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Oooh, so pretty! Also, the cable management and organized tools look great, lol.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago
[–] Tolstoy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is the quality of the Brand "Clementoni"? My wife swears on Ravensburger but they're overpriced and I found Clementoni as an alternative but haven't ordered anything yet.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

This is the fist puzzle I have bought in decades.

So far it seems pretty good.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trippy!

And what Audiobook currently?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"Timeline" by Michael Crichton

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

l read the book decades ago as it came out and still have some vivid images in my head of the described middle ages environment.

Given that I usually forget the detailed contents of books I read after some weeks already, it means it must have been pretty good! :-)

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It has been really good, yeah.

I bought it and Airframe by the same author, and I had to drop Airframe as I found the general premise of the book too incorrect.

To avoid spoilers I won't go into detail of the specific issues I had with it.

Before that I listened through Neuromancer and Dune.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Never read Dune, but Neuromancer was one of the first SF-books ever that I got to read, back in the late 80s.
Needless to say that it adequately blew my mind...

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Dune is a weird story mixing sci-fi, fantasy and religion, it isn't my favorite sci-fi work, but it is a great work.

Neuromancer, the environment is fantastic, brilliant, but never got into the story.

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

As you seem not to be frightened by large books and also seem to like books with historic setting before scientific background, I would strongly recommend you the "Baroque" cycle by Neal Stephenson.
Not sure if there is a good audiobook version of it though...

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Interesting, thank you!

[–] nullroot@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Those colors are a bit vibrant... Maybe too vibrant...

Jokes aside it looks very cool! Great activity

[–] Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am slightly more intrigued and confused by the socket setup mounted to the wall...

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 months ago

They were mounted there by my dad when I moved to this apartment, he wanted me to have a proper hobby workbench, with plenty of outlets.

This space is in a walk in closet, which I have used for storage of rum and other alcohol.

I have a large collection of alcohol but hardly ever drink, so I bought a small Billy bookcase as a bar shelf and moved the bottles away, to prepare the space for hobby use, if you checkout my post history you will find a rant about tech and my reasons for clearing this space, in short I have decided on a project for 2026, building a Z scale model railway in a suitcase.

I have never done anything like that before but felt like giving it a go.

I am just waiting for my finances to stabilize after christmas and an expensive January before I start, so I just started using the space for this.

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you should plug it in, brighten it up a bit.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

Sadly the proper outlets are too far away for that

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 3 months ago