this website is a great source for trips by train

i'm dutch, we have the best train network in the entire world

but it's expensive as shit

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Trains are the worst of both world as you cant stop when you want to unless youre vancleef https://youtu.be/o1DcFhaCCwI

all went downhill when they privatised the shit

i stll have small dream of conquering the trans-siberia line from end to end

but daamn the tickets cost

they're going back to government owned though

beijing to moscow and from there to france train trip would be fucking amazeballs

buuut doshhhhh

It wont get better as they will retain the same dipshits who let it get bad. Privatized or public it doesnt matter if the people there dont care and hate thier job but refuse to quit

GroenLinks baby

they always advertise with "only 5% of all trains are late!" and shit but then don't conveniently mention that 15 minutes is the threshold they used

majority of connections are 5 minutes apart or so

so often you enter the station a minute or two late and have to run across multiple platforms so you can watch your train leave

I really liked taking public transport when I was visiting Stockholm

always on time and relatively cheap

hell i would have connections for cheaper trans-sib train too these days.. i just realised

i need to reach out for that shit tho

16 days of train travel tho

just the transsib and then the moscow > france (or berlin or or or ) added 7 days +-

i'd like to go amsterdam>moscow>beijing>shanghai sometime

ooh yeah true you could add shanghai to that too

just switch trains there

yeah plus it's a direct high-speed connection between beijing and shanghai

and obviously when nkorea becomes freekorea

iirc it's a 4 hour ride or so

you can take that route there and skip chinkland pretty much

poor germans

i mean i cant care less about seeing "distractions" but the train journey itself would be probly nice

DB rolling in their graves and btfoing the whole country

Would it?youre in a very small cabin fir 16 days

i mean private lockable cabin (like it trust its lock anyway....)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypjP7rTc-b4

this is the amount of comfyness I expect on my next train trip

@johnfrum and shit ton of people with life stories, a lot of scenery you have never seen, (hopefully by then elon_musk_internet_services.wifi) and ofc the feeling of journey

Suppose, I like to get to destinations, the travel can be in a dark shell fired from a giant cannon for all I care

sure but if you aim for that its just easier to take the day and fly to beijing/moscow

but trans-siberia is all about the journey not the destination really

http://www.trans-siberian-travel.com/your-private-train/bolshoi-platinum i mean it costs fuckton

still can't believe it costs so much money to go from Antwerp to Amsterdam

how come that costs 52 euros and brussels to paris 20

Die Antwerp

@Tervy how many fucking visas do you have to apply for on that route

many

...

and im banned probly at least on one of them....

<:pepewot:589100642820161551> what'd you do

its a joke but i would not be suprised if theyd ever get a hold my work field or anything else related

this is why opsec matters :P

fuck my shit up

yeah I'll just fly scandinavian airlines again next year for 500 bucks

I KNOW

i told the prizes are fucking wonky

(and you can make it 25k journey if you want additional stuff :D

https://www.seat61.com/Trans-Siberian.htm#Fares

also it's a two week journey

vs 11 hours by plane

yep

including food, hotels, sight seeing tour guides etc

you can get "just the travel" cheaper from them too

what the fuck is there to sight see in the russian tundra lmao

I've seen the place from the airplane, there's nothing out there

in summer when siberia is around 10*c its lovable quite alive view

other agencies seem to be cheaper

yeah i linked that just to show the train carts

maybe $800 for a one way trip

cant be arsed to search for better pictures as i had the tab open

don't forget the multiple visas

china alone is 150 euros

but it's a pretty cool trip and definitely unique

@Kimichiboi around 1000 euros without the visas just for travel and food

still baffles me how some countries require visas

I mean c'mon I'm glorious European Union citizen

i've been meaning to go to hong kong next year but i'm probably just gonna go visit shanghai for the fourth time

Honk Kong during these protests <:pepewot:589100642820161551>

aand apparently they do have separate trans-siberia visas too

but otherwise its russia, mongolia, china

around 500 for the visas if you use services

probly 250 if you know your way around visas

or just yolo and spent some days in the gulag

mongolia visa is question mark but russia visa is easyish and china visas for tru travel should be easy

but ordering visas months early your planned travel and planning the train at best half year forward

ouch

but single entry visas for 30-90 days are usualy easy to get

china visas are a bitch

I've applied for them three times and each time they add another form

https://www.henleypassportindex.com/passport

where do you rank?

bullshit for the Chinese visas is that i need to travel to UK to give fingerprints ":D"

can't you just do that at your local <:chinese_think:323022148870602752> embassy

UK is my local embassy

... "where they want the fingerprints taken"

but you were finnish no??

im confused <:sadmitu:331056421342806026>

same as canadian visas requries me to go to sweden to get visa

for fuck sake

@Tervy fingerprints? I had to give those at the airport in pudong, not in nl where i live

for the chinese visa, standard form is like four pages plus proof of employment issued by your workplace as well as proof of hotel booking and travel booking

yeah but you can do it before travel

and its suggested

if you don't have employment you need a current bank statement showing you have at least 3K in the bank

you need visa to travel to canada? @Tervy

oh I've never had to do the finger prints before travel

@Kimichiboi if i plan to live longer there yes (and otherwise yes too iirc)

they never asked for it either

at pudong I had to give ALL finger prints lol

they have special machines where you stick both your hands in

i think it can be done either way quatro

my stepdad who was with me last year didn't fit, some employee had to help him out lol

either way you are forced to give em what is bullshit

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

actualy i need to check the china visa

pretty sure most EU countries can travel visa free to whole of Americas

last time i was there they didnt requrie any fingerprints sooo :D

its been quite long

@Kimichiboi you need to fill in a small form or something, I think it's called ESTA?

i mean they require photocopy of last chinese visa too officialy

who the fuck even has those after god knows how many years

pretty based tbh

oh that rule is actually fake

china man assumes you keep everything related to the motherland as souvenir

they prefer it but depending on how long ago it was they don't really care

I don't remember when I requested my first visa but they were fine with "october 2012"

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but yeah .. ofc when if ever i decide to go the tour im sure as fuck doing it in golden eagle train not with smelly russian peons

that shit costs even more extra :D

i mean "its a train "

with fucking restaurant on it

Its a land cruise

How much$$

Youre going on a worse cruise on land.

@basker i didnt dare to check

Honestly I'd love to take a fancy train ride

this is a more accurate picture of 3rd class siberian train wagon

single imperial suite (pictured) runs 60k

It's not as comfy or spacious as a cruise but it still has a charm

holy fuck i need to win lottery :D

Holy fuck

60k?

with 4k deposit before hand :

Euros?

pounds on top of that

but thats again "whole tour" and they dont sell anything else to that train what i saw

tfw no pool on my train trips wtf belgiumrail sucks

so 66k in euros

:D

Jesus

Sell state secrets and ride to exile in style

+ deposit and extras and visa

i wonder if price includes (very closely guarded) handshake with putin

or even fistbumb

Who even pays this

https://www.goldeneagleluxurytrains.com/journeys/trans-siberian-express/eastbound/tour_prices.php?currency=eur

I want at least five minutes of petting his dogs for 66k

comfy trainkino back on the menu https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6156584/ starring my waifu Jennifer Connelly

ugh i hate that movie

i mean it was tolerable as movie when you turn the "realism" off from your brain

not his best work but it was alright

Any movie that uses human biomass as energy takes me out of immersion. people are the least efficient feedstock ever.

well now i know what i ask for wedding gift if i ever have one ":D"

I'd donate at least 100 to that fund.

>>>>>>>> A generous drinks allowance is included with lunch and dinner. For passengers travelling in Gold Class on board the Golden Eagle, drinks from the Standard Drinks List in the Bar Lounge Car are also included. For Imperial Suite guests, drinks from both the Standard and Premium Bar Lists (excluding premium wines) in the Bar Lounge Car are included.

Finn_with_free_booze.mp4

Its supposed to also be for Russians, you will be a rounding error.

I dunno tho. On one hand I'd want to drink as much as I can to make it worth it. But being too drunk to taste good whiskey is a crime.

Imperial Suite guests will benefit from the option of a private car and guide in the majority of places we visit along the route.

private fucking car to excursions

oh god

I mean, if you split it with someone that would almoat make it worth it tbh.

indeed

anyway time to stop dreaming and go to sleep ---> have a good one o7

Night tervy

Hour eleven approaches

And I'm still at work

On saturday

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Bro working 4pm to 3am 😎

I've gotten some thermal compound on the VLI chip contacts

shoot

have checked if I can still put usb devices in, yup, they still work

And I'm done

That was a twelve hour day

6am to 6pm

7/10 add some funny browser tabs next time

@Billy Yum Yum Two-By-Two here you go

🔟/🔟

why the fuck is tinymembench compiling with only a single core

no wonder you say it'll take a long time

full load and it's not breaking 50c

on the 7zip benchmark

should I try a 2GHz overclock?

Go for whatever the fuck you want, fam

Long as your chips don't burn

foreshadowing tbh

OH IT JUST WENT ABOVE 50C

under 55c now

oh now it's doing a multi core benchmark

top temp is 58c

nice scores

@PoliteSuka gay wallpaper tbh

garuda cute

Good temps!

I was thinking of going with that meme tower cooler, and running it passively.

I will try 2GHz on this heatsink case

and not some silly cooler master thingo looking shit

IT BOOTED

here we go now it's executing

that's not good

lole

1.75GHz seems to be the limit for this case

or thermal compound is under the cpu

trying 1.9GHz

tx2z ('09 craptop) just bluescreened with "whea uncorrectable error".

Says something about CPU overheating when I search online, which sounds extremely correct for this toaster

I really don't want it to die, though, it has a lot of sentimental value to me 😦

Also wanted to use it as a mule for learning Linux on.

@Iren Masot WHEA is usually bad cpu oc

try disabling turbo

or speedstep

because that would lead to voltage increase and maybe its going outside of voltage range

Hey, your favorite brainlet forgot he could just check "reliability history" and "event viewer" to learn what had caused the problem, and it was a critical driver error. <:brainlet:589104479887032330>

So, I already knew that my '09 laptop was really poorly behaved, and have been intending to boot the old Vista HDD to get the drivers off of it.

Thank you for your time, my apologies

<:brainlet:589104479887032330>

Idiot

got a run it, but it has frozen

at 2GHz

Matt please

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It's a learning process

@Iren Masot I'm gonna bend you over and fuck your holes

Trying @ 1.9GHz

d-d-dad I-I promise I-I won't d-do it again

does the fan supposed to exhaust up or down?

Matt the only thing you're going to bend over and fuck is your own face you stupid bitch, tell me about one single piece of hardware you're trying to do cool stuff on

You can't

You own iCrap products and have service people paid to come to your home and fix it for you

@PoliteSuka Have the fans push air into the heat sink.

I think.

i can feel the fans air

@Iren Masot I'm doing some interesting work on your mom's uterus

You should read about it online, I haven't set my own system like that up just yet

but i'm not sure

@Matthew Congratulations on breeding a pile of bones, bitch