I find olive oil a bit hit and miss too. I always have more than one bottle. The more flavoursome, I use for salads and dipping bread. The less liked, I use for roasting or sometimes frying. What’s crazy is that around here (Australia), the regular olive oil is the same price often as extra virgin. I feel awful using evoo for frying, but I don’t want to have more bottles, lol.

Minitel it

Power wise, and backup battery, wouldn’t a phone be better?

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Most games that are long are artificially so, with padded out content and grinding to advance. Short excellent games sell well. Huge expensive messes don’t.

Just like movies, large blockbuster, high budget content can sell well but does risk sacrificing its soul and purpose. Occasionally one is both excellent technically, artistically and fun too.

Or you can have smaller games with a more specific purpose which won’t sell as well. Some low budget games are bad. Some high budget games are bad. Neither is a mark of quality, they are just different ways of making games with different outcomes and purposes.

Games need to turn a profit to be visible, so they should be looking at what’s the optimum way to spend their budget and make sales.

As gamers, we should be rewarding good games, and avoiding microtransactions and all the upsells. I don’t buy any cosmetics or additional content (unless it’s a continuation of the game that makes sense as another chapter). I want to avoid that side of gaming as it doesn’t lead to good games. I pay full price at launch for my favourite game series, but not extra content. Other games I purchase later on sale.

It’s not him. The other characters are still in it and it’s based around the Colosseum with the politics and training and slavery etc if the first.

Quelle surprise? Israel can’t be trusted? Who knew?

What’s awful is that by supporting Israel with arms and not acting to enforce ICC and ceasefire agreements and stop genocide, it makes it more likely that other rogue nations do the same with impunity.

How can international pressure on China to stop crimes against humanity be effective if western countries support Israel’s repeated breaches and genocide. How can Russian sanctions be taken seriously while Austria still has banking there and Europe buys their gas?

There’s realpolitik and double standards. We’re in the second and it’s deteriorating. Likely, it will accelerate with Trump. Not just in America but in countries going their own way and so more likely to be in conflict, leading to more armed conflict.

Like, what would they do if he broke the contract? He’s likely a huge fan and genuinely loved it. That not to say it’s great, just that a terminally I’ll super fan loved it.

Yes, but he will also reduce taxes a little. You know, in case they still turn a profit.

Nanotechnology exists. Not in vaccines, but it’s still a thing.

But much much less as a percent of population.

I don’t want to diminish slavery in any way, but the indebted servitude of now is very different to the, for example, Roman concept of slaves as property that you walk through the street with.

Carnivale, some ru Paul’s drag race uk, and first ep of silo.

I found silo disappointing. Hopefully it picks up. It was like watching someone else play tomb raider. I thought fallout was the shelter show derived from a game!

Hopefully his wealth is not too diversified when the Tesla bubble pops.

Shit out of luck

Although it should have ruined his eligibility to be elected.

Failing that, his party should have kept him off the ballot.

Failing that, it should have ruined his ability to campaign.

Failing that it should have meant he was deemed a poor candidate and received few votes.

Yet here we are with rapists, crooks and fearmongers in control of government with the safeguards removed.

That’s corporate speak for “we didn’t want it to do that and we don’t approve”. Usually followed by a platitude about correcting it.

I’ve never really used Linux as a daily driver. Back in the same Ubuntu period as you, intrialled it but got sick of software compatibility problems. So much is cloud web based these days, that it’s less of an issue.

What surprised me as a distro hopped looking for my home laptop flavourz was how different it was to install different software, such as docker. Some distros it was a hassle to run well. Some it needed workarounds, whichh surprised me.

So, I’d look at what you plan to run, then decide between opensuse, pop, mint or fedora and how easy they support what you want to do. I dipped back into Ubuntu but they have started to make some m$ style choices where you have to take back control as they try to make your PC act like they want not how you want.

All can be made to support whatever you want but not all do our of the box.

I don’t know about energy efficiency, but I’d imagine it’s pretty good, but a Japanese rice cooker is cheap and reliable with perfectly cooked rice every time.

I have a Philips but I know there are lots of Japanese brand rice cookers that are more reliable. It can also be used for steaming.

My dad was going grey, so my brother bought him ‘just for men’ hair dye, which he opened at the Christmas dinner table with the entire family. He was about 9. We still laugh about it.

Good job on not serving her. Unfortunately in service culture where the customer is always right, there often is no blowback from customers being rude or unreasonable. There needs to be pushback, even small victories are still a win.