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  • [QUESTION] What makes a well stocked pantry?

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  • Where do you get apple butter? I try to stick up when I can but that seems to be seasonal so I can’t get it at least half the year.

    Interestingly, apricot preserves is a good substitute for apple cider, is always available and lasts - I don’t really drink cider out of season but want to cook with it often. However a pork shoulder slathered in apricot preserves works really well when I wanted to spritz it with cider

  • Do you feel a kinship with people who drive the same make/model car as you?

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  • Sometimes I really miss my old Toyota Sienna. It could do so much so easily.

    Most recently, bringing my elder kid home from college last spring took 3 trips when the Sienna could have handled it all at once. Or maybe it’s trying to bring a Christmas tree home without losing all the needles. Or maybe it’s all the mulch I’m still buying and spreading

  • Do you feel a kinship with people who drive the same make/model car as you?

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  • I used to. While most of my cars have been non-descript, recently

    • Subaru forester - was close enough to niche and had strong associations with camping, hiking, dogs, so I was all in. And yes, I did all three with that car. But they’ve gotten more popular - now they let anyone buy them
    • then I got a Tesla. One of the few people making the choice with my money to save the world ….. but apparently now I’m a Nazi right wing MAGAt, and half my country somehow doesn’t believe that EVs are or need to be a thing. I’m no longer part of the small group leading the change but just a little ahead of than those who reject change
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  • Coffee or tea? For me the caffeine addiction was a big part of it and I couldn’t kick both the caffeine and sugar at the same time. Coffee or tea are less problematic, as long as you don’t put too much cream or sugar.

    Never buy soda bottles even though they’re much cheaper. Cans are smaller, pre-portioned. If I buy a bottle, I’m going to finish it, but if I buy a can then finishing it is a moderate amount.

    Now I’m in a better spot where my caffeine comes from coffee, black, and my soda is one can of diet (except recently I’m discovering all these interesting sodas from other places.)

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  • Yeah, late 1970s here for the family computer, where I already had to start pulling all nighters to get enough time, then my own first computer in the early 1980s …… once on a while I realize that I’ve lived the entire pc revolution and think WOW

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  • Great scenario for an EV! You’re not losing the efficiency by accelerating hard, can accelerate harder, and you make some of it back by using regen when you slow down

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  • There’s also the safety aspect. A lot of the habits that help you go farther on a tank of gas also make accidents less likely or less serious

  • The Arab American community that helped propel Trump is now grappling with lran war's fallout

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  • I don’t recall there ever being a time where Trump looked better for Palestine even if you believed him. The two candidates were at best tied on this particular issue but Trump so clearly was evil everywhere else

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    What makes a vagina better than the penis?

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  • Suppose it might be easier to smuggle

    It’s probably just jealousy that fashion designers compensate by giving men pockets!

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    What makes a vagina better than the penis?

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  • I find it hard to believe that’s the same thing. It’s not that you have dangly bits that can be sat on but what you sit on.

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    What makes a vagina better than the penis?

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  • Have you checked whether there’s still warranty coverage?

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    What makes a vagina better than the penis?

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  • Yeah but you can’t do helicopters

  • Every dependency you add is a supply chain attack waiting to happen

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  • I’m not buying this. Sure minimizing dependencies is a good practice, but not updating? That’s a recipe for disaster.

    It’s important to note that you can’t predict supply chain attacks or vulnerabilities, and vulnerabilities are much more common. Also, while frequent updates might expose you to that supply chain attack more quickly, it also mitigates it more quickly. Frequent updates in combination with vulnerability scanning, and limiting downloads to reputable sources (that try to prevent supply chain attacks and discover them quickly) is a much better approach.

    There also the maintainability argument, that I’m having right now with a couple of our legacy software teams. Not updating can lock you into the past, for entire ecosystems of dependencies. You cant update if you have to, you cant take advantage of new features anywhere in the ecosystem, and it’s now an expensive emergency when something stops being maintained or has an unresolved vulnerability. If you’re being continually kept up, then choices or features are easy

    Then the goal is how do you automate your updates as smoothly as possible so they do not become noise, do not create extra work? Tools like dependabit and renovate bot have a lot of config options to help that

  • What is an old movie that couldn't be made today?

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  • But seriously, some racist stuff in there would never fly

  • Federal Bill Would Bring OS-Level Age Verification to the Entire U.S.

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  • Finally, torrenting Linux distros becomes a thing, rather than a curiosity

  • Attorney Who Masterminded Trump’s Attempt to Overturn Election Disbarred

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  • Fantastic that seeing consequences for some of their actions …. And there’s no presidential pardon keeping him above the law

  • Microslop isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it

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  • Five years ago I splurged on a higher end laptop than I’ve ever had, and regretted it from the beginning. Even when new, the battery barely lasted an hour, and hyper-v was unable to do the VMs I wanted

    But I needed Windows for two reasons: tax software and gaming with my kids. Well my tax software also supports Mac and my kids are in college, so there goes my reasons.

    So I booted up the windows laptop to do my taxes. It started with not knowing my pin, my bad. But the alternate login was to use the mandated online account that I don’t use. That password change sent email to my ex: yikes. Then ad after ad after popup, so crazy how unusable it became

    So yeah, laptop sucks and is showing its age, big waste of money, no more reason to be tied to windows, poor experience ……. Really selling me on a Mac for my next one

  • FCC just handed Netgear a de facto router monopoly in the US

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  • My NetGear router still has a uselessly incomplete implementation of VLANs after 5+ years of updates, I was ready to replace it out of frustration. Gen 6 wireless is getting old hat anyway

  • Why don't I care about the Artemis mission/program?

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  • But doesn’t that argue against your earlier point? If our myriad of earthly problems are generally political and economic system, then Artemis does not take away from addressing them.