And it ruins the pasta, so the sauce doesn’t stick to it. Use less heat.

Hahahaaaaah.

Walmart tried to come here and lost. Das war sooo Scheiße.

We’re Walmart AND Costco Free. No Carrefour, either.

2038 Ford F150

Regarding “the mechanic always rips me off” - find a good one. When the muffler was loose because of a broken hanger the garage called me, told me and asked me if they should repair it by the book (switching out an 800 Euro part) or just weld the hanger - that would be “The OEM doesn’t allow it, so less OEM warranty, but it’s only Eur 10.”

They basically asked me to allow them to ignore idiotic OEM instructions. (Yes it was an “official” garage by the OEM)

it was an old mechanism in Unix & Linux that flushed “disk writes” to disk. Writes would normally go to the buffer cache in ram and a process called “sync” every 30s to flush out writes to disk. (writing out EVERY change would result in a lot of redundant writes and be very slow, so this was a very simple kind of collecting work until it makes sense to really do it)

We still write async writes to ram first and then write them to disk later, the mechanism is much more advanced nowadays - and also quicker to start writing.

Still, on the shell there’s a command called sync which invokes the system call, asking the kernel to flush out all asynchronous writtes.

(And yes, there’s more than async writes, used by databases for example, but that would require a lot more of explanations)

zfs with snapshots + offsite sync for the win.

I still remember when I managed to rm -rf / foo (I accidentally typed a space between / and foo) on my very early linux box on the 90s. 80486, 16 mb

I pressed enter. Saw what I did. Remembered that sync ran at every 30s* Pressed the power button.

*= those were simple times, but not better times

So I rm -rf ed my root fs and my box survived it due to the quick power off.

I find it so weird that parts of the world never moved away from the cheque system. I used my last one mid-90s or so.

SEPA bank transfers are cheap and real time.

On top that cheque system is so ripe for fraud.

Oh god no. It’s not about feeding in 16A, it’s about consuming 16A thereby overloading the wiring. If everything else is OK, trying to consume 16A should trip the fuse, still - if that doesn’t work, you’ll get a certain (normally very small) fire risk.

Yep this one still is very weird.

If it goes into a 10A plug it should have the small holes, the Schuko plugs with the fat holes are rated up for more, 16A I think.

I think before babying my ice cube tray for a day I’d just buy 4 for $5 when I want clear ice.

Some stuff I like to buy used. This one is quite a few years old, and I was watching the offers for a good occasion. And it’s q common brand with decent spare part availability.

My small pizza oven goes to 400C. Everything else is not enough for good pizza. Cooking time for a pizza is 2 to 3 minutes. With that I’ll get a nice leopard pattern on the dough.

My household oven goes up to 300C but just because it supports pyrolysis. (Best thing, I bought it used from Kleinanzeigen for Eur 50 after about a year of searching for a pyrolysis oven that was sold for cheap). Running Pyrolysis about 4 times a year, so the cost is reasonable but the oven still is CLEAN.

I have a cheap small electric 400C pizza oven, but that’s not something you’d use for frozen pizza. And I still wished it could get a bit hotter…

The pizza I make is still decent, however - already got the approval from a few Italian friends. It’s Neapolitan style pizza, not Roman.

The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.

Philip K. Dick, Ubik

My ey wife and me divorced 13 years ago. As we have kids and will coparent and see each other for the rest of our lives there’s also no reason not to share streaming accounts. (And we share them with the kids anyways…)

It feels like “chatgpt i need a ragebait reddit article”

OH MY FUCKING GOD. You could use that with classical conditioning or even light hypnosis (if they agree). Make them get really subby on yakety sax. (that’s the title of the benny hill music)

been there done that, it’s too much fun. Hilarity can be a means of domination.

just a kazoo is the wrong device, you’re want something like a whistle or flute that makes a sound from normal breathing. I 3d printed one for a mask, once.