Oh, I tried that once or twice — I’ll have to try it again!

There’s so such thing as starter “discard”! Add water, oil, sugar, salt, baking soda and you’ve got some vegan sourdough pancakes. Or use any of a number of other recipes — but no sense in wasting it.

You mentioned ham radio — definitely fun! It’s a process to get into it though, as you need to study/pass an exam, and then you need a radio. Radios range from cheap ($25 or so) in the VHF/UHF (“walkie talkie”-style) to more expensive for an HF rig ($1000 range for 100W HF). If you want to get into low power (“QRP”) it can be much cheaper. You also need a fair amount of space for a good antenna setup…

There are tons of different communication modes, some without a computer and, like you mentioned, some that use computers. wsjtx and fldigi are popular programs.

Good luck!

D’oh, I’m a doofus — it’s search that I was thinking of (apt-cache search, not apt-get search).

Can apt-get refresh package list?

Edit: yes…yes it can. I was confused.

I could be wrong but I think these are prepaid, not paid on delivery…

They specified 1 significant figure — at that level it’s the same.

This is the same argument used for blaming the cost of college on government loans for education, for $$$ housing prices in cities that offer low income subsidies, for food prices due to food stamps…

That’s because you’re thinking of trucks used first and foremost for heavy duty “truck stuff.” That is not the only market for trucks, at least in the US: https://www.thedrive.com/news/26907/you-dont-need-a-full-size-pickup-truck-you-need-a-cowboy-costume

According to Edwards’ data, 75 percent of truck owners use their truck for towing one time a year or less (meaning, never). Nearly 70 percent of truck owners go off-road one time a year or less. And a full 35 percent of truck owners use their truck for hauling—putting something in the bed, its ostensible raison d’être—once a year or less.

0-60mph is mostly deprecated these days in favor of 0-62mph, which just so happens to be the same as 0-100km/h — what a coincidence!

It’s an interesting (predictable?) look into the psyche here.

I work for a big company, and while yeah it’s a big faceless company, the people treat us ICs as assets, not liabilities; the company makes money because of its employees, not in spite of them, and they — colleagues, manager, director, SVP — acknowledge that.

My partner’s company OTOH seems to treat employees more as a liability — the kind of attitude of “we’d be more profitable if we didn’t have to pay you,” which is really aggravating (different industry than mine, so this is more the norm mindset unfortunately).

It’s really clear how this whole farce of a government agency views the world.

“…and there are no comments, because it’s Self Documenting™”

Modern bots are bad, but the old school IRC (maybe early Battle.net?) bots… I’m cool making an exception for them if you are.

Stupid adults being stupid and paying for their stupidity is one thing. But 1) this affects their kids, and 2) this can affect my kid (<1yo) and anyone who can’t get vaccinated because they’re immunocompromised/etc.

VHCOL area (San Francisco) — “middle class” usually means household income of 300k or so.

HomeAssistant, all IoT devices are on a VLAN that can only talk to HomeAssistant…HomeAssistant server only accessible via LAN or through WireGuard to my VPS (which WireGuard’s to my router, which connects to my HA server).

Not perfect, not invulnerable, but it also only controls lights and harmless switches.

CC “debt” that’s paid off in full every month is debt in the same sense that eating at a typical restaurant puts you in debt.

Don’t get me wrong, unmanageable CC debt is a real thing, but that’s not what we’re talking about.

A six/seven figure donation for these companies is…nothing. While I’m all for grabbing my face eating leopard popcorn, I’m not sure I’d say this falls under that category. This amount of money doesn’t feel like trying to buy favors — more like “please don’t specifically target us with your wrath of incompetence.”

This title makes it sound like he wouldn’t be a good Klingon, either. Which…is definitely true.

I bet he thinks he’d make a good Ferengi. But that’s insulting to the Ferengis…