[reader50]

Originally Posted by subego 

Those tires are obviously bias ply, which I thought were extinct. That sent me down a rabbit hole, researching tires. Turns out bias-ply are still used on trailers, because they reduce the shimmy effect at highway speeds. Keeps the trailers under better control.

Radial technology is now the standard design for essentially all automotive tires.

Bias tires are still used on trailers due to their weight carrying ability and resistance to swaying when towed.

Now I'm getting ads for tires.

[subego]

Impressed with how stiff those sidewalls are, too.

[Laminar]

And tractors! Still plenty of bias-ply tractor and implement tires getting made.

[subego]

My own woops was using gfycat a bunch in this thread. They’re deleting everything in a couple months.

[subego]

Originally Posted by subego 

Enjoy while you still have the chance!

[ghporter]

The web is apparently rife with replacements for gifycat.

And thanks for the above “oops.” Her attitude and expression are priceless.

[subego]

This should do for now.



Much discussion over whether it was banana gas.

[subego]

Is that already dead for everyone else?

[reader50]

Your banana gas GIF was there yesterday. This morning, it's gone. Loading the URL directly gives an error page "the file download has been disabled".

[ghporter]

Same here. The GIF was there yesterday evening, but it’s not now.

[subego]

This shit is bananas.

[Laminar]

What I'm figuring out is:
1) Everyone wants a bajillion gigs of bandwidth
2) There's absolutely no money to be made in providing free bandwidth to the general public

How many times do we have to see the same cycle of:
1. Create service providing free bandwidth
2. Burn cash building a userbase
3. Pivot to profitability
4. Crash and burn as the userbase moves to the next free service

Photobucket, Dropbox, tumblr, however many photographer-focused sites, Reddit is still insolvent and only the third party apps that weren't hosting content were profitable, YouTube is apparently still burning cash...who's next?

[andi*pandi]

flickr is subscription based, and I pay for it, but hardly use it. I wouldn't use it for memes and junk forum posts.

[ghporter]

I've essentially dropped Dropbox AND Evernote. I still have the DB app on some devices, but I've recovered everything I had stored there and moved it to either local off-line or cloud places (I still use both iCloud and OneDrive). Both DB and EN changed rules kind of frequently, and got less and less useful, so I decided I didn't need them.

I have used other hosts for photos I have shared, but again they got to be more trouble than they were worth, so I ditched them. ImageShack wanted me to limit bandwidth for downloads; how does one limit other people looking at the pictures they share on web forums? I never used Photobucket, but their rule changes affected a bunch of people on other boards I frequent. In particular, their tactic of de-focusing shared images unless the user had a paid account was roundly hated by just about everyone I knew who used it.

I don't know whether profitability drove rule changes, or if the rule changes pushed down profitability, but for every free service I'm aware of - other than the free tiers for both iCloud and OneDrive - the two were connected.

[Laminar]

Oh, I thought about Imgur but because they haven't crashed and burned yet, I left them out. But I was trying to remember what I did between Dropbox and just paying for my own web hosting, and it was Imgur. Until Imgur blocked hotlinking to most popular forums, so pictures I was sharing would show up here but not on the BMW forums. Yet another case where providing free bandwidth without capturing either ad revenue or at least user data was unsustainable.

So I got my own hosting for $12/month that includes three sites and unlimited storage and bandwidth (I'm assuming if I tried to use Netflix-level bandwidth or storage that they'd eventually clamp down). No more getting the rug pulled out from under me when yet another VC-funded site pivots to profitability and breaks the internet.

[subego]

Does anyone have a good BYO to replace Dropbox? I need push.

[reader50]

When I uploaded my Pixlas shots to Imgur, it was the first time I'd used them in months. They are rolling out a new interface - and the link to picture library led to an error page. I was able to switch to the old interface, and reach my pics.

Maybe it was an accident, a bug remaining to be fixed. Or perhaps they are encouraging people to make public posts on Imgur.

[subego]

I’ve been recently using this to do Imgur uploads:

https://img.doerig.dev/

No hassle.

[ghporter]

I’ve been using my own hosting for ages. My particular hosting package has some kind of up charge for lots and lots of traffic, but it’s way up there, as if I were doing my own version of “host your pictures here”.

I have three sites, pretty much unlimited storage, and there are lots of “helpful” tools for building commercial sites, too. So as not to sound like an advertisement on the forum, I’m not going to mention my host.

[reader50]

JetBlue plane at JFK airport (NY) unloaded too much weight from the front first. No injuries, no reported damage yet. I wonder if the rear unloading equipment includes spacers, to prevent the tail from reaching the tarmac.

[ghporter]

Probably not. The ground crew “should” know to open and unload both forward and aft stowage at pretty much the same time, since there’s no way to be sure what the balance situation is at the gate.

Once the holds are emptied then refilled, the aircrew puts that info, along with fuel and passenger weight, into a simple formula. Sometimes the flight may be delayed a bit while ground crew moves heavy@ss bags from one hold to the other, and VERY rarely passengers may be asked to move to different seats to get the aircraft balanced properly.

But at the gate? The only safe bet is to unload everything equally. Or to be the subject of “airliner mishaps” memes.

[Spheric Harlot]

Wouldn’t it completely suffice to just clear the aft hold first?