jedidia
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Guys, this officially needs its own tread now. Unfortunately.
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I can't access the thread. I need to be in The Basement to access?
jedidia
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Yes, you need to opt into the basement.
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“The release of atomic power has changed everything except our way of thinking ... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.” Albert Einstein, year 1945.
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Poettering!!!!!!!!! 
(I'll give you three guesses as to which software just broke. I'm confident anybody that recognizes the name won't need more than two).
(I'll give you three guesses as to which software just broke. I'm confident anybody that recognizes the name won't need more than two).
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Poettering!!!!!!!!!
(I'll give you three guesses as to which software just broke. I'm confident anybody that recognizes the name won't need more than two).
Lets play captain obvious.
systemd again
Linguofreak
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No, but you still have two guesses and Poettering has another controversial project (which I didn't get the controversy about until systemd convinced me that Poettering is bad news).
Linguofreak
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Nope, being deaf makes me angry.
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[ OK ] Starting tantrum against systemd
[ OK ] Randomly turning on non-related house appliances
[ OK ] Crashing DeltaGlider flights
[ OK ] Randomly putting [OK] meawhile user not [OK]
[ OK ] Slowly starting C'mon Desktop Environment
[ OK ] Asking: tired of systemd? Try rcctl
By the way I am learning OpenBSD (because FreeBSD is not compatible with my ACPI and NetBSD does not detect my Latin American keyboard) and it is an interesting experience. I have been able to achieve a desktop (XFCE) and am going to try a common desktop usage (office apps etc.) so far so good. And on Linux (Manjaro) I found a great desktop environment that recreates CDE, it's called NsCDE the Not so Common Desktop Environment.
And by the way, although I have never had problems with systemd, I am very amused by the tremendous discussions that take place around something immaterial/virtual like systemd.
Linguofreak
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TBH, I've not found systemd to be that bad in purely desktop contexts, but I've had it explode messily on me several times when doing more serverish things (stuff like helpfully grabbing ports that daemons are supposed to be listening on, then forwarding traffic to the daemon, and then, when the daemon crashes, falling to either release the port or forward traffic to the new instance of the daemon. Or just randomly using a whole bunch of CPU whenever a particular daemon is running). So if Canonical were pushing systemd but Red Hat wasn't, it would make sense. But Red Hat is one of the distributors that's pushing it hardest.
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Just driving around today , and I was fooling around with the waze language settings. 'twas one of the Scandinavic languages, but I can't remember which. And suddenly, I just hear it go like ' something something rue de space demons'. I'm like wtf., I turn around at the next roundabout (many of them here, and usually spots for the cops too. Wanna avoid the blues? Just go crisscrossing the road network to your destination and avoid roundabouts 
). So I hear it say space demons again. As I had places to be, I press on with my journey and hear it go on space demons street' several times again. By this time, I was seriously questioning my sanity .Turns out, Rue des Pays des Monts gets pronounced like that in Swedish or whatever that was.?
Also, not going into basement territory just yet (having air defenses helps), but if he-who-ruins-restaurant-menus wants to remake the soviet union, he might learn a few lessons from run-of-the-mill France. They're so communist here that everyone gets do everyone else's job, lest the whole thing grinds to a halt. In a way, I like it. Had to run errands (hence the drive, personal car and all) because the company we usually use for supplies can't deliver due to at least one of the drivers being down with covid, apparently. The dude with covid was also a colleague of mine on a completely un-driverly job. Though it could be just understaffing and everyone used to helping out and filling up positions whenever they can to the point that they become jacks of all trades. You see people roll up in beat up vans or rented ones and you're maybe getting ready to get robbed, but it's just the delivery service making do with what they can.? In a way, it's very different from the 'well f you too' attitude I've seen in some other places, with everyone blaming the higher ups or anything else until it all goes to s**t
). So I hear it say space demons again. As I had places to be, I press on with my journey and hear it go on space demons street' several times again. By this time, I was seriously questioning my sanity .Turns out, Rue des Pays des Monts gets pronounced like that in Swedish or whatever that was.?Also, not going into basement territory just yet (having air defenses helps), but if he-who-ruins-restaurant-menus wants to remake the soviet union, he might learn a few lessons from run-of-the-mill France. They're so communist here that everyone gets do everyone else's job, lest the whole thing grinds to a halt. In a way, I like it. Had to run errands (hence the drive, personal car and all) because the company we usually use for supplies can't deliver due to at least one of the drivers being down with covid, apparently. The dude with covid was also a colleague of mine on a completely un-driverly job. Though it could be just understaffing and everyone used to helping out and filling up positions whenever they can to the point that they become jacks of all trades. You see people roll up in beat up vans or rented ones and you're maybe getting ready to get robbed, but it's just the delivery service making do with what they can.? In a way, it's very different from the 'well f you too' attitude I've seen in some other places, with everyone blaming the higher ups or anything else until it all goes to s**t
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jedidia
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Well, as long as it doesn't suddenly start screaming "FOR THE EMPRAH!" and goes all exterminatus on the pedestrians, everything's fine... ?
steph
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Could have been slightly worse ?. I didn't go to the main city in that area, which is St. Jean de Monts. Depending on how badly it pronounced St. Jean, it could very well sound like it was saying in frenglish that it has a demon (j'ai un etc?) But yeah, given the situation, I'm relieved my gps isn't posessed ?
Edit: it's not getting worse as long as nobody is obeying the orders ??
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Recently picked up the Lego Saturn V set, having gotten back into Lego after a very long hiatus (and having missed the set in its original run a few years back). I'm very much looking forward to putting it together when I can find the time. Looks very impressive, and I confess my excitement for it is quite child-like.
Eyeing up the massive Titanic set as well, if I'm being honest. No idea where the hell I'd put it, though.
Eyeing up the massive Titanic set as well, if I'm being honest. No idea where the hell I'd put it, though.
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I switched more towards the alternatives to LEGO there, especially Cobi from Poland. Still have one M60 set waiting for the next COVID quarantine, and just ordered the Merkava set from the tank museum shop....
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Fair enough. Grew up with many Mega Bloks sets myself on account of LEGO confining themselves to non-military themes (though I suppose that doesn't really apply to LEGO Star Wars, now that I think of it). I was never impressed with the quality of Mega, though, in comparison to LEGO. But I never owned a Cobi set. How does the quality compare, both of the parts and the durability of the build?
LEGO holds a lot of goodwill for me personally, but I'll entertain a high-quality alternative if they've got a set I like.
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Quality is generally very good, but the bricks often have some grates from molding that are left visible. If you pay attention during assembly, you can hide them inside the model. Its hard to get the parts apart after assembly, I use the smallest screwdriver I have for this in an emergency. The colors in manual and bricks are not matching correctly, making it hard to tell, which part you need.
The design of the models is very good and they have many details, especially compared to the rather disappointing current Lego City sets and the current Lego Technic sets. In this aspect, the quality of Lego really dropped a lot in the past years, the older sets used to be far more fun to build and had been far better to reuse.
