jakwithoutac

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

The BBC have long since forgotten the universally important, and ever relevant, Rule 1:

Don’t fuck the kids

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Normally I’d whole heartedly agree, but to be accused of anything even close to CSAM means he is likely one of:

  • guilty, and not smart enough to hide it
  • innocent, and incredibly stupid (considering his position in media)
  • the victim of a very dark Wile E. Cayote frame up job

Guess we’ll all find out soon enough.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 months ago (20 children)

Oh ffs is anybody on TV not a paedo?!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Man, top ranking Russian officials are hella clumsy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Generally in the UK I’ve learned that what we consider ‘high’ mileage is actually more like average or moderate mileage. This means there’s a sweet spot for cars with around 60-70k miles that are way more affordable than they’d otherwise be, and are usually just as reliable as everything else so long as they’ve been maintained. Like the other guy has said you’ll still pay out for maintenance, but this tends to be cheaper than PCP, lease, or other finance products.

Ex-fleet cars are good for this as they tend to be mostly motorway miles and have been maintained as per contract requirements, so offer a better-than-good chance of being a hidden gem.

The Jags you’ve been looking at are examples of this as a lot tend to be company cars.

From discussion about this with friends, it is felt that exceptions to this rule are things like pickups, vans and other commercial vehicles.

Obviously the usual disclaimers apply - always inspect, look up history, check the service logs and drive a vehicle before purchase. Also, with any second hand purchase there is an element of risk, but lots of dealers offer warranties to protect against the dreaded lemons.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

‘capitals’ isn’t in all capitals lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My word, some good news! Hopefully the extension happens and all my country-boy dreams can come true

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We got a rice cooker that can also be a slow cooker, which is another useful strategy. Chop stuff up in the morning, chuck it all in, set it going then eat whenever you want.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Our primary motivation was weight loss ahead of our wedding, but the guiding principle should transfer: make it super easy. We’ve found that the lowest effort method will win out over all our intentions, so we’re rolling with it.

An example: chicken curry with rice. Also a disclaimer, we have a couple of appliances that make stuff slightly more convenient but I’ll put the alternative down too.

It takes around a minute to wash the rice then chuck it in the rice cooker. you can get microwave rice cooker pots or just use a pot on the stove. Once you’ve got the weights and timings dialled in this produces perfect rice just as you’re going to serve with no interaction during.

Then cook the chicken breast and set a timer for when the rice will be ready. We use an air fryer, but used to use the oven.

5 minutes before the chicken is done whip up the curry sauce.

Then it’s just serving - rice goes in the bowls, slice the chicken and put on top, then pour on the sauce.

Whole process looks like this:

  • start rice cooking
  • start chicken cooking, set timer for 25 minutes
  • go do something else for 20 minutes
  • start heating the sauce
  • when chicken timer goes ding, put the rice in bowls
  • slice the chicken, add to bowl
  • pour on curry sauce

Total cook time is around 26 minutes. Total interaction time is around 10 minutes.

It’s also super cheap.

Edit: forgot to mention that you can cook whatever veggies you want in the same thing as the chicken and don’t need to adjust your timings

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see this same issue every now and then on lots of different places, and now it’s happened to me. I think I remember someone saying it happened after their instance got a Lemmy update?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I should add that it isn’t perfect, it’s early access so expect some weirdness albeit a whole lot less than you’d think.

My favourite, for example: if you’re hiding behind cover make sure it is THICK, else a body part might clip through the model making it able to be shot. Mostly happens when prone making legs and feet stick out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned Battlebit Remastered. Ridiculous value. Yeah it’s low poly but you stop seeing that after around 5 minutes.

 

Is there a user guide for this app anywhere? Or am I getting ahead of myself a bit?

I keep hitting obstacles like not knowing how to edit posts or search in a specific community. It would be good to be able to reference a guide of some sort so that I can find out how to do stuff or if the feature isn’t implemented yet without bugging this community.

 

Came across a post while scrolling my home feed that had a screen shot of the WefWef view of a community’s posts as the image. Both my feed and the screenshot were dark theme, meaning it was nearly impossible to distinguish until I scrolled all the way to the bottom - obviously the poster had a longer phone than I do as the image took up the entirety of the screen and it just looked like WefWef was no longer displaying the community for each post. Super confusing.

I’ve added a screenshot of my own as the image for this post as an example.

I’ll go off now and find the post I’m referring to and include it with my edit.

Edit update: I can’t find the original post I’m referring to but my image does a good enough job showing the issue.

Not sure what to suggest as a fix or feature request - maybe just reduce the size of images slightly so they are little bit less than the full width of the display? All suggestions are welcome.

 

The Outlaw Empire by Nicholas Eames is supposedly releasing this year, so I need something chunky to fill the gap. I’ve gone through Abercrombie and Lawrence as you might expect, and yes I have read the hell out of The Expanse. I don’t want to start Game of Thrones until I know there is a last book :P

Anyone have any suggestions that might scratch the itch?

 

I’m learning to embrace the warmth so I’ve got the boys coming over, firing up the pizza oven and have the Peroni chilling in the fridge. Not bad for a Wednesday :)

Might even get the sprinklers out for the dog

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