked without crawling for shitty yt downloads of the same things and so I stuck with it. If the audio quality is the same then I really don’t see what difference it makes in the grand scheme of things.

I will try out zotify so thanks for the name but it isn’t like it will be any quicker as I’ll still do everything in “real time” as I want to maintain my account and not get banned as it is a family plan and I don’t want to negatively impact the other people that use the same plan.

Also I know people love to use command line but soggfy is just a modified Spotify client so I can just open it up and start what I need in a couple of clicks

You are only going to be able to get 320 mp3s from Spotify at the very best, I use soggfy to intercept the audio and rip the tracks so you need to let the playlists run (although you can up the speed they play at) and there will also consequently be some organisation needed of the files afterwards so it is far from automated but works fairly well.

A lot of the tools around take your playlists and find what it thinks are the correct tracks on YouTube and then rip from there so be wary of the quality you might get from those.

I compared a track I ripped from Spotify with a 320 mp3 of the same track I had bought with a spectrometer (I think that is the correct name) and they looked identical

Yes. Unihertz have a couple I’m aware of but their software is dog shit, fx tec pro is out dated and over priced. The blackberry keytwo was the absolute best phone I have ever owned but that is now too old for security updates too so really isnt the best thing to have as your main phone.

Would be happy to hear of some others I may have missed. I backed the planet computers astro slide on indiegogo and they only delivered around 2000 units before stealing everyone elses money. Fucking cunts they are.

I just want an acceptable phone with a keyboard god damn it, not some gimmicky shit with a crap screen!

Yeh to be fair that is completely understandable. I have to clean quite a lot, I wish they wouldn’t shit where they eat xD

You neighbour and I would not get on at all haha

Anti skip wasn’t completely anti skip if it took a massive jolt but for sure it was like magic compares to the old ones which needed to be preferably flat on a table xD

I mean I was doing a paper round around 2000 and the one I owned certainly didn’t have anti-skip to begin with and even when they did have anti-skip that doesn’t mean that it never skipped as later ones I had with it only had “x seconds of anti skip” so if it receives a big jolt that shit was still skipping

Walking down the street, cradling the thing like a baby because the slightest bump would cause it to skip, those were the days xD

I would become a crazy pigeon balcony just to spite those spike placing haters xD

Some tubeless tyres I have had have held pressure indefinitely some have slowly leaked over time regardless of what I do, I think that is just the nature of the game.

You need to make sure the sealant is well distributed around the inside on that initial application so move the wheel around in your hands to try and get it to every part. Go out for a short ride after that and just try and get it everywhere inside. Failing that if you can identify where there might be a leak like you said tip the wheel so that the sealant will sit where you are getting the leak for a bit in the hopes that some will plug up that tiny hole.

It is OK to not know what you are doing but you really need to do some research and try and learn what you should be doing and how to work towards the goals that you have in a safe manner.

You are describing two very different movements here and they both use very different groups of muscles. Doing curls I presume you mean bicep curls in which case the muscle that is doing the majority of the work here are you biceps, this is quite a bit muscle in terms of your arms and so you will naturally be able to lift a lot more without any practice doing this movement.

The “T” shape movement you described does not use you biceps at all, this movement is using a lot of you smaller shoulder muscles. There is absolutely no way these muscles can lift the same amount, not only because of their size but just generally how the body works, this isn’t a movement you do as often in day to day life and definitely not lifting any kind of heavy weights. Not to mention the fact that the weight is further away from your body so just by doing a basic equation the force it is exerting is far greater due to being double or more the distance from the pivot point. Even a well seasoned body builder would never be able to lift the same in these two movements.

The reason you are getting pain is because you are trying to lift too much for that movement with your current strength level. There isnt anything wrong with your body but the fact you haven’t injured yourself already you should consider yourself very lucky.

Strength training is very beneficial for general health and wellbeing even if your goal isnt to just get jacked but you really need to take a step back and do some reading and try to inform yourself on what you are doing otherwise you are not only going to increase your chance of injury massively but you are also not going to be making the most of the work you are actually doing so you are wasting a lot of time and effort.

You want to be hitting different muscle groups in different work outs. You want to have both push and pull movements for the upper body as well as doing some core work. Don’t skip leg day either you want to be doing both knee and hip based exercises within your leg days. For example when I go to the gym I’ll do 4 days a week:

Vertical push and pull exercises for upper body.

Hip and core exercises for lower body.

Horizontal push and pull for upper

Knee and core for lower.

Everyone has different routines and goals but you should really put in the time to make yourself a routine.

Until you know what you are doing as well stop over loading and just lifting as much as you can. Take the time to learn the movements and proper form for those movements. Use low weights that may not seem like they are working you out properly whilst you learn proper form to avoid injury going forward. Either film yourself and watch it back or ask others for form checks on things you are doing and then slowly start adding weight once you have the form and know what you are doing.

If you over load with weight and it is too heavy for you, even if you can “lift” it your form will be off because it is too heavy for you and again you risk injury.

In terms of reps and stuff if you are wanting to build strength then you want to go lower reps with a higher weight so that you fail by around the 6th or 8th rep. That doesnt mean high reps is wrong, high reps will help you build endurance rather than strength.

Please please please go and do some reading because as it is right now it is obvious that you don’t really have any idea about the basic mechanics behind what you are trying to do let alone how to most efficiently work out beyond that.

If you have that much money to drop on a gym at once then I’d highly recommend you seeing a PT a few times maybe to just try and give yourself a good basis of what to do going forward from someone that knows what they are talking about.

Working out and strength training is fucking great but if you injure yourself straight away you are going to drop it and then always have a bad idea of what it is and the benefits it could have for you purely because you were too eager and did it wrong.

Good luck with the beginning of your fitness journey and I really hope you can find your way as it can seem very daunting to begin with but just be very careful because if you fuck yourself up it could be forever with the way you’ve gone about it so far :)

I am just finishing up on Sandersons Tress of the Emerald Sea, it is pretty good, usual Sanderson affair and that is never bad!

I also just started reading the English translation of the Angentinian comic The Eternaut. I just finished the TV series which was a random choice not knowing anything about it and I really enjoyed it although it was somewhat unsatisfying in terms of not really answering any questions regarding what is actually going on. So I decided to read the original material to find out!