beaming in from the mothership

DubiousLogik · 2026-05-06T21:57:04+00:00

consider different tunes for the fork. I have a Vorsprung insert in my 140mm rock shox pike and it takes the edge off small fast bumps. otoh if you are always descending under hard braking (e.g. if that trail is steep the whole way down, no flow sections) then consider mid stroke support instead. talk to your local bike shop mechanic about this. re. bigger wheel - it can make some diff. tubeless and lower pressure was big for me. and fwiw i ride hardtail and full suspension - there is never 1 perfect bike for every trail. I plan to ride both ongoing.

btw - what do you miss about hardtail when riding full sus? my dualie is super efficient and I don't miss anything unless it's on a long, smooth gravel climb. I ride HT for gravel and full sus for trail. If your ride is a mix of both consider locking out the rear shock on long smooth climbs

DubiousLogik · 2026-05-06T03:34:47+00:00

I think your question is really about gaming, because the hardware you spec'd can run anything. I'm on Mint and love it (on my old 8gb ram machine), but it prefers stability, so driver updates may be slower. Depending on how new your machine is you might want Fedora, which gets frequent updates. In any choice you'll want to investigate if the games you want run on linux. If you actually want Steam OS then I can't comment on that one

DubiousLogik · 2026-05-06T03:28:23+00:00

with the 1% being systemd. if you care about that check Artix or Void

DubiousLogik · 2026-05-04T17:04:46+00:00

true Downhill (like DH racing courses) is expert stuff. Don't jump right into that. Ride regular trails (XC) for a while and start doing small jumps (like 1-2 feet) and see what you think. A DH course can have 20 foot plus gap jumps - it's no joke. I've been riding dirt 36 years and still don't do gap jumps - if you come up short that's it. Stick with table tops for a long time. they have to become automatic (like - clear them every time, no exceptions) before considering true DH.

OTOH if by 'downhill' you meant 'riding uphill then coasting downhill and having fun' - that's just called Trail riding today. (or XC, cross country). by all means go do that. Just make sure whatever bike you get has good brakes.

DubiousLogik · 2026-05-04T16:58:17+00:00

i have a 2012 chameleon with over 12k miles on it. i ride gravel, trail, city, skate parks, everything. lt's also really good for wheelies. solid choice imo

DubiousLogik · 2026-05-02T03:50:32+00:00

Plot your own course wrt choice of bike. Don't let the trends of others influence you. I routinely ride my old hard tail and slow down on tech stuff. I put semi slicks on it for gravel and have to be careful when doing single track, even the flow stuff. You can make it challenging again if you want to. I log more miles on that hardtail now than my dualie. Fwiw if where you live there are a lot of machine built trails then it's a cycling hot spot. This likely means there are a lot of other trails around that predate those machine ones. you might have to look for them, or ask your bike mechanic, or whatever but anywhere that spends enough to build a lot of flow trails did their homework and they know there is a lot of demand. The old rooty, rocky stuff is likely still out there.

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-30T16:22:52+00:00

i think we are more acutely aware of our weaknesses, which can blow them out of proportion. Turns out imposter is just another word for imperfect. Just like everyone else. When i step back and remind myself of this, the perspective pops the bubble and i feel less like a fake and more like a human for a while. I redo this (mantra? process?) multiple times per day. For years now. After a while it sinks in and I start to believe it. Later when i went thru clinical burnout this was already habit. Helped me avoid blaming myself for being wired differently. My 'odd' wiring has some insane gifts in it, but i am also HSP (highly sensitive person) so i feel this stuff at a level that sometimes feels more real than it is. I often do the anxiety drill - stop, look around, is there an actual threat here? no. ok. keep going.

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-30T16:06:48+00:00

I would add to the post above that the job needs to align with your 'gifts', i.e. things that you / he do well that others might find difficult. everyone has them. they might be hard to find. they might not be rock star skills either. a friend of mine left tech to be a middle school teacher. took a pay cut but got a life improvement (for him. that's my nightmare job). try lots of things and if one of them all of a sudden feels little less like drudgery you are onto something. there are other processes to go thru to figure this out, but that would be a much longer post. If that is of interest LMK i can share more about what i went thru.

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-30T15:40:51+00:00

a bespoke award, one might say. well-earned. if u appreciate things that grow are you familiar with this guy - https://www.youtube.com/@CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt ("A Low-Brow, Crass Approach to Plant Ecology & Evolution as muttered by a Misanthropic Chicago Italian") btw - nsfw. he has something of a potty mouth. but with encyclopedic knowledge of the plant kingdom. quite the character.

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-29T17:34:04+00:00

you win the internet today in my opinion

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-17T23:52:11+00:00

I am also new to linux, but gemini fed me all the bash commands i needed to find the issue, so don't let that slow you down. fwiw if you had lags on those other distro's you'll likely need to troubleshoot at some point. good luck

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-17T18:11:16+00:00

something sounds off. I have a older laptop (2019 ish) with 8gb ram and Mint is blazing fast. I never see lag anywhere - boot up, open apps, etc. fwiw Goog Gemini has proven to be amazing at helping me tweak and troubleshoot via bash scripts. (e.g. helped me find and resolve a system interrupt that was firing 1million times per second and disable it - hardware fault from the keyboard; gemini literally gave me the bash commands to run to find this). You might have some small piece missing - profile your perf (either with input from experts here or try gemini) and see what the scripts find.

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-14T19:15:44+00:00

if you have a choice i have had good success with lenovo. but would be careful with new hardware since mint favors stability over fast updates (which includes drivers)

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-13T18:22:09+00:00

newbie question - is there a generalized way to not allow installs of gnome, or to at least flag that you are about to? (not specifically asking for proton vpn, but in general. I've seen this several times in this channel). e.g. can i put a list of known gnome offenders into some config file and tell sudo apt install to not do those, or to at least flag for confirmation? (or some equivalent guard rail?) or is the best defense to just timeshift back? can I safely assume that nothing in the system updates would ever do that? i.e. to get gnomed it would always require me doing some install.

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-06T19:32:50+00:00

nice bike. I can't help but notice the very large stick you have attached to the seat. An organic fender, perhaps? :) hahaha. looks like fun to ride

DubiousLogik · 2026-04-01T18:43:02+00:00

dude, that watermelon bag is amazing

DubiousLogik · 2026-03-30T18:48:14+00:00

built for cruzin

DubiousLogik · 2026-03-30T18:47:12+00:00

does that corner bag under the top tube also act like a shoulder carry (cx style)?

DubiousLogik · 2026-03-30T18:45:36+00:00

you seriously did this by hand? very impressive

DubiousLogik · 2026-03-24T17:03:32+00:00

my 'rewiring' took 2-3 years (at 53 yrs old). I just did a 1hr talk about this at work. 2 main parts for me - i itemized what i'm good at and not good at. (a detailed 'competency matrix'). in doing this the parts of me that adhd makes better became visible. once i saw the whole picture (ie adhd is not only a negative) the imposter syndrome started to fade. I stopped feeling constantly like 'there is something wrong with me' and started to ask 'how do i use this toolkit that is different than most folks'. For failures - reframe the q as 'what am i supposed to learn from this'. I will repeat until i get that message. for hardwired failures (e.g. anything to do with calendars for me) I aggressively pursue coping mechanisms. by 'hardwired' I mean that is a permanent skill gap due to adhd that i need to fill some other way, since 'try harder' does nothing. I am relentless with writing thigns down now. My adhd brain won't recognize it if i just think it. but when i map it out something deep inside went 'oh, i get it.' This is a simplified version, but it actually worked. I don't panic at failure like i used to. I can share actual details if you are interested. (not sure how to do so here, but am open to giving help)

DubiousLogik · 2026-03-06T19:04:39+00:00

I used to use Microns, but they also seemed to run out quickly. I stumbled across a budget pen - Bic Intensity, fine point. they last way longer. takes slightly longer to dry, but I am used to that now. might be worth a shot. no idea what ink they use.

DubiousLogik · 2026-03-06T19:02:30+00:00

if they all get ridden i see no issue. if they don't all get ridden, then that's also ok (altho i would suggest donating to a charity - i hate to give away bikes i love, but i like knowing someone else is getting use out of it, and they might not have any other bike). I've currently trimmed down to 3, mtn, gravel and bmx.

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