I was wondering the same.
It's winter, talk about the rides you're planning
It's been mild but Winter is finally here in the Northeast and snow is coming.
What rides are you planning?
BMW Motorrad North America has apparently issued a stop-sale order and asked its United […]
All BMW motorcycle dealer sales stopped except for their EV:
>Following a recent quality analysis, BMW is pursuing measures to further evaluate the material used in a component of its motorcycle evaporative system, which may not have been produced to material specifications. > As a result, BMW of North America is issuing a temporary, voluntary stop sale for all new and pre-owned BMW motorcycle models in dealer inventory, except for the CE 04.
Other coverage:
- https://www.cycleworld.com/motorcycle-news/bmw-motorrad-issues-temporary-stop-sales-order/
- https://www.thedrive.com/news/bmw-halts-ice-motorcycle-sales-in-north-america-due-to-possible-emissions-violation
I don't have first hand knowledge. I've heard the printed manuals are not great but that their online versions are good.
I've generally preferred buying the manufacturer's manual even though they're relatively expensive. Honda's manuals and their Common Service manual in particular were excellent. KTM's is just okay, disappointing after coming from Honda's and BMW's manuals, at least it gets the wiring diagram and torque specs right.
I've had mixed experience with Haynes and Clymer. They're better than nothing but the photos are not so good, they rarely cover differences between years, and make a lot of assumptions.
Harley-Davidson recalls 65k motorcycles for rear shock fastener
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Rear Shock Absorber Fastener May Break
A loss of tire pressure can lead to a loss of vehicle control, increasing the risk of a crash.
NHTSA Campaign Number: 23V591000
Manufacturer Harley-Davidson Motor Company
Components SUSPENSION
Potential Number of Units Affected 65,224
Summary
Harley-Davidson Motor Company (Harley-Davidson) is recalling certain 2018-2019 FLDE, 2018-2021 FLHC, 2018-2023 FLHCS, 2018 and 2023 FLHCS ANV, 2020-2023 FXLRS, 2022-2023 FXLRST, and 2022 FXRST Softail motorcycles. A fastener securing the rear shock absorber may break and allow the rear shock absorber adjuster to damage the rear tire, causing a loss of tire pressure.
Remedy
Dealers will replace the shock absorber fastener, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed September 5, 2023. Owners may contact Harley-Davidson customer service at 1-800-258-2464. Harley-Davidson's number for this recall is 0181.
Notes
Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
I just read the specs and there is an SD slot.
Whoops, that's what I get for posting while sick... https://unfinished.bike/bmw-ce-04-the-suit-and-tie-rocket-ship
BMW CE 04: The Suit & Tie Rocket Ship (long term review)
One rider's long term review of BMW's electric maxi-scooter.
https://unfinished.bike/bmw-ce-04-the-suit-and-tie-rocket-ship
I hear you. Taking the course again isn't a bad idea, skills you don't practice don't get ingrained and those that are get rusty.
As far as confidence, I'll let you in on a secret... I feel a little anxious before almost every ride and I've been riding since the 1980's. I have a routine of safety checking the bike and my gear before each ride that settles me, it doesn't take long. More than once I've cut short a solo ride or bailed out on a group because I wasn't focused or feeling it (rule #1, ride your own ride). I wouldn't worry about it.
Good on you for taking the course, you'll do fine.
I took what was at the time the MSF BRC, basic rider course, after getting my license and riding for a year. I still do annual parking lot practice (turns, emergency braking) on my own to keep my skills fresh.
I took a 100+ mile loop hitting some easy backroads in the Mid-Hudson Valley. How about you?
Who is riding this weekend?
Weather is promising around here. Hopefully it's good near you.
What rides are you planning?
I had no idea. I'm still on 7.0.x, I didn't even realize they were sold. It only has permissions for media and files.
My OnePlus 6t swelled and split in a year. OnePlus said it was unrepairable (it still worked) and offered me $50 toward an upgrade.
Replaced it with a Pixel.
Cave Mountain Music Festival at Windham Mountain canceled
No festival at Windham this fall due to new ownership and on-going construction.
First was a Novation CAT 110/300 baud with acoustic coupler. Later I got a Practical Peripherals 1200, then a Zoom Telephonics 2400/9600. Then I bought a US Robotics Courier HST, it cost a ridiculous amount at the time. A few years later was working and I mailed it and an actual check to USR and they swapped it for a Courier vEverything (with the 20Mhz DSP). I still have that modem and a newer vEverything I salvaged.
+++ATH0
OK
*NO CARRIER*
I don't back up anything I can rebuild. I have multiple half-assed methods in use together for the rest of it:
- Backups daily of homedirs on desktops and laptops using Borg and Vorta to external usb drives. These devices get rotated out annually. I used to run 2-disk RAID1 and when I rotated the disks out, split them and sent them to family but now I'm taking my chances on having them local and putting them in a fireproof box.
- Code repos are synced to github or srht.
- Monthly backups of homedirs are sent via borg to rsync.net.
- Desktop and laptop homedirs get periodic (roughly monthly) burns to Dual-Layer BDRs which I put in the fireproof box and sometimes hand off to family.
The best Fourth of July fireworks shows in the Hudson Valley this year (2023)
The Hudson Valley's firework shows for the Fourth of July are plentiful — here are the best shows around the region.
Kingston awarded $22M federal grant to redevelop waterfront
Also archive.org
>The city will get a $21.7 million federal grant to revitalize its downtown waterfront and protect it from flooding related to climate change, U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer’s office announced Thursday. The grant is the largest in Kingston’s history, according to Mayor Steve Noble.
I suspect (without proof, just a hunch) that it's load and timeouts. I've had to subscribe, wait a few seconds, reload, unsub, reload, subscribe, lather-rinse-repeat a few times to get subscriptions to lemmy.ml work from lemmy.sdf.org.
CTO coming in hot, an employee poaching lawsuit, pet dev team working in a "bunker" separate from corporate, and that no matter how well-documented and designed "Chesterton's fence" applies to back-ends so it's unlikely to be a smooth cut-over. These are all bad signs.
What's good is that you have some number of months, maybe a year, maybe more, to find your next role.
Not just you.
I think their Alps-style switches are fine but not special. I have an original Apple Extended II and an ADB-USB adapter and the original Alps switches are better.
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.
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
32nd Annual Ride To Work Day is June 19, 2023
It's the annual Ride to Work day. Anyone planning to ride on Monday?
2024 BMW M1000XR teaser
YouTube Video
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Teaser video about the upcoming super sport bike and the other M-series bikes
Meadowlark: A Hudson Valley Music Festival
Meadowlark is a new music festival this Sept 8-10 in the Hudson Valley celebrating American music roots and counterculture
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:
- tmux
- The one true editor and org-mode.
- The other one true editor.
- Bash, sed, awk, and the indispensable Shellcheck.
- Munging data with
- curl and httpie.
- ag (the Silver Searcher) out of habit but ripgrep is awesome too.
Less often but very useful:
- socat a swiss army knife for sockets.
- ansible
- terraform
Languages, because I write my own tools:
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.
That's a name I haven't seen in a long time...
(I'm also from the days of bang paths)
This desktop right here (running a couple of ZFS pools) has drives with more than 3 years on it...
$ for d in $(find /dev/sd[a-z]); do sudo smartctl --all --json $d| jq -c '[.model_name,(.power_on_time?.hours?/8760)]' ; done
["CT1000MX500SSD1",2.2034246575342467]
["WDC WD140EDGZ-11B1PA0",0.3791095890410959]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",4.040639269406393]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",5.925684931506849]
["WDC WD80EMAZ-00WJTA0",3.359246575342466]
["TOSHIBA HDWE140",5.925684931506849]
runs like a top (better not jinx myself).