I’m accustomed to the imperial system. But agree that metric is better.

Some metric stuff I have no trouble with. I have a good spatial sense of the distance of a mm, m, and km. And can do a rough miles to km (and vice versa) conversion in my head. I have a good sense of how much a kg is and similarly can do a rough conversion to and from lbs in my head. But while I understand that a gram is 1/1000 of a kg, if handed a small object and asked to guess how many grams it is, I’d fail miserably.

Celsius I can’t ever remember the conversion, but I’ve had enough exposure to it that I understand if it means cold/cool/warm/hot weather.

Reporting in with a hassle free printer like some other commenters.

I have a Canon monotone LaserJet MFP I bought at a big box store with no prior research like four or five years ago. Been great. Always just works.

Yep, been running it for a couple years at least? Mostly ZigBee and Zwave devices. For lights, some other powered devices, temperature control, and in-house location tracking.

It’s not always intuitive, but always figure it out eventually. There’s a homeassistant community at !homeassistant@lemmy.world which might be helpful if you have questions.

Was kind of surprised how long my list ended up.

Burn Notice

Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Schitt’s Creek

Star Trek (TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise, Lower Decks, could see Strange New Worlds in the rotation in the future)

The Good Place

Community

The Expanse

Firefly

Parks and Rec

Ted Lasso

Long time and still current hater of all things Apple here.

I have to use a locked down enterprise managed Windows 11 laptop for work. If given the choice of that or a locked down enterprise managed Mac, I’d switch in a heartbeat.

It’ll be my second time to the Philippines. First time in Hong Kong though.

I consider myself a fairly adventurous eater, as compared to most Americans anyway. But I admit balut is well outside my comfort zone.

I wouldn’t mind getting a pulse on what traveling in China is like. I’ll shoot you a message later!

As I’m sure you’re aware, it’s a real shit show here. You’d be right to be terrified! Abroad 15 years is awesome. Part of me envies that for sure.

I will check the community out for sure!

I do. Headed to The Philippines and Hong Kong in November.

I think that’s part of it for me too. I mailed it priority even though I have quite a bit of time (next trip is in November) just because I knew I’d get a tracking number. So I can know it arrived, at least.

I’m in the United States. I honestly don’t fully understand the nuances of it myself. When I applied for my passport I did so at a post office. But you got me curious so I did a quick search and looks like they can be at clerk’s offices, libraries, city halls, courthouses. So depends on where you are I guess.

I landed on doing it this way because I found an online renewal option on https://www.usa.gov/passport which sounded convenient so I followed that process and after filling out the form it had me print it out and instructed me to mail the form, my current passport, and the processing fee. So I did.

Two weeks is so fast! That’s awesome.

Nice to hear the turnaround time is fairly short. That’s comforting.

I am in the USA and that’s a great tip! I previously only had the book but ordered both with this renewal. I’ll try to remember that!

Trapped is perhaps a bit melodramatic on my part. But also can’t think of a softer suitable synonym.

But yeah, you’re right I’ll be fine. Thanks!

Here’s an HDD synth project for that very thing I saw the other day! Though probably won’t work for your use case, admittedly. It’s intended for retro systems and goes in an ISA slot, and isn’t available for sale yet anyway.

YouTube video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sASOfpzPjxg

Project page: https://www.strifestreams.com/hddsynth

I have a PC that I use as a router. It’s power setup is inverter > lifepo4 battery > battery charger. Relevance here is that it’s a “dumb” setup insofar as the PC can’t manage the battery.

What I did to help with battery health is figured out how long the battery should run the PC and have a scheduled disconnect of the mains power for about half that time once a day. Not as good a solution as something that can maintain a ~80% charge, but better than leaving it at 100%

It’d work for an old laptop too, and can be accomplished with a cheap aquarium light timer.

Yeah, I realized how it was problematic pretty quickly after posting.

Mostly I agree. I have no kids and won’t (vasectomy), and I’m a bit on the antinatalist side. Not so far in that I think people should never have kids. But reproducing at the rate we do is unsustainable and thus unethical. So there’s a bias there.

I do think maternity and paternity leave should be given. And some grace should be allowed for small things. Like having to come in a little late or leave a little early for having to pick up/drop off kids, that kind of thing. To a point. If it’s causing more than a minor burden to coworkers, then that’s a problem.

But getting preference in scheduling, time off, etc? I don’t agree with that. I shouldn’t get the short end of the stick because they have a kid.

Edit: In reading some of the other comments, I saw a common sentiment which I’ll sum up as “don’t blame the parent, blame the system” which I can agree with.

I also had a “chose to breed” line in my last paragraph. I softened the language there, because it’s not always a choice.

I got a chuckle out of “swap boil”

I know some folks in the SCA. Which I had no idea stood for “Society of Creative Anachronism” until just now. It’s a bit too much for me, but I’m glad they exist.

TIL the UK has publicly available hygiene ratings. I like that.

There’s one in my neck of the woods too. And I’ve gone before. Been a while though, didn’t even occur to me as an option. Thanks for reminding me!

Are there any you’ve gone to in the Midwest that you thought were particularly exceptional?