FunnySalt

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 Chins 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!