Nope, made it scarier.

Also bad is when the big flakes are coming down heavy, flying over your windshield, lit up by your headlights. It’s like your flying at light speed, hard to see the road

Don’t need to go to China for this. Back when Michigan had real winters, less than a decade ago, this was a regular occurrence.

My cat is not listed.

We found him on our porch. When people ask his breed we just say porch cat.

Name is Fluffy.

Asking the real questions

Well, also no. I mean, I do, and so do many of my friends. But many people rely on all seasons. It’s… Not the best plan. But a lot of people do it.

This is us basically. Though we’re pretty busy, so we usually try to cook 2 maybe 3 meals a week, and eat the leftovers on the days in between.

Don’t get me wrong, we cook good stuff, we just purposely make a lot. I’m not going through all that effort for one tiny meal, unless it makes sense to do so, like we won’t be home for meal times or something so it would go bad.

But we keep some premix stuff around, and I have a few fast but not so healthy scratch recipes I can whip up in a jiffy. That’s usually us on Tuesday nights.

I’ve got one where I literally just throw rice, chix broth, frozen precooked (by me) chicken, frozen mixed veggies, and garlic/other spices into a rice cooker. That way I can just slap it together, jump in the shower, and eat quick before leaving again. Sometimes life is just that way.

Tell me more.

I’d like to make these pancakes you describe. I’m assuming you melt the butter first before mixing it in? Roughly how much milk is a good starting point?

I used to make Bisquick pancakes all the time, and recently changed to a name brand just add water kind because I tried it for camping once and realized it tastes just as good as the Bisquick, or good enough. I’m assuming that’s because Bisquick pancakes are also not actually that good, based on others in this thread.

I like convenience, but I also like good food. I’m gonna make both and do a blind taste test with the wife.

Been there, felt the pain

Ooh, yeah, that’s a bit different… Not a good look

This is where I’m at too. I was literally just talking to my friend about this last night.

We both know of several people who feel very strongly that the pandemic is still in full swing. They won’t go out of their house without a mask, they get their groceries delivered, they won’t come to any social events for fear of getting sick, and they only work from home. They’ve basically trapped themselves in their house, out of fear.

In my opinion, which is only an opinion, I think these people have an undiagnosed mental illness. Some sort of excess anxiety that was triggered by the events of lockdown and the early pandemic, and now they are unable to reset back to normal.

I don’t mean that in a bad way or a rude way, I’m legitimately concerned for these people and don’t know how to help.

For your average Joe, COVID is just a reality we live with. I don’t want to get it, but I can’t afford to lock myself down, nor do I think it would be healthy for me mentally if I did.

Nah, totally easy and safe if you have a little experience tinkering with stuff like that.

The fact that he came up with the idea in the first place tells me he’s halfway there. I think he’ll be fine with a little care.

Lie? On the internet? Who would do that?!

I’m glad! 😁

On top of that I’ll sometimes put them entirely to sleep when I’m not using them. You get zero background privileges. I don’t need you running in the background updating crap, when I only need to use you a few times a year.

Ah I see, it sounds like I’m saying it’s Firefox fault. No I definitely agree, chromium is the largest market share, and gets the most support, and doesn’t always follow standards, so some websites will have compatibility issues if they don’t specifically focus on Firefox support.

It’s just a sucky situation.

Fresh install of Windows 10, fresh install of Firefox, fresh install of Dropbox.

I was trying to log into Dropbox to authenticate the app, but every time I got to the part where I had to enter my 2fa it would say it was expired. I grew concerned that I was hacked and it was changed, but trying it on my old computer it worked fine.

Then I said fine, I had accidentally paired my Dropbox account with my Google account years ago, so I guess I’ll use that. So I logged into Google, and then clicked sign in with my Google account, and I got stuck in a loop where the page was refreshing everything few seconds.

The page would load, it would say “signing you in with your Google account”, then it would say at the top in red letters something like “sorry, you haven’t signed in recently enough to do that, please log in”, and the entire page would refresh and start the loop over, “signing you in with your Google account” etc etc. I left it go through several cycles, it was never gonna work.

It was about then that I guessed that Firefox might be the problem, and it was 🤷‍♂️

The only non standard thing about my config, is that Windows is inside of a VM. That could very well be it too? But edge was also in that same VM, and it worked. I only used edge because I’m trying to keep the VM light, so I didn’t install chrome for a one off thing.

I don’t know why I got down voted in my earlier comment, I’m not pooping on Firefox. I honestly want it to work, and am still going to use it. But the facts are facts, I literally just ran into this issue yesterday 🤷‍♂️

I recently switched back to Firefox, and almost immediately ran into an issue where I couldn’t log into Dropbox. It took me far longer than I’d like to admit, to realize that Firefox was the problem it wasn’t working because Dropbox doesn’t properly support Firefox. I popped into edge and logged in immediately no problem.

I’m still gonna stick with Firefox, but it’s annoying that it doesn’t work all the time.

Edit: what’s with the down votes? I like Firefox, I’m using Firefox, but I won’t deny that I ran into issues with it 🤷‍♂️

Edit 2: I realize now that the tone of my message sounds like I’m blaming Firefox. That was not my intention. It’s a complicated issue and they are getting a rough deal. Not their fault. I’ve struck out the offending line.

Amps and watts are related, but you need voltage to complete the equation.

Wattage, which is total power delivered, is derived by multiplying volts times amps.

So the steam deck can charge using 40 watts. A quick Google says that it’s max charging voltage is 15 volts, and its max charging amperage is 2.6 amps.

15 times 2.6? 39. That’s basically 40 watts.

Now, the Deck can also use 12v, 9v, and even 5v in a pinch. But that’s only 31, 23, and 13 watts respectively. So you’re likely not going to be able to charge and play at the same time unless your charger is capable of 15 volts at 2.6 amps.

Now for 240w, if you wanted to do that at 15 volts, you’d need 16 amps! 15 volts times 16 amps is 240 watts. At 12, 9, and 5 volts you’d need 20, 27, and 48 amps respectively. You’d need a pair of cables bigger than your thumb to carry that many amps without overheating.

That’s why in the USB C PD spec, 240w is only possible if your device can accept 48 volts.

48 volts times 5 amps is 240w.

In fact the max amperage is 5 amps, and that requires a special cable with a special chip to prove it won’t melt. So at lower voltages, 36 and 28, the max wattage is 180 and 140 respectively.

That’s the beauty of electricity, and the relationship between voltage and amperage. The more power(watts) you want to deliver, the more amps you need. But, if you can increase the voltage, you can deliver the same power for less amperage.

That’s why overhead power lines are high voltage, 12,000 volts for residential lines in the USA.

A standard home has 240 volt service, split into two 120 volt “phases”. The maximum amperage at the main breaker is usually 100 or 200 amps.

240 volts times 200 amps is 48,000 watts!

Now, once that gets on the overhead lines, the amperage is much less.

48,000 watts divided by 12,000 volts? 4 amps. You could carry the entire full load of a household: washer, dryer, stove, water heater, etc. Max out the panel with current draw, and you could carry all of that over a single USB C cable at 4 amps, if you could get the voltage up to 12,000 volts.

You can’t of course, because electricity gets really jumpy at those voltages, so you’d need two USB C cables and you’d have to hold them several feet away from each other and the ground or anything else conductive. But still, you could do it, and that’s amazing!

Sorry for the big write up. Thanks for coming to my TED Talk. There are pamphlets at the doors.

Bluetooth has a general lag of several milliseconds, tens of milliseconds probably, for me. But it’s close enough to not bug me when watching videos. And I never have cutouts, not unless I walk very far away. Just tonight at work I was using my pixel buds, left my phone on the desk, walked to the bathroom probably 40 or 50 feet away and through at least 3 walls, didn’t miss a beat 🤷‍♂️

My old BT headphones back in the day couldn’t go 20 feet across the room line of sight.

BT has definitely gotten way better in recent years.

Yeah I’ve seen the movie and the final pane of this comic got me as well. I think it’s because the bricks he’s running on at the end are the same as the well, and the boulder is too smooth and looks like an opening to the well, like the cat is matrix running down the wall of the well 🤷‍♂️

Very confusing perspective, even if only for a moment.