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I hate cast iron so I am in favour of this.
  • Seasoning is a polymer, which is known for its strong resistance. It is unlikely to breakdown just with one dishwasher wash.

    The seasoned surface is hydrophobic and highly attractive to oils and fats used for cooking (oleophilic).

    The protective layer itself is not very susceptible to soaps, and many users do briefly use detergents and soaps.[28]

    Unless you are dish washing it everyday and refuse to dry/reseason it, you will be fine.

    However, cast iron is very prone to rust, and the protective layer may have pinholes, so soaking for long periods is contraindicated as the layer may start to flake off.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasoning_(cookware)

  • Question about Linux culture.
  • My strategy is to always install program with flatpak, SDKs are also installed as flatpak, find graphical alternatives to command line programs. I don't use command line a lot, so I don't need fancy tools for it.

    I only have one system package installed for inputting unicode math symbols. So that I have a clean and easily migratable system.

  • We need a new Amazon
  • Honestly after moving into our current home, we were able to avoid Amazon almost completely. We don't buy cookware, as carbon steel, cast iron, and stainless steel cookware lasts at least decades if not forever; we have way too many mugs from market and thrift store; and all of our clothes are thrifted with some from Costco.

    we get groceries from farmers market, local ethnic stores, or super market. We get shelf stable products like toilet paper or drinks from Costco in bulk. We barely replace our electronic, because I would fix them with spare parts from ifixit and eBay; when it do need to get replaced, I get them from bestbuy or manufacture. We get most of the cleaning products from refil store or supermarket; we would buy soap from farmers market or local supplier.

    We would only buy very obscure product from Amazon, like replacement knob for pot lid etc, but they are very very rare. One particular product we unfortunately relied on Amazon is the bamboo electric toothbrush brush head, we are trying to find some local salers that carry that, but cannot find any.

  • Linux install on laptop for a complete noob
  • Installing on a old laptop is great because eventually after you get a more serious machine, you probably got enough experience to choose your distros.

    Linux mint is certainly the most promising option, especially if you are just using the laptop, and don't have any external monitors setup.

  • Usage
  • It is a hilarious joke, but please don't rationalize replacing stuff when it is still working. Buy quality goods and maintain them properly, repair when needed.

    A good coffee machine should last at least decades ❤️.

  • Dutch police find 2kg gnome made of MDMA during drug bust
  • LOL I thought you are joking, but it is actually called buttplug gnome: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_(sculpture)

    Officially the work represents Santa Claus holding a Christmas tree in his hands but the artist has implied that it could also represent a buttplug, and that "...For me, the sculpture is also about the consumer community - as a commentary on material consumption in the Western world."[3]

  • Windows VS Linux (part 2)
  • I think mixing app and system dependencies is not the best idea, and Linux desktop is still fighting its impact.

    When all the apps on a consumer laptop is expected to depend on the same dependencies, the system likely run into dependency hell, which means many apps needs to be downgraded in order to keep older apps working.

    This mixture of system dependency and app dependency also prevents users to use the the latest version of an app on a hyper stable base system.

    Flatpak basically aim to solve this problem, where each app chooses their own dependencies, so you don't need to downgrade all your app just because one app depends on python 2.7.

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    Probably the easiest boycott you could do, let's do it Lemmy!
  • I like the idea of growing non-ml community, however, I wish larger instances do not block ML. Otherwise, they would just move to lemmy.ee or lemmy.one, just like how they moved from hexbear and grad to ml.

    It is great tankies got their own place where they can be happy, but I really don't want to interact with them. I am emotional about issues they engage in, and emotional me is usually not the nicest version of myself.

    Social media is one of the few ways I can relax for couple hours per week outside of my job, and I really don't want my social media experience to go full investigative journalism.

  • Android finally catches up to iOS's seamless app backup and restore
  • it says it is encrypted but it is encrypred using keys that google has access to as they are unlocked with you logging in into google account.

    First it uses lock screen password, so google do not have access to this password.

    Even if your lock screen is unfortunately your Google password, I think proper authentication protocol do not send your password to Google to authenticate, but only the hash, which cannot be reverted to derive your password.

    Obviously, the above is assuming that Google is not malicious. Otherwise it can just use play service, which is privileged and closed source, to get all your data. If your threat model including Google itself trying to steal your key, you will probably need to install a trusted rom or use iOS (however, apple and the rom developer can also steal your key).

  • Android finally catches up to iOS's seamless app backup and restore
  • I think these are different. They mostly find vulnerability in the iOS system as opposed to try to crack the backup system.

    I think iOS or Android backup system are rather secure compared to other components because of the following: hacker will also need to break into a cloud drive to retrieve them, which adds extra work; the backup is simple, just bunch of files and a password, apple/google can use standard well-tested encryption to encrypt them.

    However, guaranteeing there is no way to break into an operating system, especially with all the features that a modern system requires, is much harder.

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