# Off topic discussions

**URL:** <https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 14, 2020, 5:53pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618 "2020-08-14T17:53:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Farabide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@Farabide](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Farabide)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/21 "2020-08-15T23:17:42Z")

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Did I somehow apologize insufficiently for my tendency to suddenly veer off "Squirrels!! "

Sorry

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**Author:** ![ChristianBloch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/christianbloch/32/56_2.png) [@ChristianBloch](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/ChristianBloch)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:54am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/22 "2020-08-16T00:54:44Z")

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And what’s the deal with airline food?

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**Author:** ![devicex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/devicex/32/28_2.png) [@devicex](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/devicex)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 2:25am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/23 "2020-08-16T02:25:06Z")

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planes , did you here Sam’s 100 oscillator test of the 1000 oscillator drone ?

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**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 8:23am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/24 "2020-08-16T08:23:26Z")

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about 750KG all up, takes about 200 people standing…

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**Author:** ![Vumnoo](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/vumnoo/32/6942_2.png) [@Vumnoo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Vumnoo)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2020, 12:26pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/25 "2020-08-16T12:26:06Z")

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Will this fit my eurorack?

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**Author:** ![TrapaNatans](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/trapanatans/32/9318_2.png) [@TrapaNatans](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/TrapaNatans)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 8:40am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/26 "2020-08-23T08:40:23Z")

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![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/lookmumnocomputer/original/2X/8/888195c72a12f00023fb75ad08365739dd2d9d44.jpeg)

off topic mail day

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**Author:** ![Farabide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@Farabide](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Farabide)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/27 "2020-08-31T08:59:36Z")

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I’m quitting smoking on the 1st of October. Who wants to quit with me?  
Saving for a Fender Rhodes piano. Anyone with an old one in the Uk?

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**Author:** ![sebastian](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/sebastian/32/39_2.png) [@sebastian](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/sebastian)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 11:08am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/28 "2020-08-31T11:08:10Z")

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I don’t smoke, but I would love to have a Rhodes!! 😍  
Thought about getting a Yamaha Reface CP, it has a very good Rhodes sound and is “only” ~300€, but that is not the same, of course…

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**Author:** ![Farabide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@Farabide](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Farabide)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/29 "2020-08-31T11:40:57Z")

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I need more than the sound. The playability of the Rhodes is very different to any keyboard I’ve ever used. My Yamaha P150 stage piano can, with a tweak, sound quite close but the weighted piano keyboard has too heavy an action to riff or underplay.

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**Author:** ![Maxhirez](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/maxhirez/32/42_2.png) [@Maxhirez](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Maxhirez)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/30 "2020-08-31T12:10:54Z")

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The Refaces have about the same size keyboard as the Keystep Pro IIRC. I support you quitting smoking though-I hope it has all the benefits to your quality of life that it’s purported to. I don’t smoke, but I guess I could start for a month to join you! (That may be the worst idea I’ve ever shared here.)

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**Author:** ![Farabide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@Farabide](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Farabide)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/31 "2020-08-31T12:49:38Z")

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Worst? Nah! 😉  
I smoked when younger and quit when my youngest told me I was an idiot. Then after more than a decade I took it up again as it was a panacea for chronic bedridden boredom.  
Hoping my “organ transplant\*” in a couple of weeks will fill the void.

- scooped up a 1972 Yamaha YC-25D with bass pedals for pennies back in February which has been lockdowned in London and hopefully will arrive about the 9th ![gwh47by7tsa1wzfxzz44](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/lookmumnocomputer/original/2X/2/259399b0eb66dd7ca119f9c29ecbb8970eb90045.jpeg)

My new organ 🙂

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**Author:** ![twinturbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8baadc/32.png) [@twinturbo](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/twinturbo)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/32 "2020-08-31T16:23:05Z")

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Nice organ.

I am quiting the wine again when the kids go back to school… I quit in January and was doing fine until lockdown started…

Need to loose a couple of stone and associated inches…

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**Author:** ![TrapaNatans](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/trapanatans/32/9318_2.png) [@TrapaNatans](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/TrapaNatans)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 5:20pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/33 "2020-08-31T17:20:33Z")

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You cannot get decent tea (in tea bags) here in Germany. This is my supply that will last well into 2021.  
The wetsuit is for my ongoing attempt to learn kitesurfing. Driving to Lago di Garda tomorrow.

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**Author:** ![Farabide](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@Farabide](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Farabide)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 7:48pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/34 "2020-08-31T19:48:00Z")

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Nice? You flatterer you

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**Author:** ![devicex](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/devicex/32/28_2.png) [@devicex](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/devicex)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2020, 10:40pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/35 "2020-08-31T22:40:00Z")

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good for you . hope it works out if not don’t stop trying ! hopefully it will help keep you with us longer.

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**Author:** ![analogoutput](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/analogoutput/32/29663_2.png) [@analogoutput](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/analogoutput)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/36 "2020-09-01T15:03:52Z")

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Speaking of git, for the two of you out there who use git and Linux, I just came up with an excellent one liner:

```
find . -name .git -exec echo -e '\033[0;34m'{} \; -exec git -C {}/.. status -s \;

```

It searches below the working directory for any git directories and shows if there are any uncommitted changes. So if you have a bunch of repos, you can see which are out of date all at once. Sample output:

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/lookmumnocomputer/original/2X/9/9605eca6881fb018eb33fccf83355df5187cf7a2.png)

(Unfortunately that’s only an excerpt from a much longer output in my case…)

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**Author:** ![Caustic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/caustic/32/15588_2.png) [@Caustic](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Caustic)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/37 "2020-09-01T15:49:53Z")

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dang thats handy. 🙂

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**Author:** ![ChristianBloch](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/christianbloch/32/56_2.png) [@ChristianBloch](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/ChristianBloch)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/38 "2020-09-01T20:14:03Z")

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> [@analogoutput](#):
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> the two of you out there who use git and Linux

Should also work on Mac, so you can add me to your list of two 😀

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**Author:** ![analogoutput](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/analogoutput/32/29663_2.png) [@analogoutput](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/analogoutput)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2020, 8:24pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/39 "2020-09-01T20:24:53Z")

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Perhaps I should have said “git and bash”.

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**Author:** ![Caustic](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/caustic/32/15588_2.png) [@Caustic](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/u/Caustic)\
**Post date:** [September 2, 2020, 1:59pm UTC](https://lookmumnocomputer.discourse.group/t/off-topic-discussions/1618/40 "2020-09-02T13:59:23Z")

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> [@ChristianBloch](#):
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> Should also work on Mac

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🙂

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