This week’s “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell” segment was absolutely delightful. youtu.be/7oWSZ2goY…

Just made the realisation that Shimano Ultegra R8000 shifting performance > SRAM NX Eagle shifting performance. By quite a margin, too. Judged on its own the NX Eagle shifts impressively well. Now I’m kind of curious how much better SRAM’s high-end group sets shift.

The left pedal’s spindle showed more wear than the right one and didn’t have enough grease in the body. Hopefully, having disassembled, cleaned, copiously lubricated, reassembled, and adjusted them, these pedals will still last me many KMs. Now my gravel bike has red shoes. 👠 😜

About to disassemble, clean, lubricate, and reassemble this used pair of HT D1 pedals I bought as a replacement for the ones that I moved from my gravel bike to my new commuter bike. They’re in a worse state than the seller specified and I hope there are no bad surprises waiting.

Any idea if there’s a way to use an iPad as the display for a Raspberry Pi 4 with a wired connection instead of a VNC? I’m curious if there’s a way to recreate something like the defunct Kangaroo Mobile Desktop.

Just thought fondly of my old Compaq iPaq H3670 PDA with its transflective display that was easily readable even in bright sunlight and then I remembered that it didn’t have flash storage and back then we didn’t have USB power banks. The ever present fear of losing your data. 🙃

Went to watch „X-Men: Dark Phoenix“ yesterday evening. Overall good movie, quite enjoyable, with good effects, and I appreciated that they took more time to dwell on Xavier‘s guilt and Jean‘s struggle. Not sure about the villains, though, they didn’t really do it for me. 🍿

Had to send in my Fujifilm X-Pro2. I noticed during the vacation in Norway that the eye relief which is supposed to stay in place had become movable and at one point it partially detached itself. I know it’s in good hands and will be repaired but I still miss having the camera here, I rarely leave the flat without it.

I absolutely love the Butterfly keyboard switches Apple has put into the MacBook Pros and the iPad Smart Keyboard Covers. So amazing to type on and such a positive feedback. Too bad the one in the MacBooks are so absolutely easy to gunk up.

After having getting used to modern Shimano shifting setups again over the past year or so, I can definitely say that I find SRAM shifting much easier to tune. There are fewer screws to turn, and the derailleur operation makes more sense than on Shimano’s models.