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  • I am quite tall, and I currently drive a Yamaha Tracer 900 from 2018. It’s not a naked, the naked version would be the MT09 which is pretty high value as well.

    Be sure to test one from 2018 or later though, the earlier versions did not have the injection figured out properly, and the throttle was choppy because of that. Very on/off. Later versions are much better. The Tracer 900 and the MT09 use the same engine, so that is nice.

    The SV650 really is a nice bike and it handles well. It’s one of those bikes I can recommend anyone. Even experienced riders can have a lot of fun with it. Because it is light and agile it corners really well.


  • This is what I took lessons on, not the 2024 one, but the same model. It really is a nice starter bike, light, agile and also forgiving. If I remember correctly it had a support system that helped with driving away without stalling.

    It was also controllable. There is enough power there, but you could easily drive it slower, where some bikes, especially the higher power ones will accelerate very fast if you twist the throttle too much.

    To be fair, if you are just driving on the roads, you don’t really need more power. More power is fun though.

    In the end I am to tall for a 650 cc bike, so I ended up on a bigger bike. But I will always like this model.





  • I understand why you ask this question, but really the fastest way to learn is to decide what you want the computer to do and start looking for that.

    One thing will lead to another and you’ll learn lots of things that way, while you’re immediately using it.

    Tutorials and courses can work, but usually it works best if you use whatever you are learning.

    So come up with an idea for a program, and start building. There will be mistakes, anger, frustration and cursing involved, but you will learn a lot.

    First at the lower level, and later on you will probably start wondering how to structure it all. And then you’ll learn about that too.

    My point? Just dive in, fall on your face a couple of times and you’ll learn a lot in a short time.



  • It’s actually a classic programmer move to start over again. I’ve read the book “Clean Code” and it talks about a little bit.

    Appereantly it would not be the first time that the new start turns into the same mess as the old codebase it’s supposed to replace. While starting over can be tempting, refactoring is in my opinion better.

    If you refactor a lot, you start thinking the same way about the new code you write. So any new code you write will probably be better and you’ll be cleaning up the old code too. If you know you have to clean up the mess anyways, better do it right the first time …

    However it is not hard to imagine that some programming languages simply get too old and the application has to be rewritten in a new language to ensure continuity. So I think that happens sometimes.


  • There’s so many distro’s to choose from that can all be productive.

    If the question is this short, my answer is too: Go try at least 10 and then come back to tell us what you liked and what not.

    Without any further information it’s like going into a forest and asking people to point out a tree. Unless you look for some specific tree all will do…

    Edit: Fat fingers





  • As far as I know, other distributions just don’t show these errors, but Ubuntu choose to show them.

    Most of them are just due too a BIOS implementation that is not entirely up to standards, from what I understand. It seems some manufacturers have chosen to make their system easier to use with Windows instead of strictly enforcing standards.

    I just ignore the errors. As long as everything works properly, I feel fine with that.


  • I just got this mail. They are very funny. It is clear that they are trying to generate money by adding features, but the whole point is that I don’t need more features.

    I just need the program as it is, hell, they can still take more functionality away and it will still work for me just fine. I just use it for small projects, maybe twice a year.

    If the free version ever goes away, I’ll just learn some other program. There might be a learning curve, but I don’t mind.

    And I understand that they need to make money, and they have every right to charge whatever they want. But mails like this make them look desperate for cash.

    If they really don’t want too, don’t have a free product. Then everybody knows what is up.



  • If that is the only thing saving you from RSI you’re going to get it anyway.

    I’ve had the pleasure, and your body posture and mental state of mind are much more important. Getting up every now and then is also important, changing seat position helps, and doing some sport also helps.

    Both of my arms did hurt so much I could not cut my own meat. Mouse or no mouse:(.

    Am much better now though.



  • I was installing Ubuntu for the first time on my laptop. My laptop had two hardisks, an SSD with Windows and a drive that I could switch out for a CD-rom drive by hand.

    I decided to install Linux on the second drive. So I install, reboot, and Grub loads up…and tells me it cannot find the drive.

    I eventually find the command fwsetup, which lets me boot into the BIOS again. Of course I don’t know what is going on, zo I just reboot and now it loads my Windows installation on the SSD.

    So at least that is intact. I reboot again, and I’m stuck in the Grub bootloader again. The second drive just would not load properly to boot from it. Very annoying. I tried everything I could think of, everything I found on the Internet, it just would not boot the Linux drive.

    In the end I just split my SSD and installed Linux next to Windows. I did split the second disk too, so my home directory is on the second disk and now everything works.

    However, it’s a Toshiba laptop that gave me lots of trouble before with installing Windows before. I have decided that this is how it will run and I’m not messing with it again. The panic when I feel I broke it again is just not worth it.


  • I suspect most vendors just dgaf about being linux certified. They just build their hardware to work with Windows since that is what most people will use. If the hardware happens to work with Linux too, great. But it’s much more important to make sure it works with a system that over 90% of your users use.

    If you build laptops that you deliver with a Linux system on it, then yes, you will make sure it is Linux certified and it works properly.

    It’s not difficult to imagine that for most laptops that are made, Linux wasn’t even considered for a second.