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  1. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Yeah I myself had also used it two nights ago just fine so not sure what's up.

    Yeah I myself had also used it two nights ago just fine so not sure what's up.

  2. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    Ah yeah I came across this during my research for a simple bread to bake. I just don't have a Dutch oven or a pizza stone/steel. I read about just using a sheetpan and metal bowl as a cover to...

    Ah yeah I came across this during my research for a simple bread to bake. I just don't have a Dutch oven or a pizza stone/steel. I read about just using a sheetpan and metal bowl as a cover to create a makeshift oven-in-an-oven thing but that's a little ambitious for me haha.

    I chose Adam's recipes I mentioned since they required no extra equipment beyond what I had haha

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  3. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Not sure if this is still the case but I had an issue with the Guardian XP farm last night. I could see guardians spawning in the little chamber at water level but they'd never come into the farm...

    Not sure if this is still the case but I had an issue with the Guardian XP farm last night. I could see guardians spawning in the little chamber at water level but they'd never come into the farm itself. I waited ~10 minutes but no guardians ever showed up in the farm. Did a recent update break it?

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  4. Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food

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    More exciting things from me, I baked my first loaf of bread this week! Last week, I bought a 5lb/2ish kg of flour and in my excitement to try baking, I followed a recipe from YouTube home cook...

    More exciting things from me, I baked my first loaf of bread this week! Last week, I bought a 5lb/2ish kg of flour and in my excitement to try baking, I followed a recipe from YouTube home cook Adam Ragusea for a "legate loaf", basically a no-knead flat baguette-ish? bread. In his recipe video, he constantly tells you how easy this loaf is and requires no skill. Well, I managed to royally mess it up by making the dough too wet and then burning the loaf in the oven. The main reason why I messed up the dough was because I didn't have a way to easily measure the flour so I eyeballed wrong and then I eyeballed wrong again when adding water. I messed up the actual bake since Ragusea mentions spraying the dough for the first few minutes of it baking. However, I don't have a food-grade spray bottle. I thought I could just use a second pan with water to steam the dough to try and achieve something similar but this was too ambitious for my first ever loaf. I underbaked it at first so I put it back in to bake some more but didn't set a timer and then returned to a burnt cracker in my oven.

    Undeterred, I decided to try another one of Ragusea's recipes this week, this time for "Pizza Bread". It's essentially a cold fermented pizza dough that he just bakes plain topped with salt, garlic powder and black pepper. I discovered that some of the food storage containers I have had actual measurements of their volumes so I used that when trying to make this recipe. Adam's latest video recipe on this makes 2 big loaves so I halved that recipe and made two smaller ones instead. I baked the first loaf after just a few hours of proofing and I baked the second one after a few days of cold fermentation in my fridge. Both loaves came out amazing! I wish I took pics to share but I inhaled those loaves real quick haha. I was surprised by how much of a difference the cold ferment made. I will definitely be trying this again in the future, especially with Adam's technique of using a spoon to mix the dough without getting your hands dirty. Great recipe to try as a lazy/first-time baker.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Yep, it's right next to your plot! I honestly didn't think anyone else would be using it tbh, I built it out of my own laziness to walk to downtown haha, so I'm glad it's somewhat useful!

    Yep, it's right next to your plot! I honestly didn't think anyone else would be using it tbh, I built it out of my own laziness to walk to downtown haha, so I'm glad it's somewhat useful!

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Hmm yea that's a difficult choice to make. I had also thought about extending my line to the north funnily enough instead of extending it all the way east but I also had the same issue.

    Hmm yea that's a difficult choice to make. I had also thought about extending my line to the north funnily enough instead of extending it all the way east but I also had the same issue.

  7. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    I can definitely help with that. I actually also extended out my local rail line to the eastern side of the Industrial District underneath everything just because I was too lazy to walk through...

    I can definitely help with that. I actually also extended out my local rail line to the eastern side of the Industrial District underneath everything just because I was too lazy to walk through the district to get to the things on the eastern side. Station's located at X 27, Z -90.

    1 vote

  8. Comment on Framework reveals 13 Pro laptop with 20-hour battery in ~tech

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    Yeah matching the Mac trackpad is a difficult task but if they get like 90% of the way there, that'd be good enough for me to be honest. I just want reliable trackpad gestures and I think Wayland...

    Yeah matching the Mac trackpad is a difficult task but if they get like 90% of the way there, that'd be good enough for me to be honest. I just want reliable trackpad gestures and I think Wayland has unlocked that for the most part. I just need to see if gesture detection has improved. I'm not in a rush to get a computer so I'll definitely be waiting for reviews!

  9. Comment on Framework reveals 13 Pro laptop with 20-hour battery in ~tech

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    I don't mind the vendor lock-in too much just yet, things work great but we'll see how that holds up in the future. I genuinely appreciate the notification sync between iPhone/Mac, having my...

    I don't mind the vendor lock-in too much just yet, things work great but we'll see how that holds up in the future. I genuinely appreciate the notification sync between iPhone/Mac, having my messages be easily accessible on my computer, screen mirroring, and smaller features like having MFA codes that come to my phone automatically be available on my computer. I know that KDE Connect enables most of the same with Linux but it's always been super flakey for me. I'll have to put overall repairability to the test soon as my iPhone's battery health is currently in the low 80s percent-wise and due to be replaced once it drops below 80. I've had good experiences with repairs from Apple in the past, though I've also heard plenty of horror stories lol.

    I actually did try a used Thinkpad with Linux for the last 3-4 months, my family had a T490s just collecting dust so I dusted it off and installed Ubuntu. Overall, the experience wasn't too bad but the touchpad and speakers really hurt the experience for me. The touchpad would always lag a heartbeat or two behind my fingers and gestures would take a few hundred milliseconds for the system to recognize I was trying to use a gesture. I get that Linux power users never leave the keyboard but I'm a casual user and I prefer poking around with the trackpad using gestures. The speakers were genuinely terrible though, it hurt to actually listen to anything. I think these are more issues with the Thinkpad rather than Linux though which is why I'm considering the Framework to begin with.

    I've already switched my desktop to Linux and have been Windows-free for a few years now thankfully. Windows 11 is somehow worse than both macOS and Linux distros to me.

  10. Comment on San Diego rents declined following surge in supply in ~finance

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    Love to see it, more proof that high housing costs are partially due to the simple economic concept of supply and demand. I really hope other California cities also follow this trend.

    Love to see it, more proof that high housing costs are partially due to the simple economic concept of supply and demand. I really hope other California cities also follow this trend.

    14 votes

  11. Comment on Framework reveals 13 Pro laptop with 20-hour battery in ~tech

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    Seems like a really solid upgrade. Interested in seeing reviews of it in the near future. I'm sorta in the market for a new laptop. I have a desktop and used to have a 16in M1 MacBook Pro but I...

    Seems like a really solid upgrade. Interested in seeing reviews of it in the near future. I'm sorta in the market for a new laptop. I have a desktop and used to have a 16in M1 MacBook Pro but I recently lent that to my mother and she's keeping it. My desktop is powerful to do anything I need but I miss having a laptop for couch and on-the-go computing. I partially replaced the couch computing with using a different browser on my work laptop but it was very limiting and new corporate policies as of today are further restricting personal use.

    I'm very much spoiled by my MacBook so I was thinking of picking up a refurbed one though the Framework is also on my radar. I miss having a Mac since it integrated nicely with my other Apple products (vendor lock-in woohoo!), I genuinely enjoy and kinda prefer macOS nowadays, and the hardware was genuinely a good value for its price. The Framework 13 Pro basically matches the 14in M5 MacBook Pro on price and scales in a fairly similar manner too so the choice isn't as clearcut for me.

  12. Comment on TownsFolk | Official launch trailer in ~games

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    Seems like a fun little game, very much in between Battle of Polytopia and Civ. I'll give it a try on mobile before I decide to buy it on PC.

    Seems like a fun little game, very much in between Battle of Polytopia and Civ. I'll give it a try on mobile before I decide to buy it on PC.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on Tildes Minecraft Weekly in ~games

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    Seems like it's hard down. Tried visiting tildes.nore.gg and my requests from my browser just hang.

    Seems like it's hard down. Tried visiting tildes.nore.gg and my requests from my browser just hang.

    4 votes

  14. Comment on Apple names insider John Ternus as CEO, Tim Cook to become executive chairman in ~tech

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    Definitely follows the rumors from earlier in the year. They also promoted Johny Srouji to Chief Hardware Officer. I think Apple's hardware has been really solid for a number of years now and I...

    Definitely follows the rumors from earlier in the year. They also promoted Johny Srouji to Chief Hardware Officer. I think Apple's hardware has been really solid for a number of years now and I think they'll only continue to improve with Srouji at the helm of hardware. It'll be interesting to see how Ternus will lead the company.

    8 votes

  15. Comment on Which Linux distro do you use, and why? in ~tech

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    I keep things fairly vanilla and simply run Ubuntu on my home PC and then Debian on my home server. For the server, I simply picked Debian as the internet recommended it to me and it's given me no...

    I keep things fairly vanilla and simply run Ubuntu on my home PC and then Debian on my home server. For the server, I simply picked Debian as the internet recommended it to me and it's given me no trouble. Given my previous personal experience running Ubuntu, I felt comfortable digging into Debian for my server.

    For my home PC, I actually spent the better part of 18 months hopping from distro to distro. I got caught up in internet hype for various distros and wasted a lot of time trying them out, running into issues, debugging them, trying to fix them and eventually give up and move onto the next one. Since I've gotten myself lodged in the Apple ecosystem (vendor lock-in!) over the last few years for my other devices, one thing I've come to appreciate is how little I've really had to fuss with macOS to get it to do what I want. know some people feel strongly about Apple's products and software but anecdotally, they've given me the least trouble and fuss. I realized I want the same from my tower so I eventually went back to Ubuntu. With some minor tweaks and extensions to GNOME, I feel pretty comfortable with it now.

    Ubuntu works best for me since the majority of mainstream software is only really tested to work on Ubuntu and as such, I have the least trouble with it. Things auto-update nicely without me having to intervene. My Nvidia 3070 has no troubles with the auto-installed/managed/updated drivers on Ubuntu and I have no trouble with gaming on Ubuntu. Ubuntu's updates have also given me the least grief. With some of the other distros I tried, even the gaming focused ones, there'd be a point where an update would eventually break something bigly and I'd have to patiently wait for an update to be able to use my computer.

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  16. Comment on Why Japan has such good railways in ~transport

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    I'll always be jealous of the Japanese rail network as an American. One thing that really surprised me about Japan's railways is that with through-running, you often don't realize you've gone from...

    I'll always be jealous of the Japanese rail network as an American. One thing that really surprised me about Japan's railways is that with through-running, you often don't realize you've gone from one railway company's infrastructure to another. Competing services/companies are very tightly integrated.

    If I'm not mistaken, Hong Kong's MTR transit system also has had similar success following a "rail + property" model, though they achieved that result very differently.

    6 votes

  17. Comment on Today I shipped twenty apps and a screensaver in ~tech

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    Love this! Don't have a Mac (yet) but I can genuinely see myself using some of these. Huge respect to shipping so many apps to the App Store successfully but also to reducing the final application...

    Love this! Don't have a Mac (yet) but I can genuinely see myself using some of these. Huge respect to shipping so many apps to the App Store successfully but also to reducing the final application size of many of these to fit into a floppy disk.

    8 votes

  18. Comment on Allbirds announces pivot from running shoes to AI compute; stock surged over 700% in ~tech

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    Yeah I've had good luck with Adidas in the past, which is why the Samba came to mind. I used to have their Cloudfoam shoes which felt similar to certain Allbirds models. I actually just got a new...

    Yeah I've had good luck with Adidas in the past, which is why the Samba came to mind. I used to have their Cloudfoam shoes which felt similar to certain Allbirds models. I actually just got a new pair of Allbirds so I've got time before I need to replace it.

  19. Comment on How are we all feeling about piracy these days? in ~movies

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    I pirate out of convenience usually. I'd love to just be someone who gets a streaming service for a month to watch what I want but by the time I actually sit down and click on something I want to...

    I pirate out of convenience usually. I'd love to just be someone who gets a streaming service for a month to watch what I want but by the time I actually sit down and click on something I want to watch, I'm bombarded with a million ads and I then lose interest.

    As companies have started consolidating, I've actually began increasing my own piracy. I built a dedicated media server a few years ago with 4TB of usable space assuming that I'd take many years to fill it up. However, I've filled up that space quicker than I expected so I'm looking at expanding.

    Can't really speak on how things have changed since I myself have only really been doing things since the COVID days but I have had decent luck finding information on Reddit to be honest. I personally just use public trackers to find the torrents I usually want. I do think about joining private trackers to find torrents for harder to find content like Korean dramas and movies but if I badly want to watch something, I'll just find a website to watch it on.

  20. Comment on Allbirds announces pivot from running shoes to AI compute; stock surged over 700% in ~tech

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    Genuinely thought this was an April Fool's bit, just 2 weeks late. I've enjoyed Allbirds shoes for the last few years since they're comfortable to me and I like the minimalist aesthetic. I wonder...

    Genuinely thought this was an April Fool's bit, just 2 weeks late. I've enjoyed Allbirds shoes for the last few years since they're comfortable to me and I like the minimalist aesthetic. I wonder where I can go on from here. I was thinking of just joining the mainstream and getting Adidas Samba shoe or something but I'm not sure.

    11 votes