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You have to switch your viewpoint. Unlike every other planet, all Gleba resources are effectively infinite. Infinite fruit, infinite iron, infinite copper. Overproduce, let things spoil and liberally route spoilage to heating towers for disposal. Stockpile some for emergency nutrient generation if things get stuck.

Time pressure shouldn't worry you - most items have plenty of time, and spoilage is easily disposed of.
SER · 5w
I don't really care or know anything about incense, BTW. I just happen to have acquired a collection of incenses over the years and came across them cleaning out a room and have been burning them over the past weeks.
SER · 5w
There is vastly more difference between high and low quality incense than there is between high and low quality wines or beers.
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Like, there's a big difference between a $4 bottle of wine and a $20 bottle, but I'm skeptical about how much actual quality can be detected between a $20 and a $60 bottle. Same with beer: there's a big quality difference between Budweiser and Pilsner Urquell (beyond being different kinds of beer), but less quality difference between Urquell and some $10/bottle craft brew.
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SER · 5w
However, the quality difference between a jar-o-incense from that homey crafts-y store and a product like Asayu is intensely immediate and clearly discernable.
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There is vastly more difference between high and low quality incense than there is between high and low quality wines or beers.
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SER · 5w
Like, there's a big difference between a $4 bottle of wine and a $20 bottle, but I'm skeptical about how much actual quality can be detected between a $20 and a $60 bottle. Same with beer: there's a big quality difference between Budweiser and Pilsner Urquell (beyond being different kinds of beer), ...
note1nlpnm...
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I ended up using tasker, which is less "next gen cron" and more just a full featured cron. It's a single executable, and it doesn't assume that it's running as the root cron job. Ultimately, the fact that it was compatible with the extended crontab format was the deciding factor: it's familiar, all of the jobs are in a single config file (as opposed to systemd, which splatters out timer configs as individual - and rather verbose - config files, across a half dozen directories in the FS), and it is sufficient.
SER · 6w
I was doing a remote system software upgrade and the machine became unresponsive. Now it boots directly into the BIOS. Years ago, I'd have a sinking feeling of disaster. Now, I'm merely exhaustingly ...
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Less than an hour. It boiled down to booting from an Arch live USB stick, then:

```
$ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt
$ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/efi
$ sudo arch-chroot /mnt
$ pacman -Syu
$ dracut -f
$ exit
$ sudo shutdown -r now
```
Most of the time was figuring out which boot loader generator I was using on that machine (dracut), and double-checking the dracut config, and making sure I was mounting the boot partition in the right place. Mounting the boot partition at /efi` instead of somewhere in `/boot` just seems wrong, but that's a quarter century of grub conditioning talking; and it's likely what caused the issue this time: me doing something with dracut but mounting the boot partition in the wrong place.
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I was doing a remote system software upgrade and the machine became unresponsive. Now it boots directly into the BIOS.

Years ago, I'd have a sinking feeling of disaster. Now, I'm merely exhaustingly annoyed that I have to spend a good chunk of tomorrow with a rescue USB figuring out what fucked the UEFI Configuration, and unfucking it. With any luck it'll only blow a couple of my Sunday hours.
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SER · 5w
Less than an hour. It boiled down to booting from an Arch live USB stick, then: ``` $ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p2 /mnt $ sudo mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /mnt/efi $ sudo arch-chroot /mnt $ pacman -Syu $ dracut -f $ exit $ sudo shutdown -r now ``` Most of the time was figuring out which boot loader generator...