drath

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[–] drath@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Funny thing is, it's definitely real as it's on a public display, but nobody knows who built it and, most importantly, why they built it. There are numerous equally plausible yet contradicting legends, some people tried to investigate but results were inconclusive, possibly because there were multiple built completely independently, or because it was a top secret project and intelligence planted red herrings. Maybe some vodka drinking took place. But, one thing that is common amongst most legends is that it couldn't steer for shit, hence why it was scrapped.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Probably Terelj or Selenge for Mongolia as well. In Russia it's probably добрый cola which I believe is produced on the same plants from same ingredients but technically not owned by Coca-Cola anymore. Might be Natakhtari for Georgia, but this I wouldn't bet on, tho more likely than the UK being off the list. And does Coca-Cola even operate in Afghanistan, NK, and Cuba?

[–] drath@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Just... drive a train at this point. There's nothing more badass than a train.

spoiler

[–] drath@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah, pretty much. Moskal in Russian means a resident of Moscow, with a slight derogatory undertone where -al ending which is common with a few words meaning a bunch of bad/insignificant things, like паль, шваль, падаль. To get the proper meaning of it one has to dive like 500 years into history of ancient Rus with Moscow and Kiyv dutchies, so it doesn't work that well. Kacap I'm not sure, wiki says it comes from either Ukrainian for goat or asshole, or Arabic for butcher, which, tbh, sounds kinda badass. Ruzki is like mincing of "ruski", which is literally how we call ourself, and "ruzzian" instead of "russian", but it sounds like a clumsy attempt to be offensive tbh. If you want to offend a slav just call him a "pidor", which is what both Ukrainian and Russian soldiers actually use on frontline use to call enemies. It's means "gay", but, like, not all gays are pidors, but all pidors are definitely gay as well as being complete motherfuckers, that kind of vibe.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yup. First two are Ukrainian and latter I think is more popular in the Baltics. But honestly neither really feels as offensive as the n-word or the "khokhol", and I'm not sure whether that's a good or bad thing.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Now that's a way to offend a Russian. Look, you've even made Yulia cry

Honestly, I'd rather be called kacap, moskal and ruzky all day than be in any way associated with the maga crowd.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Of course I know him, he's me!

/dev/sda1

[–] drath@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
  • Napkins

  • Square turned sideways

  • Square not turned sideways

  • Triangle

  • Folder

  • Half-eaten donut hanging on a doorknob

  • Cat

How was I supposed to infer the meaning of those?

[–] drath@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

As per usual, Google's funding selects the music, and the music is to sink Firefox down even further.

[–] drath@lemmy.world -5 points 1 week ago

Eh, the privacy trend was also s bandwagon. They removed a ton of power user features and touting privacy with things like enchanced tracker protection which could've as well be done with an addon. And they integrated pocket in at around the same time.

[–] drath@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

... by concentrating it onto a tank of water to heat it up and turn a turbine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower

[–] drath@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

That's a subsidiary

 

Anyone has any ideas how to revive it? Whenever I try to run anything, I get

bwrap: Unable to open lock file /usr/.ref: No such file or directory
error: ldconfig failed, exit status 256

No logs in syslog other than an attempted launch.

Google is surprisingly unhelpful on this one. I've tried both flatpak repair and apt install --reinstall flatpak to no success. AI suggests to straight up purge flatpak entirely and start anew, but I am wary of it also taking out the app caches, logins, configs, etc, which I'd rather preserve if possible.

Distro is pop 22, btw

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