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Get the frozen pre-made meal or just make it yourself?
  • My wife is definitely team 'make it from scratch'.

    She is also a very slow cook. We also have an infant that is currently taking up 110% of our time.

    It's hard for me to justify spending two hours a night preparing a lunch for the next day. She likes to sleep in, so I never get to eat it fresh.. it's always leftovers.

    I don't mind cooking something fresh for lunch or dinner, but I'll do something that takes 20 minutes of prep and then take care of itself on the stove or in the oven. Chilli, pot roast, or a casserole.

    I think frozen dinners probably have a better balance of protein/carbs/veg than either of us makes, and at half the price.

  • What is the first graphics card you got?
  • It was a shiny EGA card.

    On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.

    My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.

    If we're talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.

  • What do people that are for the first time moving to a place where is snows need to know?
  • I'd go somewhere in-between to keep things dry.

    Condensation around windows and outer walls make great growing grounds for mold. 15°C is the recommendation here.

    Shit can happen. Boilers break. Leave your faucets dripping and run your circulation pump off of a battery and inverter to save your pipes.

  • Do you screw in both bolts on VGA cables, just the top one or ignore them altogether?
  • I plugged one in today. I left the screws loose. Ironically I moved it between two computers that couldn't originally do VGA.

    I re-organised my leisure desk. My C64 sometimes hooks up to a TFT thanks to my turbo chameleon 64 cartridge.

    Today I hooked my C64 up to my CRT instead. I needed that TFT for my Amiga 1200 which has DVI-I out thanks to my indivision flickerfixer. But I have a DVI->VGA adapter to use that same cable.

  • Man caught on video removing, ripping up Harris-Walz signs outside Raleigh early voting site
  • In my country we have designated billboards where candidates get to put up their posters ahead of elections. Usually along roads, by malls, promenades, etc.

    Messing with those is election interference. Believe it or not, straight to jail!

  • Man accused of voting twice found not guilty of voter fraud
  • If the would-be murder was denied the purchase of a gun and then just decided to go get some MacDonald instead, then it's not really attempted murder.

    Conspiring or planning, perhaps. But even then you'd need to prove what he was intending to do with that gun.

  • Erarly voting in Oklahoma. Lets hope this isn't our last election.
  • I've never stood in like for early voting in the EU. I've done it at my supermarket while getting groceries.

    Grab a ballot and envelope, enter booth, do the thing, walk to desk, flash id, get crossed off list, watch volunteer put your envelope in another envelope and drop it in the ballot box.

    In-and-out, three minutes.

    Come to think of it, voting on election day has always been just as smooth. I just have to go to the library or some school, so it's not as convenient.

  • Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds
  • The theorem holds true. The theorem states that the monkey has infinite time, not just the lifetime of our universe.

    That's just lazy science to change the conditions to make sensational headlines. Bad scientists!

  • What was/is the most annoying thing about Windows when you were/are using it?
  • A lot of software did not run under windows NT4. Especially stuff that used the soundblaster directly.

    Plug-n-play never worked, and drivers for hardware usually only came on floppy for DOS/win3/win95.

    For some reason USB-drivers were not installed by default, either. That's after swapping through 18 diskettes during installation. Just copy it all if you're going to have me be a human jukebox.

  • What is your skincare routine?
  • I don't use make-up, but I make an exception for the soap from the hardware store.

    My routine goes a bit like this:

    • get into shower
    • turn on water
    • get wet
    • turn off water
    • lather up
    • turn on water
    • rinse off
    • turn off water
    • rub dry with that same old towel

    I do this as necessary, but at least before Christmas and midsummer (even if not necessary).

  • Things that totally happened, sovcit.
  • And the car?

    That car went on to become KITT.

  • Bob's Burgers' Jay Johnston sentenced to 1 year in prison for role in January 6th
  • I don't really watch Christian movies.

    The last thing I saw him in was that home alone, but with a dog instead of a kid. "Alone for Christmas". I can't really recommend that, either.

  • What smartphone do your use? What's the best phone you had owned?
  • Currently on a CMF phone 1.

    Best phone is a tie between Nokia E70 or the HTC Dream. Suitable form factors and physical keyboards <3

  • Has anyone regretted buying a fully electric car?
  • I'm driving a 2007 which I guess I'll move on from in a couple of years. I loathe the day when my only options are cars that get OTA updates.

    Everything smart has shown their true colours about altering the deal. My TV didn't use to have ads on the home screen. Now it's 80% of it.

  • meshtastic should just be built into smartphones
  • It's not just about the frequency. It's about the modulation. You need new/additional radio hardware. Constantly being on another band eats more battery, too.

    But as we've seen in busy areas, there's just not enough bandwidth with many nodes on LoRa. It'd get congested real fast if it were built-in to mainstream phones.

    Using the hardware that's there, something like briar let's you get your messages routed through whichever means. Bluetooth mesh, internet or tor.

  • Trump says the U.S. is 'like a garbage can for the world' as he dials up immigration rhetoric
  • That's harsh coming from a second-generation immigrant who keeps marrying immigrants.

  • If you had a kid, what name would you want to give to the kid but cannot ? And why ?
  • I wanted to name my daughter Zelda. Mrs Pano vetoed it.

    The Z makes it sound sexy. Also Moxy got shot down.

  • Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer
  • The contributor above works at Baikal Electronics, which are a defense supplier in/for Russia, and therefore sanctioned.

    The Linux Foundation is based in the US and have to bide by those sanctions.

  • All of a sudden, all of the sudden, or suddenly?
  • All my troubles seemed so far away?

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