hesitation because they’re worried about “incriminating” themselves

This is a hard one. Because this is not about engineers, but their nature as people.

An anecdote: A lawyer, once casually asked me - if I were to design a building (this was hypothetical, because I am not a civil engineer) and after construction, was to realise some mistake that would cost lives, would I go on to tell them about it - and his tone seemed like he considered it common sense that I won’t report it.
So, at least in his mind, it is common sense that people hide their mistakes.

technical details

I am a kind of person that doesn’t know that people find it difficult to understand concepts out of their domain (mostly because I understand most, well explained stuff, irrespective of domain) and if someone were to ask me about my work, I would easily wander into the details. After a few years of industry experience, realising that to not be the case, I tend to be more abstract.

If you want the engineers to tell you more in depth about the technical stuff, I’d suggest you to show them your aptitude to understand their stuff and you will see them going more into detail of it. I had a manager (kind of), who was also an engineer and used Linux on a regular basis. I found it easy to discuss more in depth regarding solutions (the product was using Linux too) due to his familiarity.

I’m just gonna leave this here

Also, the batteries need to be available at a reasonable price to the user.
Or they’ll start scheming

At this point, just get a bicycle without a battery.

Of course, sometimes you need to move heavy stuff and there’s nothing you can do about it, bu I tend to save enough, not owning a car/motorbike that I can afford to pay for a pickup on those occasions.

I don’t get why they feel the need to keep it a secret.
Google takes GeoLocation data with maps and people happily use it. I even put reviews for places I go to.

If they were to just be above board about it while selling the stuff, they would have much happier customers and they could even get some legitimate use out of the data, like traffic status that Google does.

I’m not a fan of Google, but must say, they definitely managed to do better in this regard.

Are we talking about the same Chuck Norris?

No, we are not.

I am talking about an internet meme
You are talking about a real person, who is probably old by now.

Nah, with Chuck Norris, it’s usually the missiles that do the dodging.

Making it a sort of a museum would be a pretty good idea.

Are the books really that bad? (Sorry, I mostly lived on NCERT)

At this point, just use a ladder. It’d be safer too.

That would also make space for a slide-down pole, which would be faster.

That’s why I keep a pen and paper. For power outages.

Apart from that, if there’s light:

• some exercise
• kirigami
• wash clothes (by hand)
• eat random (edible) stuff which I would otherwise use to cook
  • cooking needs electricity

No light:

• sleep

Well, I don’t think we have decided on a standard meaning for an upvote in the first place, so we do as we like.
In the end, it’s all about what makes me feel more satisfied.

I see a blue button, I press it, it goes grey, I’m happy.

I see you being Chaotic-Chaotic over here.

Your own upvote on your own comment doesn’t mean anything

Neither do words, or little magnetic particles lain down nicely on a polymer disc, until people decide they mean something.

if you dont think what you are saying is relevant or necessary why say it?

If I worried about necessity, I would probably not have a Lemmy account.

level the playing field

I’m not playing dependent upon others, just upon my own ideals. I feel like an upvote needs to mean something. In my case, it means, I need more people to see it, for me.
In most cases, the feeling behind my posts/comments are: If someone sees it, good, have fun.

The Lemmy web client, same as Reddit, allows you to de-upvote your posts.
It feels weird to upvote your own post anyway and I don’t do so unless I am asking for help and want it seen more, urgently.

Google: Sure, we’ll sell it to anyone who pays off our Russian Govt fine.

Username checks out

It’s called “Distribution of Power”.
We should be thankful it’s still here.

Had they just used some punctuation - “The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders on Thursday, announced”, it would have made it easier to get. Even, “The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders, on Thursday, announced” would be doable.

How do these feel?

And gives some energy (and building material) in the process? Yeah, it’s just kinda hard.