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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • If you’re just commuting & riding flat, even-ish trails, you maybe don’t need a MTB at all. You’ll get much bigger changes in handling/comfort/speed from changing the style of bike than the marginal gains from upgrading individual parts.

    What are you hoping to gain from a drivetrain upgrade? It might make more sense to look at changing the type of bike you have, rather than trying to transform a MTB to act like a hybrid/gravel/road bike









  • I wouldn’t wait that long in the hope that Google release another Pixel tablet and that it then fixes the issues you have with the current one. IMO there’s too much risk that either they don’t release it, or they don’t release it at the time you’re expecting, or it doesn’t change things you care about, or they change the price/features.

    I’d say buy the best (/least worst) thing you can actually get now.







  • DNS = Domain Name System. This is used to lookup an IP address (e.g. 123.234.54.32) from a domain name (e.g. lemmy.ml). A DNS query is one of the first things your computer does when you visit a site.

    Plain DNS is unencrypted, which means that anyone with the ability to read your requests (e.g. your ISP) can see the names of sites that you’re visiting.

    TLS = Transport Layer Security. This is a protocol that’s used to create an encrypted connection between your device and another one, in this case the DNS server. When this is used, the content of your DNS requests is hidden. Your ISP can still see that you’re talking to the DNS server, but not what you’re saying to it.

    TLS also allows your device to cryptographically verify the identity of the DNS server. Without it, someone with the ability to modify your connection could change the responses from the DNS server. That would allow them to send you back the IP address of a server they control, rather than the real servers IP.