hereiamagain
@hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on nothing really matters 4 days ago:
Preach. Love my $15 rice cooker, works fine
- Comment on nothing really matters 6 days ago:
I got a new fancy inverter microwave, and it’s an absolute game changer, for reheating.
Running a traditional microwave, lower power modes are literally just lower duty cycles. Very coarse, too.
30% power is something like “turn on high power for 3 seconds, turn off power for 7 seconds, repeat”
Which means your good gets blasted at 1200w for 3 seconds, and then is given time to rest for 7 seconds, before starting over again.
This is bad for things like fats and oils in food, which tends to heat up REALLY fast, and start splattering/burning the parts of the food they’re in.
It works but could be better, smoother.
Enter the inverter microwave. It can adjust the actual power output of the magnetron itself. So when you tell it 30% power, it will run the whole 10 seconds without cycling on and off, but it’s literally only putting out 30% of the normal full power.
This is much more gentle on delicate foods.
Caveat, at powers below 30% it starts to duty cycle again, I imagine because the magnetron can only operate so low before it can’t run normally.
But still, pulsing a 30% powered magnetron on and off is a lot more gentle than a 100% powered one.
This has made reheating leftovers much better.
Instead of blasting it at full power, then stirring/mixing the food, and blasting it again.
I just set it at 10 or 20%, take a quick shower, and come out to perfectly evenly reheated food. Takes 10 or 20 minutes instead of 5, but, way less work, and much better results. Win win.
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 2 weeks ago:
Just because tying them up doesn’t hurt or stop the overall operation, you still wasted that one guys time and probably hurt his metrics 🤷♂️
Still not worth it to me
- Comment on Yes this year is going to be really good and productive 2 weeks ago:
Worked at a nursing home, boss was part owner, him and the manager were both great. We got along very well. The other part owner (majority owner?) came around sometimes, pleasant lady, smart, if stubborn.
After a year or so, suddenly the boss and manager are just gone one day. The part owner lady is now full owner and running the office. I never heard the whole story, but it was some ugly legal/financial thing, power play maybe. I don’t remember.
Former boss and manager end up at another facility. Some of my co-workers quit over it all, blaming the part owner lady who took over, and went to work for the former boss and manager. Feelings hurt etc.
Former boss and manager call me to get me to come work for them, not really offering a raise.
But with everyone else leaving, there was a big need where I was. I was getting trained for a higher position, better pay, better hours, everything. So I stayed. I liked the old boss and manager, but had nothing against the new full owner.
This worked well for me for awhile, for like a year. But then this lady brings in her nephew as a “maintenance guy”. I immediately don’t like him, but I play nice, always a smile for him.
Soon he starts doing more and more stuff. Hanging out in the office, forwarding instructions from his aunt, sitting in on meetings. He starts getting real uppity, has an attitude.
We’re told he’s “getting experience” running the facility.
Eventually it comes out, the plan was always for him to be the boss, but legally he couldn’t, because he was a state run facility and had been in prison too recently, probation or something, I don’t remember.
Finally he’s running the place, and things stay to go south real quick. Quality of patient care goes down. Privileges we had are taken away. Security cameras go up. The guy actually got in a fight with family members at one point, screaming at them and wagging his finger in their face.
The whole work environment got toxic. New hires start sucking up to the manager, a division forms in the staff, people start back biting.
The new staff doesn’t like that I and others, 3 years senior in a place with high turnover, have a more stable schedule than they do.
The nepo baby felon boss tells me I can’t have my schedule anymore.
I talk to the owner about my concerns, not just my schedule, but everything. She tells me that it’s his baby and she’s not going to interfere.
So I start looking for work. I line up something quick, and give him my two weeks.
He’s furious, saying I’m going to regret it etc etc. Every day at work that first week is stressful, getting glared at etc.
Then, honestly, over the weekend something truly came up in my personal life. I needed to take time off, just the last two days of the last week of work I promised him.
So I called him right then and there on the weekend, because it was the right thing to do. I said “hey listen, I know I said two weeks, but something came up, so I can’t work Thursday or Friday, my last two days. I’m sorry.” No I didn’t ask if it was ok, I just told him, but I did say it nicely.
He explodes at me, tells me it’s illegal, and I promised him, and I can’t do this etc etc. Then he tells me it’s going to go on my “permanent record”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. And that I needed to sign paperwork saying that I lied and didn’t give my two weeks.
So I go into work Monday, I do my shift, he’s glowering at me all day. Keeps trying to get me to come to the office and sign that paperwork, I keep being too busy.
When the time comes for my shift to end, I tell my favorite co-workers goodbye, and warn them I’m not coming back for the rest of my week.
Then instead of leaving through the front door or employee door, both of which make me walk past the office… I leave out the patio door into the courtyard, and jump the fence to my car, and drive off into the sunset.
Never talked to that douchebag again. Wish I could’ve seen the look on his face.
- Comment on Shit, I'd pay $9 2 weeks ago:
Obligatory “Android had it first”. That is all, carry on.
- Comment on i need sleep 4 weeks ago:
Rectifying the AC, even with a full bridge rectifier, will still drop to zero every time the AC voltage crosses the zero line. So usually a capacitor is added to buffer this output. Its capacity depends on the size of the load.
- Comment on i need sleep 4 weeks ago:
I loled
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, when my wife and I cook, it’s ALWAYS a huge meal. We take whatever recipe we find and double it at a minimum, and then eat it for lunch and dinner for the next few days. But we still prefer it to be a delicious meal.
One thing to note, a lot of fast food, and restaurants of the faster variety, aren’t cooking food either. It’s the same precooked frozen stuff we’re decrying, just the commercial variety.
I’m definitely in the camp of “eating out is expensive and unhealthy”. I still do it, socially. And I’ll agree that if you go to a fancy enough restaurant, it probably tips back towards wholesome and healthy, albeit way too expensive.
It’s funny, I’m not bragging, but, friends of mine will try to reference where things are in my town like “oh it’s across the street from the Wendy’s”, and I’m like, where? And in one case, I think it was a burger king? I didn’t even realize we had one.
I’ll eat fast food, sure, I do it often enough to know what I like at certain places. But in my own town? 10-15 minutes from home? Nope, pretty much never do it. If I’m that close to home, I’m not wasting my money, I’ll go home and either eat leftovers, make bachelor-chow, or if the timing is right and the wife is home, make a whole meal of something proper.
It’s funny, we never had a Chick-fil-A by us, closest one was how away. And I LOVE Chick-fil-A. They put one in down the street one year.
I hit it up several times in that first year, delicious. But now? It’s too close to home. It never crosses my mind, and if it does? I usually wave it away unless the circumstances are just right. But they haven’t been just right in… IDK, years? Probably 3 or 4 years?
Life is wild.
- Comment on "Between raising two young boys and putting in long hours at a marketing job, Kevin Caldwell can almost never find the time to make dinner. So he and his husband spend about $700 a week to order in" 5 weeks ago:
The world is a funny place with lots of varying opinions.
Your opinion is valid.
Do you enjoy the taste of food? Because my co-worker takes it to the extreme. Food is just a necessary part of life to him. He eats the same meal for lunch every single day, a Tim Hortons sandwich of some sort. It never changes. When we walk into the gas station where they Tim Hortons is? The staff greet him, and tell him his total so he can pay, because they know without a doubt, that’s what he’s ordering. The guy doesn’t like salt or pepper or ketchup or any type of sauce. His words “too flavorful”.
My opinion, is that I love the taste of delicious food, and generally dislike cooking. Now, I know how to cook, I help my wife cook often, and sometimes I make the whole meal myself. We make delicious things, a wide variety, lots of flavor and spice and zest.
But when she’s out of town? I make bachelor-chow. Carb heavy and easy. Ramen, Mac n cheese, freezer pizza, hotdogs, you get the idea. Tastes good enough to me, quick and easy, cheap. I don’t think I’ve ever cooked a proper meal while she’s away.
BUT, I usually start to feel like crap after a few days of this. And one of the many reasons I miss her when she’s gone, is that she’ll force us to make good food again when she’s back.
I really do love good food. I’m just supremely cheap and lazy, and won’t do it myself. Maybe if she’s ever gone forever, I would eventually start eating right? Hard to say.
But everyone’s relationship with food is different. My wife will eat “girl dinner” on occasion. But would much rather spend the time and make a proper meal from scratch. Tastes better.
- Comment on Drug dealers hate this one weird trick! 5 weeks ago:
Knew what it was before clicking. Gotta love chubbyemu
- Comment on Anon discusses cinema. 1 month ago:
Agreed I don’t like this usage of the word, gonna end badly
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 months ago:
While I disagree with you, I appreciate your take. And the windedness is just right, if not short winded, for this thread.
I do like Sisko, I should rewatch ds9. I just grew up watching TNG so it’s burned into my brain, love it
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 months ago:
I don’t know what it says about me that I already knew what a hurdy gurdy was lol
- Comment on What're your strong opinions from an aged / dead fandom? 2 months ago:
I agree wholeheartedly. I like the original characters enough, they fill their purpose. I’m a little sad when the changeover happens, but quickly fall in love with the new ones. A very well done show, infinitely re-watchable, in my family’s opinion. We grew up watching it, and we all rewatch it every other year or so.
In fact, I’m due for a rewatch right about now.
- Comment on Looks legit. What do you all think? 2 months ago:
The shadow of the van feels… Off to me. Like yeah, at a certain angle you won’t see the slope of the windshield, but I don’t think the light is low enough for that?
- Comment on It will be great, they said... 2 months ago:
I have no experience with any type of backend mail management or anything like it.
But I do have a corporate email through Microsoft exchange. I hate multiple apps on my phone, so I have it as an extra account in my Gmail app.
And it sucks. I don’t get a lot of emails, only the last 3 or 4 emails actually show up in the app.
But my biggest, angriest problem… Is mail getting stuck in the queue.
If I’m sending a short email? Fine, I can use the app. Fire it off and it’ll send immediately.
But if I write a long email? It will say it’s sending, it’ll sit in the outbox, but it will never… ever… send. Ever.
No amount of Wi-Fi cycling or data cycling, cache clearing or phone restarting will ever ever get that email to send. It will just sit there silently failed. Not even acknowledging it’s failed when you poke at it, let alone with a notification or something.
The first time I realized it happened, it was an unfortunately important email.
Would you like to guess what the problem is? I pulled my hair out for like a day before figuring it out. I’ll put it in a spoiler tag so you can guess.
spoiler
When you write a long email, at some point it saves a draft. For some reason, that draft is what holds everything up. If I remember correctly, even deleting the draft doesn’t make it send… If ever I forget, and it happens again, I have to copy my whole email to the clipboard, open exchange in the web browser, find the draft (which is never complete, always only half or less of what I wrote) paste my full message into the draft, and then manually send it.
I guess technically it’s my own fault, I could just use the exchange app and it would probably solve this. But I don’t want to, and I shouldn’t have to, email is not new. But it is terrible. Like printers. Bah.
- Comment on Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram? 2 months ago:
Yep. Annoying. A few weeks ago I didn’t realize all of this was starting, I wanted another 16gb ddr4 for a computer I was converting into a server.
Was annoying to discover the price increase for seemingly no reason.
- Comment on Asking the difficult questions 2 months ago:
Can confirm. Cat loves the 2nd story balcony. Yells at us every year when “we turn the snow on again”, making it so he can’t enjoy the balcony.
We are rude.
- Comment on I just 💚 them and think they're neat. 3 months ago:
I’ll add to this, sufficient artificial light will wake them up too. So don’t point a big light at it in preparation for taking them out, because they’ll take you out
- Comment on Zero Chull 3 months ago:
Wow that’s crazy!
- Comment on Zero Chull 3 months ago:
The lan thing makes sense, I could see that. Still an impressive amount of patch cables, if true.
As for turning WiFi on and off, that could work too, didn’t think of that. But I feel like maybe not? Surely the apps would complain or get suspicious of only connecting to make a quick comment and then disconnecting again, every single time. Or maybe not.
I just imagine companies trying to fight this somehow, and that would be a suspicious fingerprint.
- Comment on Zero Chull 3 months ago:
Don’t know why you’re getting down voted. It is indeed impressive that all those WiFi radios are working that close together. There’s another wall of phones behind it, double! Probably more in the room too.
There’s gotta be 100 phones on that first wall alone, plus double it, so 200. More in the room? Other rooms? Hundreds of phones, all screaming out WiFi, trying to connect.
From a networking perspective, impressive indeed. Those phones must hate life.
- Comment on be a friend to the animals 3 months ago:
Something something anal glands
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 3 months ago:
“Cooling disabled until product removed”
- Comment on The moment we've all been waiting for: you now can have targeted ads on your 2k smartfridge 3 months ago:
Ice and water fun a fridge is a luxury, but a nice luxury, and requires zero computers to do it
- Comment on Anon gets a pay raise 3 months ago:
Isn’t this incorrect? I always heard that, and then somebody told me no, you pay taxes on what you make up to the first bracket, based on the first bracket, then whatever you make after that you pay taxes on in the second bracket, up to the limit, etc
So yes youn pay more for what you’re making above that, but you’re still making more overall? You don’t actually go backwards. I think.
Except for like assistance and stuff. That’s all messed up. If you make just enough to get above the poverty line and lose Medicaid or snap or whatever, then you end up paying so much extra you go backwards as far as available funds. They’ve got the screws so tight, it actually makes more sense to manufacture ways to make less money, so you can stay just under the line. The gap is too big between needing assistance and being sufficient, you can’t get from one to the other. At least that’s what I’ve heard.
I’m in the US btw.
- Comment on A hypothesis 4 months ago:
13/14 for me. Thinkpad 600 😎
- Comment on A hypothesis 4 months ago:
I was around 13 for my first Linux install. Good times. Think pad 600, what a classic.
If I could have that exact same machine, with modern specs, I’d be hard pressed to use anything else. The nostalgia alone… So good.
- Comment on A hypothesis 4 months ago:
There are dozens of us
- Comment on PSA: Stop using Imgur for now 5 months ago:
I’m on boost too. Let’s find out, here’s a picture uploaded using the built in function. Image
Well I’ll be darned, I thought it was using imgur, but I guess it’s straight to the instance. Neat.
