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by kakwa_ 1140 days ago
Système D has both a positive and negative connotation. There is indeed a resourceful part, but also an 'it's an ugly hack' part (but justified by the circumstances).

As an example, my parents used to leave in Africa, and at the time, the water supply system was unreliable, so my father hooked-up a 100 litters drum so that we at least had some water for essential needs during outages. Smart given the circumstances but a proper water supply would have been preferable.