After I first started making bread at home, yeah, same reaction: spoilt and never looked back. Though I do keep a loaf of store bought whole wheat on hand occasionally.

Store-bought white bread is just too sweet; like a really crappy, unfrosted cake.

It’s kind of like powdered milk. I’m not sure about getting it at the grocery store (never looked) but the stuff I have is marketed as survival food. Comes in a big can and you reconstitute it with water.

It’s great for baking and seasoning (put some in a salt shaker and go to town on your popcorn; so good), but it doesn’t work like regular butter in all cases (e.g. it’s not great for sauteing).

I’m lactose intolerant, so I switched to buying powdered milk at the grocery store ages ago since the small cartons I’d buy for cooking always went bad before I used them up. Haven’t had a problem with butter going bad, but figured for baking it’d be easier to just toss the powder in with the dry ingredients like I do with the milk. Seems to work well.

Nothing, really, though it took a good bit of detox to get to that point. I’m only using a pseudo dumb phone, though (it runs Android 11 in a flip phone form factor).

Last August, I did a 30 day challenge and used it like a true dumb phone. No email, no chat, just the same things a comparable KaiOS true dumb phone would do. That was…limiting but I quickly got used to it. After that, I decided to un-dumb it a bit and am still daily-driving it almost a year later.

The only apps it runs now:

• Thunderbird Mobile for email
• Aegis for TOTP
• Bank app (a necessary evil since I bank remotely and nearest branch is 50 miles away)
• Organic Maps
• SchildiChat (Matrix group chat)
• Meshtastic
• Fennec (though mostly only for looking up business phone numbers/addresses while I’m out)

So it’s not a true dumb phone now, but it’s pretty bare bones. I think even true dumb phones have mobile browsers (KaiOS is basically Firefox OS, afterall) as well as some kind of mapping, email, and even TOTP apps. All the rest of the “smart” stuff it does is just annoying enough that I don’t spend all day on it, but works well when I need it.

I don’t know if I could go to a Light Phone III since I need my bank app, but something like the Minimal Phone with its eink display and QWERTY keyboard is probably my upgrade path.

I think I also recall some comments from somewhere from UK people saying Fahrenheit makes more sense for weather-related temperature.

But yeah, definitely human inconsistency lol.

Assuming it’s this (LAPQO71A) …

Guide: https://cdn.cs.1worldsync.com/a5/d0/a5d06ff2-92b9-4510-a5af-b71e1deb4083.pdf

Page 20

Looks to be on the left (in the image) below the fan and underneath where your hand is in the image.

I worked at a Walmart in college, so…yes.

I guess my favorite one (meaning it was more funny than aggravating) was this lady trying to return a Nintendo Wii. She said it was broken and wanted to exchange it (so far, so good). She said she lost the receipt (later claiming it was a gift), but for an exchange, that’s usually not an issue (we record the serial numbers for things like video game consoles, computers, etc and those are tied to the transaction which lets us pull up the sale info).

So, we scan the serial number, and it’s not in our system. This could mean one of two things:

1. It’s stolen
2. It didn’t come from our store

So, to rule out #1, we sent the serial number to the loss prevention people to see if it was on their report. (It wasn’t.)

But we didn’t even have to wait for them to respond because I took a look at the box, and it clearly came from GameStop (had their stickers on the opposite side).

So I tell her that this console wasn’t purchased here, and she needs to take it back to Game Stop for service.

She did not like that. At all.

She demanded the manger, who, thankfully, was nearby. Manager took one look at her, got on the radio, and seconds later all three loss-prevention people came out of their little security room and escorted her out (with her yelling obscenities / threatening lawsuits the whole way).

Apparently she was a frequent-flier who had already been banned from the store (and neighboring stores) for return fraud.

Oi, that’s a Bob Hope resource right there China plate!

(Might need to work on my conjugation a bit, but that helps with the vocabulary lol)

Well done!

I still have tab open trying to teach myself enough cockney rhyming slang to do a “We’re the Cockney Borg” meme.

Yep. Not sure when that became common, but my late 90s and early 2000s vehicles were like that. My late-model domestic car is all metric, though, so at least Ford standardized.

Hey, we use grams and kilos for…other things too.

It is funny how we’re schizophrenic about it, though. Things will go from grams to ounces and then to kilos…or, so I’ve heard.

Edit: American cars are also kind of schizo like that, or at least they used to be. The engine and everything attached to it was metric and everything else was SAE. Fun times.

Family Guy: Star Wars Elevator Music

I mean, it was only like 6 months ago lol

Though it feels like 60 years.

Yep!

Yep, known issue: https://feddit.org/post/13613230

Yeah, that’s me failing to update the readme. lol. Good catch.

The CORS handler / upload proxy was removed completely a good while ago (I think in 1.4.0 when I dropped support for 0.18.x API). I’ll make a note to myself to clean up the readme.

Yep. Though the rolls of cookie dough are too tempting to just…eat lol. I buy the cookie mix which is a bit cheaper and doesn’t need refrigerated; a bit messier to prepare though.

Depends on your definition of “phone app”. I use it on my phone as an installed webapp (Add to home screen on iOS / Install on Android). Look and feel-wise, it’s indistinguishable from an “app” app. Only thing it lacks is system notifications (which may or may not be a dealbreaker for some).

Lemmy World runs an instance of it, but it’s locked to .world.

I run an unlocked hosted instance at https://tesseract.dubvee.org/ which is configured to allow login to any Lemmy server.

Selfhosting is also an option; I believe it also works fine from localhost (there used to be issues uploading images, but I think that went away as of 0.19.0).

Can confirm, but depending on the VPS, your traffic may only be metered in one direction. Mine only meters egress, not ingress, so it’s not too bad if I want to use my media server.

Wait till you have the epiphany that you can just bake your own cookies and that it’s not that much of a hassle at all. 🍪👨‍🍳