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Sector11 · 2021-06-11 18:34:12

Someone recently created three posts offering three different services. None of which are Linux related. The were however very similar to the meat product by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

And for those fine offers we just gave, Someone, a FREE life time ban from the forums.

HWY! How about that our free service, ban, rhymes with the meat product by the Hormel Foods Corporation

We here at Bunsenlabs hope you enjoy your our FREE service.

Sector11 · 2021-06-11 18:34:47

glittersloth wrote:

^ At least it didn't kill your service outright, like the NSA did to some of us when they raided the old Lavabit

I still get GRRRRR when I think about that!

tamberoo · 2021-06-12 02:07:17

eight.bit.al wrote:

Subjective opinion :
UIs can be tweaked to better suit the user, but it's a trade off. How much does the user need to understand the UI to change it to their liking. Does one need to install some third party program to get there.

When I read this a few days ago, the memory of it kept sticking around in my head, gently echoing around when I wouldn't expect it. It makes me now wonder about another question:

Will skeuomorphism return as a major UI "language"?

glittersloth · 2021-06-12 05:50:32

Sector11 wrote:

Someone recently created three posts offering three different services. None of which are Linux related.

I miss Baba Ji. He helped me find true love, inner peace, and a Gibraltar passport.

tamberoo wrote:

Will skeuomorphism return as a major UI "language"?

Oh please no!! I still wake up at night screaming after getting nightmares of someone rubbing Apple's old Notes app in my face.

hhh · 2021-06-12 12:25:57

glittersloth wrote:

I miss Baba Ji. He helped me find true love, inner peace, and a Gibraltar passport.

Portugal? Bullshit, you've never been to Portugal. Photo of the passport or it never happened.

ohnonot · 2021-06-15 04:52:35

hhh wrote:

glittersloth wrote:
I miss Baba Ji. He helped me find true love, inner peace, and a Gibraltar passport.
Portugal? Bullshit, you've never been to Portugal. Photo of the passport or it never happened.

Is this another (movie) quote? I don't get it. Makes zero sense to me.

johnraff · 2021-06-15 05:01:16

...so many things make no sense to me...

damo · 2021-06-15 06:45:15

ohnonot wrote:

...
Is this another (movie) quote? I don't get it. Makes zero sense to me.

It is a reference to incidents during the latter days of the Crunchbang forums.

phuturism · 2021-06-15 06:45:20

Rightly or wrongly isn't Gibraltar part of the UK? and off Spain not Portugal?

EDIT oh in-joke, ok..

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el_koraco · 2021-06-15 08:01:38

I've been to Gibraltar. Cool place.

johnraff · 2021-06-29 02:24:18

Not good news for Cinnamon lovers (@hhh?):
Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now

hhh · 2021-06-29 05:46:11

johnraff wrote:

Not good news for Cinnamon lovers (@hhh?):
Debian's Cinnamon desktop maintainer quits because he thinks KDE is better now

Developer quits because he thinks his desktop is irrelevant. Now where have I heard that before?

https://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=38916

And yet here we we are, over 6 years later.

hhh · 2021-06-29 05:49:23

I almost forgot about this quote, my favorite...

corenominal wrote:

(seriously, there are some bat-fucking-crazy nutters out there with far too much time on their hands)

johnraff · 2021-07-05 08:08:15

Friday at a town not so far from here. A good friend lives there, but he's OK fortunately. Many others still unaccounted for:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb_QxXv-VzQ
"mountain tsunami"

glittersloth · 2021-07-05 12:59:18

^ Good that your mate is okay. As negative as this sounds, I wouldn't keep my hopes up for the missing persons. Land/mud-slides are the most unforgiving of disasters.

EdiT:
Speaking of Japan (and me trying to put some positive vibes back), how's your python doing? Still tweeting?

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Sector11 · 2021-07-05 17:53:39

Yes good to hear your friend and you are safe John.

What a disaster.

hhh · 2021-07-05 19:08:30

I saw it on my news feed and was worried that it was close to you. Glad it wasn't that close! *squints at Hurricane Elsa from Charleston*

johnraff · 2021-07-06 02:34:31

glittersloth wrote:

^ Good that your mate is okay. As negative as this sounds, I wouldn't keep my hopes up for the missing persons. Land/mud-slides are the most unforgiving of disasters.
EdiT:
Speaking of Japan (and me trying to put some positive vibes back), how's your python doing? Still tweeting?

About 130 houses were destroyed, but the missing persons figure goes up and down. A few have been rescued alive, a few bodies found, 30~40 missing were then accounted for, but as you say it's out of the question to entertain any hopes for someone hit by that wall of mud, or trapped under it.

The python - still tweeting occasionally - the two weeks of terror ended when it was found in the attic of the original building! Never went anywhere.

hhh · 2021-07-06 02:54:36

johnraff wrote:

glittersloth wrote:
^ Good that your mate is okay. As negative as this sounds, I wouldn't keep my hopes up for the missing persons. Land/mud-slides are the most unforgiving of disasters.
EdiT:
Speaking of Japan (and me trying to put some positive vibes back), how's your python doing? Still tweeting?
About 130 houses were destroyed, but the missing persons figure goes up and down. A few have been rescued alive, a few bodies found, 30~40 missing were then accounted for, but as you say it's out of the question to entertain any hopes for someone hit by that wall of mud, or trapped under it.
The python - still tweeting occasionally - the two weeks of terror ended when it was found in the attic of the original building! Never went anywhere.

Wait, was that an actual constrictor snake?

They can kill you. Do not watch, you sick mates...

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8999226/d … ce-russia/

The snake broke his neck, he died.

johnraff · 2021-07-06 02:56:24

Yes, a real python.

Not sure about the Twitter account though.

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