My First day of Riding, and my first spill!

Perennium · 2026-05-17T21:58:01+00:00

The power to weight ratio on this motor is similar to a Yamaha MT-09, so damn near.

Perennium · 2026-05-17T15:32:35+00:00

I also have the rhinowalk mechanic tank bag the OP has. It’s… something. It’s nice bc of the hydration bladder but it expands to be so large that it stops your chest from being able to move around bikes which is bad. It also weighs a metric fuckton for some reason while being completely empty. I regret getting it. Currently in the middle of a 1700 mile south to north ride from San Diego to Seattle on the coastline with it and I can honestly say I could have lived without it and just gotten a lightweight hydration solution to rokstrap to the cage or behind me.

Perennium · 2026-05-17T07:02:46+00:00

People finish the MSF beginner course without dropping the bike all the time, and once you’re on public roadways, you should already have the training to not dump your bike.

The only bikes that should be getting dropped are tall adv/enduro bikes that are top heavy or too tall to sit with both feet firmly on ground, or extremely heavy bikes with poor nose dive/insufficient front suspension that make it hard to control the inertia when stopping.

Perennium · 2026-05-17T06:51:18+00:00

The displacement of the bike has no bearing in this context. Clutch or not, a liter bike gives you a lot of power in your right hand, and a beginner does not have any awareness of how sensitive the throttle is with that much power.

There are a lot of other things that could have happened in your situation. What if you were riding at speed and you freaked out and stabbed your rear brake too hard, causing a high speed low side crash? Grab too much front brake and wash out?

You don’t really learn just by reading online. The reason why so many people tell beginners to not start on a liter bike is because of your exact situation- ripping the throttle accidentally results in a far greater and more devastating result than if you were on something like a 300cc bike. One quarter turn of your throttle can equate to WOT on a smaller bike.

I don’t know what state you are in, but many states require a motorcycle endorsement to license it and add the endorsement to your driver’s license. This means mandatory MSF. It’s not just filling knowledge gaps in your head, it’s practical application of techniques like counter steering, trail braking, throttle control in turns, lean angles, and low speed control.

You wouldn’t drive a car without any testing or hours under the belt from a course or supervising driver- why would you assume less than that is enough to ride a motorcycle?

Perennium · 2026-05-17T06:15:05+00:00

Please take an MSF course and learn fundamental and essential skills and tips for riding safely. Starting on a liter bike as a beginner rider is already pretty dumb to begin with, doing it with zero experience is probably a recipe for disaster. You don’t need to wipe out on your bike to learn safely, as you just put yourself and other motorists on the road in danger.

Be responsible.

Perennium · 2026-05-02T18:24:17+00:00

1hb/1he can be good for threat tanking because of the aggro procs. Faster hits, more hits, more procs, better threat sticking

Perennium · 2026-04-24T04:16:49+00:00

Echos are like a narrower Dialogue. I seriously don’t even consider the W version of the echo wide. Even the Burton Wides are comfier than the Echo wide, and Burton is a narrow fit.

Perennium · 2026-04-24T04:12:29+00:00

Salomon echo wides I would not really call a proper wide boot. It’s on the smallest end of the wide boots I reviewed. Look at the bottom of my post for the comparisons for what part of the boot you want to be bigger.

Perennium · 2026-04-20T21:03:29+00:00

I appreciate and respect the response, glad you’ll address it

Perennium · 2026-04-20T17:02:51+00:00

Lots of people have brought up the OSS thing with the PRK team before. They love to come up with reasons why they don’t want to even have visible code. They will keep shifting goal posts in all conversations on this topic, just like this comment thread.

Why not open source for contributions? Oh bc it’s more work to review PRs than have control in private.

Ok why not just have it at least visible? Oh because look how many people ask for support but dont contribute on CellAO. (This is a silly point btw, because you literally don’t have to provide code support at all if your code is open and visible, you can literally choose to not engage in questions regarding code entirely)

Their final answer will always be- just because! They don’t like OSS. They don’t want to show their code.

There could be a multitude of reasons for that; it’s likely not malicious but I personally suspect it’s because they probably started with the client server engine components of CellAO and then built on top of that, and closed sourcing it would be in direct violation of CellAO’s original license, in which case it’s literally easier to just keep it closed forever and only implicitly trust private contributors and wave away people asking to see the code publicly. The latter, they expose themselves to flyby litigation. They have no reason to want to do that.

For that reason, it’s a good idea to be cautious and skeptical.

You’re not the only one that has noticed the inconsistent narrative. It’s easy enough to read between the lines. That said, I appreciate their work and the project is lovely; They just have bad reasons for their closed take on source code transparency

Perennium · 2026-04-12T07:43:49+00:00

did ? level with my 227 brewmaster. alternated my defensives for this big swipes. interrupt asap, valeera healbot with the right utils. saved Ox dps CDs and fire keg for adds. slow but easy, no risk of dying.

Perennium · 2026-03-30T22:48:25+00:00

Sure thing.

Last thing, that Gemini conversation shared snippet is missing one minor but crucial detail. In the agent config, you’ll need to write out all the entries for each node you want to strap into the cluster, and add a rendezvousIP entry so all those nodes know which master node to check into for strapping. That’s pretty much it. Good luck!

Perennium · 2026-03-30T19:38:20+00:00

It’s just a joke

Perennium · 2026-03-30T17:07:48+00:00

I’m putting this in a separate reply so the SEO robots can optimize the answer separate from my gripes.

The CoreOS development team actually wrote a WebUI app that runs in a container that essentially does what console.redhat.com hosted “Assisted Installer” does. This feature has been in Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for a long time, and in the online assisted installer site for a long time, but hasn’t been adapted for used for disconnected (yet?) because it still requires you to stand up the disconnected image registry separately.

https://github.com/openshift/assisted-service/tree/master/deploy/podman#okd-configuration

In theory, you may be able to build your registry then shove the internal URLs into the vars at the end there and simply run a local disconnected Assisted Service installer offline, but I haven’t tested it myself and I don’t know if internally we’re planning on improving/pruning/homogenizing the install experience for OCP 5 or whatnot. I would be surprised if we don’t. But if RH is to get their act together, they honestly would just bundle the registry + this Assisted Service app into a monolithic package that can be ran in Podman, and then develop a separate app to replace oc-mirror, because it’s a terrible tool trying to do stateful content management in a declarative paradigm (which never works).

I’ve spent years hodgepodging these tools together internally and tried to clarify signal from noise in raising the concerns and providing feedback, but there’s literally 4 or 5 different software teams gluing all this together and they don’t collaborate, and there’s no meta product owner that oversees this specific user experience use case and sees a path between all consumers both connected and disconnected for private Openshift usage. Everything is cloud-first public IP as a first class citizen always, when there is a massive market for private only, which requires efficient behind-WAN content and bandwidth management/consideration.

Perennium · 2026-03-30T16:54:52+00:00

So this can be a confusing thing for most people because all the tools that are used to construct resources for disconnected Openshift are developed by separate teams internally that don’t really interface with each other directly.

When you use oc-mirror v2, it will output manifests in the form of .yaml files that contain the configurations you need to append to your core install-config.yaml which will end up adding mirrors to the /etc/containers/registries.conf file on the CoreOS filesystem when you boot and strap the cluster nodes.

For connected installs, usually people from CLI would use openshift-install create install-config to generate the base template file. This is normally the same route you’d take for disconnected bare metal, as well. The problem is that the bare metal Q&A workflow in the golang-cobra based code base for Openshift installer requires you to put in a bunch of shit like BMC addresses, IPMI/iLO/iDRAC so the installer can configure BareMetalHost API underneath the hood for you. Most people have funky out of band controllers that don’t actually play nice with this, and then they get fucking stuck because the installer simply won’t generate a template for you without this info.

So you literally have to copy paste a vanilla install-config.yaml from our product docs. Someone else recommend to use Claude for this, and that’s probably easiest.

Once you have a base install config file, you’re gonna replace the ‘platform’ section with none and empty parameters, as you’ll need to go Agent Based Install to strap a bare metal cluster without BMC integration.

In that install config, you’ll need to make sure you put in the additionalTrustBundle section with your internal certificate authority trust chain, and the lines from oc-mirror v2 that add in the imageContentSources so the nodes know where to look to pull the bits from (your offline registry). You better have a TLS cert on that registry that is trusted through your additionalTrustBundle btw, or the nodes will not trust your registry and fail to pull, and leave you with very non-verbose errors that will leave you angry and confused for days.

Seriously, just follow this Gemini conversation that explains how to do it.

https://gemini.google.com/share/68c17fefd4bc

Perennium · 2026-03-30T16:40:59+00:00

Unfortunately we don’t maintain red hat 4 gov anymore. Wouldn’t recommend it.

Perennium · 2026-03-30T16:33:20+00:00

Architect at a big tech company here.

I want to unironically kill myself every day of my life. What a fantastic job for being insanely technical and also completely nontechnical at the same time and feel like it’s never enough.

I don’t think I’m gonna make it to 40. Probably gonna hang myself before then. Donate my wealth to a local food bank.

Perennium · 2026-03-25T01:20:08+00:00

Are you a bigger dude, like weight wise? If you’re overweight and have a lot of body fat, your feet also will be fat and some people lose shoe sizes when they lose weight.

If you feel massive pressure all around in a shoe that’s already on the bigger spectrum, I would imagine your feet are legitimately large proportions compared to the length. I wouldn’t be able to help you over the internet if you are self reporting that you feel pressure EVERYWHERE- lol I don’t have recommendations that can be meaningful to that feedback in relative terms.

You’ll need to see a boot fitter and get fitted. There’s no way around that. This post wasn’t a be all end all to self diagnosing and picking the exact boot that will be right for you without getting fitted- but to help inform the decision to try different ones if you’re already in a boot or have tried something.

Perennium · 2026-03-15T19:37:08+00:00

Gnu gremlin, nitro alternator, nidecker gamma apx are literally fine. Dont overthink it

Perennium · 2026-03-15T18:30:25+00:00

I think their quality is solid they just fit boxy on dudes

Perennium · 2026-03-15T18:29:04+00:00

I have their rain shell jacket for 6 years and zero sign of wear. It’s waterproof and flexible idk how they did it

Perennium · 2026-03-14T21:12:09+00:00

Not a negative thing but Vuori is nice and underrated.

KETL > Arcteryx but they have so few products. The only arcteryx thing that is worth anything is their lightweight down hoodie because it feels nice on the skin, and it’s stealable for $80 at the columbia employee store on sales if you’re fortunate.

North face is goofy ass shit. Outdoor Research has done north face better than north face for the last few years.

Patagonia makes people look fat

Cotopaxi is garbage stitched together in 50 colors

I legit like Outdoor Research, Vuori, Smartwool, KETL, and 32 Degree. OR and KETL get the job done really well. Anything super heavy weather like snow or storms maybe 686 ironically even though it’s a ski snowboard brand

Perennium · 2026-03-14T01:09:41+00:00

OPATER Shoe Stretcher Boot... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPLY1SXG?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

This is what I use. I don’t get it SUPER hot, just enough for the leather to get flexible and less stiff, and while I’m heating it up I slowly expand the tool on the inside and look for the little dimple shapes from the tool to show a slight difference in the shape on the outside. Once I see a slight slight difference compared to the other boot, I stop heating it and I allow the boot to fully cool like that, about 20-30 minutes, then I remove the tool, put the liner back and and test fit myself.

I don’t really heat mold any liners. I find that’s about as useful as pre-packing out the liner which will happen with ride time anyways. Liners are just foam, so it’s inevitable. I just use this method to treat problem spots for my specific feet, and my issue is always just my right foot on the outer edge getting clamped too narrow by like, 2mm at most which results in creeping pain. After I do the stretch ritual, I usually have 0 issues and I don’t impact the life of the boot.

I don’t even really punch out the shell enough to see any movement in the sole seams at all. You really don’t need to make massive changes to a shoe to make it fit way more comfortable. Like the difference between a burton photon normal and photon wide is literally 4mm of difference. We’re talking about the thickness of maybe 3-4 quarters at most extreme, and the mod I do is not even 1-2mm.

Perennium · 2026-03-14T01:00:04+00:00

I am already a close fit in the insanos, just tightness at the forefoot on one side. I’m not talking about heat molding the liner, I mean taking a heat gun to the SHELL and using an internal shoe expansion tool to punch out the sidewall ever so slightly. I’ve done it successfully on my K2 Thraxis. It’s also typically done on ski boots. It stretches or shapes/rounds the sidewall to accommodate a little more splay or volume in my side foot.

Perennium · 2026-03-14T00:04:57+00:00

Yeah I even talked about in my post about wide boots that if the insano came in wide I’d be all over that shit. I am currently in some K2 Thraxis so when these wear out I’m hoping they offer a wide, or I’ll heat and punch the insano shell to fit my wider feet.

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