bluGill

Why are you typing anything in a grocery store? Type in the kitchen when you need to add something to the list, but in the store it should be just checking off the items as you put them in the cart. Maybe you have a good reason, but it feels like you are solving the wrong problem. [insert long rant about usability and human-machine interaction]

If you really need a keyboards I agree bluetooth keyboards are chunky. I often use a 60% keyboard with my phone, but it is a lot larger than my fine despite being a small keyboard. There is no getting around the size of hands though, you can't make a good tiny keyboard (even a 40% won't fit in your pocket).

You can find bluetooth keyboards that work just fine on a phone. The hard part is finding a good small one.

Hopefully firefox and the like will start putting spellcheck in their mobile applications again. I got mad at auto correct because it was worse than my spelling (at least you can guess what I meant - auto correct often changed to the wrong word: you wouldn't think to I might mean something else). I also often use a bluetooth keyboard, again spell check is needed.

I don't make fruit smoothies.

We actually have a blender in the kitchen - my wife and kids make fruit smoothies. Since we have it I use it for some soups - but this is only about 2x/year and I would eat chunky soups and do without a blender. This is the point I'm trying to make: you can do without things and live a satisfying life - so is it worth it to have the thing?

Take a look in the kitchen in places that don't need to show off their equipment. The places you name want to show off the shiny expensive equipment and so cheap quality is a negative for them.

Or a whisk. Manual egg beaters work well to for a lot of things.

I do own a blender, and use it maybe twice a year. There are somethings it does I can't figure out how to do by hand, but overall I'm not sure it is worth the space it takes up.

Personally I have a good knife and a nice spoon. I find for most kitchen tasks they work just as well as a machine, are easier to clean, and take up less space in my tiny kitchen. I would spend your money on quality hand tools first, and learn to use them. I'm rarely doing so much in my house that a machine is actually better.

@GaryGhost@lemmy.world

@mesamunefire@piefed.social go to adafruit or sparkfun (there are others) and pick up a "learn how to solder" kit of a type that looks interesting an put it together. Those kits will have instructions that give you a good chance of success and give you practice. They are also cheap so you don't mess up something expensive if you make a mistake learning.

The EU needs to lean into the strengths: they have high priced labor, that labor should be building automation which is cheaper in the long run. The EU can never compete with China on the cost of somebody putting bolts in. Even China knows they can no longer compete with (insert poor country of choice here) and has a lot of automation - in fact I'm not even sure the labor is cheaper in China anymore (I don't know how to look this up)

The EU is just under half the population of China - population is not a reason the EU can't or shouldn't make cars. Cars are too common to leave to someone else when you are the scale of the EU, and the things you need to make good cheap cars are also things you need to make lots of other things you want to make.

The war has shown the need. If you don't have the ability sustain 1000 missles per day you are vulnerable - that is production capacity. You should have the ability to launch at least 3000 at any one time. Larger countreis need even more protection.

Core or Scale? If running Core I'd say install plain FreeBSD on it. Even if scale I'd consider that in a full wipe - FreeBSD is great as a server and supports ZFS out of the box without problems.

Then grow a long beard (not optional, even if female) so you can be "the old guy who has seen it all"

His first term he was the first president to not attack a foreign nation since before Reagan. (I can't find information about every president in a quick search, but I suspect it goes back to the 1920s if not before). What happened?