Before we had fancy temperature controlled ovens, probably for all but the last 100 years worldwide, bakers used wood fired ovens, coal fired ovens, and solar ovens usually lined with bricks, stone, clay, and/or cast iron. Figuring out the the temperature was a mix of guesswork, rules of thumb, experience, and luck.

I read somewhere that many bakers were skeptical of this new technology. That a lot of marketing had to be done and it was often sold to beginners as easier to get started baking.

There are really only 3 temperatures needed. Low, Medium, and High. The other factor is how fast your oven cools down after you add the food.

When I bake bread I’ll start with a relatively high temperature and the lower it every few minutes to simulate the wood fire slowly dieing back.

When I bake on an open fire I’ll use a cast iron “Dutch Oven” and put it in the coals or near the coals depending on whether I want “high”, “medium”, or “low”.

Usually I want high temperatures for pizza. Or for searing and roasting and toasting. Medium temperatures for baking ordinary things (pies, cakes, cookies), and low temperatures for slow roasts or very large and heavy dishes or beans (which take a long time to cook).

In Farenheit I usually think 400-450 is “high”, 350 is Medium, and 275-325 is low. You can go higher, of course but usually we move to the stove top or grill for that. And lower sometimes, but usually we use a slow cooker for those many hours long projects.

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Oh, and if you want to use it as the backing store for a database consider obstore instead of s3fs: https://developmentseed.org/blog/2025-08-01-obstore/

I’d use an s3 bucket with s3fs. Since you want to host it yourself, Minio is the open-source tool to use instead of s3.

Thanks, id been thinking about getting one for my next laptop. Now I’ll rethink that. The issues you describe do seem.particularly annoying.

The first time I got progressives and went hiking in West Virginia all was fine until we decided to descend the steep rocky trail. It was a horrible experience. One stumble and I’d probably need to be airlifted out. I had to go really slow. Everyone else thought I was being a baby and left me in their dust, so I was alone on the hillside unable to see my feet. It took me a full extra hour to make it back to base. I swore off that style of glasses. 10 years later I got a fancy car with a computer screen dashboard. If I wore my driving glasses, I couldn’t see the computer. If I wore my reading glasses the road signs were blurry, so I’m trying these progressives again. They sometimes make me dizzy. At first I only wore them while driving, but I’ve slowly gotten used to them. I can’t use them for [computer] work because I’d have to perpetually tilt my head up, but I often wear them for more than just driving now. If I’m going hiking I still use my old driving glasses. So I lug around 3 pairs of glasses…

It has a name: “you pee”. They just leave ir off of most maps because it is considered nsfw.

Just try stuff and see where it takes you. Talk to lots of people from different walks of life too.

Get really sick. Cancer will often do it. A broken thyroid. There are a number of GI disorders too.

It appears to have worked. I guess that’s why they think it will work for mass shootings of school children to.

Also go outside to grab my paper to read the comics first.

Fire up my PC and hit the dial up to check my email and BBS’s.

The Phoenician Scheme was fairly original.

Exactly.

Even better. You can hold your fruit in the third hand while rubbing the bag with your other two.

I put the bag between my palms and rub back and forth a bunch of times. It works as long as you have both hands free (and you have two hands).

Depending on the state there may be different formal definitions based on population and incorporation status. In Ohio, we have townships, villages, and cities. In Pennsylvania they have “boroughs” instead of villages. In NY a borough is a subdivision of a city. I don’t think they have the township organizational structure in Vermont. In Maine there are unincorporated territories (usually just numbered).

The role of the county government can vary significantly from state to state too.

Most towns are not urban by any standard. I ate dinner over the weekend in a town with a population of 669. It was big enough to have its own restaurant and post office. It was a 30-40 minute drive from any town with a population over 10,000 (and that, just barely).

This guy has a YouTube channel of him just driving around small towns in the rural Midwest USA. https://youtube.com/@joeandnicsroadtrip

I was in a computer store a few years ago watching a young guy trying to sell a tablet to an older woman. He said “the good news about this is that it can’t get viruses because it runs apps”.