u/BikemeAway

Anyone from Austria can share their point of view?
If you look at the data cars are the least used means of transport. Transit is absolutely great for its size and cycling is acceptable.
BUT while cycling I noted that infrastructure is patchy and you're often left with nothing having to share the road with cars on wide roads. If you go along the rivers you might get anywhere and fast but when you go south via Suedring it's pretty bad.
And there's cars that still dominate everything, the state roads 171/174 cut through the city where people live and move around and being a "flow first" type of roads they get priority at intersection and quality of life = high traffic, high speeds and constant noise.
My impression is that they tried but with high density comes high interactions with cars.
What would you do more?

This is not the first time it has happened in recent years.

Italy really sucks.

I'd say: let's ban album releases during commute days duh!

I was planning on cycling along the Danube but apparently the infrastructure is not really present?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Regensburg/s/xrhNrs1nSO

So what's left, even inside the urban area?

I visited Nürnberg and Berlin for 1 week each so I visited various parts of these cities, not only the city centers on purpose to see how people live.

I thought Germans were very strict about rules and rule following instead I saw this

1. cars speeding is very common and not a rare occasion: this what surprised me the most, I really thought just rare individuals would dare to do since humans are humans but on many occasions I saw people "racing" in low speed areas at 100km/h with lots of pedestrians and... I thought sometimes it was a terrorist attack honestly for how fast they drove

2. illegal car parking is another thing that's not that looked down upon, the things you read about "if you park on the sidewalk people will report you"... haven't seen any of that, parking on bike lanes, on the sidewalk where it's not allowed or at intersections are not that difficult to find. Even taxis in the evening seem to create virtual parking lanes to catch clients (I assume), but the police never said a thing

3. pedestrians DO cross red lights (and cyclists also)

4. CONSTANT noise of motorbikes and illegal car engines (?) destroying the quality of life with those f*cking farts in the background everywhere you are. Hate them so much.

Now I don't think 2-3) are currently a social emergency like Italy or Greece since the motorization rates in those German cities are low so it's not a diffuse behavior but 1) REALLY surprised me and scared me.

Did I fall for a stereotype that never existed and carbrain took over Germans?

I wonder if there are cities in northern Europe where people really really follow rules for spending, maybe my only hope is Switzerland?

On a side note even if cars are the least used means of transport you can tell how much they still ruin everything. Residential areas with 4 lanes, constant noise, traffic light cutting streets in two for the "flow of cars". Even Europe has a long long long way to go.

Hello,
I installed this product https://de.bougerv.com/products/arch-pro-12v-24v-200w-flexible-solar-panel (after talking with the support) because I have balcony situation where a tree partial obstructs the previous installed 2x100W panels with two bypass diodes each and they struggled for 2h (little to no power even with a leaf).

The support sent me this image and text

https://preview.redd.it/wk3lcojv7egh1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=c1b3c3a44b0e766852446cea29ddce96fe1c1560

"Regarding anti-shading performance: the Arch Pro 200 uses a 4×7 bypass diode design. As shown in the picture, two vertical solar cell sections share one bypass diode. This means that if one cell is shaded, only the two cells sharing the same diode are affected, and the impact on overall output is limited.

In this case, whether the shading occurs near the junction box side or on the opposite side, the effect is mainly determined by which cell group is shaded rather than the physical position on the panel."

Due to my clear ignorance I thought each 7 vertical pairs of 2 cells had one diode and they all repeat for the 4 columns, so each pair is 1.1v x 28 = 31V (as per specs)

However:

1. I noticed now that the vertical cells are 13 not 14 so the pairs are 6 + 1 cell left out?
2. during my real life usage I noticed that when those supposedly 10 pairs are shaded the bypass diodes don't activate, I should get al least those 18 pair working giving a decent power instead I get almost nothing. You can from the attached pictures that 1/3 is shaded but the panel is giving 30.5V and 11W? A 100w panel in the sun in the position/hour would at least get 60W.

https://preview.redd.it/djrrb7m8aegh1.jpg?width=3456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eca14c6d45ab232762a5f0a0e22ba5c6a5cf81b7

https://preview.redd.it/gwknu6m8aegh1.jpg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=edd5edb504550672b6868fc3b7a873ef6e2f182d

The result is that with this expensive premium panel I'm getting LESS energy than the previous setup... I'd like to understand why it behaves like this?
By the way I'm using a Ecoflow Microinverter that tracks from 16V and I've seen it work with the Arch Pro at 15-16V with no problem so I clearly got the configuration (and its ability) totally wrong?

Here's another day with another shade pattern but getting more power.

https://preview.redd.it/ayn0u0laaegh1.jpg?width=3456&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=481aba1a5d1efe7f4def735ff3a317770858c166

https://preview.redd.it/0s9wf0laaegh1.jpg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=745b5e1638b0a5be5b2f874a1b196c1e84dc61fa

I thought I could get a 200W panel for a premium price, that would squeeze the most out of these conditions, with a plus of 25% efficiency so that price difference would repay itself... I was wrong :(

I have a background in web development especially in PHP and I'm very familiar with laravel but haven't worked with it for years and I never used it for pure mobile APIs (user, auth, social media etc) but mainly for web sites.
Now I'm planning to build a mobile app (Flutter or RN) and I read good things about Supabase where you have a database and all the tools needed to handle basically everything basic that's very easily integrated with those mobile flatform.
However when it comes to custom logic that needs to happen I'm not sure I'll be familiar to learn typescript and the workflow of edge functions.
Do you think Laravel provides a "templates" where you already all the tools Supabase provides or you have to build your basic API from scratch?

I'm trying to get some additional information from the Stream Microinverter (not PowerStream).
iot-open/sign/device/list works and I'm getting the device id which is online

but when i query /iot-open/sign/device/quota or /iot-open/sign/device/quota/all

i just get

{"code":"0","message":"Success","eagleEyeTraceId":"","tid":""}

so it's missing the data object, why?

I only see watts in the app and there's no real need to not show it?

If not there's an alternative way to get this data, cause I applied to the API with no answer...

That is the best app that doesn't make miss Native or some hybrid framework.

In general, is it something it's worth investing in if you have to start from scratch or you've just prototyped something but want a more future proof solution?

It looks like even the gold example of Untappd went with React Native.

Edit: I mean Capacitor (not strictly Ionic)

The S3 CityJet trains from Brenner to Innsbruck what kind of racks do they have inside the train?

Are they vertical or horizontal? My ebike is too heavy to be vertical so it would be impossible for me to use.

Also do you know if there's usually space?

The price seems to be €1.80 per travel.

Now we know all the negative externalities and windshield bias that have solid studies.

I'm specifically talking about the laziness part of the story.

Taking a bus and walking I see all these people in cars that (probably) do it daily. All driving solo and in bigger and bigger cars. They do it because for them driving is convenient and cheap enough to justify it. It's comfortable to be inside your own shell, I get it.

They're all yawning, looking at something else (phones), bored. This is my perception. However driving being comfortable is also the less frictional mode of transport. You open the door and drive whatever there are roads and since the road=car you get anywhere without looking at any schedule.

However all this "frictionless" behavior means you use the brain less, it's extremely lazy.

Do you know if this has an impact on our brains? I'm talking about the pure laziness part of the brain, not the physical part (lack of movement).

We humans like comfort and I'm not sure if being comfortable AND lazy is good or bad thing.

I see friends that simply grow up that going out of the house means driving, so they simply cannot comprehend seeing the world from a different prospective. They live very active days, errands grouping and constantly on the move on a car: foods, kids, school, work. With no doubt they do things they couldn't even dream of doing without a car but still I wonder if all these "frenetic lazy movements" have an impact on them.

One of the most paradox of cars defensiveness as a "right" is the true cost of driving (and parking).
Studies suggest that societal costs of driving in the U.S. can be 30–40% higher than the private costs paid by drivers. While car owners pay taxes, these taxes often do not cover the full cost of road infrastructure maintenance, let alone external costs. In EU the percentage is lower but it's not remotely on pair.

Since a car is often (and fairly, given the urban shape/how we live) associated with freedom to drive "because I pay the car and taxes to drive while cyclists don't" and "supply meeting demand" then we would assume we get what we pay for, like a market feeding itself.
But if we consider that when we drive we don't day the full price then someone else has to pay for it and that someone else is the public, so driving it's not true freedom or market in a sense because it's heavily subsided by those who don't drive or drive a little.

Now let's forget the "true freedom" of having other modes of transportation.
If we actually apply the true cost of driving as true freedom and true right to drive don't you think that driving and parking would prohibitively expensive for most people that won't be able to afford it (at all or most importantly like now)? Then the market would really balance itself?
I think this it's one the biggest lies of modern transportation.

We disguised a sort of heavy socialism into a fake market-based world that allows to see investments for a better world (that would actually makes us richer, like investments in transit and active mobility) as unfair socialism. But it's the oppposite.
Car infra investments almost always end up being a net cost we can't maintain, then what the hell are we doing, world?

Obviously things are much more complicated than this. Two things come to mind

1. costs assume a person suffering from a disease and the loss of a loved one has a monetary value, to the state maybe but it has not value to a community or families, it's infinite value no study can estimate
2. while rural settings are much much more subsided than urban dwellers we need to calculate the social cohesion having these tows alive and not dead, how do we measure that I don't know and who gets to decide which value is better or worse?

Errore titolo: 350W non 350kW!

Ciao, in Germania avevo in balcone un piccolo kit con pannelli semi-flessibili da 200W totali che mi facevano 600Wh al giorno d'estate (niente di che ma meglio di niente)
Ora in Italia vorrei reinstallarlo sul balcone visto che ho spazio e so che anche in Italia è possibile. Tuttavia non capisco una cosa, leggendo in giro mi sembra di capire che anche sotto 350W di impianto serva una linea dedicata al contatore con magnetotermico dedicato (quindi non condiviso con altre linee della casa) per essere a norma.
Fare questo anche in una casa moderna (in affitto) comporta varia menate con il proprietario e costi di installazione di oltre €100 che tolgono il mini vantaggio a prodursi energia.

Possibile che serve anche per impianti così piccoli? In Germania fino a 800W non serviva niente (e li ci vanno pesanti con burocrazia e regole) e non è che la fisica e la sicurezza elettrica cambia con la latitudine :)

Hello

I live in Europe, I'm renting an apartment that has a moderate clear view facing south with a 90x90x balcony space, the bigger west facing part has a big tree that makes a lot of shade so it'll be a waste I think.
I would like to add a solar panel as a plug and play solution to use directly (I work from home) and mainly as a learning curve. I'm interested in understanding how much this will cost me.

My requirements I think I'd need are
- flexible solar panel I can simply zip tie and remove in minutes if needed. I'm worried to damage the balcony with a rigid heavy panel and I want to be as "transparent" as possible to other apartments
- solar inverter to connect it to the schuko plug in the balcony, I would love to have wifi remote monitor of the solar energy

Can I realistically do it and how much can I expect to spend, even with a used setup?

You can find the detailed news online, I'd like to report one quote:

“The fact that a political state of emergency is declared and intervention is made at the highest political level precisely during a temporary demonstration, while the permanent burden on the neighboring communities has been accepted for decades, reveals a worrying imbalance,” writes Chairwoman Claudia Plaikner.

Also the state road will be closed to traffic to avoid to use it as a bypass. I think this never happened before?
BTW residents will be still be allowed to get to their homes and the railway is open (30 min frequency trains, along with international trains from OEBB).
I'm curious if one could use a bicycle along the motorway, would be funny to see 😄