I don’t understand why this is a shitpost
While we’re here … how do you go about removing the batteries from these things? (For academic purposes only, of course.)
You can remove them with the following:
1 part gasoline
1 part motor oil, ATF, diesel or whatever you have
A wine bottle
A rag soaked in gasoline
A lighter.
It won’t remove them in the original condition they were in while still inside the scooter but it will remove them.
Now that’s just wasteful.
You must not waste the batteries in scooters, the gold in flock cameras or the ram in data centers. I believe Jesus said this. Now pray with me
It won’t remove them in the original condition they were in while still inside the scooter
Yeah…
Again, only for academic purposes, I’d like to remove them in good condition so the battery cells inside could function in home-made ebike batteries. 2 or 3 scooters worth of batteries should be able to make a very nice ebike battery pack.
I’m not certain, but some galium would work pretty well if the bikes and scooters are made of aluminum. Assuming the batteries aren’t of course.
And wear dark tinted goggles and cover your lower face. Wear gloves.
For safety. Of course.
I live in Europe. I once completely crashed one, along with myself, due to a huge pothole. Even though it’s totally obvious what happened based on speed data alone, they never reached out to me about it.
Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.
Should be noted it was fully functional, just probably scratched, maybe the handlebar slightly misaligned.
Impressive stuff no doubt, well done mate. And how did the scooter fare?
It disappeared into the pothole
Oof, a cryin shame, no one down there is even goin to find it useful.
Is this a rental thing or do you “own” the vehicle?
(Own is in quotations becsuse what you and I would consider to be ownership isn’t necessarily what the LAW says is ownership)
Lime is one of those scooter share companies that dumped a bunch of electric scooters in city centers overnight with QR codes to use an app to pay to unlock and begin riding them
That’s actually fair, they don’t want people trashing their equipment.
I wonder what kind of message they zap to people’s phones when the lime bikes are dumped into rivers & lakes & dumpsters?
It would be kinda stupid to rent it to do that. I think most people who do that just pick it up when its standing around somewhere
Yeah I was being facetious. Those things annoy me so much all I want to do is throw them into a dumpster.
Never thought I’d live to see the day where they outlawed tricks smh
I mean, to be fair, at least they give you a warning. And honestly, I think it’s pretty fair to not allow things that wear down the scooter quickly.
You give a hand, they take the arm.
Stop using their service then?
It’s not that deep. They just don’t want you to break their shit.
Check the community
Check yourself
Fuck I’ve never gotten this deep before. Do you wanna go in on some cronuts or dune buggies something? Like gumpappy, the grandfather I totally didn’t just make up used to say, confusion without fried food is worse than confusion with fried food.
Go home, you’re drunk
i’m already home
…God dammit.
You rent something, they expect that you use it responsively
I mean within season
Maybe don’t ride like a dick
“Don’t be a dick, Dick.”
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We detected you saying words like “dick”. On future offenses you’ll be billed.
On future offenses you’ll be killed
The trick is to ride away smoothly.
Huh. The chinese rideshare mopeds have a little speaker that begs you to stop violating traffic law and ride safely, but the literally only dock your score for trying to destroy the bike or abandoning it blocking traffic. You can steal 1 moped for every 100 rides and still maintain a perfect score.
Surely 100 rides would cost more than just getting your own scooter that didn’t have all the spyware built into it
100 20 minute rides is 31USD. They also sell the mopeds, 250-500 USD. The rental ones are limited to 16 mph tho. The real convenience is that you can grab one almost anywhere and leave it nearly anywhere so it integrates really well with other modes of transit.
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Steal to keep?
“Steal to keep”: It’s the new “rent to own”.
This one cool trick rideshare companies don’t want you to know.
spoiler
Its a joke, the penalty for destroying or stealing one is -100, but you get +1 for every ride, and your score can go over 100. In reality the company probably calls the cops if you lock it in your garage and won’t give it back or something.
there was a story about someone kidnapping all the scooters and piling them up in one parking lot, cops were called
i think it was in the Seattle area. In my town, we have a river running through the central space and so many of these scooters end up in the river
when I was a trouble making boy, we’d steal bikes and build ramps to jump into the river on the bikes, they lower the river for a few months every year and it was always a good laugh to see how many bikes were piled up in our favorite spots
my hometown is full of deviants, so I’m never surprised about seeing that kind of behavior
my cameras are always catching some young person looking for trouble, taking one to know one I make sure to keep everything valuable out of sight and behind locks
Everyone hates those fucking things. Always blocking the sidewalk and nearly getting run over every fucking block. It is everyone’s civic duty to throw them in the fucking river if presented the opportunity.
Part of that is anti-social behavior as a response to living in America, but also if people aren’t parking them correctly, there’s not enough parking room. If people are riding on sidewalks, there’s not enough divided bike lane.
Here in Nanning, during rush hour, theres places where 2-lane wide bike paths are completely packed with hundreds of mopeds per minute, much more than the 5 lane car road next to it can transport.
I’d be against it, but our river is already a massive PCB wasteland from the papermill and other industry dumping.
all jokes aside, don’t throw shit in the waterways
No it does not take one to know one, you can also just know about vandalist boys anyway
abandoning it blocking traffic
lol
To the Faraday cages with you!
“Removal of shoes is not allowed on a PaveCorp sidewalk. A $20 surcharge has been added to your walk today.”
I have definitely jumped a curb with them and did not know they tracked this, thanks for the heads up… damn
Use virtual CCs and proxy emails and start learning some tricks
They most likely track your IMEI and other such fun stuff, just so you’re aware.
I started digging into this but it seems that the OS protects hardware identifiers from apps.
what’s an IMEI?
It’s a unique number assigned to every cellular device.
Is this at a SIM level or hardware based?
Depends on if you’re using an esim or physical SIM. The IMEI is the serial number of the cellular modem, so one cell phone service per IMEI except eSIMs can theoretically support multiple eSIM profiles, so each profile gets it’s own IMEI to prevent conflicts. eSIM modems instead have a different unique hardware identifier. Ultimately it gets…complicated fast with eSIMs and some of it seems to just be down to how it’s implemented in the real world rather than theory
But in short, IMEI is a hardware serial number to identify the cellular modem, and all of the phone manufacturers have collaborated on non-conflicting IMEI numbers so you can identify the make, model, region and sku of a device based entirely off of its IMEI
Hardware AFAIK.
Damn, that IMEI shits fucked up
That’s the plan! I was avoiding them, because fuck lime. Now I might try them for the same reason.
i know what you did
Maybe don’t trash rentals?
It’s corpo-shit. Already trash.
Don’t rent it then?
Sure I’ll just toss the corpo trash that’s left on the sidewalks all over hollywood into the street.
I also want it off of the public sidewalks I pay for.
Lib
wheel spinning
That’s the point, innit?
