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baggins

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Music (mainly prog rock) and veggie loving, geeky cat butler living in Hertfordshire UK. A lover of all things LOTR (since I first read it over 50 years ago) scifi and what have you. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades ;-)

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Non gamer alert!

Started watching and have only see one and a bit episodes so far. I fell asleep so will have to go back to episode one and catch up.

Bearing in mind I know pretty much zip about the Fallout universe other than when I’ve seen it mentioned online, it looks pretty good from here - there’s definitely a lot going on and it’ll take a couple of watches before all the little details are picked up.

Seems to me to be a fun programme that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Hope it continues.

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Skimmed through the video and will watch at a later date. Absolutely fascinating. It used to work at a Raytheon company (Cossor in HarlowvUK) on kit that had similar electronics, back in the 70s. It was like being back in the factory :-)

When I was in the Royal Artillery (80-97) we had a system called PADS (Precision Azimuth Determining System) that was used for survey of gun positions. It had some fancy gyroscopes inside. I now know where that originated ;-)

baggins,
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The computer used by the Artillery (the one I was trained on in the 80s) was called FACE and had a magnetic core memory of about 8k nigelef.tripod.com/fc_computer.htm

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UK here. Is this really true?

What a scumbag. I really despise rich types like that who think they are superior to everyone else.

baggins,
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I read a bit about him. Horrible racist bastard.

baggins,
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None. Just the one built into Samsung.

baggins,
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As they should be.

baggins,
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I think the important points here are a) Why are MPs etc. using WhatsApp? and b) Why are they sending dick picks to people they don’t know?

baggins,
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Holy fuck. That’s something that needs to be eradicated.

Just when you thought humans couldn’t be more shitty.

baggins, (edited )
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This should come as no surprise. The UK’s MOD did similar, albeit on a smaller scale, for training troops for deployment in Northern Ireland, and Germany/Europe.

I think we all know China is gearing up to attack Taiwan as they make no secret that, as far as they are concerned, it belongs to them. The fact that the Taiwanese don’t agree is neither here nor there.

Same with Russia.

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Sorry typo. Fixed it.

baggins,
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You’re reading that last bit out of context. As* far as the Chinese are concerned, *what the Taiwanese think is neither here nor there. The Chinese have decided its theirs. Nobody else gets a say.

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Full edition of The Lord Of The Rings. No question. It’s not even difficult or a hardship. Just a nice long read. Don’t even need feeding for that short time.

Tried Arch for the first time | My experience and impressions (lemmy.ml)

I used linux intermittently in the last 15 or so years, migrating from early Ubuntu versions, to Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Debian, etc. And decided to give Arch a try just recently; with all the memes around its high entry point, I was really expecting to struggle for a long time to set it up just as I want....

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Excellent work - I currently run Endeavour on a PC and laptop. This article has almost made me brave enough to try a bare bones build of Arch on the laptop :-)

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I’d love to, but unfortunately we took our borders back.

Maybe in a few years if you’ll let us back in 😞

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Upvote for username before I’ve even read the article!

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If you’re in the TNT market, I can understand why you’d need a tough phone 😉

baggins,
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So say we all.

Been waiting to use that ;-)

baggins,
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I’d try another distro - I’ve had issues with Mint and wifi in the past. MXLinux saw wifi when Mint didn’t. Or maybe Ubuntu.

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They can shove it where the sun don’t shine.

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Going to be personal choice, but just you buy soy milk in Sainsbury’s, don’t expect Tesco to be the same. Am in UK but just change the names for your locale.

I found out a few years ago that I’m not good with dairy, aftervsuffering for about 50! I’ve settled on Tesco Oat Milk. Others don’t taste right and some are awful. Oat has leat environmental impact, but like others have said, you need to be able to get the stuff where you live.

Or just go naked. I have Earl Gret tea at work as we don’t have Oat milk there. Or green tea.

It’s going to take a while before you settle on one. Might cost you as well if a lot of it goes down the drain 🤷

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Tbh, I'm still super impressed with smoothness of :kdenew: KDE Plasma5 on :postmarketos: PostMarketOS on such an old phone (Samsung Galaxy A300FU). Truly an achievement. Of course it is far from optimal (e.g notifications can clutter the screen and their close button are out of bound of the display).

Well done @kde , @kde and @postmarketOS 👏🏼

baggins,
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Excellent. I still can’t find a version to load on my Samsung SM-T510 tablet though. Released 2019 so designed 2018. It’s not that old.

It’s so slow, you’d think it was clockwork.

And I hate to just bin it.

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Agree with your sentiment but not every driver is a white man.

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Exactly. We need The Belt. Sa-sa ke?

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