I have a feeling you’re mixing up the direction of the force you have to apply with the angle of the wheel. Also, countersteering is about how you change the radius of your turn, not about what angle you hold on a steady-state turn.

The effects of the round tire profile are a factor that alter the steering angle for a given turn - conceivably even against to the direction you turn, but as you can see from the Wikipedia page linked that’s not what the term means.

And ultimately, it’s the only way you initiate a turn, no matter how much many people disbelieve it. As the page says “While this appears to be a complex sequence of motions, it is performed by every child who rides a bicycle. The entire sequence goes largely unnoticed by most riders, which is why some assert that they do not do it.”

What you describe is what some call counter steering.

You’re certainly tenacious - an entire Wikipedia page telling you the definition, not including your definition, and telling you it’s how bicycle steering works doesn’t slow you down!

I think rather than arguing with me you should correct Wikipedia and see how far you get. You should also attend to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_dynamics, that weirdly doesn’t seem to mention your special facts on how bicycle steering works.

Experience is misleading and not only is what you describe not countersteering, it’s also not how bicycles steer. The primary input is the angle of turn of the handlebars. The complication is that on a balanced vehicle like a bicycle you can’t just point the wheel where you want to go or you’d just fall over to the outside of the turn. So, before you steer where you wan to go, you have to point it in the opposite direction to initiate a lean.

Countersteering is used by single-track vehicle operators, such as cyclists and motorcyclists, to initiate a turn toward a given direction by momentarily steering counter to the desired direction (“steer left to turn right”). To negotiate a turn successfully, the combined center of mass of the rider and the single-track vehicle must first be leaned in the direction of the turn, and steering briefly in the opposite direction causes that lean.[1] The rider’s action of countersteering is sometimes referred to as “giving a steering command”.

Many people get quite heated, insisting they do not do this on a bicycle, and believe all sorts of other things. But the fact is this is what everyone does and it’s the only way to steer a bicycle, it’s just that it’s quite possible to ride without realizing this is what you’re doing.

It’s like trying to get somebody to understand countersteering.

Yep.

Until they understand that you’re literally riding the bike on the side of the tire, it can’t make any sense

Wait, what? Countersteering is about manipulating the contact patch relative to the center of gravity. The side of the tire has relatively no relevance.

Ubuntu Mono since it was in beta and I heard the designer from Dalton Maag — the typeface design studio commissioned to design it — give a talk about how excited he was to be able to create a comprehensive, carefully thought out, and truly free/libre font.

I’ve never seen another one that I prefer the look of, and now it’s imprinted in my brain. People love to crap on Shuttleworth / Canonical / Ubuntu, but there are a lot of great things they’ve contributed over the years.

Such a subjective thing and often heavily based on familiarity, but looking at that solidifies my appreciation for Ubuntu Mono

Still climbing that learning curve after decades now, and the payoffs keep building.

It’s a real programmers’ environment. One you code to grow and mold to your needs.

Seems pretty reasonable that if you want to tell the world you hate something, you might want the world to understand why you hate it, or else perhaps we might assume it’s not a reasoned position. That’s certainly the conclusion I’m coming to.

You must truly loathe vscode etc then if you hate emacs for overhead. I can’t really see why you should hate something just because it uses a slightly less small amount of resources. I don’t even know how you’d notice on any machine from the last 20 years.

Bizarre that you’ve hated it for 30 years yet didn’t know one of the earliest things users learn about it (that actually is fine to use). Perhaps you should examine why you hate something you’re almost completely ignorant of.

Though most jokes and criticisms about Emacs betray complete ignorance of it, so you’re hardly unusual.

I feel like this would be a question best addressed where the online blind community hangs out (er… I don’t actually know where that is), and there may be plenty of blind users here (?) but I also wouldn’t be surprised to hear there are not. I certainly would tear my hair out if I had to work through comments audibly to try to work out what might be worth reading. But I don’t know and I’m not trying to speak for blind people.

The one blind developer I knew was heavily into Emacs, which has historically had a speech interface and can operate very well purely text-based, that I think made it a good choice. His ability to be productive was awe inspiring. I don’t know if anything else has taken over, but I expect if I lost my sight it might become my entire environment since I already know it. But I wouldn’t be surprised (and hope) there are more suitable options for less technical users.

Most often it’s a case of minor patches to the audio system, or recognizing a card reader (both of which are weirdly often unique per model, often even on sub-models), and these are patches that do make it into the older kernel. That process just takes time, and they want a usable image right away, so they get something specially patched that will shortly be replaced by a mainstream kernel update. For extreme cases there’s dkms, where you can have a package that replaces a kernel module from source that is rebuilt on kernel upgrades.

Canonical used to manage PPAs and packages to handle this - keeping them updated and then eliminating them as the fixes appear upstream. The PPA packages also contain trivial things like tweaks to get the keyboard hotkeys to work right.

I know this lives on because I have a Thinkpad and the vanilla Ubuntu installer adds “sutton” packages to tweak its install, and sutton is the internal name for Lenovo enablement (although the package has nothing active in it, so presumably vanilla just works by now, which I’d hope, as it’s a 3 year old machine).

Hardware enablement. A factory install where all the hardware worked, meanwhile all the fixes are upstreamed. So backported fixes to the current LTS.

Just that work, and frankly doing it near the factories makes sense. We were “offshore” doing it from the US. Canonical is global, headquartered in the UK.

Just me. It was my job for a while at Canonical, until the work was moved to China.

Lol, no mention of the fact that Ubuntu was already shipped on almost the entire Dell range, but only in China and developing world markets. This was because they had sold millions of laptops without OS in those markets, which immediately were flashed with pirated Windows, and Microsoft were pissed off. They pressured the Chinese govt to require computers must ship with an OS, so Cannonical/Ubuntu stepped in, did it for cheap (~$1/machine) and… they were still of course flashed with pirated windows immediately.

They didn’t ship to the US or Europe etc., because in those markets Dell got more kickback-money than they spent, from Windows and the various crapware they shipped pre-installed. So shipping Ubuntu in the US actually cost Dell money.

I use it externally yes but there is no stickiness or accumulation. Wipe off any excess.

I find T9 protects fine. My steel bike is sometimes white with crusted salt in winter but no real corrosion problems. Just stay away from it with detergent or other degreaser. Wipe down with rags, T9, clean rags…

It came up in a work lunchtime conversation and there were two of us out of a dozen who do it, and most people thought we were weird and bathmats were supposed to be cold wet rags.

Shokz (Aftershokz rebranded) are fantastic for endless online meetings if you’re working remotely. I often forget I have them on. I did a whole set of in-person job interviews with them on before I realized I was wearing them at the end of the last interview.

It’s pretty much the convenience and comfort of using external speakers, but without anyone else hearing. It’s just a shame the audio quality isn’t high-end for music.