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I started doing this two years ago, mostly because I couldn’t justify the emissions from flying just to go on holiday and looked for a more local alternative, but I’ve grown to really love the freedom and flexibility bikepacking gives.
My previous trips have always been in summer or early fall and my gear was oriented around that. I wasn’t really expecting the cold nights and strong winds of the Danish coast (especially since May last year was way hotter than this year) and just froze my balls off at night. I did it for two nights because I still appreciated the greater flexibility of just pitching a tent whenever I wanted, but on the third night I just gave in and booked an AirBnB.
It was still a super fun trip, though!
I rode Kopenhagen -> Berlin in May (started as bikepacking, but it was colder than I expected, and I didn’t really have the right gear, so I switched to staying in BnBs for the last 2 days).
I don’t have any concrete plans for other longer tours right now. I’ll probably do the Altmühl Cycle Route over a long weekend, though. It’s pretty close to where I live, so I can just take regional trains to the starting point and back home at the destination.
Unrelated to the article, but I’ve never heard of defector before, and I spend the last hour crawling through and reading a couple articles. Seems like a fantastic little site (and apparently worker owned?). I don’t care much about most of the sports articles, but the other stuff is great. Thanks for posting!
On weekdays, mostly in bed before going to sleep.
On the weekends, I do longer bike rides and take my E-Reader. I listen to audiobooks while riding and then stop at a nice spot in the shade and just read for an hour or two before I move on to the next spot or ride back home.
I don’t disagree, but there are ways to use color without making everything shiny. If everything pops, nothing does, and for me personally that just felt like a little much.
Obviously this might just be the trailer and we’ll have to wait and see what it actually looks like, but to me it feels a little like they’re trying to make up for poor texture quality by making everything 50% brighter and more saturated.
I realize Obsidian isn’t known for visual masterpieces, but this looks extremely dated. The original teaser also had a much darker feel to it than this trailer. Seems a lot more colorful than I expected.
It’ll be on Game Pass, so I’ll probably check it out anyway, but this kind of dampened my expectations by a lot.
Totally agree on Persona 5. Maybe it’s just because I don’t particularly care about anime, but I just couldn’t get into it. It just feels like hours and hours of boring anime filler episodes.
I’m also not a big fan of turn based combat, so that didn’t help.
Might be my bubble, but I don’t think disliking HZD is a particularly unpopular opinion. Personally, I really enjoyed it, but I can definitely understand why someone wouldn’t. Aloy can be both boring and annoying and the story didn’t really live up to its potentia. I can see why it would be difficult to get into it.
For me, the gameplay more than makes up for those shortcomings. Fighting robot dinosaurs with bow and arrow is right up my alley. Also the latest DLC for the sequel made Aloy actually interesting for the first time, so I have some hopes for story in the third game.
I’m not familiar with the details of the CCPA, but AFAIK under GDPR you need to actually request the deletion of data by invoking article 17. Just going through your account and deleting posts is not the same thing.
Also, this only applies to “personal data”. You’d probably need to ask a lawyer if posts on reddit can be deemed to be personal data on principle, but IMO as long as the posts don’t contain any personal identifiable data themselves, it should be enough to remove the username linked to the data like reddit is currently doing if you delete your account. The data would then no longer be linked to an individual and therefore would no longer be personal data.
IANAL, this is just my personal interpretation and I might very well be wrong.