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Cake day: January 19th, 2025

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  • It used to freeze up a lot; and, then, you lost all tabs, if it did. That’s why I’d stopped using it and switched to Chrome, back in the day.

    With all the crap Google’s doing, I tried Firefox out again something like 5 or 7 years ago and it’s now better than what Chrome offers (for me, of course; I’d’ve probably still switched, anyway, just to deGoogle my life further).

    I do find it starts to massively lag when I get to a certain number of tabs/windows; but Chrome doesn’t seem to ever shut off my CPU fans under the same level of load so not like it gets a leg up.




  • I’d meant to respond to this but, apparently, forgot.

    There is but there are some caveats which may make it unsuitable, for you. MNT Research sells a few different pieces of hardware which are entirely open hardware with the aim to be entirely repairable and modifiable, even more so than Framework (from what I hear). They publish the full spec.s of every component the machines are built with and you can even buy printed copies of the manual which lays out the spec.s of all those components.

    One of the caveats is that they use ARM; on the one hand, that means no need for fans as there really isn’t any kind of heat build-up but, of course, not everything is available to be built for ARM (you might know this already and I apologize if anything I mention isn’t needed).

    The other caveat is that the laptops are a tad chunky (mostly to make rooting around in the innards to swap parts and fix things easier); some people don’t mind that but I figure I ought to make note.

    The new one they’re working on, but haven’t released yet (they ship the earliest in July, though, so coming up), are somewhat more slim, though: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next. But it’s really a matter of relativity.

    I’d heard that they were kind of slow but that the newest CPU they got for the upcoming device reaches levels comparable with other laptops? I’m very much out of my depth in that area, though.

    Lastly, I’m going to go out on a limb and assume, based off your instance, that you’re family and, so, mention that the CEO is genderqueer (Mastodon account at https://mastodon.social/@mntmn). So you do get the added benefit of supporting a Queer-owned business which I don’t think even Framework offers.

    I don’t own anything by them so you may want to read up on some reviews or lurk forums, first, but it definitely is as committed to right-to-repair and interchangeability/upgradability of components and also deeply committed to open-source.






  • Not technically but, like, it’s definitely a lot of cream cheese. Grabbing the first cheesecake recipe that came up when I searched, the non-crust ingredients are listed as:

    32 oz cream cheese², softened to room temperature (910g)
    ▢ 1 cup sugar, (200g)
    ▢ ⅔ cups sour cream, (160g)
    ▢ 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
    ▢ ⅛ teaspoon salt
    ▢ 4 large eggs, room temperature, lightly beaten
    

    So that’s 60% cream cheese. By contrast, the cream cheese is only 17% of the called-for ingredients of this recipe (seeing as it calls for double of what-the-cream-cheese-amount-is in cottage cheese, I was curious what percentage is both the cottage cheese and cream cheese and that’s still just 51%; so less than the cream cheese of the cheese cake, still. I was curious what percentage we got to if we included the heavy cream to target the largest amounts of dairy it calls for (though somewhat unfair as the 60% in the cheese cake is just the cream cheese and leaves out the sour cream (it jumps to 70%, with the sour cream included, in case you were curious)) and we do get up 68% of the ingredients, with that included. But, you know, that’s cream cheese, cottage cheese, and heavy cream and not just cream cheese).









  • When someone proposes, implements or enforces a clearly sensible rule, and someone else brings weird corner case scenarios up, always ask yourself if there’s a conflict of interests.

    I can’t tell if I started doing this more as disinformation became more prevalent over the recent years or it’s something I’ve always done; I don’t know where I would’ve picked it up from.

    Nevertheless, you’re spot on; it’s an incredibly good rule-of-thumb.

    (I just realized it might’ve been funny if I’d responded to this with a weird, corner-case scenario, instead; but it’s late and I can’t think of a good one for it)