Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 25

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I guess people like to complain. I watched all the "The Acolyte" episodes and I thought it was not bad. The show is about slowly revealing the truth of a story from different perspectives with misdirections that are confusing without more information. Some people are stuck in a narrow mindset of what they expect from Star Wars that cannot be achieved. I get it that mystery plots can be very frustrating but I think it's not warranted yet to completely lose one's papaya. So far "Book of Boba Fett" has done more wrong in three episodes than this.

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Some of my tomatoes developed yellow or purple leaves. I bought some fertilizer because I read that these could be the signs of lacking nitrogen and phosphate in the soil, or potentially as well of some other elements.

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Tried vegan vanilla pudding. According to the packaging it's based on coconut. It's not bad but the hints of coconut that come through ain't my taste (could have seen that coming) and the texture is passable. More creamy than I prefer. The price was reduced because of the best-before-date (not expired!) to only 1€ instead of 2€. Enough for trying out but I won't get more of that.

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First tomato fruits are forming https://i.imgur.com/ARRP7JI.jpeg

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Thinking of the viability of a D&D adventure about a ghost crab with the title: The crustacean apparition.

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And of course the dumbasses are at the top.

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I voted today for the EU parliament. I voted so I can say that I didn't vote for the dumbasses.

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Sweet Tooth Season 3 on Netflix was fine. It's hard to say but the plot development was not so satisfying in the last 3-4 episodes. The supernatural aspect of the plot was both unwanted and underwhelming. There were hints of some supernatural visions in the past but could be handwaved easily. Burning the tree and its sudden stopping of all of the disease is headscratching nonetheleast. Also it being the global source of it is even more suspicous. I guess the whole story should be viewed more like a fable than any ordinary plot-driven story. I rate the season a 5/10, where the previous were more 7-8/10.

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I have to make a small demo program with the Hololens (1st generation), however I was stumbling real hard to get it running. Not only was most of the documentation old but outdated and confusing because of the Hololens 2. Also the tooling is outdated. I need to use Unity 2019.4. Also the parts that "should" work don't. I had to literally remove all XR plugins from the package manager, that should work, but the built-in XR layer of Unity 2019 is the only thing that works with the pinch gesture (it's basically like a mouse click action).

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Horror movie where the protagonist encounters a dead person wearing an employee uniform and the protagonist says "Jesus Christ!" in shock, while the camera is zooming on the name tag of the person saying "Jesus Crist".

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Women named Karen are complaining that their name is used in a negative context. Meanwhile people named Dick are supposed to be fine with the way their name is used?

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VHS filters are groan-worthy and overused.

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Bicycle trailers are ridiculously expensive and the cheaper ones look extremely flimsy. It's cheaper to buy a steel welder and make one myself.

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"Monsters at Work" season two is for all children above 0 years, however it's way too real for adults.

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Oh man. ICQ is shutting down. I've had an account since 2003. Still know my login ID. Eventually I stopped using it as ICQ was actively making extremely difficult to use 3rd party clients. I used KDE Kopete (Linux) and Trillian (Windows) for years and years until everything broke. There isn't really any multi-client messager anymore.

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Went to work by bike while it rained heavily. Went back home by bike while it rained heavily. When back at home it stopped raining.

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In terms of my "getting a new smartphone"-problem: I found out that the Sony Xperia 10 VI will be released soon and the asking price is 400€. It's still expensive and more than I'm currently willing to pay, but I'll wait for reviews to gauge if it's worth.

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It's baffling how many free trampolines are out there. I'm thinking about getting a few. Not for me. A family member has some apple trees on their grounds and my idea is to use the trampoline frame as a frame for a net to capture falling apples. Also most free trampolines come with free nets, so it's double the value. Also I'd use the poles of the nets, used as a side protection for falling off the trampoline, to construct a foil greenhouse for my tomatoes, or at least a simple roof to protect from excessive rain.

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Got a small steel cabinet for 20 Eurocurrency. Big enough to store hand tools. It's not the prettiest and has some dings and scratches, however still way cheaper than anything from the hardware store. The handles for each drawer are attached with simple M4 nuts. They get loose quickly. I have enough lock nuts.

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Whenever RGG decides to kill off the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series they should end it all with making it all an Inner Fighter simulation that Kiryu played. And then Kiryu should say that this "simulation" was completely not based on his life and in every way imaginable exaggerated with nonsensical twists and too much drama.