Five years ago, I felt like ultra-liberal Portland Oregon was awfully vaccine hesitant. I believe it may have shifted as a reaction to Trump 2.0 and Covid, but a lot of what I think of as anti-science still exists. But at least democrats don’t put RFK in charge of vaccines.

I wish I could have gotten my new kettle with metric temps instead. Really jazz up my kitchen.

I just got this excellent cephalopod kettle that additionally heats water to specific temperatures. Saves me from having to add one medium size ice cube to my coffee.

I’ve been putting my tarp over wood directly—didn’t realize I was doing it wrong :)

Link to report instead of awful Fortune link: Giving Pledge

My memory is that it was an ARM based laptop. This story seems to confirm that: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-an-arm-powered-m2-macbook-air-to-release-latest-linux-kernel/

I think it was the Asahi district.

I have five library cards with 3 subs to Kanopy and 2 to Hoopla. I actually prefer Libby to anna’s archive or other alternative methods. If anyone has sneaky methods to get more…share them please!

For anyone who cares here is a list of the largest e-book lenders that I found when I was library cards hunting. If you are in one of these areas—get a library card!

The top 10 ebook and digital audiobook-circulating library systems for 2020:

1. Toronto Public Library
2. Los Angeles Public Library
3. King County Library System (WA)
4. National Library Board Singapore
5. New York Public Library
6. Multnomah County Library (OR)
7. Seattle Public Library
8. Hennepin County Library (MN) - 228/63
9. Harris County Public Library (TX)
10. Calgary Public Library (AB, Canada)

The top 5 ebook and digital audiobook-circulating consortia and shared collections:

1. Wisconsin Public Library Consortium 126k total
2. The Ohio Digital Library
3. Greater Phoenix Digital Library
4. Tennessee READS
5. Digital Downloads Collaboration (OH)

I comment in a different part of this thread how my spouse and just share everything, but I complete get what you are saying.

I’m in the same place as you with my spouse, but we didn’t start with not trusting each other. I just never worry about my spouse knowing things about me—I cannot imagine what I wouldn’t tell her anyway.

My spouse has (multiple) physical journals lying around the house. I would never read them—she doesn’t worry about hiding them.

I have misled you. It is the beyond steak bites that we have started using on Nachos. I actually don’t like any of the other beyond products and get Impossible ones instead. I get what you mean about the “fat”. I described that to someone as “fake connective tissue”. I cooked mine in a skillet with oil, but after a couple minutes to get some sear on them I tossed in some water mixed with taco seasoning and covered them and let them simmer for a bit. It got the chew better for me. I could understand someone not liking it though.

I think he is referring to a veggie product from Trader Joe’s chain stores. I haven’t had it in 5 plus years—I remember it being okay. Certainly worth a try and no doubt it has improved over the years.

I have missed some certain meat flavors and textures for the last 20 years of (nearly) vegetarian life. I made and tried a lot of substitutes over the years, and while some were okay, I never thought anything really nailed the experience. A lot of times I would just prefer carefully sautéed mushrooms or pressed and fried tofu.

That changed about two years ago. For my family, Impossible Burger just seemed to keep improving—when it first came out it was meh—but each year it seemed to get better. We would use it to make shepherd pie, lasagna and burgers. And then their sausage (both spicy and savory) showed up and we started using that in places where we would prefer sausage instead of ground beef. Recently Impossible’s Beyond’s “steak bites” appeared and we really enjoy putting them on the giant nachos we make.

I often fry up the impossible sausage with eggs. It isn’t “pork” flavored like I would expect with chorizo, but I find it brings a certain something to my breakfasts.

Remember to think about your backup strategy if you use locally managed password software. I’ve helped (and been unable to help) some non-technical folks who relied on popular magazine/new site articles for software selection without good knowledge of how to properly backup their data.

Apple does keep the photos and metadata encrypted in flight and at rest which I would assume is better than what Google does, but I haven’t seen Google’s policy in a while. Apple Photos Legal Page

I often defuse like this by referring to my age. “My reflexes were great when I first started playing video games in the 1970s—now I am just slower and not much I can do about it.”

I will second this. My wife and I tried all the instant coffees on some review site and one of the mid priced ones was surprisingly good. Originally it was for camping, but it was so smooth and didn’t upset our middle-aged stomachs after we drank a lot of it, so now we drink it all the time.

I use https://macmousefix.com/en/ on my Mac mouse. I’m not sure of its range of features.

Disk block cryptographic signatures with automatic recovery?

Is this why people run Arch instead or atomic linux distros?

These seem like semantics to me. Saying it isn’t a backup, when it successfully restored my uncle’s 25 years of files after his hard drive failed, doesn’t ring true to me. OneDrive allows recovery of data from ransomware, common user error like deleting or overwriting files, drive failure and catastrophe like fire. What use cases does this backup methodology lack for you that is important for casual end users?

Personally, I architected datacenter backups for a large company with business critical data. This was a decade ago, but even then I was responsible for architecting logical, physical, application, database, snapshot, tape and site replication for about a petabyte of data (hard drives used to be small). When you say that some of those things are not backup, I don’t understand why you think that? Different types of backups have different strengths, weaknesses and use cases.