Did you make that sound like “Home Bomber” on purpose?

Hey, I’m Gen Z. Not everyone here is older. I do cook. Quite well. I can be a bit lazy tho and I’m poor. So it’s simple cheap stuff usually. I like to get chicken or pork, put some chinese chilli sauce on it, and bake it until its crispy. Then maybe some sweet and sour on top. Another good simple sauce is soy sauce mixed with peanut butter and heated and stirred a bit. Rice with some yellow curry powder, msg, and dried onion/carrots while its cooking, then adding the juices from whatever meat you cooked at the end is pretty good. Red Thai Curry powder is also great and can go on almost anything. A lot of my diet is just whatever meat cuts are dirt cheap (usually chicken quarters or pork half loin), rice, potatoes, beans, and other dirt cheap stuff.

Edit: Also, for the time aspect. It’s good to find meals that you can just let cook and don’t need to be watched. Like I can throw chicken thighs in the oven with a potato, leave it at 375F for 1.5 hours then come back and they’re both done and ready to eat. Not need to check on it. I can do other things in the mean time. Like chores. Altho, that specific one only works if you enjoy your chicken cooked to shit which I personally do. I like it cooked so much it falls off the bone.

Also just want to add to your points that the NSA didn’t have to admit they developed this. Putting their name to it basically guaranteed that everyone would pour through the code and assume the worst. So it get hyper scrutinzed. So if they had wanted to put a back door in it they would have released it without saying they made it.

I know you asked about thinkpads but I think you should consider a Latitude 7400. The non 2 in 1 model. It’s got 1 m.2 slot, 2 Sodimm slots, and the back panel comes off in one piece and is easy to get at everything. The downside is the keyboard is hard to replace. It’s one of those built in ones.

I run Debian on it and lock the CPU to 2.5Ghz and below and keep cooling pads in it and its passive. never runs the fan. Has amazing battery life and linux support. (shipped with ubuntu as an option). They’re cheap too. The build quality is really good. It has the barrel charging port, usb c/thunderbolt port, hdmi, 2 USB A, headphone jack, micro usb reader, sim card slot, smart card reader for ports. Plus the trackpad actually has buttons which I like. I don’t like the tapping that’s become common now. The webcam has a physical shutter you can slide over it too. Overall a nice little laptop once you tweak it a bit.

It should be til late 2030 so closer to 4 years atleast. And the newer pixels are your only option if you want longer support. The issue is they’re exponentially more expensive.

My cats poop absolutely reeks. It didn’t used to, but he has tons of allergies and stuff and was just horrible sick for the longest time until I found 1 food that works. I’m talking like eve hydrolyzed foods didn’t help. But I tried the Instinct Limited Ingredient Rabbit food its made from Raw Rabbit, Tapioca, and something else I can’t remember. It makes his poop smell so bad it could clear out an entire house, but its worth it since he isn’t sick anymore. This dude can’t eat any protien I’ve found so far except rabbit. Chicken, Beef, Lamb, Fish, etc all make him sick. He vomits, gets constipated, his skin itches like crazy and he starts to get dandruff and tear at his face til he bleeds, he gets ear infections, etc.

So honestly if the stink is the only downside to this food then I’m just gonna let it stink.

LLMs chatbots are great at reading documentation and spitting it back out at you imo. So to people who don’t realize that the documentation is out there, or don’t know how to find what they need in it, LLMs can be helpful. I do think that you’d be better served actually learning to read it yourself tho as you’ll find solutions to things you didn’t even know to ask in there.

You didn’t give enough info for me to know what happened but generally imo Windows is harder than Linux. Full disk encryption really isn’t needed for most people. What you should do is HOME encryption. Or have a 2nd partition on your ssd that you keep sensetive things in and is encrypted and you keep that unmounted when not using it.

If I had a nickel for every Where’s Waldo meme I saw today… well I’d have 2 nickels. But it’s weird that it happened twice!

ive only ever seen it called a game of telephone idk where the racial part came from

The US rail network is already kind of a disaster. A lot of major cities don’t even have passenger rail stations at all. There are entire STATES that don’t have a single amtrack station lol.

Honestly it probably would be way less safe because the network of pumps and fans and whatnot that would be needed to keep that tunnel both DRY and oxygenated would be insane. I’m also pretty sure the trains would need to be built like submarines to prevent the atmosphereic pressure from crushing them? Or maybe the tunnel? It honestly seems like an engineering nightmare.

I mean at that point just have the supreme court be elected. Split the country up into 9 regional districts and have each one elect a judge. Every 2 years have 3 of them up for re-election and every 6 years you get a full reset.

It depends what you mean. Will open source software be less safe comparatively to closed source because of AI? No. Will it be less safe? yes. All software is less safe because of AI. Has nothing to do with open source.

Personally I don’t think the issue is just your leadership. It’s all of them. The democrats are all just playing you guys for fools. Even the ones who talk about medicare for all and stuff don’t intend to actually do it save for very few of them, and once they get in a few months later they’ll be voting for Defence Budget expansions, and all that other stuff just like anyone else. Unless Americans get in the street and start burning shit down nothings going to happen. Be French.

As someone who has absolutely 0 belief in Bourgoise Democracy I’ll tell you what I think will happen: They’ll put up some sacrificial lambs like that lady who was the greek ambassador and Lauren Bobert and a few other mid level crooks. They’ll bring them into congress and grill them and then maybe they get 10 years in prison max. More likely some fines and stuff. Trump will probably pardon anyone who is going to see real consequences. They’ll then take their money and run. Dems will control the White House and both chambers of congress after 2028, but they won’t pass public healthcare, or anything else like that. They’ll do some minor reforms and maybe a public option that will become a permanent battle every single budget hearing. By 2030 midterms there will be a snapback and “Red Wave”.

As for the foreign policy stuff I didn’t mention it because to quote Biden, “Nothing will fundamentally change.”

I hope I’m proven wrong. I really do.

Yeah like I said your in your phase of socialist development where you’ve accepted that the west is evil, but you have yet to deprogram yourself from the propaganda about its adversaries. So you see both the west, and its enemies, as the problem. Which is incoherent. I do not think anyone exists who thinks a government is perfect, but China is very clearly much better in many ways than any western government, and that is the very reason most of the global south looks to China in friendship.

It’s a common mindset to go through. I hope you can get through it in a productive way.

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Edit: Read your other comments nevermind. I realize you are like in some sort of weird transitionary phase where you don’t like anyone. Try it out in a few years when you realize the axis of resistance is the only way forward.

so they can sell a 2nd cab to the other 2 people

Idk about Obscura VPN personally. Made a post about it here: https://lemmy.ml/post/53749507

Edit: I also find it weird that you include Obscura when you didn’t include Mullvad because Obscura is built on Mullvad lol. It uses Mullvad servers.