Please the overlords

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• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • bitjunkie@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Surely 100 rides would cost more than just getting your own scooter that didn’t have all the spyware built into it

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Steal to keep?

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    • Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This one cool trick rideshare companies don’t want you to know.

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      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.

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    • jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “Steal to keep”: It’s the new “rent to own”.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    abandoning it blocking traffic

    lol

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That’s actually fair, they don’t want people trashing their equipment.

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  • JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder what kind of message they zap to people’s phones when the lime bikes are dumped into rivers & lakes & dumpsters?

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    • meekah@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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

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• DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    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?

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    • REDACTED@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      It disappeared into the pothole

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• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  While we’re here … how do you go about removing the batteries from these things? (For academic purposes only, of course.)

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• tresspass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Never thought I’d live to see the day where they outlawed tricks smhImage

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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)

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  “Removal of shows is not allowed on a PaveCorp sidewalk. A $20 surcharge has been added to your walk today.”

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  To the Faraday cages with you!

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• bstix@feddit.dk ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The trick is to ride away smoothly.

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• turtlesareneat@piefed.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have definitely jumped a curb with them and did not know they tracked this, thanks for the heads up… damn

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Use virtual CCs and proxy emails and start learning some tricks

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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They most likely track your IMEI and other such fun stuff, just so you’re aware.

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    • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That's the plan! I was avoiding them, because fuck lime. Now I might try them for the same reason.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  i know what you did

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  wheel spinning

  That’s the point, innit?

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• krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maybe don’t trash rentals?

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s corpo-shit. Already trash.

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    • krisevol@lemmus.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t rent it then?

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  • plant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lib

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