I have actually found valid reasons to own a motorcycle:

• any trip on the bike is 60 % less gas than by car

• my occasional commute from rural to city: car needs to be put in a garage for 25 € / 8 hrs. Bike rides up the elevator to the office, free.

• riding saves up the car for the winter, when it’s most needed.

• bike maintenance is cheap and diy-able.

• the pleasure of riding: priceless.

‘Approximately 1,34 ms’. :D

Frankly - my kids in front of the tv is pure Beavis and Butt-head :D

Take a look at the Finnish folk instrument, the Kantele. They tend to have a hollow body but otherwise pretty angelic stuff :D

Looking for ‘zither’ will probably yield more like this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantele

The free version of Maxmind’s db should be available on your distro. The name is going to be ‘geoip’ with something extra hanging on :)

Ouuu, the reminiscences were the best. What a beautiful underlining to why music matters. Play this to all the jaded souls. Thanks for the share.

I do audio and quite enjoy Arch with its ‘pro-audio’ meta package that installs basically everything. Desktop and laptop both have that, so they have the same plugins and applications -> projects open on both machines just the same.

Thanks for a shoulder to cry on! This is a 19 year old Vespa - simple separate brake lines sans frills, but two hours of disassembly to get to them (shop rate is 90 € / hour). Guess it’s sensible to let a pro look at the whole system…

My rear brake is dragging and there is nothing to adjust to make it cease. I should take my baby to the shop for expensive brake fluid voodoo in the middle of the season but anticipate the appointment is going to be like mid-autumn :´(

That hit :o

Asuntoautoissa voi olla vaikea löytää optimaalista pohjaratkaisua kahdelle aikuiselle. ‘Turha’ tila kiinteille punkkapedeille vois olla yksi bongauskriteeri, jos ne saa purettua tai muokattua pöytäryhmäksi niin hyvä. Yleisesti ottaen kuitenkin asuntoautoissa ja -vaunuissa kalusteet ovat myös tukirakenteita eikä niitä voi määräänsä enempää muokata tai purkaa.

Kivasti niissä kyllä asuu. Wc-kasetin tyhjennys on harvempaa kuin jokapäiväistä, riippuu tietty käytöstä.

Meillä on ollut pitkään -87 Pallas-vaunu, joka on niin kevyt että menee kevytperävaununa eikä vaadi pikku-E -korttia. Kulkee omalla 1.5 vapari-Jimnyllä kohtuullisesti ja eukon 1.6 turbo-Vitaralla jo komeesti. Katsastusvapaakin on eikä tietenkään ajoneuvoveroa. Vastaavia myös Poksi -vaunut.

Edittiä vielä sen verran, että olen asunut tuossa pikkuvaunussa kolme kesää inssikoulun kesätöissä vierailla paikkakunnilla ollessa. Kun sähköt saa kylkeen, on oikein mukavaa - kokkailee induktiolevyllä, jääkaappi on käden ulottuvilla, on netti mokkulalla ja kaksi pöytäryhmää eli ruoka- ja työpöytä erikseen. Vakiojuttu on ollut riipparisetin tarpin virittäminen vaunun oviseinältä maahan niin, että syntyy pieni näkösuojainen kuisti.

First time trying out CoMaps for navigation was getting a route from home to here via a couple of set waypoints so that I won’t ride the same route I usually do. Worked great, me and my Vespa got to enjoy some new roads and sights 👍

I now have two folders for waypoints: Places for the actual places I go to, and Inbetweens to get the routes that I want.

Sure, but then I’d be downloading every single source ‘package’ and compiling for both x86 and ARM - not exactly feasible. Keeping just the sources might be an option though. The point is to have the whole repo, not just the packages I use, so that in the SHTF scenario I can help others install Arch and any software they may need on their machines. Muhahaha, Arch will prevail 👻

The group shall be motorcycles@lemmy.world, but yes, the world shall know 😋

That’s it, I’m packing the bike and off to sunny Europe proper :D The picture just pulls me on an adventure, so many little details I want to see up close!

The nordics have had nothing but rain this summer. Something to do with an unstable polar vortex. Sucks the life out of a man.

I quit on day two with two takeaways:

– Hardware must be well supported in fully-libre-land - I was trying to install on a Mac Mini and had to go nonguix pretty much right away. That kind of spoiled the whole effort.

– Profound meditation and enlightenment on the essence of Scheme is a must. I had one of those ‘no, this is where you don’t want a closing brace’ moments and my zen was blown out of the water.

I would have soldiered on, but personally I like Arch first and foremost because I can (and do) have a local repo by rsyncing a rotation of mirrors couple of times a week. Just in case the Internet dies one day, you know. I realised Guix was not really suitable for the apocalypse use case, so after that brace episode I decided to stick with what my spine already knows.

After all that is said – I really hope you fare better :D

I got one but in the summertime it gets little use, there’s always something to sit on. Rainy autumn outings and in the nordic winter where staying dry is essential? Very useful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-IkTg4z6UY

The Derek Hansen continuous ridgeline. You asked for the best, you got the best :D

Camouflage is all fine and fun until you forget where you set your pack down 😅

Jaws?