Great intro story @hobbsc@lemmy.sdf.org. I'd count the Ruckus, I rode mopeds then scooters (Puch, Suzuki, Yamaha) before getting my first motorcycle, a very used Honda CB360T.
Motorcycle culture can be weird with all kinds of gatekeeping and cosplaying. The cruiser riders around here are mostly nice enough (we have a HD dealership) but there's a lot of brand hoorah along with a of lack skills and gear (also a noon 20 mile wobbly parade to a diner isn't much fun).
As someone who has played thousands of games of Shattered with >600 games just on my most recent phone (108 of those ascended) and has ascended with all the sub-classes... git gu... no, no, no, ask questions. Some of the mechanics are kind of subtle and exploiting them can take thought. I personally find the Huntress/Warden the easiest (because the spirit bow has unlimited ammo letting you sell off thrown weapons and the free seeds and dew drops can keep you alive).
I swear I've seen that one before. I love how the competent riders survey that mess and continue.
I wouldn't be too concerned but if I did run wiring internally, I'd cover it with wrap-around sleeving (link to McMaster-Carr but there's lots of sources) and put a self-fusing tape wrap at each end and one in the middle to keep it closed.
Outside? Small zip ties, trimmed neatly. If you're really worried about it, a wrap of self-fusing tape or sleeving around the wiring before securing it with the zip tie.
In thirty-odd years of motorcycling I've had one abraded wire and it wasn't internal or at a zip tie, it was where the cable for a heated grip rubbed against a flexible bit of body panel exposing copper and I caught that before it failed.
The counter from an erlang/elixr expert... https://hauleth.dev/post/beam-process-memory-usage/
which makes for an interesting example of naive/garden path vs. heavy optimization
I just realized it's also Juneteenth that day and won't be riding to work (but will have a day to ride...).
IKR? The S1000R amd S1000RR were impressive and circa 2021 they announced the M-package. I guess now it's become its own product line.
I've been in the weird space of on-prem "cloud" infrastructure (mostly kubernetes) for the last seven years but I've been doing infra, middleware, and devops for more than twenty years and have my own way of working that's nearly GUI-free.
Tools I use every single day:
Less often but very useful:
Languages, because I write my own tools:
I hate how all ‘dual sport’ bikes are huge displacement now.
Ditto. I love my big KTM but I'm thinking a smaller single (DR400? Honda CRF450? Street-legalized WR450F?) or parallel-twin (a friend has a Yamaha Tenere 700 that does pretty much everything but isn't significantly lighter than my KTM and gives up 50hp and traction control) is the right bike if I have dual-sport ambitions.
I don't have pictures of them all, but I have a few...
My first "big" bike, a 1981 Honda CB750C. I put twenty-five thousand miles on it the first year. It had an annoying habit of cooking the regulator/rectifier and I was stranded more than once. After two replacements and no money, with my uncle's advice I bodged it with a generic one for a truck and had no problems.
When my father stopped riding for health reasons I bought his 1991 Honda CB750 Nighthawk and kitted it out for touring on the cheap (remember JC Whitney?). The picture was taken at Marcus Dairy next to my friend's much more interesting Triumph.
This is my 1991 BMW R100-GSPD in flash green and black. I loved that bike but life wasn't aligned with motorcycling. I sold it after a few years when I realized I was putting more miles on it moving from one side of the garage to the other than on the road.
This is my current ride, a 2018 KTM 1090 Adventure R. It's awesome on the road and on fireroads, I'm currently running Dunlop Trailmax Missions rather than the OEM TKC80's (regardless, it's a real handful off-road and on trails for my skills and, frankly, age).
Came here to mention Endless Sky. Great game!
Don't be misled if you were a fan of the old Mac games Escape Velocity or EV:Nova, Endless Sky is inspired by/derivative of EV but is not the same and you'll (well, I did) find out the hard way that the old strategies don't carry over.
This was a while ago so it's possible their quality control has improved over the years, but I had two Matias TactilePro keyboards fail: the first developed keybounce/chatter after a few months, the replacement developed it after a few weeks then had keys fail. They gave me some mild run around the second time and I just wrote it off rather than deal with them.
I have a number of other keyboards, including Unicomp, and only Matias and a Filco Majestouch gave me problems and the Filco went several years of daily use before needing a key switch to be replaced.