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  • Looks like a steel frame.

    The neat thing about steel is that it has an infinite fatigue life as long as you keep it out of the plastic deformation range (unlike aluminum and other metals, which will always eventually fail under repeated loads, no matter how small the loads are).

    What this means is that as long as you never put the steel under so much stress that it gets permanently bent (and you don’t let it get rusty), it can continue being used forever. Literally forever. As long as you don’t abuse it, as long as you keep it clean, dry, and not rusty, a steel frame will never fail from fatigue and age. If properly cared for, a bicycle frame like this one could keep going for thousands of years and work just fine.

    Honestly, steel is a really awesome material for engineering, and because it’s relatively cheap and plentiful, it often doesn’t get the recognition it deserves for its amazing material properties.


  • OwOarchist@pawb.socialtoBicycles@lemmy.caAny love for '90s MTBs here?
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    19 hours ago

    My daily driver is a 90’s bike, so I understand.

    But … while this is a very good 90’s bike, I really don’t think it’s a “MTB”, not even by 90’s standards. A 90’s MTB would have much more aggressive tires and probably front suspension. Honestly, this looks more like a ‘gravel bike’ to me (sans your cargo upgrades). If ‘gravel bikes’ were even a thing in the 90’s. (That said, if you’re taking it on trails like the one pictured and want to call it a MTB … then it’s a MTB. IMO, bike classifications should ultimately be determined by how you actually use it. You could have today’s best and most aggressive downhill MTB, but if you only ever ride it on suburban streets and sidewalks, then that makes it a cruiser, not a MTB.)

    And … yeah. For cruiser/street/commuting bikes, I think 90’s bikes are fine. That’s why I use one. But actual mountain bikes have come a long way since the 90s. My mountain bike is a much more modern bike with 29’s, full suspension, and disk brakes … and those upgrades make a world of difference, even at the cheap end of the spectrum, which mine very much is, at $200 brand new. Not just more comfortable, but also a lot safer (mainly due to much better brakes) and able to make it through more difficult obstacles without dismounting.


  • Nope. It was the AMD card (and associated drivers) that was the issue.

    You know how I know? Because I’m currently running Davinci Resolve just fine on Ubuntu, with an nvidia card.

    I’m telling you, absolutely nothing I tried could get GPU compute to work for AMD. Nothing I ever did could get ROCm working on AMD (and I did a lot of things trying to get it working), but cuda on nvidia worked instantly and automatically as soon as I installed the nvidia drivers.