I eat breakfast, same thing, every day, for 20 years.

It’s no harder than anything else, just get up early enough to do it.

Takes 30 minutes from start to cleaning my plates.

I also eat something like 7 times a day. More frequent, smaller meals are generally better for most people from a glucose stability perspective. Of course everyone is different, and only you know for sure what timing works for you.

The only time I’ve gone to my bank in the last 20 years was to get a new card, or to open a new account at a new bank.

Gotta carry ID, what’s one more card?

I refuse to shop at a place that doesn’t do cash.

Antifa has nothing to do with this - it’s a fascist group itself, just watch it’s tactics.

Embarrassing

Win R Shutdown -r -f -t 0

Haven’t used the menu in years, lol

They put a drug in it to make you crave it fortnightly!

Probably a combination of sugar and msg in different parts.

I find fast food burgers to be pretty boring - the flavor is kind of flat, simple.

My homemade ones are great because I use a spice mix for burgers (a copy of one Williams Sonoma used to sell, that has things like Worcestersher powder, garlic, onion, thyme, mustard powder, etc).

Hobbyists

I’m shocked with what I’ve been able to do with an old Dell SFF desktop.

Upgraded to 48GB of ram it’s running ESXi hosting a couple Debian VMs, a DietPi VM, 3 Windows VMs, a massive data drive, idles under 20w and peaks at 80w when I’m doing video conversion.

At this point I’m shopping for some old mini PCs to run the VMs as independent servers because their idle power is so low.

8 watts… That’s RPi territory but with lots more actual horsepower when needed, in a useful package.

I love the concept of the Pi, but this stuff is so hard to compete with.

This was just posted to selfhosted, and does a great job showing what RPi is competing with.

It’s a tool for seeing actual idle wattage draw for a lot of mini-PCs.

Many are in the single-digit idle power - the RPi claim to fame - but have a lot more capability than Pi, plus come in useful packages.

Just thought it would be a useful link for here.

cookie(n.) 1730, Scottish, but the sense is “plain bun,” and it is debatable whether it is the same word; in the sense of “small, flat, sweet cake” by 1808 (American English); this use is from Dutch koekje “little cake,” diminutive of koek “cake,” from Middle Dutch koke (see cake (n.)). “Dutch influence is no doubt responsible also for the parallel use of the word in South African English” [Ayto, “Diner’s Dictionary”].

It’s Virtualized Windows running an RDP session per-app, something VMWare has offered forever (Unity) and Virtual PC had too (forget what it’s called).

Not a bad idea, mind - I use Unity mode today to run apps that only work on older versions of Windows.

So it’s not a “Linux Subsystem for Windows” but a virtual Windows PC with a Unity-like mode, so it’s as resource-intensive as any VM.

That said, I think it’s great someone put it together!

And this is my argument against auto update.

Auto update means stuff breaks when I’m not looking.

Better to have a managed update process where I sit down, do an update, verify things work.

I get business has a different risk model that drives auto update there. Tens/hundreds/thousands of machines represent a massive risk canvas, and support for things not working is already baked into IT services.

The cobbler’s lids have the worst shoes

As an example, I once lived in a brick house in the southwest. A true brick house, built in the 1930’s so EVERY wall was 3 or 4 courses of brick - 18".

The west-facing wall would bake all afternoon and then radiate that heat all night long. During the summer months that wall never cooled off, it was always warm (80°+).

Winter it was nice, but summer it was a bitch cooling that place at all.

Ah, yes, good ole ignorant jingoism.

You probably don’t know that code in Florida has required concrete reinforced cinder block 1st floor for residential houses since the 90’'s, because that’s what can withstand hurricanes and flooding. Typical block construction only requires concrete and rebar reinforcement at windows, doorways, etc, while this code requires it in every other opening, thereby tying every course together, from first to last. This prevents flood surges from weakening the structure, and also provides a physical barrier for objects flying at 100mph+.

Code has also required hurricane straps on every rafter, since forever.

There’s probably a lot more code I don’t know.

But here you’d have them build houses out of stone which wouldn’t withstand flooding, unlike reinforced and anchored block, cause in your hubris you think you know something.

Houses are already wrapped with materials like Tyvek, before the exterior is put on.

These can wreak havoc on nearby radio systems, like Bluetooth and Wifi.

Yea, yellow jackets are bumbling annoyances around anything sweet.

Paper wasps are aggressive bastards who will sting just cause you were in their line of sight.