Or that they would even be born degenerate gamblers

If your plan has that many moving parts with that many opportunities for derailment and relies on people you employed fucking up it’s the plan of a crack addict

Have you tried adding blueberries to it, they are an anti oxident

Simplest way is a Windows VM and screen capture in the OS running the VM. Obviously next step for Microsoft is to detect and block Windows VMs, good luck to them with that.

Buying less and buying for life as a priority when choosing purchases. It’s had a knock on effect thst I try to buy bespoke from small artisans as they tend to be higher quality and it supports small businesses rather than megacorps.

It used to be printers but I switched to a Brother laser printer about five years ago and its been trouble free while having reasonable print costs. You can even force it to print on empty for a bit longer, although you shouldn’t push any laser printer too far on empty as you can wreck them.

Toasters are my big gripe. Its been proven that they have massively reduced costs at the expense of longevity and toasting efficiency from what we had decades ago. I have an expensive toaster (from Sage), and I have still had to replace micro switches on the buttons. While it does a better job of even browning than a cheap toaster its still far from the level I expect.

I would buy one of those expensive Japanese toasters or a commercial toaster oven but I do not want that much counter top taken up by it. I would rather just cook my toast in a cast iron pan now, far better finish.

Yeah making it optional for them to turn on because they are still entitled to privacy even though they are children is the key to building trust. Them trusting you as a parent is the most essential thing here, there is always a way around something, you want them being honest by choice rather than sneaky or you forcing “honesty” by coercion.

We always did that from when the kids were younger and my now adult daughter still chooses to turn it on when going on dates.

What subjects are you comparing it to? At its fundamental level math is a building block same way your native language is a building block to learn other subjects such as history or biology or cooking. I am splitting out language from literature the same way I would split Maths from engineering or physics, theory vs. application.

I can only speak for English as that’s the only language I have ever really studied but for the average student whose native language is English you simply do not need to study English language to the same level as somebody looking to apply Maths to Biology or Physics to a advanced high school level. You simply do not need to do this to the same level, high school English language simply isn’t as deep a subject. High school literature is potentially, but again, that’s application not theory.

On top of this, you use English far more often than Maths both in school and out of school. Average kid isnt going to use much Maths day to day other than wondering about basic fractions for sharing a pizza/cake, or simple addition/subtraction for pocket money type stuff. Sure, there will always be exceptions but I am talking about the majority.

Redhat 4.1 back in 97. I even purchased the CD from PC World, seems wild now to buy a CD/DVD of a distro.

First PC I installed it on was a work laptop, had to compile a bunch of kernel modules and then the kernel to get everything working but get everything working I did, Thinkpads being good for Linux even then.

This has influenced my entire idea of spending money:

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes ‘Boots’ theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”

Net is £2 a month for 6gb data and unlimited calls and texts from O2, although I never use those really. It should be £6 a month, but I get £4 discounted as two streaming services I would buy anyway I buy via them so I get a discount for each.

Most places I use my phone I have WiFi, data is only really used for background services and maps otherwise. You can purchase data add ons from them for reasonable fees for a month if I ever did need it for travel. Although I am more likely to get a local sim as it’s far far cheaper than roaming outside the EU normally.

The main reason I use O2 is that it also doubles my home broadband speed for free to 1gb up and down. That means having their phone line actually costs me -£6 a month.

I am looking to move my partners phone over later this year to O2 and thst should double the speed to 2gb up and down for the same price.

There is a darker secondary element to that time period, freedom of choice for women. 70 years ago if a young woman wanted to leave home and setup on her own she really needed the financial support of a husband or other male relative, even if to just cosign agreements. You were properly tied to having a husband, expected to as well. The pressure from all angles to marry meant women would settle for some pretty shitty men in much larger numbers, and for longer as it was much harder to divorce.

As time has gradually removed this pressure, women no longer need to marry to get independence in the same numbers, so shitty men no longer luck into marriage. The rise of no fault divorce as a valid choice, and even not having to be married to have kids or live together as a socially acceptable choice further squeezes them out.

The whole trad wives movement is founded on restoring the power back to men in relationships.

Making coffee. Dont get me wrong, I love drinking coffee made from freshly ground beans either as espresso or as a pour over, and I do have multiple cups every day, but the absolute faff of having to manage that process is a PITA.

I have to:

• Turn the espresso machine on
• Preheat the portafilter
• Pour water into the cup to pre heat it
• Weight and grind the Beans
• Decant them into the portafilter
• WDT them (see here )
• Tamp
• Fit to the espresso machine
• Put the cup and scales underneath, zero the scales timer
• Pull the leaver
• Not forget I am making esspresso and stop when at target weight
• Move cup and scales out
• Remove portafilter and empty, then wash
• Finally drink the espresso

This doesn’t include the faff around cleaning the espresso machine everyday and managing its special water. Its probably about 15 minutes a day but for two cups of espresso that take about a minute to drink? Feels like a lifetime.

Lost went on far too long and they backed themselves into a corner by saying that the big secret was what nobody had guessed, but this was right around the Internet getting popular to talk about tv shows, so everything good had already been suggested. If it had been me, I would have just picked the best one and gone with that…

The problem is that the battery is usually half the cost of manufacturing the car, larger batteries still means more expense, at least until whatever replaces the current battery tech is mainstream.

Britians cheapest brand new EV that isnt limited to 28mph top speed is the Dacia Spring at £11k. $17k is about £13k. UK average commuting distance is a round trip of about 40 miles. In an ICE car thats costing about £6 a day, vs. 70p in an EV that can charge at home overnight. My kids basically get brand new (small) EVs for free vs. running an older ICE that I would gift them just on the fuel saving.

Obviously not everyone can change at home, but this will change the more people push for it.

Do they speak Spanish? The English version of them make no effort to learn to speak Spanish, or integrate outside their own communities, then make videos about people doing that who go to England.

Back before Mesh and Roaming between APs was a thing I used to adjust the transmit power on my three DDWRT APs so that they didnt overlap fully to force roaming between them. I did this mostly because I didnt want too many devices on the same AP as a lot of devices back then would be stubbonly sticky to the first AP they found and APs could handle a lot less loading that they do now so it was far more important to spread devices out across the APs.

Now I still have three APs but they all WiFi 6 as are the main devices that use it so I do not bother micro managing it as WiFi 6 is much better at congestion and Roaming. I would rather have more range than worry about it, I have good coverage from the back of my garden to the front of my drive, its not essential that I have that but it is very very useful at times.

5Ghz penetrates a lot less than 2.4Ghz so that does not cause as much problems if left at 100%. 2.4Ghz can be a pain for others but I cannot wait to turn that off at some point in the future anyway.

Mine does, you can change it per band too:

UK.

I’ve worked in: UK, Ireland, Spain (Marid and Barcelona), France (Paris), Italy (Milan and Rome), Germany (all over), Belgium (Brussels), Denmark (Copenhagen), US (New York and New Jersey), Canada (Toronto and Montreal)

On top of those I’ve visited: Japan (many times), US (many times), Sweden, Holland, Iceland, Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, BVI, Antigua, St Martin, Barbuda

I’ve sailed in BVi, Antigua, Barbuda, Italy, Greece, and obviously the UK.

If I could, I would live in Japan, by far my favourite place

Having actually been rushed to hospital when I was a kid by my friends after a big accident on my bike I would say the number is higher than you might think. They even walked by bike back home, which considering it was miles from home was pretty mad for teenagers.

I would say at least 20 people I know who are close to me either have done something I would consider above and beyond for me already or I know for sure would do so. Thats not counting any relatives.