As someone who oversees a shop like that, I’ll just say: if there was an even vaguely competitive option, I’d jump at it.

I know what you’re referring to, and I thought that too until he said “northern lights”. Ya gotta learn to listen.

Yeah, me.

Here’s the rule of thumb: do you think the food benefits from being cooked unevenly? For meatballs as you mentioned, I’d sear them in a frying pan to get a little bit of crispiness before I cook them through in the sauce in the microwave. Hunters chicken, cakes, seafood, all good. The microwave will cook far more evenly than a convection oven, though sometimes the unevenness is desirable.

Man, don’t you be dragging down microwave cookery like that. People who depend on LLMs are not like people who cook with the microwave; they’re more like people who don’t know how to cook, refuse to learn, eat takeout for every single meal, and still demand you address them as “chef”.

And now I’m going to talk about microwave cookery.

I think people who object to microwave cooking and see it as ‘lesser’ are either snobs, or people who have never used anything less than 100% power and get food that’s both scalding hot and still frozen.

If you’re in the second camp, try cooking for twice as long at 50% power. For most foods you’ll get an even heat well beyond anything a convection oven could manage. In some dishes the unevenness (e.g. crisping) is desirable, but in most it’s not.

Right. They’re hairy and secrete milk. So, mammal.

I assume it’s because of “hot pink” which now I type it sounds like a euphanism.

My Fairphone 5 lasted all of six months.

I installed LineageOS on it, but then went back to stock when I realised my bank’s app didn’t work. All was good until the next OS update utterly bricked it - and I really mean bricked. Loads of people on the forums had the same issue, and apparently it’s happened many times before. It took well over a month for FP support to send an automatic reply to my messages, then another two weeks for them to tell me I’d be expected to pay for the repair. I ended up claiming on insurance and buying a Pixel, which happily jumps back and forth between stock and GrapheneOS.

So, how about “How to test a firmware update 101” or “How to support a phone 101” instead?

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Sarcastically Shaking My Many Hydra Heads.

Ugh. I pity people who have such a lack of self-respect that that can tolerate living in this kind of dump. If the bed was rotated ninety degrees, they could watch TV lying on their side. But I guess whoever lives here is happy to just settle for imperfection.

I used to have an iMac that I loved (screen was excellent) but it quickly became a shitbox (because Apple) so I turned it into a X Server for my far more powerful Linux box. Is there a modern equivalent of that? Basically turn it into a thin client?

Edit: for kiosks, Windows 10 can be quite happy on 1GB RAM, but that 16GB storage is a problem.

Elon Musk.

If the cable coming through the wall is coaxial like the pictire OP posted, that’s exactly what’s happening. New installs will be FTTP and a lot of networks have been upgraded, but there’s still plenty of areas using DOCSIS over coax.

UK here. It’s just not a thing any more. I regularly drive - or am a passenger - on a ~200 mile round trip and insect strikes just don’t happen.

That said, I recently drove from the North of England to the South of France. Almost as soon as we crossed the Channel we were instantly getting insects splattered on the windscreen to the point we had to refill buy some bright pink no-nonsense washer fluid at the next services. So I assume some counties are more responsible than others with their use of pesticides.

I recently drove from the North of England to the South of France. Almost as soon as we crossed the Channel we were instantly getting insects splattered on the windscreen to the point we had to refill buy some bright pink no-nonsense washer fluid at the next services.

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You mean my best friend Plank?

They’d get bored after a time and Charles Foster Offdensen would have to step in.

In fairness, he’d vote for me.

Oh, fuck off.

Upvoted, obvs.