Pretty much this.
If you've ever tried using a phone charger to continuously power something at or near its rated maximum output, you'll find that after a while the power becomes unstable and the charger often quite warm.
e.g. Continuously powering a Raspberry Pi or USB powered computer monitors.
And watch the next season of that show I like and condense it down to a bullet point list of spoilers. (/s if not obvious)
I hate it on both ends.
If I ever lose my current job (I actually like it and am planning to retire from this one unlike all prior ones), I'll probably just go live in the woods or work some unskilled job. Not that I'm unskilled; I just have no desire to deal with what passes for job seeking these days.
Man I sure hope so:
I use Federation starship classes as my codenames. Granted, I'm a tiny project, but I've yet to get a C&D from Paramount or the Roddenberry estate. 🤷🏻♂️
I run an instance by myself, so I tend to default to "new" mostly to catch spam and shit early and axe it.
On my LW account, I tend to stick to "Subscribed" unless I'm looking for new content to subscribe to. I also block a lot of communities and pretty much all bot accounts because of exactly what you listed in the post.
I don't disagree at all. However, that is a whole lot easier said than done when one side is so far gone in an alternate reality of lies and hate.
We're going to need a mass cult de-programming or something. I just don't know how we come back from where we are.
What vegan cheese would you recommend? I'm only 90% vegetarian, not vegan, but I'm lactose intolerant so have to buy non-dairy cheese. Many of my dishes end up being vegan because of that.
I used to use Daiya, but unless it's fully melted, the texture is all weird (and it's kind of glue-y). Then I switched to the Simple Truth (not sure if store brand or big brand) and it's been much better.
As a cheese lover who cannot eat it, I'm always on the lookout for the next next best thing.
I'm surprised people at those cookouts can notice with impossible though.
Honestly, it might have been Beyond rather than Impossible. I don't often distinguish between them since I just buy whatever's on sale and throw it in the freezer. When I'm cooking for myself, either's fine, so I don't care which I grab.
I don't think I've ever air fried them, though, so that's something I may try. I should also start using a charcoal grill rather than propane. Would probably give them a better flavor.
After a campaign like this, how could you ever have a normal relationship with your pro-Trump neighbor/father-in-law/Uncle/Barber or what ever again?
You're assuming those relationships survived the 2020 election. For many, myself included, they didn't.
I was willing to overlook 2016, but after 4 years of horror culminating in a (failed) coup, and those people still supporting him, I just cut them out of my life.
Though unfortunately expensive, impossible burgers and ground 'beef' are virtually indistinguishable from the real deal already
I'm probably up to, like, 90% vegetarian these days (it's been a long road lol). I can definitely tell the difference with Impossible/Beyond. But they're absolutely "good enough" for me. The good thing is they're still improving, so can only get better. But yeah, they're quite expensive (nearly twice the cost per pound of regular ground beef). I tend to wait until they're on sale, buy in bulk, and freeze them.
If I'm at a cookout or potluck and make burgers, I usually have to label the Beyond/Impossible ones or people react badly. If I'm making things like chili / tacos or sides like Hamburger Helper and such, people can't tell at all. The only giveaway is that they're in the vegetarian section of the table.
Alcohol, cannabis, and limiting my exposure to news/politics. It's working wonders, TBH.
Cross-posted from "I have SO many things to tell you!" by @PugJesus@lemmy.world in !baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world
Thelma was in her mid 60s and Lawrence is now 75
Lawrence in 2024
Hope this fits here.
It's not much in the grand scheme, but all of my everyday carry electronics are all solar charged.
Left to right: Cat S22 Flip smartphone, Bluetooth earbuds, rechargable pen light/laser pointer/black light/dog toy, and my Kobo e-reader.
They're mostly charged / topped up overnight from my 12W / 8000 mAh solar battery bank. I just throw it outside or in a window during the day and plug a USB hub into it to charge my devices overnight. My phone will usually go 2-3 days on a charge, but I've also got a 6W panel I stick in the window if it needs a little battery boost during the day. I also top off other things from the 6W panel, but those aren't exclusively solar like my EDC stuff.
Thought I was going to have to cheat a week or so ago. It was rainy and cloudy for nearly 2 weeks, and the solar battery bank was struggling to stay above 50%, but the clouds finally broke and my solar bank was able to fully recharge with a few hours of sunlight to spare.
Like I said, it's not much, but these have only ever been charged from solar**, and I think that's pretty cool.
** Except the bit of charge my phone and e-reader got from my laptop when I had it plugged into USB to flash firmware and add files.
My solar battery bank. (Not the best design with an integrated, non-removable battery, but has worked well enough)
Tesseract and Photon do on the web. Maybe others, but I know those two do.