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Bold of you to assume you’re going to be the one to outlive a 90s printer.

I realise this came across a bit combative, but I would never bemoan anyone for anything that’s based on their lived experiences.

Unfortunately it is somewhat human nature to dislike what we don’t understand, and I think that applies to both ends of this conversation.

People that had a predominantly negative experience with Christmas will almost certainly - when their circumstances allow - either cancel it outright, or create their own tradition they do want to be a part of (it seems we have a few of those people in this thread, which is awesome).

Everyone else, for whom not even wanting to participate in Christmas is such gross contrast to their own experiences that they can barely comprehend it are bound to have some difficulty in adjusting to that.

Neither side are remotely wrong, they’re both just viewing the world through the lens of their own life.

Now you have.

Christmas can - and I simply can’t over-stress this - fuck right off.

Pro tip: talk to child-free people estranged from their parents and/or siblings. High chance they want nothing to do with any of it, likely because it dredges up unpleasant memories (which frankly stand a good chance of also being the source of their eschewing of religion).

Rather than having to buy gifts other people don’t want, and pretend to be happy about receiving the same, I just buy the things I want when I want them, and encourage those around me to do the same.

I will add that it’s not helped by living in the southern hemisphere, where a bunch of misguided people insist on emulating northern hemisphere traditions, making everyone around them miserable by serving a three-course roast dinner in the height of summer.

Because more eggs are used for baking than straight eating in our house, ones sold as “jumbo”.

Exact size varies a little by brand but usually means ≥65g.

Boiled, probably.

Pot of water. Bring to a rolling boil. Lower eggs in with tongs. Turn down to medium. Set a timer. Drain, and run under cold water for about another 30-60 seconds (this helps the shells detach).

So long as you don’t drop the eggs too hard, they usually maintain containment so you can just dry the pot and put it away, no real cleanup to speak of.

For soft (completely set whites, still mostly liquid yolk), around 7.5 - 8.5 minutes depending on your stove, the size of the eggs, and whether they’re starting from fridge or room temperature.

Reasonably once the eggs are in the pot you could leave them cooking and take a shower, watching it isn’t essential.

Dedicated egg cooking appliances are also available; you load 1-6 eggs (typically) and a measured amount of water for the number of eggs and soft/medium/hard boiled, push the button, and walk away. Basically a toaster for eggs.

The interesting thing is the people who will care the most about this are professional users, who actually did require a machine with real expandability, to stuff full of the likes of SDI video IO cards (eg https://www.aja.com/products/kona-5).

If you ask those people, they’ll undoubtedly gladly tell you how much it sucked dealing with Thunderbolt-to-PCIe expansion cages during the “Trashcan” era in order to use their machine for their work.

While Thunderbolt’s throughput has certainly improved a bunch since then (80Gbps symmetrical or 120/40Gbps asymmetrical for TB5, vs 20Gbps for TB2 back in that era), latency and stability still frankly leave a lot to be desired versus a real PCIe slot.

For people who already perceive Apple devices as overpriced toy computers, their further alienating what was at one point their primary target audience - high-end professional users - will certainly seem like an odd choice.

I said this to someone once and they accused me of being “elitist”. The simple fact is when I learned how to do this stuff, there was no such thing as a GUI for any of it. You did it on the CLI, or not at all.

(Almost the exact same experience with git, funnily enough)

I 100% agree though; the bones of the setup of my NAS (admittedly mine is Ubuntu, just because everything else I run is too) was done once 18 months ago, and most has never been touched again. Just software updates every now and then and ignore it the rest of the time.

I don’t feel like I’ve lost any functionality doing things this way, either. I discovered when a disk died that it even uses SES to light the error LED and turn on the annoying beeping noise on the JBOD, and I didn’t have to do anything to set that up. I call that a win.

I thought this said “we have a duel”.

Your way works too, I suppose.

Step 1: blender

Step 2: ???

Step 3: profit

Windows is more of a “your socks must be damp at all times while on the clock” policy.

Not exactly going to prevent you from getting your work done, but unpleasant, and you’ll be miserable the whole time.

That’s a big part of the problem though… it’s Unix. The BSD-based underpinnings of Mac OS are just different enough to be a colossal pain in the arse for interoperability with GNU-based systems.

At a surface level things seem similar enough, but that people seem to think developing on Mac and deploying on Linux is this simple process really confuses me, because every time it’s come up in my career nothing has ever worked properly. Every occasion a bunch of time wasted finding the one little difference that breaks on one platform (and I’m going to be blunt here; it was always on the Mac).

For my money too, the Mac UI features some of the most incomprehensible and borderline unpleasant design decisions. Window management is downright infuriating. File management feels barely functional. Apple’s stubborn insistence in hiding the options they’d clearly prefer you didn’t use (to make using it actually pleasant) in “accessibility” menus is baffling.

Some of this stuff harks back to last century. I hated the way things worked back then in Mac OS 6 on a Mac classic, and a lot of it they still haven’t fixed.

Often it’s attached to a motor, but the pointy end hasn’t changed much.

Certainly juicing the likes of apples or carrots warrants a different kind of appliance, but squashing citrus is a fairly solved problem.

35% is the kind of numbers I used to have on servers at work, which often feature >2TB of RAM.

(another similar percentage being the CPUs, 128 cores per socket doesn’t come cheap)

Seeing those numbers for desktop hardware, “holy fuck” is about right.

You wrote this all a lot better than I could have, but to expand on 2) I have no desire whatsoever to have a “conversation” (nay, argument) with a machine to try and convince/coerce/deceive/brow-beat (delete as appropriate) it into maybe doing what I wanted.

I don’t want to deal with this grotesque “tee hee, oopsie” personality that every company seems to have bestowed on these awful things when things go awry, I don’t want its “suggestions”. I code, computer does. End of transaction.

People can call me a luddite at this point and I’ll wear that badge with pride. I’ll still be here, understanding my data and processes and writing code to work with them, long after (as you say) you’ve been priced out of these tools.

Not that I know of, which means I can only assume it’ll be a timing-based attack.

With strategic use of sleep statements in the script you should stand a pretty good chance of detecting the HTTP download blocking while the script execution is paused.

If you were already shipping the kind of script that unpacks a binary payload from the tail end of the file and executes it, it’s well within the realm of possibility to swap it for a different one.

Magimix are French, and may be the high-quality product you seek.

I upgraded from a Kenwood which was good enough, but the upgrade to direct-driven and an induction motor was substantial (as is the weight of the unit).

Their commercial products are sold under the name “Robot Coupe”, I see those show up used from time to time (usually when a restaurant goes out of business) so that could also be an option.

DVDs didn’t have that issue, fortunately.

In CDs, the recorded layer is directly under the label, in DVDs it’s mid-way through the thickness of the disc so there’s a layer of plastic between it and the label. A function of different wavelengths of light used to read them.

Bit rot due to degradation of the organic chemicals in the recording layer is still very much a concern though.

That, or the aspiring rich arsehole.

Not even a beneficiary, just a grossly misguided individual who hasn’t yet realised that will, in fact, not be them some day.

“Method and apparatus for insufflation of oxygen into a body by means of flexible permeable membrane”