When my heart stopped beating in the middle of the night.

Luckily, the human body has mechanisms to force start a heart again. Not funny, though, 0/10, don’t recommend.

Well, the question for me back then was printing wide, so the selection was quite limited from the start. And laser was completely out of the equation, as anything printing wider than 21cm was industrial (size of a bus and price of a house) back then.

Don’t worry, I consider lasers, too.

It will probably be either a Brother Inkbenefit or an Epson Ecotank model.

A Canon printer. Not just a simple one, but a big (wide) one with real ink tanks, about 20 years ago.

Under Linux, I could only access basic printing services with that, and this only by using a default driver not made by Canon that happened to work. So I contacted Canon to get a proper user manual to create a proper device driver for this (something I could have done without problems), and basically got the answer that they would not support this, as “open source is theft of intellectual property”. They also had some very choice words about Linux in general.

I assumed I just got an asshole on the phone, so when I attended Cebit a short time later (back then the biggest trade fair in Europe for things like that), I went to the Canon booth, explained my issue, and basically got the same reply. So I sold the Canon printer and bought an HP one. At least HP supported Linux and supplied working drivers. Sadly, they have really gone down the drain since that, so the next printer will be a different brand again…

Well, I was not that far off. ‘Spamford’ Wallace founded “Cyber Promotions” on 1997. While there have been unsolicided emails even way before that, they had not been an issue: Whoever did them got a clue-by-four from the network community and that’s it. SPAM started to be a problem with ‘Spamford’ Wallace.

OK, you got me there. For me, EMail-SPAM is still a new thing, because I still remember the time before.

SPAM. Not the food variety, but the other. Inventend by a lawyer.

Qaulity is better than … trying to post the whole article as a headline.

I just found it is the head from Set 2507. Special moulded parts for one set, and then painted from several sides - must cost a fortune in production and development. For that money, they could have made a brick-built on.

With windscreens it is a mixed issue. Some have multiple uses, but some are not as good in that regard.

My favourite piece is the plate 2x3, because it is the best piece to build flowing landscapes.

There is no single “least favourite” for me, but a group: Any single-use part, especially the large ones. Like plane cockpits. Or many StarWars things. I just found a LEGO-car sized red dragons head while washing parts. WTF?

I only look into kbin.social occasionally to see if they finally got their spam problem under control. They were nice maybe a year ago, but now it is a dumpster fire with half the main page being ads for drugs and junk services.

The old “Reddish Brown” as of three or more years ago is know to be brittle. LEGO has changed to formula since which apparently fixed that.

Apart from your problem of getting the remains out, just contact LEGO support for free replacement parts, as this is a known and accepted issue. Keep the parts, though, if you ask for a larger number of parts, they might want the broken pieces back as proof (theoretically, I have nor heard of such a case personally).

My sorting works as follows:

• There are four sizes of transparent boxes: About 4.5 liters, 9 liters, 18 liters and 36 liters.
• Some colors I have so little of that all pieces fit into a small box, often just unsorted like “Bright Light Yellow” - although there is one part of which I actually have a bag of that makes up 80% of that color.
• Some colors have more parts, so I have a 9/18/36 liter box with bags of all parts with that color. Basically a color grows until it fills up a 36 liter box, and then splits, but there are exceptions like “Dark Red” of which I have a 18 liter box for the miscellaneous bags, but also a 9 liter box full of “Dark Red Plate 1x2”, as I need them en masse for brickworks.
• Sometimes, I have boxes for groups like “Yellow Bricks”, “Yellow Plates”, “Yellow Tiles”, “Yellow Slopes”, “Yellow Technic Parts” (all depending on the amount) and “Yellow Other”.
• With other colors, depending on the amount, I may even split those in e.g. “Dark Bluish Gray Plates Small”, “Dark Bluish Gray Plates Medium”, and “Dark Bluish Gray Plates Large”.
• And, while I do have a “Dark Bluish Gray Plates Small”, the “Dark Bluish Gray Plates 2x4” have an extra box on their own due to the amount I’ve got.
• Some parts I have so many of that I have dedicated large boxes for a single kind of part of that color, e.g. “Black Slopes 45° 2x4” or even several large boxes like “Dark Green Leaf Elements 5x6”.
• Most of those “group” boxes are of the 18 or 36 liter variant.
• Most of the “dedicated” boxes are of the 9 liter variant, but 18 and even 36 are not uncommon. The parts are usually specially collected/bought for previous or for future projects. Like I have an 18 liter box of “Tan Plate 1x2 with one Stud (Jumper Plate)” from a past project.
• I have two shelves of boxes for black parts alone, one shelf for Dark Bluish Gray, one (currently overflowing) for Light Bluish Gray, one for Tan and Dark Tan, and one for Green, Dark Green, and Lime Green. All the other colors share another five shelves.
• Boxes may “grow” or “shrink” or even “dissolve”, depending on the project state. At the moment, I have only three smaller projects built as MOCs, and over 10 square meters of landscape and stuff torn down, so most of my parts are shelved. When I build larger MOCs for which I have collected special parts in large amounts, even a 36 liter box of single parts can vanish in no time. I had a box of “Light Bluish Gray Plates 16x16” before I started my Moonbase project. Now I’m down to exactly one plate, which moved into the “Light Bluish Gray Plates” box, together with the original boxes tags (I have laminated signs for my boxes). That box will soon be reactivated (I’m expecting another 100 plates in the next month or two), and then deplete over the building time of the project again.

Juggling that man parts is a headache alone. On top of that I’ve got a stack of ten boxes of “presorted” stuff, i.e. parts coming back from cleaning and drying which are already bagged together with new purchases which all have to move into the right storage boxes.

I hope that answers your question…

Yes, I have. I use them for storing parts, i.e. I have boxes like “Black slopes 45°”, and inside that box I have bags with the different kinds of matching slopes. Of course, BL orders are a mixed bag there, some have one bag for a number of different parts, some use re-sealed bags from sets or normal plastic bags sealed thermally, and usually, those bags are rather small, as I don’t oder large quantities there.

So I actually buy resealable bags, mostly medium and larger size, but I also re-use the resealable bags I receive as long as they are still OK.

Unterschätze nicht, wie vielen Leuten die mentale Schwungmasse fehlt, um den rechten Mob tatsächlich als Gefahr einzustufen. Das sieht man auch an der Auswertung der Wahllokal-Umfragen: Je weniger Bildung, desdo mehr AfD. Und wenn Du Dir dann vor Augen führst, dass die Hälfte aller Menschen um Dich herum in der Stadt oder im Bus einen IQ von unter 100 haben, dann wird da schnell ein Schuh draus.

Ich habe aber auch kein “Instant-Rezept”, dieses Problem zu lösen. Jahrzehntelange Fehler von vielen Seiten lassen sich eben nicht schnell beheben.

Die letzten, die den Faschismus selber miterlebt haben, sterben aus. Und die anderen kennen es nur aus Erzählungen und dem Geschichtsunterricht - wenn überhaupt. Ich habe das alles erst später wirklich gelernt, meine Geschichts-Lehrerin war eine Katastrophe.

Wie sollen normale Menschen solche Gefahren erkennen und einzuordnen lernen? Die sehen nur die vermeindlich einfachen “Lösungen”, die ihnen von rechts vorgelogen werden, und machen halt ihr Kreuz da, wo ein schnelles und schmerzfreies Ergebnis versprochen wird: “Ausländer raus, und alles wird gut!”

Dazu kommt, dass die Leute mittlerweile begreifen, dass sie von den Etablierten Parteien egal welcher Coleur jahrzehntelang beschissen wurden. Geld kennt hier nur einen Weg: Weg von denen, die arbeiten, hin zu denen, die eh schon zu viel haben.

I once saw the Shrek book in a bookstore and paged through it. I often see that movies that are based on books have little to do with the original story, but Shrek absolutely took the crown. But where this usually is a turn to the worse, with Shrek this was exactly the other way.

My post-post clarity is when I look at what I just posted and find a bunch of typos that I had overlooked at least three times.

Dr. Google MD at its best.