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I hate how accurate this is

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[-] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 219 points 1 year ago

Lemmy: I don't know, but I wouldn't trust any bike helmet that I can't compile myself from source. It's best to just stay home behind (real) firewalls so the Big Bike doesn't target you for your striped Linux socks.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago
[-] BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one 22 points 1 year ago
[-] sharkfucker420@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

The moment I got arch running I immediately started hearing about this Gentoo thing but I know for a fact the moment I use Gentoo everyone is gonna start making their own personal Linux distributions using Linux from scratch and then I'm gonna go further down the rabbit hole

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[-] morrowind@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 year ago

Lemmy:
from Eggdoy77: I don’t know, but I wouldn’t trust any bike helmet that I can’t build myself from source. It’s best to just stay home behind (real) firewalls so the Big Bike doesn’t target you for your striped Linux socks.

rshmuck: have you ever actually looked at the helmet source let alone build it?

Eggdoy77 no

[-] Falmarri@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Commercial bike helmets are a product of capitalism and the radical right wing Democrats are just protecting big business by suggesting to wear a helmet

[-] Norgur@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

I think we should defederate from all instances that do not disallow proprietary bikes and/or closed-source locks!

[-] wahming 17 points 1 year ago

This company lends out bikes for free, but they're Nestlé-level immoral because they put ads on the bike

[-] GreenMario@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

It's GNU+Bike helmet

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[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 181 points 1 year ago

I'm not joking one bit when I say my Google results were several times more accurate 10 years ago, maybe even 15. Using Google is a chore now. Sketchy SEO is a major reason I hate searching for anything on the Internet these days, but ads and fake content made it downright miserable.

[-] NotYourSocialWorker@feddit.nu 28 points 1 year ago

It doesn't help that Google tries to guess what you actually wanted to search for.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago

More and more often I find myself clicking on my original text because Google decided it knows better than I do what I'm looking for.

[-] Linssiili@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 year ago

Give Kagi a go, it gives (usually) much better results. It's a paid service, but you get 100 free searches as a trial

[-] catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

Kagi is great. I just wish it was a little bit cheaper. Every time I search more I’m aware it’s costing me.

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[-] insomniac@sh.itjust.works 137 points 1 year ago

And the amazon result is some unknown Chinese brand with 5,000 suspicious 5 star reviews

[-] chase_what_matters@lemmy.world 59 points 1 year ago

Amazon is a gigantic garage sale/garbage pile now.

[-] sci@feddit.nl 14 points 1 year ago

always has been

[-] LemoineFairclough@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

At least you can request that the items be sorted!

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago

The worst thing is sorting by price. If you sort by reviews or something things look decent. Sort by price and you see pages and pages of things that are in the wrong category and very cheap.

[-] pancakesyrupyum@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I love when you change the sorting arrow and the total numbers of items found changes.

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[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 109 points 1 year ago

By the way, and I understand this is mostly about the joke. But getting a good bike helmet is really important, and there are reasons to buy a new one like every 4-5 years.

Virginia Tech does extensive independent testing of bike helmets every year, really worth looking into if you’re going to buy one.

link to Virginia Tech helmet test

[-] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Honest question: why every 4-5 years?

I’ve always considered helmets good until you knock ‘em once. Then you have to replace ‘em because they lose their structural integrity crumpling to protect your noggin.

Am I misinformed or is it a matter of “you’ll probably knock it in that timeframe, even if you don’t realize it?”

[-] NotSpez@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

The problem is it really depends who you ask. On road.cc, a fairly reputable bike magazine/website, you can find this: link

  1. Do you need to change your helmet after a certain amount of time, even if you haven't had a crash?

Yes, but that's not necessarily because the expanded polystyrene foam degrades over time, as April Beard, Bontrager's (link is external) product manager for helmets, explains: "It really depends on how good of care you take of the helmet. There is no evidence that the EPS liner will deteriorate from age. Still, there are things such as solvents, chemicals and environmental exposure that can degrade the performance of the helmet."

Paul Caswell, the senior brand manager for Giro and Bell helmets' distributor ZyroFisher agrees: "We normally recommend a new lid every three years depending on usage as even with no impacts there is a constant knocking and pressing of the EPS as the helmet is stored, dropped, placed on hard surfaces etc. Due to tiny impact after tiny impact over time, the EPS will gradually lose its volume making it less able to deal with the energy in the unfortunate event of an impact. Of course, the more the helmet is used, the more it will deteriorate, so one rule for all does not work here, but three years is a good guide."

Helmets.org, a non-profit consumer-funded program providing information about bicycle helmets, largely backs up the manufacturer's stance. They cite data from an MEA Forensic study in 2015 that found that the foam liners of used but not crashed helmets retained their performance over many years, with some of the helmets tested being 26 years old.

When you actually look on helmets.org I am not sure what part of the manufacturer’s stance they imply that this program backs. link

Personally, I like to replace it every 4 years because I use mine a lot and I would rather fall for a selling trick than risk a higher chance of brain injury. In any case, a system like MIPS or wavecel would, in my opinion, justify buying a new helmet anyway if you don’t have that on your old one.

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[-] wander1236@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago

At a guess, it could be because the materials just naturally degrade over time. Any foam will start disintegrating, sun exposure could weaken the plastic, and the straps will fray.

[-] Mountaineer@aussie.zone 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I ride a motorcycle as my commuting vehicle and I find my helmet needs replacing every 5 years max, as the inner foam lining has compressed to point where it is no longer snug to my face and therefore unsafe.
Push bike helmets would be made of similar materials, just with less coverage.
So as @wander1236@sh.itjust.works says, it would be materials degradation.

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[-] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 12 points 1 year ago

ohh thank you. I actually fear physical activity cause I was in accident when I was younger that a helmet would not have even prevented but it does give me hope that maybe some day I'll be able to ride a bike or a skateboard without having to worry about what happens to my cranium.

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[-] saltynuts420@lemm.ee 54 points 1 year ago

AI ruined google , it so sad to see the current state of the internet ... there used to be so many articles with real effort being put in written by people with real passion for their field of knowledge .... now if you want a genuine answer either you have to reddit it or search for a article written by a genuinely knowledgeable person (which is very hard as they get often burried upon by AI writen shit articles)

[-] freebee@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 year ago

Good cycling infrastructure works better than any helmet, if you're cycling with a helmet, don't forget getting involved in trying to make your area more cycle safe, too.

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[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 year ago

Then there's the one or two sites where actual experts spend time and effort to review things in a thorough and unbiased way mixed in with 20+ review sites that look like they're legit ones but have no expertise, spend no effort on reviewing, and are just there to earn money from ads and affiliate links.

Unless you're an expert, or you spend a lot of time and effort, you don't know which sites are legit reviews and which just look legit. If you are an expert, you probably don't need the sites.

What makes / made Reddit valuable is that there were communities where experts hung out and posted opinions, not because they were getting paid, just because they were interested in the subject. Not being paid was a double-edged sword though. It means that the person isn't biased by money or trying to earn a commission. OTOH it meant that they had no incentive to be objective, to be helpful, and so-on.

It meant that one dude who had had a bad experience with a windslapper was motivated to bring up their bad experience whenever the subject came up, but wasn't motivated to post to actually provide well-rounded advice when people were just asking about helmet recommendations.

It doesn't help that any attempt to create a "seal of legitimacy" or something for a review site is always co-opted by the brands who have a vested interest in moving their own product.

[-] cubedsteaks@lemmy.today 14 points 1 year ago

Awhile back someone told me about https://www.rtings.com/ and I wish there were more sites like it for other things.

Got me a damn good vacuum though!

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[-] CorrodedCranium@leminal.space 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There was a good article (maybe video?) posted not too long ago about how Google search results came to suck I wish I could find.

I think it essentially came down to ad revenue and websites tailoring their content to fit Google's algorithm.

Very annoying. Even the old tip of adding the word Reddit to get results from real people is annoying these days because of how they try to push you to login.

Edit: this was the article

https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords

[-] FuntyMcCraiger@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

Reddit is not even safe anymore. I googled some products and tagged Reddit on the end and the first result was someone who had made a bot that just collects referral links into a big list and names it "top ten x of 2023".

Taking a look at the history and it's just thousands of links.

The internet has shit itself to death.

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[-] bleistift2@feddit.de 14 points 1 year ago

try to push you to login

And to download the app.

And to consent to their usage of cookies.

And to really download the app.

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[-] PrincessZelda@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

Feels like most top results are chatgpt now, doesn't matter what you search for. The top result when I was looking for an estimated cost of fencing had a paragraph telling itself to describe the costs and blah blah

[-] abraxas@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah. I just bought an espresso machine and the above was my exact experience shopping around. Hundreds of reddit posts about how I really need to drop $5000, MINIMUM, to make a good cup of anything that isn't shit. And to not forget that I need a $2000 grinder to go with it or I might as well just buy a nespresso and call it a day.

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[-] municipalis@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago

Sometimes you get lucky and there’s a recent Wirecutter article but then of course the top options are all sold out or not available where you live.

[-] sci@feddit.nl 16 points 1 year ago

If helmets are so important then why are there still Dutch people alive..

checkmate atheists

[-] omgarm@feddit.nl 19 points 1 year ago

We've developed long tongues that wrap around our brains to protect them when we fall. Like woodpeckers. This secret must not be reve

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[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 12 points 1 year ago

sodium content is of great importance when biking your helmet.

Alright…?

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