• h0rnman@lemmy.world
    112·
    11 months ago

    I know this is a meme /c, but for real, I bought this exact same product a while back. If this is your photo, just be careful about what you put on it. Mine lasted 2 months with a grape vine on it before it collapsed.

    Source: Arch user

    • Patches@sh.itjust.works
      32·
      11 months ago

      I can’t think of a more appropriate time for

      You had one job…

      When a grape trellis collapses due to the weight of… checks notes grapes.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        71·
        11 months ago

        I’m really not sure how much of this thread is a joke. Wouldn’t you just use solid slats of wood?

        • h0rnman@lemmy.world
          6·
          11 months ago

          Lol. The wife wanted something decorative and liked how it looked. Caveat Emptor, and all that I suppose. I knew I was buying from a less-than-quality source

        • Lorindól@sopuli.xyz
          4·
          11 months ago

          One definitely should use solid structures, metal or wooden. The damned thing cost ~10$ and I didn’t have time to build a proper support structure at the moment. I meant to use it only as a temporary solution, which I forgot when everything was fine.

          The design of the arch itself wasn’t the problem. The interconnecting pipes were only 1-2mm thick, so there was no way it could possibly support the weight of a flourishing grape vine.

          It was marketed as a “rose arch”. I guess it could’ve handled this purpose without any problems.

          Buy wrong stuff, suffer the consequences.

      • deadsenator@lemmy.ca
        3·
        11 months ago

        Just wanted to say we have one in our yard that has been there for almost 20-years. Previous owner left it to rot. I moved it close to some wild hops and they are covering it completely after two years. Still standing!

      • robdor@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        10·
        11 months ago

        It is straight. There’s just a big ol mass somewhere between the paper and us causing some gravitational lensing.

    • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      10·
      11 months ago

      Should be piss easy if you followed the instructions, but people will just start connecting parts because “how hard can it be”. Then they’ll complain about how it’s broken and how the instructions were bad lol.

    • Ithi@lemmy.ca
      2·
      11 months ago

      I was thinking the same thing and assumed it was a serious post until I looked at the community name.

  • palordrolap@kbin.social
    18·
    11 months ago

    Makes sense to me.

    My only concern is that pipe c is shown as having two different shapes: straight and slightly curved.

    Based on the fact that the design requires that a and b be different, there would undoubtedly be the same situation for the four slightly curved c pipes. That is, there would need to be two “c2” pipes and two “c3” pipes in the set rather than just four more of the same c pipe.

    That makes me think the diagram at the bottom was made before a decision to cut costs and/or simplify. Four regular c pipes will undoubtedly be cheaper and logistically simpler to manage for both shipping and user construction than having those two extra pipe types.

    It was, of course, relabelled to match the supplied parts, but the hints of the original design still remain.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
      6·
      11 months ago

      Wow you are too hardcore Linux user for me to grasp what you mean. I suppose pipe is the new sound system though. But why the need for so many?
      I wasn’t even aware that level of abstraction was possible when talking about Linux, not even Arch.

      • palordrolap@kbin.social
        4·
        11 months ago

        Pipewire? It’s very new to me and can’t say I know much about it, not that I knew much about its predecessors either.

        ...

        (But putting the silliness hat on…)

        The pipes in the diagram are obviously named pipes, but they’re not Linux pipes. There seems to be not only multiple types (which is disturbingly Microsoft), but often multiple by the same name (which would confuse most sane OSes, if not the insane ones too.)

        It’s almost like they’re instances of a subroutine object all running in parallel…

      • ashok36@lemmy.world
        7·
        11 months ago

        They’re not. A is the starting piece on both sides. B is the end piece. C and D are the pieces between a and B.

        The order for each side would be acccddddcccb.

        E is the 11 bars that hold the two sides together.

        • NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          The drawing does say that… It’s just that the curvature on those top Cs makes them look very much like Ds to me.

  • confusedwiseman@lemmy.world
    14·
    11 months ago

    Read’s instructions: “Doesn’t seem that bad, what’s the issue?”

    Sees: ‘Arch User Manual’

    Notices community…

    D’Oh!

  • Veneroso@lemmy.world
    10·
    11 months ago

    If you have extra parts when you’re done that’s a compiler error, check your module dependencies.

    If you’re missing parts, check the forums, but this looks like a new system; that wifi chipset might be unsupported.

    Metric? Somebody set the region settings wrong!

    • dan@upvote.au
      3·
      11 months ago

      Metric? Somebody set the region settings wrong!

      That’s a weird way to spell “correctly”

      I’m a metric user btw