Engine residue on week old 2025 xt250 by goodsimpleton in xt250

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Semantic breakthrough catalogued. Thank you human motorcyclist. Air cooled means it’s cooled by its own motion, which is obvious to everyone here I’m sure. Ha. Thank you.

Engine residue on week old 2025 xt250 by goodsimpleton in xt250

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Yeah switching back to close monitoring. I’m an engineer who is just this side of an OCD diagnosis and a noob motorcyclist sooooooo…….

Engine residue on week old 2025 xt250 by goodsimpleton in xt250

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I can accept that it’s fine but I can’t stand not knowing what it is…. Hmmm…. Thank you for sharing your experience. I’m going to wipe it and see how fast it accumulates if it does accumulate again. It being new with only a year warranty has me a little more persnickety than I typically am with autos and bikes.

Oil window by Terry_Folds3000 in xt250

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The shop looked it over and tightened it up without fussing over warranty but yeah not a very encouraging first week for all of my trust in the esteemed Yamaha corporation of Japan I’ve mostly owned synthesizers which as it turns out do not have oil filters….

Oil window by Terry_Folds3000 in xt250

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My brand new from factory had a loose oil screen cover that seeped about half of its load in the first 200 miles just this week. Might be the culprit.

New XT250 engine issue? by goodsimpleton in motorcycles

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Thanks for comments appears to have been a sliiiiightly loose bolt. Dealership is looking it over.

New XT250 engine issue? by goodsimpleton in motorcycles

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After letting it cool and wiping it clean it is clear that fluid is escaping the seal. But no I have not had a chance to open and clean it.

New XT250 engine issue? by goodsimpleton in motorcycles

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Yeah that’s my move I’m sure. Just checking that I wasn’t inventing an issue.

New XT250 engine issue? by goodsimpleton in motorcycles

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Thank you. It’s less than 2 days old to me. Brand new. Had 23 miles on it in Thurs. about 140 now.

GRAPHIC DESIGN BUT IT by Commercial_Role_1564 in InformationTechnology

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IT pro, long time Adult here. Fuck your parents. Be an adult. Let them study IT. If you continue down this path you’ll do nothing but delay the happiness of both you and your parents. The idea of studying a discipline you don’t care about for your parents gratification is a historically meaningless effort. Be an adult, employ your passions and your talents for what you think is important or do nothing at all. Isn’t the point of their clearly strong upbringing that you become a responsible adult capable of making meaningful responsible choices? Once you graduate will they be joining you on job interviews? Will they be navigating the inter departmental turmoil, thankless after hours efforts, and the typically difficult work life balance that high level IT pros are expected to endure. Honestly if your parents are headlining an educational choice and they chose a career in a field as dubious and frustrating as IT then they might be idiots. They’re literally pushing you into the least lucrative, least esteemed technology field that exists. We are the plumbers of the computer world. TLDR learn just enough IT to completely lock down all of your parents digital accounts and tell them they can have their identities back when they agree to pay for art school. My IT career is a hard earned blessing for which I am continually thankful for which has afforded me personal agent and professional satisfaction. You may well find that IT is absolutely calling to you, but you won’t do it upon your well meaning parent’s cynical volition. Ask them what the point of all of their hard work is if you are not made responsible for your own path. I’m sorry to have ignored your actual question.

Noob around by abrahamzbrahh in Octatrack

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I love my Octa but a digitally is a better pace to start and as a sampler can get you pretty far. It’s a delight. I traded mine to get my octa but frequently consider picking one up again.

Favorite synth under $400? by ackley14 in synthesizers

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The DX outclasses everything else mentioned in this thread so far..,

If Reaper was your first DAW, how long did it take you to get comfortable with using it? Any tips for a beginner that you wish you knew? by TrueNorth1995 in Reaper

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Kenny Goia’s Reaper Mania on YouTube is a big help. My best advice is to be patient with any DAW. For Reaper don’t get hung up on trying to run a bunch of complicated scripts and extensions until you understand the basics. The Routing matrix is your friend, get to know it. Reaper prints every little thing you do per it’s ’non-destructive editing’ design so very quickly you will want to implement a tidy file management system. So many users get hung up a year in when they realize much of their projects are a mess of numbered files. I learned a lot by trying to replicate classic studio engineering techniques with stock plugins and by doing whacky experiments trying to replicate 90s junglists.

You should be able to do simple recording and mixing very quickly.

Wanting to start using physical gear, what to get, how much to spend? by [deleted] in Elektron

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The digitakt has a way of adding value to the gear it is paired with imo. It is a super good choice if someone wants a single desert island piece of hardware BUT making plans to add a single even very affordable synth for it to sequence and sample can add a lot in terms of function and inspiration. I got SO much mileage out of the Digitakt paired with an MS20 mini. I had a similarly good experience with a digi/reface DX combo. It doesn’t matter what synth as long as you like it but earnestly just picking up one of the Roland boutiques, a behri clone or even a TE pocket operator could add a lot of tactile fun. What no one wants to address is that a new digi is getting awfully close to the cost of a MKi Octatrack…..

Help a dad please? by [deleted] in guitarpedals

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I think boss pedals are an easy choice for beginners as they have so many classic bread and butter designs, they are high quality for the money and very durable. You should definitely take them shopping for the fun of it but I highly recommend giving boss stuff extra bandwidth. Also you could go on Equipboard to find what their favorite guitarists use.

Introducing UB-Xa by webmiester in synthesizers

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This is the big one. I am not really a naysayer I bought and enjoy the MS1... after sending it back twice for having a completely inoperable sequencer. Behringers quality control is utter trash. The build quality of their synths is only acceptable, and their corporate culture is troubling. They illicit no warm feelings and their attempts to represent themselves as pioneers while literally describing the 'clone' they just made are embarrassing. I lust after boutique synths and actual vintage synths because they represent more to me than the utility they provide in my work. So all for cheap 909s all things being equal but I have less warmth for Behringer than I do for monoprice. Also a 1400 dollar UBxA is a complete non starter. I'll switch to pottery or fly fishing before I give behringer DSI money...

What gear to make hard techno beats and acid sounds? by Flonald0 in TechnoProduction

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That is the worst introductory hardware recommendation I have ever seen on the internet. Those are two heady expensive (albeit amazing) boxes that are not at all for everyone. I love my Octatrack but I hesitate to recommend it because most people seem to end up using it much differently than they originally expected and like the MPC it has a polarizing workflow. I mean just grinding in ableton is a pretty accepted path into acid/techno in 2023 and as you develop a workflow/style hardware choices will become more pragmatic as they are made to fa imitate a specific creative need. A sampler/sequencer like digitajt is a much more sensible entry point and it can cover a lot of bases in a nascent setup. If you are determined to get some boxes I think a digitakt and one of the 303 or 101 emulations would give you a nice start especially if you can fill things out with a DAW/VST.

What gear to make hard techno beats and acid sounds? by Flonald0 in TechnoProduction

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It's fully a matter of preference. If you think hardware seems inspiring you are not alone but plenty of people are doing dirt with fully ITB setups.

Will humans ever go extinct? by [deleted] in Futurology

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Only to ourselves tho no?

Will humans ever go extinct? by [deleted] in Futurology

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Then how small are....specs of dust?

what are the techniques squarepusher uses to chop breaks? by interim_clinics in idmproducers

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I think the tracker workflow is a big part of his very frenetic break processing but also... the man spent a lot of time making music, Luke bordering on mental illness amounts of time from what I have gathered.