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It usually means that 300 people were involved in the project at different stages of its lifetime. It probably also includes the people involved in sourcing the material, tools, people, workspace, etc. That's probably 20 people who likely never touched the final product. There likely was also some marketing and business people involved. They did probably put hands on the final product for a photo op.

If you don't have adhesive backed sand paper, you can also get a can of spray adhesive. Doesn't need to be the super strong stuff.

You don't need a granite stone, we'll at least you don't need to invest in a super flat one.

Get large format glass or porcelain tile from a big box, or find a company that installs counter tops and does the cutting for stone counters. Ask if you can have an offcut piece of quartz counter top.

Having a cheap, flat surface is great for lots of tool sharpening, and it definitely does not need to be expensive or an investment.

Any replacements? I'm looking for a traditional launcher that let's me put apps and widgets on screens, let's me choose the grid size, and which let's me set a search bar that is not chrome.

The minamalist ones or the ones with everything in a list aren't what I need.

I can't answer all your questions, but I can assure you that you probably don't have a suffiently large enough power service connection at your house to blast out a powerful enough signal to do much damage.

If you did use all available power at your address, it would take almost no time to locate the person blasting out a massive "it's me!" signal over the radio waves. Much like if you used all the power at your address to blast out an incredibly loud sonar signal, people will notice pretty quickly. Also, the massive antenna or radar dish/dome (much like the massive speakers) would give you away visually.

With the plug in models that's about the biggest you'll find. Full range cook tops will offer larger diameters.

If you're searing or pan frying, then a 12 in might have some cold spots towards the edge, depends on the quality of the pan. A 10 in or less should be fine as long as the pan is decent quality. For something like deep frying, stewing, boiling, etc the size won't matter so much.

Get a decent counter top induction plate. Don't get a fancy one, because they are all limited to the same power. So get one that has the basic features you might want to try. Also try to get one with a reasonable size heating zone.

Then get a good solid stainless steel or cast iron pan.

It won't be quite the same power level as a full cook range, but it will show you how the heat can be managed. It will probably be able to boil water faster than gas, but not quite as fast as a modern electric. Try something that requiresgood heat control, like pancakes.

These induction plates are also just generally useful for doing stinky/messy things outside or adding another burner to the kitchen during big holiday or family events.

That's still a smaller factor than how you feed it and store it.

There's likely a sufficiently large number of organisms in both the levain and starter that as long as both are thoroughly mixed before sampling that there would no difference. The mixing means that you'd have an exceptionally small chance of getting a significant difference between sampling methods.

You will get larger differences based on how the microbes reproduce. So this means things like feeding schedule, storage temperature, water/flour ratio, etc will be what actually change the characteristics of the culture. The selection process that matters is how well different strains of microbes reproduce, which determines which microbes are more common in the culture. The way that they get moved between batches isn't likely to have an effect.

That said, if you're sampling from the levain after your first rise, then you will likely get a difference because those microbes reproduced under different conditions than the ones that may stick to a spoon. If you sample the levain right after the initial mixing of the dough (and there is no salt added yet), then there will be no significant difference.

Absolutely, there's no way I'm leaving the 3 buttons by choice. The navy gestures conflict with too many other actions.

I'm on a pixel 9 now and still have problems, it's inherent to Android. They are less on this phone, but the 3 buttons are longer part of Google vision for how to use our phones. They are going the Apple direction.

I had this problem on a pixel 6 and was advised by Google support to switch to a 3rd party launcher.