ChumpyBumpy2

I'm trying to get my Magician Alpha ready to take to work in a few hours but I wanted to switch the seat out with a C9 one since it arrived in the mail today.

I currently have the stock seat and the C9 seat disassembled but I can't get the C9 parts (?) to work with the stock seat post.

There aren't any videos of this online. None that are usable at least. One of the YouTube shorts shows a guy (maybe) only use the C9 seat and his stock hardware and it works. However when I try that with the Magician Alpha hardware the hardware doesn't line up with the rails on the C9 seat.

What do I do? I currently don't have any functioning seat because I have no idea how the stock one was ass

From what I've seen, the two bikes perform about the same. However certain bike reviews say the Alpha Mini is more stable than the Alpha and also that the Mini can climb certain incline percentages more efficiently/without wobbling as much as the Alpha. Their reasoning was that the Mini is lower to the ground and more compact.

Since I live in a hilly place overflowing with potholes, stability is important. So I'm curious what your (non-sponsored) take is on Mini VS Alpha stability. 

Also, assuming two riders are riding the Alpha and the Mini responsibly just so they can get to work not drenched - in your opinion, what is less red flag raising? The Alpha's normal big wheels, or the Mini

I've been a bike commuter for several years now in all seasons. I don't feel like shouting "on your left!" anymore because most of the time that does nothing or they dive left (???)

I strongly dislike every bike bell I've heard from the $1-$100+ range. Aside from how the expensive ones carry their note for days after you ring them, they all make my ears bleed.

I have seen alternatives like the clown horn, which is hilarious. Also some electric sound-boxes which are obnoxious from what I have seen.

Are there any "bells" (something on my handlebars that alerts pedestrians) that sound nice to hear? Like imagine a hang drum on your handlebars. That'd be awesome.

**TL;DR** Do any of you own the Magician Alpha e-bike and if so, what cover do you use?

From what I'm seeing, it's too big for normal bike covers, so I would have to use a motorcycle cover instead.

I am looking at either the: Favoto Motorcycle Cover (might be too big, if that's a thing?) or the Puroma Bike Cover (most likely too small?)

I've been (normal) biking to and from work (mostly uphill and in 4 seasons) for years. I want to switch to using an e-bike now, and since it's expensive I want to take care of it by using a cover since I can't store it indoors while I'm at work.

If any of you have a cover for your Magician Alpha or a bike of equivalent/greater size, I would

Important information in bold as a TL;DR, could also skip to the "wants/needs" section for cliff notes.

I'm looking to switch from bus transportation to a scooter/motorcycle for around 8 months while I save up for buying a car. Although if I love scooter/motorcycle travel then I would keep doing it until next November/December since by the time I reach my car savings goal it would be ideal 2-wheel weather. So I am kind of backwards with my time frame, but that's what I have to work with.

My plan was to buy a used scooter that could reliably get me to and from work 5 days a week. My commute is 10 miles round trip, all suburbs/city, half late at night and half early morning

A positive with this update is that now we know when a game is dead so we don't wait on a black screen hoping for a delayed boot. Unless the game is Wildermyth in which case it boots to a splash and then black screens, potentially forever. I gave it 10 minutes before bailing.

But my main reason for updating to this version was the hope that the large amount of games that didn't register my DS4 fully if at all would work here. However in my experience on an S24+ Snapdragon 8 gen 3, my DS4 doesn't work at all anymore. Not even in games it used to work perfectly on.

What am I doing wrong here? The patch notes made it seem like the most plug and play situation ever. I thought that maybe the

So I bought my first phone in 11 years about 2 months ago. I picked a refurbished S24+ off eBay because it was listed as excellent condition and the seller said they just replaced the battery so it would be like new.

I've been using this device for emulation, so I'm pushing the hardware pretty much daily. However the games I chose weren't actually "heavy games" until I tried Fire Emblem 3 Houses. This is important for my pose because I'm not the brightest it seems.

Just being in the games tutorial without anything going on cranked my phone's temperature up to 115°F and climbing. That's way past my 100°F-105°F upper acceptable range for emulation. So I closed the game and didn't plan t

I am now bald. I have pulled out all of my hair this past 3 months trying to get my DS4 controller to work in various games like Monster Hunter Rise, Haste and Metal Gear Rising.

Of those games only Metal Gear Rising was able to work properly like it would on console/PC after I switched from Frost/Omod/Base 10.0 to CMOD where it was plug and play. However games like Haste, Astral Ascent, Cobalt Core and Diceomancer refuse to work at all. Even when mapping the DS4 to keyboard controls and seeing that in the game-specific container's word pad that every input is mapped to a keyboard key- when I get in game there's zero feedback.

Or in Metal Gear Rising's case (on the failed forks I mention