You’ve just described a toastie and toastie maker. I don’t know what this jaffle nonsense is all about, but it sounds like someone is sneaking toasties through customs in a dodgy trenchcoat!
There used to be a vending machine in a hosiptal near me that would heat up a premade grilled cheese sandwich for £2. Being a vending machine in a hospital, they had to be making at least enough to cover the costs plus wastage. I’d say that somewhere with high footfall, especially on a cold day, you could make at least some profit from this.
You could turn invisibility on and off as you like and there would be no time limit. Your clothes would turn invisible too, and you could decide whether the items you are holding would be visible or not....
If you could teleport anywhere, you could demonstrate the power to your region’s space agency and get them to build a pressurised container or suit that can go with you.
Teleport to the moon and grab some rocks for a billionaire to make some money, then teleport to Mars and repair the broken rover. Take whatever samples the space agency wants,or transport some materials there ready for the first settlers.
This is just the standard stuff. Once you start using your imagination, there’s not much of a limit :)
I use Xubuntu on my media server, and have never had that happen. I get a notification saying that the Firefox snap is going to update in 14 days, but closing the browser, updating, and reopening brings all my tabs and windows back. I get the same if I close the browser and restart the computer, letting the snaps update automatically.
I wonder if OP has got the restore open tabs setting turned off.
Yep, same here. I tore the muscles and ligaments in my shoulder 25 years ago, and didn’t keep up with the exercises. At the time it didn’t feel too bad. Now, it hurts regularly, and I don’t have the full range of motion.
On the bright side, every time I rotate my shoulder, it clicks and grinds, and scares the shit out of my squeamish friends…
There’s another series like that, the Human Chronicles Saga by T.R. Harris. Humans are super strong because the gravity on Earth is much higher than on other planets. Materials on the other planets are weaker too, simply because they don’t need to be as strong, so the humans can break through walls easily.
That’s the biggest problem. I used to use a suspension service for Chrome that would change your open links to its own format when a tab was suspended. I bookmarked hundreds of links in their format over the years.
The service was bought out by a third party, then sold to a scammer, leading to it getting banned by Google.
I’ve now got hundreds of links that are obfuscated, and the only way to get them back is to manually edit them and see which ones are important.
Where I am there are hills everywhere. You know that old joke about walking five miles uphill to school in the snow, and ten miles uphill to get home? That’s here. Plus, it’s the UK, so when it snows, the roads and pavements are lethal.
Plus, some people have kids under 5 😉
More seriously though, because of the amount of hills, and the fact that most people work all day, bikes are not the best option here. The nearest supermarket is several miles away with a lot of hills in between. If you’ve got plenty of free time, riding to the shops with the kids could be fun, but for most people public transport is the answer. It’s just a shame that it’s terrible here .
I’d love to get an ebike, but at the moment the price is too high, from what I’ve seen. The cheapest ones seem to be over £1,000, unless you get the little fold up bikes, but they don’t look like they’d be comfortable for a long ride where you’re pedaling lots.
A gravel bike style would be better here too, simply because we’re in the valleys, and lots of the trails are a bit rough.
Back to the point though, getting to the shops and carrying a week’s worth of shopping on a bike with young kids is impractical here. It would be great if it was practical, but other than the hills, we don’t have the infrastructure for the most part. The roads have to be shared, even if it’s just for now, and there are lots of stretches here where there’s not the room for bikes with motor vehicles, and especially not on the pavements. This time of year is even worse - it’s dark in the morning and night, and the weather is usually crap. All of it increases the risk of accidents, and that’s the last thing any of us want.
Exactly, you live in a country that doesn’t shut down because of half a millimetre of snow. We genuinely get public transport shutting down if there’s snow, and we’ve infamously had trains stop running because of the wrong type of leaves on the line. For a country that mostly has adverse weather conditions, we’re absolutely useless if the weather’s anything but dry and sunny.
I honestly don’t know what we can do here to get better public transport and encourage people away from cars. Once you’re further down the valley, there’s enough room to build other transport methods alongside the roads to allow a transition, but further up, there’s barely enough room for cars to pass each other in some places, which means that buses would struggle too, and there’s no room to make a one way loop to free up space either.
When I travel, I try to taste the local cuisine and love to try things that I’ve never had before. Recently I tried haggis, which was outstanding. I’ve also had hakarl (fermented shark - not really my cup of tea, but glad I tried it) and balut (surprisingly tasty)....
Deep fried haggis is much nicer than it sounds. I tried it a few years ago in Edinburgh on a rugby weekend.
I had what I thought was fried squid in Spain once. I’d tried squid a few years before, and it was flavourless and rubbery, but I later learned that it had been overcooked. When I saw Calamari on the menu in a seaside restaurant, I thought I’d try it again.
It had a longer name, but a badly translated conversation with the waiter convinced me that it was the same dish.
The same waiter brought out a plate of what looked a lot like deep fried baby squid or octopus.
It was very nice, but I got filthy looks from my young niece for ‘eating all the babies’, so I haven’t had it since.
Here are two Reddit links I found recently when I wanted to rip some DVDs. I haven’t ripped them yet, so don’t know the best advice, and it’s been a while since I last did it.
What you can do if you don’t know the file name is start the torrent and let it get to 1%, or enough to get the initial torrent data, pause the torrent, and you should have a partial file in the download folder.
Rename your file to match the new one in the download folder, and overwrite the new file with your existing one. Tell the torrent client to force a recheck, and it should identify your newly renamed file as the correct file from the torrent. Now you just restart the torrent, and you’re good to go :)
The only thing to watch out for is that some torrent programs rename partially downloaded files to stop you confusing them with completed files. It’s usually done by appending something to the end of the filename though, so it’s easy to spot.
$1 grilled cheese (mander.xyz)
What happens when Linus dies/retires?
Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?
Would you choose invisibility or teleportation?
You could turn invisibility on and off as you like and there would be no time limit. Your clothes would turn invisible too, and you could decide whether the items you are holding would be visible or not....
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Edit: Enough money as in buying a PC supporting windows 11
Any advice for someone who broke bones that need surgery to fix?
Broke my ankle and leg in 3 places and I’m getting surgery tomorrow. Idk how to feel or what to expect.
Henry Cavill's Highlander reboot is moving forward with John Wick director at the helm (www.gamesradar.com)
Oxygen. (mander.xyz)
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̶P̶r̶o̶t̶e̶c̶t̶ Obfuscate your content from bots and AIs (lemmy.ml)
Hey everyone, so for the past few month I have been working on this project and I’d love to have your feedback on it....
What are the shortest karaoke songs?
I like going to karaoke bars with my friends, but so many songs have problems:...
Does anybody use Thunderbird on Android a.k.a. K-9
Just recently started using thunderbird to see how it would help managing múltiple Gmail accounts. Has anybody used the app version? Is it good? Bad?
The world's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars (theconversation.com)
Have you assholes never heard of Chain of Command?!?! (startrek.website)
Thanks to @JordanLaFordan over on Mastodon for shooting this over to me. Far too accurate.
[QUESTION] What's the most interesting thing you've eaten?
When I travel, I try to taste the local cuisine and love to try things that I’ve never had before. Recently I tried haggis, which was outstanding. I’ve also had hakarl (fermented shark - not really my cup of tea, but glad I tried it) and balut (surprisingly tasty)....
Backing up DVDs to mp4?
Maybe the wrong place to ask, so sorry to the mods if thats the case....
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Move over Spidey, new template just dropped (startrek.website)
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MediaMonkey Linux and Android alternative?
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