I was wondering the same.

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.

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

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.

DE:MD was great, I really hoped for them to finish the story. With all the horse-trading of the companies and IP, who knows if we’ll ever see one.

I briefly used the OpenFirmware that shipped on Apple PowerPC-based Macs, CMD+OPT+O+F at boot would get you to it.

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.

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.

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.

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’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
  • jq and jiq for JSON.
  • yq similar to jq but processes YAML, JSON, XML, and TOML.
  • mlr is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort all in one for CSV and TSV.
• 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:

• Go, a lot of it and I still don’t like it.
• Python, and I tolerate it (Perl is still better for getting things done but lost mind share).
• Rust, and I like it.
• Elixir, and I love it.
• Guile and Janet when nobody’s looking and I don’t have to share (though the Nix folks don’t mind me…).

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 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).