Not the best photo but this absolute beast of a bent trike hauling a dog in a trailer, guy had some insane (VR??) visor on too. Dope to me.
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The company that makes that trike seems pretty cool. Their latest is a 4WD recumbent for adaptive riders. It looks like that trike is all belt drive.
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Open source software developer
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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
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Thanks, Richard Stallman.
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Tarckalbe for for a tangent that’s also a dissertation
And I’m sure I spelled tarckilbe wrong twice
squad
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Is that the dude that had some weird binary key-pad?
Well gawdang, hes been back in the news more recently. Steve Roberts: Computing Across America - BIKEPACKING.com
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S tier level dithering
… he convinced around 160 corporate sponsors and more than 45 volunteers to support his vision of a third and final state-of-the-art computerized bicycle in 1989. What followed was a development period of roughly three and a half years with an estimated cost of $1.2 million USD (about $2.7 million in today’s dollars) that involved total immersion in several labs working at the forefront of various technologies.
Among other modifications, it needed to be equipped with a 105-speed transmission, hydraulic disc brakes, and pneumatically controlled landing gear that made it possible to crawl up hills in its 7.9-inch ultra-granny gear.
This is the future we were promised
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I think this is what William Gibson had in mind while writing neuromancer
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But is it free as in beer or free as in freedom?
We had free beer at my work. But it was canned, as not a good look under current economic climate. Fascist gummint is laying off gummint workers quicker than they can roll out tax cuts to their besties in the tobacco industry and landlords. Corruption at a level never seen in this country which used to always sit in the top 3 of least corrupt.
Canned free beer still sounds pretty good to me
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