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Heh, that box and version of Redhat was the first I tried Linux, as well as the same year - 1999 Cost me $110 brand new from a local stationary shop. Which was a lot for a poor student! Sadly didn't last long as I just couldn't get everything done in Linux as I could in Windows. And this was despite studying computing at the time.
Oh well 15 years later I tried again (Mint then Arch) and haven't gone back to Windows since. 🎉
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Mrreow
Scratching in the name of
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Same. I've played all the Civs. But I feel like the same issues with something like the Sims is creeping into the Civ franchise. The game has more features but somehow is less fun. I got into Humankind a little while ago and had loads of fun with that.
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My spouse's Hongdian Black Forest has a very satisfying cap. I've sat there uncapping and capping over and over just cause it feels so nice lol. I don't normally like really hard nibs but it writes so nice I secretly covet it. Its also been super reliable.
If you don't mind second hand (since they're not made anymore), a Pelikan Level has the most enjoyable closing cap I've ever experienced. Albeit It's a sightly unusual but unique looking pen.
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Cool or room temperature. Warm or hot has potential to heat plastic parts and risk warping them.
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Organized crime has negative consequences for consumers and society as a whole
Organised crime like Google, Meta, Microsoft, the entertainment and music industries, Microsoft, most politicians.... right?
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I'm a long time Arch user (10 years) and I love EndeavourOS + Pamac (from Manjaro) as a simple install that I can easily maintain on family members computers or on our Laptop if I'm feeling lazy.
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I think some amount of it is apathy, or modern-life time-poor induced apathy where people just want something to work and work quickly without much effort or time and so they just pony up. And with so many people not keeping a budget, $10 a month here and there or $30 once a month doesn't seem like much if you're not adding up all those subs combined over a month or a year or 5 years. Really, some subs could fall into the category of a dark pattern because $10 a month doesn't seem like much compared to say $100 up front even though over the course of a year (or 2, 3, 5+ years) that sub costs you more than just buying software up front. (Think also Sam Vines Boot Theory).
I see some people are getting fed up (I'm one of them) but sadly plenty more who mindlessly keep paying more and more.
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I dunno, I was pretty stoked installing Arch almost a decade ago after my spouse surprised me with a brand new PC he built for my birthday. Was also stoked installing Arch, in more recent years, on the PC I built.
And I've been at my most miserable in life while being a Windows user 🫠
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Good luck getting anywhere in this country's judicial system. The Courts here have repeatedly shown they kiss government arse and the NZ government has shown they kiss corporate arse.
New Zealand is no longer the land of no. 8 wire and protesting to stand up for rights, the environment, etc. but I fast becoming another western country beholden to apathy and consumerism. 😔
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Have you tried switching Proton versions? Also check protondb.com as people will often post solutions in their reports.
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Its been a while since I used a Kindle but AFAIK its still this - using Calibre + the deDRM plugin. I don't know if linking directly to stuff here is OK so just do an internet search for github noDRM deDRM_tools and you should find the plugin you need for Calibre.
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Platinum Preppy lol. Just a good knock about pen. Currently I use my other pens pretty interchangeably for letter writing and journalling. But the Preppy takes the cake for the most general use. Second to that would be my Pelikan Twist since it's also a nice knockabout pen and with a medium nib (Preppy is F), I use it when I want to jot something down that really stands out with thicker lines.
My spouse and I have played NMS since release. After switching to the Steam version a number of years ago, we were lucky enough to start our current save in a system that had a paradise planet. While we weren't the first to discover the system, we were the first for the planets, flora, fauna and minerals. Anyway, we both started bases on the paradise planet and have had those bases ever since. This planet was one of my favourites with gorgeous fields of glowing flowers (at night), purple grass, no storms, pretty water.... you get the picture. When settlements came along, we moved our main bases to settlements, one of us on the paradise and the other on a toxic planet in the same system. I spent many, many, many hours adding to my settlement, doing clever things to make it look nice and RPing the hell out of everything. On the paradise planet I also turned my first base into a 'tourist attraction'. Then discovered this absolutely gorgeous flat field surrounded by hills. Inside one of the hills was a natural cave entrance. Low and behold the cave also looked spectacular with glowing fungi. So I also RP'd this as a tourist attraction - land in the field at night for a rolling field light show, enter the cave and go spelunking lit by cave roof covered in glowing fungi..... Then the first planetary generation update came. All seemed well until I reached my 'Cave of Wonders'. The glowing fungi was gone. It was just a barren boring cave now. That hurt, but fine. It wasn't as bad as some people got as we still had a beautiful purple glowing paradise. Then an update to settlements wrecked all my decoration. So I meticulously fixed it all and made it even better. I have cared for my settlement, made good choices for the inhabitants.... So, I was super looking forward to how beautiful our slice of paradise was going to look after the 5.0 update. I could only imagine how much more gorgeous the water and sky would look. Imagine my horror when my spouse said that our main planet was showing as "Worm infested" when scanning. My anxiety rising I head to our paradise and my heart sinks as my ship clears the clouds. It is indeed now infested. Worse is that my settlement is completely gone. The pin for it is still there but the settlement interface is non-existent. [](https://postimg.cc/kD0qJ99M) All that remains is all the base parts I added - now either floating in the air or completely buried as the landscape has radically changed. [](https://postimg.cc/vc5MDjHr) I then visited every single one of my other bases. Some are still functional as the landscape hasn't changed but the planetary type has in about 90% of them (weirdly some planets are still completely the same but most are different). My runaway mould farm has been replaced by metal fingers. [](https://postimg.cc/sMyzWcvt) Worst off is our paradise planet where both the type and landscape are different. There's other weirdness like the Discoveries being simultaneously reset but not - it will say a planet is undiscovered but when I land, it's suddenly gets the proper info back for it. [](https://postimg.cc/pmZHJFjy) But on other systems, the discoveries are completely reset - in my AI Valve farm system, the system comes up as discovered by me but none of the planets were until I landed on them. The one that I have a base on has the name I gave it but all the other planets in the system are completely reset to their original names (and this system had some sentimental names as it was my final Atlas story system). I'm going away for a week soon and was looking forward to playing some NMS beforehand. Now just have a sour taste in my mouth. So many hours lost and funnily enough I've lost any motivation to play at the moment. :(
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For reference, this was the article I first read about this on: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/bank-problems-reports-bnz-asb-kiwibank-anz-visa-paywave-services-down/R2EY42QKQBALXNF33G5PA6U3TQ/
www.timesnownews.com
This isn't a gloat post. In fact, I was completely oblivious to this massive outage until I tried to check my bank balance and it wouldn't log in. Apparently Visa Paywave, banks, some TV networks, EFTPOS, etc. have gone down. Flights have had to be cancelled as some airlines systems have also gone down. Gas stations and public transport systems inoperable. As well as numerous Windows systems and Microsoft services affected. (At least according to one of my local MSMs.) Seems insane to me that one company's messed up update could cause so much global disruption and so many systems gone down :/ This is exactly why centralisation of services and large corporations gobbling up smaller companies and becoming behemoth services is so dangerous.
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WTF does someone's spiritual beliefs and practices have to do with how well they are able to run an organisation? That's an ad hominem argument. My country has a Christian prime minister at the moment but oh noes, I'm a non-religious hippy 'witch' so I guess our prime minister should step down because he believes in a pseudoscientific giant bearded man that lives in the sky and goes to an expensive building every week to speak magic words in unison with other cult members to call a special spirit to bless everyone that believe the exact same doctrines....
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Sorry been a bit useless with keeping up lately. It doesn't stick out. They're very clearly a scratch as plastic has been removed (divot rather than proud or debossed rather than embossed or indented rather than protruding.... sorry got a bit carried away there with the synonyms and antonyms 😅). All three blemishes are different too - different angles, curves, lengths and depths.
I decided not to sweat it any more though. Yes, it's annoying to have a scratched pen straight out of the box but it can't be replaced with something unscratched and the nib writes so smoothly it makes up for it 🙃
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Pantheon desktop (Elementary OS)
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Awesome! This was one of the last things keeping the NPO I volunteer for from switching to Proton. Hopefully sheets won't be too far behind (as we use those quite extensively too) but at least we can start migrating our documents in the mean time.
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Heh, mine arrived just this morning in record time (ETA was not for another 3 weeks!). I don't have a Kaweco Sport to compare to since after reading and watching reviews on them, I decided to go with the M2 instead.
I am yet to ink it up (saving that for tonight) but it feels nice in the hand so far and light for a metal pen (I prefer lightweight). I'm looking forward to seeing how flexy/springy the nib writes!
My spouse is jealous mine has a farting cat and his Hongdian Black Forest doesn't 😹
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I contacted the store I got it from - they looked through every Twist they have an unfortunately all of them are scratched like that. 🙁 Does Pelikan usually have QC issues? I wouldn't expect perfection on a cheap pen but that many being scratched seems pretty bad.
Brand new Pelikan Twist came with multiple scratches at the top of the barrel. One on each side. All about the same length as the one in the photo except for one that goes under the sticker (not counting the mould line on that side). Kinda feels a bit 1st world problems but I'm poor and this is the only Pelikan I will ever (short of winning lotto and getting incredibly lucky) get to own and feels disappointing to get a brand new pen that's already scratched.
There's a documentary that's more than a decade old that now only exists on Amazon Prime. I have searched everywhere for this but the website (and thus DVDs being sold) doesn't exist any more, there are no torrents, no second hand DVDs for sale that I can find online..... I'm OK with buying the doco from Amazon (albeit not happy about giving Amazon any money) but once I've bought it I don't want to be locked into Amazon's infrastructure (I do not trust streaming services to keep such niche videos available indefinitely). So how would I go about downloading and removing DRM from Amazon videos? I read an old post about mp4decryptgui but that hasn't been updated in 3 years so I don't know if it works any more. The only other methods I've found involve buying expensive Windows only software (I'm on Linux but can dual boot if absolutely needed). Thanks! (Also please excuse the freshness of my account - for some reason Kbin threw an error every time I tried to post using my usual account.)