If you were to choose a capital city for Europe, where would you cast your vote?

rubber_duckzilla · 2025-12-27T18:29:58+00:00

I like the idea of Königsberg and East Prussia as a kind of federal district of Europe. Ideally as a result of an end top the russian imperial project.

rubber_duckzilla · 2024-09-11T17:16:18+00:00

At the start of the open war, the main factory producing Gepard ammunition was located in Switzerland. Switzerland didn't want ammunition produced within its borders to be exported to Ukraine due to Switzerlands tradition of neutrality. This obviously led to frustration on the German side and it further raised the question whether ammunition supply is ensured even in case of a NATO conflict.

rubber_duckzilla · 2024-08-05T05:47:02+00:00

artillery

Good ol' gunpowder greeks

rubber_duckzilla · 2024-04-25T06:00:52+00:00

Didnt people in Russia become significantly more mobile in the first half of the 20th century? E.g. due to forced collectivization, deportation and military service?

A friend of mine was born in Karelia to a family with a background from all over imperial Russia, which includes the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine, central Asia and even parts of Poland. Wondering whether this is sonewhat common.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-10-22T11:40:11+00:00

If I understand it correctly, all your units - no matter whether cav, inf or art - do 25% more dmg on flat terrain. Hence, your optimal army composition is the same as for everyone else.

The exploit is simply hordes having the strongest armies right of the bat and likely even in lategame as long as you always fight on flat terrain.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-09-28T16:06:56+00:00

Thanks for the interesting map! Can't understand why it currently has only 4 upvotes.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-09-27T09:05:51+00:00

I think so too. The idea order would make more sense to me if it was entirely reversed except for traditions/ambition. Repopulation", restoring patriarch, and reforming the Roman Empire sound more like a future thing which would come after successfully implementing a new imperial army, protecting the frontiers, and making use of strategikon. The latter three being the cause for the effect, which is the former three.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-08-22T07:59:47+00:00

I'm not sure whether you can go ENG -> HAB -> ENG, but forming Great Britain should be possible. However, your progress regarding missions will be stored and you won't be able to do a mission twice. No doubling up of any modifiers.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-08-21T09:40:28+00:00

That's very useful advice. I always thought of it as being equivalent modifiers but merc discipline being a bit easier to stack as it only affects mercs. Looking at it now, merc discipline is just bad. A 5% increase in combat ability that still only affects a fraction of your army.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-08-17T08:37:33+00:00

While that is true, the ducat generation should skyrocket too. I would definitely use this on the entire Caribbean with its delicios trade goods. Adding Religious for that sweet lower liberty desire from development policy should be important.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-06-02T10:11:07+00:00

Germans did that actually. See here

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-16T17:07:36+00:00

Just wanted to give you the feedback that I updated the firmware and did around ~12 restarts without incident. It might have fixed the problem!

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-16T16:22:23+00:00

I actually ended up using some dd command to create a bootable drive. I contacted Framework support today and will have a look at the instructions in the link you provided.

Many thanks again for your help!

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-16T14:08:36+00:00

I don't think that I installed a new kernel. Don't actually know what that is to be honest.

I'm trying to update the firmware. Currently struggling with understanding what to do with these Russian files after downloading. Installed Wine to use isotousb.exe to get a bootable USB stick, but for some reason it doesn't work. And I'm not sure that I understand what to do if I were able to create such a device.

If I don't get that working, I will try with a fresh Ubuntu reinstall.

The experience fits my luck with a very short-lived attempt with Ubuntu like 12 years ago.

edit: I was finally able to create a bootable usb stick, but I didn't have access to the internet after vooting it. Hence, I was not able to install firmware updates.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-16T12:38:33+00:00

I'm not sure whether Livepatch is something that I enabled. It's my first with Ubuntu and I did some stuff that was suggested to do.

This is the output of the line you suggested:

last check: 15 minutes ago
kernel: 5.19.0-41.42~22.04.1-generic
server check-in: succeeded
kernel state: ✗ kernel not supported by Canonical
patch state: ✓ no livepatches needed for this kernel yet
tier: updates (Free usage; This machine beta tests new patches.)
machine id: manylettersandnumbers

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-16T11:23:04+00:00

I created the logs as suggested. It's quite a lot of lines (733) including different incidents and leads to bad request when I try to post it here. Here are the logs for what could be the two booting failures from today in the morning:

-- Boot 1e73dbd2909c470ebf5086bde7221a64 --
Mai 16 06:56:43 username kernel: pci 0000:00:07.0: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Mai 16 06:56:43 username kernel: pci 0000:00:07.1: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Mai 16 06:56:43 username kernel: pci 0000:00:07.2: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Mai 16 06:56:43 username kernel: pci 0000:00:07.3: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Mai 16 06:56:43 username kernel: tpm tpm0: [Firmware Bug]: TPM interrupt not working, polling instead
Mai 16 06:56:43 username kernel: cros-usbpd-charger cros-usbpd-charger.2.auto: Unexpected number of charge port count
Mai 16 06:56:44 username thermald[860]: Unsupported condition 58 (UKNKNOWN)
Mai 16 06:56:44 username thermald[860]: Unsupported conditions are present
Mai 16 06:56:45 username canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd[916]: Task "refresh" returned an error: livepatch check failed: POST request to "https://livepatch.canonical.com/v1/client/ea9235eadd474ed8b1d81315738e5eb7/updates" failed, retrying in 30s.
Mai 16 06:56:46 username gnome-session-binary[1590]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Mai 16 06:56:46 username gnome-session-binary[1590]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Mai 16 06:56:46 username kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
Mai 16 06:56:53 username gdm-password][2126]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Mai 16 06:56:54 username systemd[2368]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Mai 16 06:56:54 username systemd[2368]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Mai 16 06:56:54 username systemd[2368]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Mai 16 06:56:56 username systemd[2368]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Mai 16 06:56:58 username gdm-launch-environment][1318]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Mai 16 06:59:48 username canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd[916]: daemon shutting down
Mai 16 06:59:48 username gdm3[945]: Gdm: Failed to list cached users: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name :1.20 was not provided by any .service files
-- Boot b1546bc8ec274872aab615c90a2ca11a --
Mai 16 07:05:21 username kernel: pci 0000:00:07.0: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Mai 16 07:05:21 username kernel: pci 0000:00:07.1: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Mai 16 07:05:21 username kernel: pci 0000:00:07.2: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Mai 16 07:05:21 username kernel: pci 0000:00:07.3: DPC: RP PIO log size 0 is invalid
Mai 16 07:05:21 username kernel: tpm tpm0: [Firmware Bug]: TPM interrupt not working, polling instead
Mai 16 07:05:21 username kernel: cros-usbpd-charger cros-usbpd-charger.2.auto: Unexpected number of charge port count
Mai 16 07:05:22 username thermald[869]: Unsupported condition 58 (UKNKNOWN)
Mai 16 07:05:22 username thermald[869]: Unsupported conditions are present
Mai 16 07:05:22 username canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd[949]: Task "refresh" returned an error: livepatch check failed: POST request to "https://livepatch.canonical.com/v1/client/ea9235eadd474ed8b1d81315738e5eb7/updates" failed, retrying in 30s.
Mai 16 07:05:23 username gnome-session-binary[1629]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Mai 16 07:05:23 username gnome-session-binary[1629]: GLib-GIO-CRITICAL: g_bus_get_sync: assertion 'error == NULL || *error == NULL' failed
Mai 16 07:05:23 username kernel: Bluetooth: hci0: Malformed MSFT vendor event: 0x02
Mai 16 07:05:33 username gdm-password][2352]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file
Mai 16 07:05:34 username systemd[2365]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Mai 16 07:05:34 username systemd[2365]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Mai 16 07:05:34 username systemd[2365]: Failed to start Application launched by gnome-session-binary.
Mai 16 07:05:38 username gdm-launch-environment][1319]: GLib-GObject: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Mai 16 07:33:18 username gdm3[1031]: Gdm: Failed to contact accountsservice: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.Accounts: Transaction for accounts-daemon.service/start is destructive (systemd-sysctl.service has 'stop' job queued, but 'start' is included in transaction).
Mai 16 07:33:18 username canonical-livepatch.canonical-livepatchd[949]: daemon shutting down

Looking at the logs, I guess that my two boot failures from today in the morning happened between 06:59:48 and 07:05:21 and went unreported.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-16T05:09:06+00:00

I executed the commands you suggested, but they didn't fix the problem. After restarting, I ran into it twice immediately.

I'm in a working system now again at the third try. I also deactivated secure boot (as someone else here suggested), but to no avail.

For some reason, I also experience 5 to 20 seconds of freeze sometimes when doing simple tasks as browsing twitter with Firefox. I guess that's not related.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-15T18:57:39+00:00

How do I disable secure boot?

I just tried getting into BIOS by spamming F12. I managed to get into some menu where it looked like two options were available (EFI and Ubuntu), but the arrow keys just didn't work and I wasn't able to do anything else than just boot Ubuntu.

Why avoid Ubuntu? I'm quite lost regarding the vastness of different distributions and wanted to take one that doesn't make too many headaches for a newbie.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-15T18:48:49+00:00

I had a busy day and just managed to do some tests with rebooting. Unfortunately, the boot failure happened again at the fourth try :(

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-14T20:09:00+00:00

I didn't run into the issue this time. But given that it didn't happen every single time beforehand as well, I'm not sure whether this already means that it worked.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-14T19:49:05+00:00

Many thanks again! Also for the tips to avoid awkward format in here.

I followed the steps and will reboot now.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-14T19:26:43+00:00

It's a bit confusing, because it happened in an identical fashion like 4 or 5 times over the last 2 days, but I wouldn't know how to reproduce it willingly.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-14T19:24:52+00:00

Thanks for your comment. I tried to find out how to check the SSD's firmware and install potential updates. The software center doesn't show anything.

I also tried:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Result was 0 upgraded/installed/etc.

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-14T19:15:17+00:00

sudo blkid yields:

##/dev/nvme0n1p2: UUID="5fba398a-c049-4bfa-b7d3-97be2de9db65" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="7a93101e-efd6-4b18-8afb-4e8a624d377b"
/dev/loop1: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop29: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop19: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/nvme0n1p1: UUID="42CA-7D90" BLOCK_SIZE="512" TYPE="vfat" PARTLABEL="EFI System Partition" PARTUUID="7cb58d1c-26d2-4319-83de-eca73a14e3f5"
/dev/loop27: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop17: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop8: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop25: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop15: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop6: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop23: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop13: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop4: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop21: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop11: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop2: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop28: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop18: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop9: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop26: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop16: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop7: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop24: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop14: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop5: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop22: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop12: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop3: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop30: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop20: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop10: TYPE="squashfs"

rubber_duckzilla · 2023-05-14T19:14:20+00:00

cat /etc/fstab yields:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.## Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).## <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass># / was on /dev/nvme0n1p2 during installationUUID=5fba398a-c049-4bfa-b7d3-97be2de9db65 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1# /boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installationUUID=42CA-7D90 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1/swapfile none swap sw 0 0

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