bluGill

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[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 1 day ago

Ask my wife. I've followed dozens of direction, none work for me - I get the peel and half the egg white off. She manages to get a nice peel every time.

i don't think it is genetic, but whatever it is nothing works.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

From looking at history this seems confined to one generation - in 1950 the "ideal family" was a man going to work 9-5, and the women staying home to cook/clean. For a while it even worked out that way for a lot of people, but over the 1960s there was a culture revolution and women started working, while men learned to help. This process is continuing on.

Look longer over history though you see that in almost all cultures men would regularly get into situations where there were no women around to cook. Hunting, or working in the field all day often meant men and women were separated and so men had to cook for themselves if they were to eat. (women between 15 and 40 were regularly pregnant or nursing a baby - men cannot do these things, and they limit what a woman can do so some activities become men's work.) Not to mention war which typically was mostly men, though "camp followers" did cook for the army in some cases.

Which is to say, maybe your Grandpa didn't cook. However that men in his generation didn't cook was an outlier. Over history men and women both cooked.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Every car at a gas station has an exhaust system with temperatures well over the ignition point of gasoline. If there was a problem we would have to let our cars tool for half an hour a quarter mile away from the pumps before we pushed them there by hand.

fortunately gasoline only burns in a narrow range of mixtures which are impossible to get in open air.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That only sometimes works. Make sure you never go to that station again, and tell your friends. Buycotts work best if a lot of people boycott over a sustained period of time.

i now have an ev, so I can't join anymore.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Huh? Who doesn't know how to cook? It is easy and very common in mowt circles. I think you need to readjust your life if you think that is rare. eating out is not only expensive it is also unhealy most of the time.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

Are you sure? I know a few very vocal people who care a lot. The vast majority don't seem to have any opinions other than what is the current fad. (though sometimes the vocal people get these people to care and so it looks like more - but the majority are following without critical thought)

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There is always 1 or two who say things like this. I think political leadership is selecting who is allowed to say this type of thing to appease the few people who care...

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

After thinking a couple weeks, what trucks need (and other evs that can tow) is a standard trailer light connector with ability for the trailer to provide power while moving. Many trailers could have another 1000lbs of battery. Campers in particular - and they also should allow pluging the camper in to charge both at once. You can rent a generator trailer for longer trips - and in many applications the generator is helpfur when you ret there.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That is out of date. Someone should look up the law in Iowa that just went into effect and update it. I'm too lazy to look up the required details.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

Apple is not that stupid - they will see through such tricks.

Which is also why Apple wants this: they don't get a cut of the money Patron makes.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Go to your small local "sales and service" place and ask them. Not all of them are good, but many are friendly, and they know what they get called to repair.

Though last time I asked they told me keep repairing the old ones - new ones are too water savings and won't work as well.

 

My wife is complaining that we have music all over the living room all the time. With a couple kids in music lessons, school bands (regular, jazz), orchestra, and such a practice session often needs 6 books and 5 loose pages of music so I can't blame her for being frustrated. There is no easy way to store all that and find what you need for the current daily practice sessions.

Putting a tablet (suggestions? schools gives the kids an iPad, and I'm looking at pinetab2, or boox for me) on a stand seems easy enough, but then what?

Mobile sheets seems to be what others around me use, so probably what I'd end up doing too, though I'm not locked to anything. Any other software that I should be looking at? I do like the idea that we can synchronize page turning.

The hard part is getting all my music onto my NAS. Do I just scan all my books? Buy again as PDF (only rarely an option). Entry the music into some other program? I have some sheet music I want to put into lilypond - is there anything that would sync my tablets to a rendered version of this.

I already have Jellyfin and I see book options (but have not used it yet). Calibri-web also comes up often for books. Both seem book reading focused and music flows / organization is different. Anything else I might want to put on my servers that might be better?

Any other thoughts? What have others done that works?

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