Motorbike Noob
Same as a car. You do whatever you feel like. But because gearbox is sequential on a bike, if you’re in 6th and you pull the clutch in and come to a stop you’ll have a hard time shifting through all the gears to 1st when stopped. So downshift as you’re still rolling. Otherwise you do you. I like to downshift because the throttle blip is fun
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Pihole, Adguard home or blocky
It also depends what else you are trying to do, but I love PiHole's ability to act as a proper DNS server for my LAN with support for A and CNAME records
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