The install script one hasn’t aged particularly well. Although I haven’t used the official one, so maybe it’s not up to IRC standards. Everything else though, totally on point. When is this from?

Yeah, I’m definitely not the type of person to ride before I’ve got a license to. But my concern for getting the RE isn’t safety - whatever I get if I don’t go straight to it would probably be similarly safe or otherwise - but rather that I would be worried about damaging the bike, and have to choose between practising control of the bike and almost certainly dropping it at some point, or not doing that and not having good enough skills when I actually need them.

Yeah, I’ve been watching a fair few of his videos recently. Hadn’t seen that one though, so thanks for the link.

Yeah, I get the changing tastes. I suppose that’s why my friend wants to switch it up, and get a fair bit more power. And my concern with getting the 350 isn’t that it would be dangerous, but that I’d be too cautious and unwilling to take it out and practice slow maneuvers where I might drop it, and get it damaged. Which would either lead to me not developing control of the bike well enough and getting in worse situations where the worst case isn’t just dropping the bike, or just not getting out riding as much as I would like, and being less comfortable when I do. I might be overthinking that and once I’m on it I’m fine, but it would be the single most valuable, and most beautiful, thing I own, and I feel like I might beat myself up a bit if one of the mistakes I make ends up with the bike being scratched, dented or otherwise damaged.

As for the riding course, in Australia you get the learner’s permit at a two-day course, which includes parking-lot and on-road riding. Is that not what happens elsewhere, or do you not think that’s enough to get to practising myself? The place I’m going to do the test doesn’t seem to have any courses meant for before you have a bit of experience on your L’s other than a 1.5hr taster to see if you want to go to the course. I’ll probably do at least one of their extra courses, but I thought they were meant for after you’ve had at least a month or two of riding experience.

And are any of those mistakes you’ve made ones I could learn from you telling me? I’ll definitely end up making different mistakes, but it might be nice to have a few things to avoid before I make them.

Well, it does say it would be a floating colony, so it would probably be up where the atmosphere is about as dense as Earth’s, and above the sulfuric acid clouds, which is quite a bit more feasible than on the surface. That’s something actual real scientists and engineers have looked at. Still not overly feasible though, and there surely won’t be a 1000-person colony there by 2050. Even if NASA, SpaceX and the rest of the industry pivoted to Venus rather than Mars, I’d doubt that could happen. And I’d trust pretty much anyone more than this guy to pull it off.

Yep, I’ve heard someone mention All the Gear, All the Time, and plan to stick to that. It wasn’t said so explicitly, but that’s also pretty much what I did with Dad. Having looked at some motorcycle youtube, I suspect what Dad had/has isn’t exactly top-of-the-line, but we both wore all of it whenever we went out. Having said that, do you have any specific recommendations for hot-weather (or otherwise) gear that’s safe (as much as you can be), and not too expensive?

My understanding was that the browser vendor itself would be the attester. So if Google says it’s Google Chrome, it probably is. Unless you somehow reverse engineer how Google decides that it’s Google Chrome and spoof that or something…

Nah, nah, it was the International Phonetic Alphabet. Can’t have something like that on the 'murican internet.

I’m not disagreeing about the result, Lemmy definitely feels less spammy/trolly, but either you or I have misunderstood something about registration. As far as I’m aware, any rate-limiting, proof of personhood, email verification, etc. is completely a per-instance thing. So all you’d need is an instance that’s permissive to get heaps of accounts. Or even if there aren’t any permissive ones (that haven’t been defederated), you could host a private instance, or sign up on multiple instances. However permissive Reddit is, I don’t think Lemmy fundamentally has the capability to be particularly restrictive.

If 18’s the limit, I’m below that most days, and perfectly comfortable. I just wear a jacket if I need to, with a blanket over my legs if it’s particularly cold, and I’m nice and cosy.

What about the “all” stream? Is that also preloaded to the server?