BearOfaTime

Windows 7 😆

I do have a Win7 machine still running, it's a trooper. Doesn't need anything newer for what it does.

Lol, yea, that annoyed the hell out of me from... The start! 😁

At least it wasn't trashing a floppy to eject it (oh, so I'm not erasing the whole disk, because trashing a folder deletes the entire folder).

They both have issues like this, I just find Apple to be less intuitive in general (and I've worked with it since about 1985, even spent a couple years doing desktop publishing with a Mac for work).

I never liked calling it the Start menu. I understand why they did it (makes it obvious for new users), but I could never think of a better name.

Ah, that makes sense

We cook almost every meal we eat, last time we had a meal out was a week ago because friends were in town. For the cost of that meal, we could've made at least 24 individual servings at home (we know our average serving costs).

It took some time, and started with cooking dinners (especially on weekends), which produced leftovers that can be used for lunches. Which frees up time to plan and prep the next thing.

I've largely eaten the same breakfast for 10 years now, because it's easy, fast, and addresses some health issues (diabetes in family).

Breakfast takes 15 minutes to make, and you'd think it came from a diner.

Our recipe book has an index for dishes that work well as leftovers, one for fast weeknight meals, one for things that can be frozen, etc, so we can plan better. On any given day we have a dozen meals worth of frozen, but home-made dishes that just go in microwave or convection oven with minimal other work.

We also have a meal calendar (like you had in grade school for lunches), so we can work ahead a little (mostly for days where there are appointments that can interfere).

It can be done, it just requires prioritizing. I stopped playing games on my pc, we don't turn on the TV until the day's tasks are done (and I mean everything, including prepping for tomorrow), and I usually do some planning while watching TV at the end of the day.

If nothing else, even doing a big cook one day a week and freezing portions will give you breathing room. So you feel like you can do a little more later. The alternative is to stay where you are, spend 5-10x as much for food that is nutritionally mostly empty.

When I was working two (or 3) jobs, my roommate and I would work together to make big meals, package them up for the next day, then do it again as soon as we had time. That way we always had something in the fridge ready to go.

Palm had the opportunity and missed it.

Build a new OS, one with support for existing apps (granted, they'd have limited ability to interact with the modern Palm OS), and you get to keep existing customers.

OH how I miss Palm. Splashshopper is still a better shopping list app than anything I use today, I used to play Monopoly on my Treo, and watch movies from the SD card when I was traveling (but boy it used battery).

Active noise canceling is good but only for lower frequencies,

Can you define lower here?

In my experience, they're most effective for higher frequencies (voices and higher), as lower frequencies are hard to attentuate (why we can hear/feel subwoofers from cars a fair distance away).

For example, a couple pairs I have are ineffective against the bass from the gym idiots running the aerobics room (wtf does it have to be loud outside the room - those women must be getting hearing damage), but it's great for all the people talking, and some of the tvs.

Except that's exactly how nose canceling ear phones work. It's not like they have an external speaker projecting sound 🤦🏼‍♂️

*ceases, FYI (not being snarky, maybe autoincorrect got you on voice to text)

Edit: also "seizes" used here was kinda funny

Well, would we even see them if they weren't? (Serious question).

Which is what I said - they have a longer cooling time between braking cycles.

A longer braking cycle also occurs over a longer distance and time, meaning more time for gravity to continue contributing energy to the equation. A faster deceleration between the same two speeds is less energy dissipation overall (say 70 to 60 over 5 seconds VS 30 seconds). There's 5 seconds of additional acceleration due to gravity VS 30 seconds more.

But the biggest thing is you get a long cooling cycle instead of steadily heating the pads and rotors to simply "hold" against gravity. The rotors simply don't have the mass the absorb and dissipate that steady, continual heat input.

Theft?

Methinks you don't know the definition of the words you use.

Even if it is - fuck 'em. 99% of websites use invasive scripting to track us, and they're clearly adversarial to us. Just read up on what Facebook has always done...think they're the only ones?

Website owners had a chance in the late 90's to treat users/consumers with respect, and chose to say "fuck you" instead, and since have doubled down on their attitude towards us.

Fine. You wanna play that way? I'll teach everyone I know how to use ad blockers and tools like DNS filters. I'll never buy something directly through your website, etc.

If you want to call ad blocking theft, then the delivery of ads is theft of my bandwidth, cpu time (electricity), and the invasive scripting/tracking is theft of my personal info.

How many boots do you lick in a day?

Wow, very cool.

You have a link to the software?

Thanks!