Counterpoint; you can get pictures of yourself in a maid dress petting a cat.

Gaming teaches you how to navigate menus and utilize hotkeys to improve efficiency (at least on PC).

Just… dont use biometrics for device unlock?? You can still use it for apps separate from device unlock

Id say money but they hate the IRS

The MIC is relatively happy for the moment; they’re looking forward to all the new contracts once enough civilian (federal) employees are purged. Longer term they’ll be worried, but when has any executive looked at long term?

Fedora makes full drive encryption stupid easy during initial install. I try to keep a habit of backing up my data and never having a computer in a state that i cant easily wipe and reload the OS; Games and non-system-required data on a separate physical drive, not a partition.

Assume microsoft has a copy of bitlocker keys if using Windows, they are heavily in bed with the US government and will sell you out for a piece of chewing gum.

Oh I sent it to goodwill after not using it for about a year after getting what I’ve got now (it was a costco model; the “professional” model was returned the same week i got it).

Slicer would be good for bread too with a serrated blade (if you can find one; a butcher shop would probably have both blade types rather than a deli with just the single edge). Totally jealous of the Wok burner, all i got is a crappy coil-top electric that cant even maintain a boil, “safety feature”…

I have outright stopped a kitchenaid lift bowl model with Bagel dough xD

Ive also got a bit of a penchant for semi-commercial kitchen gear. Got myself a LEM #8 meat grinder (i broke the plastic auger on a kitchenaid grinder attachment from overheat/overuse) and some other equipment from them. Helps that they’re in the same state as me and i can go in-person to their shop in Cincy!

Id love to find a great big commercial slicer someday to slice a whole slab of bacon (family smokes a slab or two infrequently, their tiny slicer is miserable to me having worked in a deli), but id need to not be in an apartment for that i think.

The Ankarsrum mixer is unique, i like it a great deal more. Its belt-driven, and the bowl itself is what spins; I’ve gotten much better bread out of it than a kitchenaid, it doesn’t overwork the dough or grind seeds/oats into dougb

New fear unlocked; hair being forcibly shaved and not growing back 😬

Kitchenaid is kinda crap now. I bought one of their more powerful model stand mixers (DC motor model) at one point and it… visibly struggled to mix dough. Researched it and found this: https://www.americastestkitchen.com/equipment_reviews/2593-the-best-stand-mixers

Returned it, saved up a bit of cash and got the Ankasrum, much happier with it.

I consider kitchenaid mixers to be overpriced cake/cookie machines at this point. They can handle cold butter and thats about their only advantage over ankarsrum, and even then other (cheaper) mixers do that fine.

It reeks of “we’re routing your traffic through our own servers to check your media for piracy” to me.

Hard to go wrong with Cyberpunk: Edgerunners.

Cult-like nationalism encouraged by a lifetime of propaganda over multiple generations and general isolationism (people who have never left their home town)

The olfactory equivalent of screams of pain echoing through the halls of a hospital.

Its so cute they think any of us can afford a fucking house

Fair. I do love me some cherry pie. But a good lemon cake with lemon curd and lemon frosting… mmm.

Now if they can get rid of the bathroom ban… Ohios bathroom ban also prohibits the creation of new gender neutral bathrooms.

I made burnt sugar (to use as an ingredient to make pumpernickel bread). Burn the hell out of sugar in a sauce pan, pour on sheet of paper, let it cool, smash it to bits, grind into powder.

Or somewhere cold. Or if you wash your hands frequently.

Wont somebody think of the poor children and men with beards!?