The first time I encountered a baking recipe with ounces, I looked up ounces as I didn’t know what they were. Imperial units aren’t taught in a lot of countries. The Wikipedia article said ounces could be mass or volume, and also had different values in different countries. So I was just very confused as to what the author meant.

Everybody knows what a ml is, what a gram is, etc. They have the same value everywhere. There’s no ambiguity. What is “customary” for you is a confusing system imposed on the rest of the world who want to understand what you mean.

The main reason it annoys me is because a lot of English-language recipes online are written by USAmericans and therefore use imperial units that I have to convert. I’ve also noticed that they seem to measure everything in cups even for things where it makes no sense to use volume (flour is a common one—isn’t baking supposed to be precise? Flours can have different densities, air pockets, etc). I find ounces really confusing because they can be volume or mass.

Also, imperial is not standardised, so different countries have different amounts for a cup, an ounce, a pint, etc. I guess I can check the recipe author’s country and then convert to metric. But I just find it confusing. Can’t we just all use the same units that are nice and easy to use together since they’re powers of 10?

Sure, it’s not against any rules, but it’s at least rude to claim an AUR package name for some vibecoded app you spun up one afternoon and are not planning on maintaining. OP is just complaining about low quality software—“why not write low-quality software?”, well sure, you are within your right to, but others are also within their rights to complain.

That’s where multi factor authentication comes in. Biometrics are something that you are. You also need something that you know.

There are contingency plans for all my digital responsibilities (ie things other people rely upon that need someone to maintain them). For everything else, ie digital assets that only I use, I don’t care what happens to them when I die, on account of being dead and unable to care about anything.

I don’t particularly care in the abstract but this particular piece of software is also technically awful vibecoded slop. And DHH isn’t a random nazi, but a nazi with a platform provided by the popularity of his slopware.

For recording in cells, the glasses would be caught by the regular scanners used at various security boundaries including upon entry to custody, at least every time I’ve been detained. Is that not normal in the US?

I mean, critical support to Meta I guess. They finally figured out a real use case for their glasses. Albeit a very limited one because there’s already hidden cameras people can wear on their body, all of which are easily detectable when they search you before chucking you into a cell.

My spam filter on my email server. Autocorrect on Heliboard. I think that’s it. Luckily I picked up English at a young age so I don’t need it for translation.

Also for people having a kneejerk reaction, “AI” and “ML” as terms long predate the current slopwave. The ML I am talking about in the previous paragraph is not genAI, it is the kind of ML to classify things (emails into spam/ham, words into correct/incorrect), that you can feed training data to improve its accuracy rate.

El Pueblo Unido Jamas Sera Vencido

I’ve never heard of people taking the knobs off their stove to use one side of it for prep. Is it that hard to simply keep the knobs at 0? That way you have the option of using them if you want to.

Women are made to suppress their natural features so much to the extent that transphobic men think features that are naturally common on cis women are a sign of being trans. I (cis woman) have a moustache, all of the cis women in my family have visible facial hair, and it’s quite common for women, especially non-white women, to have some amount of dark facial hair. But we’re expected to wax it or shave it or laser it off, so people think facial hair on cis women is unheard of. There’s a huge range of natural diversity that just gets suppressed.

For effort: not exactly low effort but you can front-load all the effort by spending a couple hours cooking loads of food (I use a 5L Dutch oven for making pasta sauces, curries, soups, stews, etc). Freeze individual portions. Now you can just take out a portion and thaw it when you want to eat. All the aforementioned foods thaw on the stovetop on low heat so you don’t need the foresight to thaw overnight either. I do like to spend a couple hours making the curry/soup/etc to a good quality, but once you’ve invested that time, you’ve got a good-quality curry/soup/stew/sauce to go with zero effort. Takes time to thaw but you can just stick it into a saucepan on low heat and walk away, do something else, come back and enjoy. If it’s on low heat then you don’t need to worry about leaving it too long unless you’re gone for hours then it might have evaporated too much liquid.

For financial (and somewhat effort) struggle: rice cooker and use lots of rice to bulk out a meal. You can stretch out protein sources, veggies, sauces, curries, etc just by having a high rice ratio on your plate. Even paired with slightly more expensive proteins, bulking out with rice means you can stretch e.g. a duck over many meals to amortise the higher cost. Also rice and beans is a classic poverty food and you can pimp it up a lot with spices and hot sauce—again, the cost of spices and hot sauce gets amortised over many meals so is not that expensive per meal. I buy the big bags of spices as they are cheaper per kg than the little bottles you get at the supermarket.

I’m surprised you think so. I think it looks nice. Might be another cultural thing—are you from a culture where it’s weird to boil/braise chicken? Some cultures find the boiled chicken skin to be slimy and unpleasant, but it’s enjoyed in many parts of Asia.

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Looks nice though, and it’s cool how well Linux works for touchscreens these days.

The wings don’t come from the normal buffalo you see when you look up “buffalo”. There’s a separate animal also called buffalo that have wings, that buffalo wings come from. They’re just camera shy, hence the lack of photos.

I host a Nextcloud instance. Tbh Nextcloud runs like crap but it works fine for my one-user use case. As someone else under this post says, it tries to do everything and does everything badly. I would’ve probably chosen something more lightweight and written in something other than PHP if I were doing my self-hosting setup from scratch. But you can always self-host; if privacy and digital sovereignty is your concern, you can’t beat self-hosting.

Ubuntu was my first Linux distro and I liked it back then. I would’ve recommended the old Ubuntu to non-tech-savvy people, or people who want a Linux that “just works” (although back then no Linux “just worked”, there was always at least a bit of debugging for me). However it’s enshittified a lot. A lot of basic software is only available as snaps. It generally feels quite corporate these days.

Seconding Niri, but also I’ve seen swayfx setups that have Hyprland-like aesthetics.

If you don’t care about fancy effects, I’ve been a river user for years and I like it. Nowadays it is just a compositor and the WM is separate, but river-classic (which includes a WM) has a dwm-like tag system, is programmatically configured (ie you speak to the river IPC in any language of your choosing—by default it’s a shell script but the WM just executes ~/.config/river/init on startup, so that file can be any executable), and is simple and lightweight. The new 0.4.x release separates the compositor and WM, so you can pick or write your own WM that suits your own workflow/use-case, if that’s your thing—it might not be if you don’t want customisability and you just want something that makes the decisions for you to a good enough standard.

Some people do live off the record. It’s somewhat inconvenient but far from impossible. A lot of people I know have their address off the record such that the government won’t have it on record, let alone a private company.

Bite each other’s dicks off