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Here's mine, in order of ownership. I'd love to read about others' experiences.

Back in the late '90s I got my first anything with an engine, a fairly clapped out 50cc Yamaha Spy 2-stroke scooter. I was 16 and it was affordable transportation, but it lit the spark of interest in two-wheeled fun.

Then around 2002 I was in college and working part time, I sold the scooter and got a 1997 Yamaha Virago 125. My first 'real bike', with a thunderous 10 horsepower.

A couple of years later I graduated college and wound up getting a car to go to work in, as I lived in Ireland where it rains more often than not, and I could not afford nor have the space to keep the bike along with the car, so the Virago was sold.

Several years of 4-wheeled life pass by, then we arrive at 2014. During the previous 10 years I have moved to the US with my job, got married, and so forth. Now I'm old enough and financially solvent enough to afford a bike as well as a car and a place to live, and I go get my motorcycle endorsement (again, I essentially had to start over when I moved countries) and buy my first (and only) brand new bike - a white 2014 Suzuki v-Strom 650. I lived in Idaho at the time, which provided plenty of access to mountain roads and stuff to ride around on, it was a good fit. I kept the 'Strom until 2018 (I had recently moved to the flat midwest), and then started bike-hopping more.

I traded it in for a used and cheap (because they were very unpopular and wideley considered to be ugly) Honda CTX1300. I wanted to try something with a V4, and the OEM panniers and stuff were very attractive to me. I kept the CTX for just under a year, though. I just didn't fall in love with it. It was very comfortable and would be an excellent machine to ride across America in. Think of it as Goldwing lite. It felt a little bit too 'dad' for me at the time. Also it weighed like 725 lbs.

At the end of the season I traded again, this time getting myself onto a 2016 Yamaha XSR900. That bike was awesome. It had a torquey triple that could get going silly fast, with retro-influenced style. I rode the XSR for several years, and did some simple bolt-on mods like an improved LED headlight (the stock halogen was garbage), nice exhaust, better seat, etc.

I sold the XSR in spring of 2023 and bought a well-used 2014 BMW F800GT. It was a drop of about 30 horsepower from the XSR, but came with a lot of practicality, with OEM bags and stuff. However, this was another bike that I just didn't connect with, and I traded it in spring of 2024.

I replaced the BMW with a 2018 Triumph Tiger 1200 XRx with only 2,500 miles on it. It came with the expensive OEM panniers and is the first bike I've had with factory heated grips and seat. It also has gobs of power with that big triple, something I missed from the XSR. It doesn't get up and go quite like the XSR considering the extra weight and higher center of gravity, but it has more than enough power to keep me happy now. It also is a single-sided swingarm, shaft-drive setup which I think is pretty cool.

I still have that Triumph today, but a few weeks ago I acquired another bike - the 1975 Honda CB750F super sport pictured here. It has 34,000 miles and change on the odometer, but who knows how accurate that is. The state of Illinois doesn't require odometer readings for anything vintage. This is my first inline four bike, and I've been enjoying riding it around. It makes the 2018 Triumph feel like an absolute rocketship. I haven't hard carbs since that late '90s Virago!

The CB had 35-year-old hard-as-rock dry-rotted tires on it, but otherwise it ran pretty great. I've replaced the tires (that was a real pain in the ass, I don't think I want spoked wheels again on a future bike), and have tweaked a few things to make it run even better. Next job on the list is new brake pads and steel-braided lines. The front brake lines appear to be original from 1975 and they're spanked. Also, the front brake light switch is kaput. That's plumbed into the brake lines so I'll replace that when I do the lines.

It certainly helps to have a community of vintage bike nerds in the area to give advice, most shops do not want to work on anything this old.

Cross posted from Discuit

My Boox Page just got this tonight. Main new feature for me is that they added dark mode to the stock Neoreader app.

🏗️ Enhancements

Add app notification to notify about upcoming server requirement #3605, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

Force Quick Connect code to use LTR text direction #3553, by @nielsvanvelzen
Fix "Add server" button not visible when there are too many servers #3582, by @nielsvanvelzen
Support new intent in StartupActivity #3612, by @nielsvanvelzen
Remove refreshing of Live TV program data in player #3614, by @nielsvanvelzen

This update adds preliminary support for Jellyfin 10.9.

🏗️ Enhancements

Update SDK to 1.4.7 (10.8 with enum backports) #3477, by @nielsvanvelzen

🔧 Bugfixes

Check if fragment is null in PlaybackController.play #3475, by @nielsvanvelzen
Fix app_logo cutoff in some cases #3488, by @nielsvanvelzen
Use Timber.e instead of Exception.printStackTrace #3491, by @nielsvanvelzen

My Boox Page just received this firmware update today. It was on version 3.5 before. I don’t see any release notes on their website yet, but here’s a summary of what’s showing on my device:

System/Apps:

1. Support for importing system fonts
2. Support for customizing the navigation bar
3. Fixed input method covering input boxes in some apps
4. Support for using email or phone number to unbind other Onyx accounts

Library/Neoreader:

1. Fixed the issue of being unable to long-press to select words
2. Support for sharing directly after opening a document
3. Support for bulk OCR for PDF docs (Onyx account login required)

The update is 1.5GB.

Hi, I'm running Linux Mint 21.3 with kernel 6.5.0-21 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T14 gen 2 with an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU, and most relevant to my question, an Intel AX210 WiFi controller.

It connects just fine to 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks, but about 90% of the time it cannot see my 6GHz network, which is operating on a separate SSID. Sometimes it apparently randomly will see the 6GHz network, and it will connect and work fine until the next time the computer goes to sleep, after which it will only see 2.4/5GHz networks again.

I've been messing around trying to troubleshoot it, which led me to installing wavemon, and I discovered that if I run wavemon with elevated permissions and make it scan for networks it will see the 6GHz network, and when that happens it immediately becomes available to choose through Cinnamon's GUI, and it will work fine again until the next time the computer sleeps. If I run wavemon again after waking from sleep and make it scan for networks, 6GHz functionality will work again.

Anyone know what's going on here? I should add that I am in the US where the 6GHz band is legal and should be enabled in the Intel iwlwifi driver. It's almost like something needs to happen to trigger the 6GHz radio into waking up or something.

Changelog:

This update fixes various playback related issues, adds a PG-13 restriction to the screensaver and solves some crashes.

Note

We now have a roadmap for the Android TV app. This will help prioritize bugs and feature requests. Something missing? Create a new issue or use the 👍 reaction on an existing issue!

🏗️ Enhancements

Widen support for HEVC Main 10 #3281, by @lawadr

Only show PG-13 content in screensaver #3366, by @nielsvanvelzen

💥 Crash fixes

Fix crash when quitting player after two plays #3287, by @3l0w

🔧 Bugfixes

Use LTR for default subtitle direction #3332, by @MichaelRUSF

Fix media details tag for multiple versions support #3336, by @MichaelRUSF

Fix downmixing AAC to stereo audio in exoplayer #3360, by @MichaelRUSF

📈 Dependency updates

fix(deps): update androidx.media3 to v1.2.1 #3315, by renovate[bot]

fix(deps): update dependency org.jellyfin.media3:media3-ffmpeg-decoder to v1.2.1+1 #3352, by renovate[bot]

Some background: I have a Synology NAS already with plenty of space on it. It runs my Jellyfin server in a docker container. I also have a Raspberry Pi 3b running Pihole.

I would like to get a mini PC to run Proxmox on, and migrate those workloads over to it, as well as use it to host any other fun projects that can be virtualized that catch my eye. It'll also be a useful learning experience as I would like to learn Proxmox to potentially broaden my skills at work, where we are an entirely VMware house, but the shit Broadcom has been pulling since taking over has put a shadow over all of that.

Anyway, I'm thinking I would like something along these lines:

• A relatively recent CPU with decent performance and low power consumption. I prefer AMD these days.
• Capacity for at least 32GB of RAM, but it doesn't have to have that much from the get-go.
• NVMe storage, 512GB or so.
• Two ethernet ports. 1Gb is acceptable, 2.5Gb would be nice, though.
• Low-ish costs. I don't need this thing to be able to play games or anything, just run my VMs at a decent clip without burning too much power.

Transcoding performance isn't a huge deal either as the Jellyfin server isn't shared with anyone outside the house, and my playback devices so far have been able to play pretty much anything I've thrown at them natively.

I think that I would plan to have the actual VMs stored on a share on the NAS rather than having them live directly on the PC.

What would you recommend?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11868967 Definitely feeling it here. It was warm enough to comfortably go ride my motorcycle on Friday.

Winter has gone missing across the Midwest and Great Lakes, and time is running out to find it. Dozens of cities are on track for one of the warmest winters on record, making snow and ice rare commodities.

Several cities are missing feet of snow compared to a typical winter, ice on the Great Lakes is near record-low levels and the springlike temperatures have even spawned rare wintertime severe thunderstorms.

A classic El Niño pattern coupled with the effects of a warming climate are to blame for this “non-winter” winter, said Pete Boulay, a climatologist with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources.

Winter has become the fastest-warming season for nearly 75% of the US and snowfall is declining around the globe as temperatures rise because of human-caused climate change.

So, I've got a 9th generation Kindle Oasis and its battery is really starting to show its age. This is also one of the models where it is damn near impossible to replace the battery. Any attempts that I have read about online resulted in broken screens and sadness.

I'm not too wedded to the Amazon ecosystem, but I do like being able to borrow library books, which my local library allows in the form of sending them to your amazon account. I have a few books from the kindle store, but not a ton.

I've been looking around online for a replacement e-ink reading device, and the Boox Page has caught my eye. I'm curious how those have been performing for anyone who's got one here, since they've been out for a while now. I like the idea of it not being tied to any particular vendor's store, and the fact that I could install the Kindle and Libby apps on it, along with, apparently, pretty much anything else available in the Play store.

Important things for me are battery life and having physical page turn buttons, as well as a built in light so that I can read in bed without bothering my wife with a table lamp or something.

I would love to see some feedback from people who own these devices.

Also, does anyone know how often the Boox store restocks them? It's been showing as unavailable every time I check over the past few days.