Its less a distro and more some scipts that customize the Arch GUI and dump a bunch of AI shit on it.

The main issue is that it was created by DHH, the racist/transphobe/facist that has written extensively about how "brown" England is and talked about killing "vermin" like Roma.

Supporting it is causing issues for buisnesses, but shitheads keep doing it.

Tbh basically every vegetable has an ideal way to cut it up like this. Properly learning to dice onions changed my life

EDIT: Shout outs to Kenji Lopez Alt's youtube channel for having a bunch of videos on proper, chef-like methods of cutting up various vegetables, that's where I learned a bunch of them

Yep, these days washing dishes by hand almost always takes more water than using a dishwasher

You don’t need special hookups for an unheated bidet. $25 online and 30 minutes of screwing and unscrewing stuff. Very simple

I did this until I found out that spoons were spooning this way and some of them weren't clean afterwards. So now it's planned chaos again.

I “upgraded” to a heated bidet and now never use the heated water. It’s way too hot 😂

I just bought all matching clothes (so 10 of the same shirts, 5 of the same pants etc) and dress like a cartoon character, the same every day. It goes hard, it really does cut down on decision fatigue, and I always look great, because I’m always wearing my coolest outfit.

I don't think I've ever used the actual cap, I just keep it assembled. Also contains the coffee dust, for those of us not fancy enough for a four part grinder that has a bottom cap for the grindy bit

I do this too! Except instead of rails and valets, I have a chair and a floordrobe.

You got it, the second one.

A lot of good advice in the comments below, but one thing that has kept me mobile after breaking my back is stretching. Specifically, stretching your hamstrings, especially, if like me, you sit a lot. As we sit more, the hamstrings shorten and pull in the hips, which can cause back pain, it’s a cascading effect.

Every day, I spend at least 5-10 minutes stretching just my legs and focus on my hamstrings. It’s kept a lot of pain away or at least within tolerable levels.

Funny enough, I was never able to touch my toes until after I had 2 titanium rods installed in my back.

The realization that how we feel is directly affected by the things we do and food we eat is super frustrating.

Mainly, because I want to eat like shit and do nothing and still feel good and it just doesn't work.

On the flip side, as someone that's dealt with long-term chronic depression, it's nice to know that there are literal activities that can directly counter my shitty mood. Taking a walk, petting a dog, talking with a friend/loved one, sitting in sunshine, exercise, listen to music... etc. etc.

It's kind of like half the pharmaceutical industry has sprung up because people would rather take a pill and feel a bit better, than engage in any sort of healthy eating/exercise to feel actually better.

My parents got me braces for my top set, and they're super easy to floss, almost never had a problem with them. Had to wear a brace stretcher thing at night that hurt and was awkward, so they took pity on me and got me a retainer for my bottom set, which I lost almost immediately, twice, and then POOF like magic, they stopped giving a shit about fixing my teeth lol

So my bottom set of teeth is a horror show, is super difficult to floss, and gets mad cavities. I shoulda just got both done up by braces at the same time. Kinda weird they didn't now that I think about it 🤔

And he looks like he is powered up chemically!

You can turn honey into honey syrup by adding a tiiiiny amount of boiling water and stirring it (not in a plastic container!). It keeps a lot better without crystalizing, and you can put it in the fridge where the ants can't get to it. If it crystalizes before you get to it, you can use the same trick to get it back.

My tip for pouring viscous things like honey or molasses is to go slooooow and rotate the bottle if you need to reduce the size of the pour. In this case, I add the boiling water to the bottle to get the residue then pour it into the glass container, much like the pasta trick on this thread.

Now I believe you owe us a coffee tip

I have a Buick Century. If you push the lock doors button with the door open, it beeps three times at you and doesn't lock the doors, as if to say that's an invalid operation while the door is open. Press it again, and it locks the doors.

Turns out, if you press it once, get the beep code, shut the door, the car shines the headlights, corner lights and reverse lights for about ten seconds (so you can see to get in the house in the dark), and then when it shuts those off, it locks the doors. Why not just fucking lock them, I don't know.

I just turn it to cold for like 3 seconds before shutting it off. There’s still a little dripping, but far less than when I shut it directly after running hot water.

I guess that works if you’ve got a single valve, but in my case the hot and cold are physically separated.

It does work out in my household to run it in the evening or early morning, which aligns with my energy concern's ToU pricing. It also works out that it's usually the coolest at night, so venting the steam into the house either isn't as bad during the summer or helps out in Winter.

It's kinda not really that hard. You can just feel where you still need to shave. I guess I'm biased, though, because I'm a redhead, so unless I've let it go a REALLY long time, my hairs are basically invisible anyway. (It doesn't help that my eyes are terrible.) Even with a mirror, I need to feel to tell if they're actually short enough. So the steam on my skin makes a bigger difference for my shave than having a mirror.

ctrl+shift+t to reopen this page once you test this

I use a little bit of red wine for my pasta sauce. Works great.

You might do well with one of those online dental places like Smile Care Direct, even though I think Smile Care Direct is out of business, but there's others that have taken over.

Knockoff invisalign will get you 95% of the way there for like 40% of the cost.

I got one of the electric ones for my main bathroom, and I also did not have a plug anywhere nearby, but there was a light switch nearby, and I found a replacement switch that turns a light switch into a light switch and plug outlet that also had GFCI included in it.

Heated bidets do not draw a whole lot of power, so I didn't have to worry about overloading the circuit or anything.

Me method has been to buy the cheap maxwell house breakfast blend pre ground 😬 I guess I have poor taste and low standards ... Hard to disappoint!

I stashed the cutlery caddy because our dishwasher has a third rack for utensils, and you just scoop up a big handful of cutlery to put away which turns out to be way less fussy.

Toughen up, sunshine!

No but seriously it’s fine for most people except deep in winter, and you can get a heated add-on bidet if there’s power nearby.

Preparing as much as possible in the evening, really:

• breakfast: oats in the fridge
• clothes: picking clothes and putting them on the chair
• backpack: taking out the old lunch container and other things that I don’t need tomorrow
• shaving and showering

Only quick wash with a washcloth, getting dressed, eating breakfast, brushing teeth and go

For comparison: that's flushing the toilet about three times or showering for about two minutes.

I always hear that but I'm not convinced. If I don't rinse my dishes till their pretty damn clean then they come out of the dishwasher dirty. Been like this on every dishwasher I have used, at my house, at my parents house, at my SO's house when they got a brand new one, at my friends house I can go on I have a decent sample size. If you count all the rinsing and a wash cycle I highly doubt it's less. Plus when I wash dishes by hand I usually have several to do, and use a warm container of soapy water for my sponge. Besides the quart or 2 tops in my dish bin, it uses the same amount of water to rinse the suds off if not less than is necessary to rinse dishes before they go in the machine due to the sponge scrubbing. Maybe all 5+ dishwashers ive used are just shit 🤷

I had braces top and bottom, teeth nice and straight around 16. From 17-25 I never went to a dentist (I got sick of waiting over an hour past my apts and stopped going to dentist and doc altogether...) then at 25 right before coming off my parents health insurance my bottom teeth started getting sore. Like all of them, and they were crowding again. Fucking wisdom teeth just about undid 50% of what the braces fixed. Got those out, yet to have a cavity at 30 🤞 but my top teeth are easy to floss and I always pull shit out of the top set when I floss nightly. The bottom set is a pain, one pair of teeth I have to fight to get the floss in. But I almost never have anything between my bottom teeth due to how damn tight they are so kind of a double edged sword there lol. Also, don't be a dumbass and go to the dentist and doc annually ❤️ I was young and foolish and managed to get largely lucky...

I moved that caddy to the top shelf of my dishwasher so I don't have to keep bending over to fill/empty it. Fuck the po-lice!

Brushing teeth in the shower too.

You can cook in the shower too!

In practice, I just re-tighten the faucets before I leave the apartment.

now I believe you owe us a coffee tip

It's not applicable to most grinders so I left it out. My grinder is a manual one with three pieces, the top which has the grinder, the bottom jar it screws on to, along with a cap to screw on to the jar to preserve ground coffee when not in use. I store it with the cap on and the top separate. You load the beans into the top part, but the top doesn't have a flat bottom so I would try and balance it and frequently spill the beans when loading it instead of just taking the cap off and screwing it on to the jar and then loading the beans...

Not really applicable to most grinders so I left it out. My grinder is a manual one with three pieces, the top which has the grinder, the bottom jar it screws on to, along with a cap to screw on to the jar to preserve ground coffee when not in use. I store it with the cap on and the top separate. You load the beans into the top part, but the top doesn't have a flat bottom so I would try and balance it and frequently spill the beans when loading it instead of just taking the cap off and screwing it on to the jar and then loading the beans...

I mean I don't even like cofee. my wife has practically cut it out so we just have her emergency cafeine hit supply on hand.

Oh hell yeah! That's classes it up a bunch!

Very true. For that matter, the "wellness" industry in general and a lot of popular wisdom about what ails us is mostly trivial, too.

The amount of weight given to the topic of whether artificial sweeteners are better or worse for your overall health than sugar compared to the time spent on talking about the dismally low percentage of the population who actually eat enough fruit and veg is the complete wrong way around!

Diet Coke is the least of your worries if you're not getting any fibre, people! And if you are getting enough fibre, protein, and healthy fats, the right level of calories and all your recommended vegetables, then by all means drink all the Diet Coke you want! Which won't be much because healthy diets leave you much more satiated and naturally energetic anyway.

The reason of course is that avoiding artificial sweeteners or some purported "toxin" is a quick and easy way to feel healthier and feel like you're doing something without actually having to think about true overall health... Allegorically, everyone's trying to build a pyramid from the top down.

Do you live somewhere with very hard water? That fucks up powder dishwashing detergent IME, but the enzyme-based works fine for me in hard water probably 98% of the time. It has trouble with caked on peanut butter, but I blame that on the angle it was put in usually. If you used enzyme based and don't have hard water then 🤷‍♂️

Oh man, my hair is a deep brown, almost black. It is so obvious if I miss a spot. And it is thick, like cutting a forest down.

I need a mirror and still have to do rub tests. Goddamn trees on my face.

I even went into a laser hair removal place and asked for a quote, and the lady was stunned. She didn't know how to say it. Yeah, I can't get away with not shaving and growing a beard sucks.

So I use beard conditioner and hair conditioner to soften it, then use shaving cream and grind on it until I can no longer hear the abrasions of the hair cutting down in my cranium.

And finally, I am ready for the meeting with the client. So I envy you.

Hell, man, I have to shave four hours ahead of time, because my skin is red from the operation. And I have an expensive razor set.

You are lucky.

My water quality fluctuates but usually around 55ppm, so not terribly hard. I do use some I believe enzyme based tablets for dishwasher and their ok but if it's caked on from yesterday or anything more than a few thousandths thick it seems to struggle. No matter what peanut butter and the dishwasher don't mix gotta wipe that butter knife off 🤣

Agreed! When I condition my hair, I also condition my face. And I also have beard conditioner.

I figure a mirror in the shower would fog like crazy. I leave my bathroom door open when I am showering and expect to shave so the mirrors don't fog up.

Well, I can see that in a bath, but I can't fit in the bathtub. Not due to girth, but height. Loved baths as a kid. Just not an option now.

OH, do you run hot water in your sink first? Most kitchens are arranged so that the sink and dishwasher share a water line, and there’s a fair amount of cold water to clear out first before the hot water can travel through the pipes to get there. If you don’t then the water in your dishwasher will be tepid. A lot of dishwashers struggle to heat it, and cold water cleans worse. Assuming it’s not hooked directly to a hot water line.

yeah i don't know why I said bath there. I think I meant shower or bath or right after either and my brain got all running over itself when expressing it. The important part is all the steam and water just get the skin really ready. really the shower is the best because you can constantly rewet.

All good, I just figured your bathtubs were larger.

Hell, my kitchen sink could double as a urinal, if I were so gross.

I am considered tall. This isn't a blessing. I would love to be about 5'10".

a bit of conditioner spread on the mirror should prevent condensation

Oof. Yeah, that sucks. If it's any consolation, I can't grow a decent looking beard to save my life. The front of my chin basically grows nothing, but my neck grows in thick, bushy curls. I look like a caricature of a basement-dweller. So I also need to stay fairly clean-shaven. But yeah, I guess that's easier for me than I realized.