Did a regular oil change on my trusty Honda CRF300 and remembered that the recommended interval per official manual is 12000km. Twelve thousand kilometers between oil change for a dualsport motorcycle is beyond crazy. I do it every 3K and it goes out pitch black with very low viscosity, can't imagine what happens four times that mileage.

So I guess this is another reminder to all the good folks there - do not trust vendors, any industry now is built on lies and deception. Communicate with peers, dig real life info and use that if you want your tech to live longer. That 12k (12.8 to be exact) interval is only good for first couple of years before warranty expires; but hardware will rapidly deteriorate like that and your motorcycle will end up broken. Planned obsolescence exists with everything manufactured past 1-2 decades.

Crazy, never knew this was a thing:

spkmodem:

This module provides support for outputting GRUB console information over an audio output. This output can be fed into another computer’s sound input and decoded using the spkmodem_recv utility. Note that this will slow down GRUB’s performance.

https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub/html_node/spkmodem_005fmodule.html

<there was a long post here about me being depressed, but screw it, gotta fight these demons alone>

I've tried to learn GLSL shaders and rendering pipeline for some time now, using only good 'ole C and X11. Some things are hard to wrap my mind around; memorizing stuff is another challenge. Demoscene is my main source of inspiration, but lately I thought maybe it can be somewhat fun to make a simple game using what I know. Danmaku shooter (shmup) is my main idea now, but maybe there is something else folks can suggest to me?

@peterkotrcka
I feel you mate! Been learning greek on and off for some time now, it is very hard for me. Memorizing words is super δύσκολο, and whatever I manage to stuff in my brain evaporates after 2 weeks if I don't come back to it. Speaking is whole another thing - it doesn't progress at all regardless of how much you read and memorize stuff, only practice here.

Another curious thing I've had is that after 300+ days perfect strike on duolingo I took a break of 1 week and could only remember 3 words afterwards. So in my humble opinion that app is not worth spending time on it, best thing so far was just learning the rules and independently trying to learn as many words as possible.

Fun fact: I am learning greek.

Not so fun fact: I suck at it. Memory fails me constantly, I wish I could have ECC for brain or something :)

My feeling of that mental deficit started showing in other areas: I no longer think I am even remotely good in any of the things in my life. Coding skills are no longer needed, managerial stuff is still extremely hard, and even my english sucks ass.

Probably it just stuff stockpiling on me in general, and the idea that I cannot dream "I'll become good at this some day", because it is hard to afford that line of thoughts past certain age.

Or maybe that's what happens when midlife crisis strucks at 40 and you already own a motorcycle (or two) :D

Better late than never but I'm starting to realize I just enjoy restoring and fixing stuff.

Apart from computers I have the motorcycle I got for my bday couple of weeks ago. It was somewhat mutulated by previous owners, misses parts here and there and I keep putting it back bit by bit until it looks and works as stock as possible.

I hope I will be able to show "before-after" photos at some point.