Make a Seitan or Tofurky and they won’t want you to host again! Win Win!

100% the plan, haha, and yeah, they are quite delicious.

Always stay busy is great advice. Most of the family doesn’t care for turkey, so we usually have ham which isn’t as involved prep-wise. I used to be able to “hide” most of the day when we did turkey since I would be manning the outdoor fryer. I got to avoid most of the family drama that way. By the time I came in, everyone was in a good mood because the food was ready.

We used to rotate every year but somehow I ended up hosting the last 3. Thanksgiving is the one day a year I’m not a vegetarian, but if I get roped into this again next year I may do a vegetarian spread. 😂

Thanks!

Lol, same.

Patrick, there’s uh, something burning outside. I think you should take a look at it.

Thanks, Old Man!

I have one cool in-law, thank gods. Would probably be closer to Jadzia than Morn, though.

Because ban evasion is an everyday occurrence here. Someone gets banned for being a jackass, and 9 times out of 10, they come right back with a brand new account and come in hot with inflammatory posts and a chip on their shoulder.

Or trolls just troll - spin up new accounts over and over and throw out rage bait or whatever their shtick is just to be a dick.

Combined with the fact that the fediverse’s growth has been a bit stagnant lately, when a bunch of new accounts suddenly pop up, they’re rightly met with suspicion until they’ve established themselves as being here with good intentions.

Not saying new accounts should be ostracized, but given the context of the current state of the fediverse, being suspicious of them is warranted.

What kind did you get, and do you recommend it?

My washing machine is from 1997 and is old-school mechanical all the way. No issues (yet), but I need to be prepared.

guarantees about API stability

That would be nice. I’m not holding my breath, but that would be very nice indeed.

Probably power banks. I pretty much only buy Anker these days because I’ve had too many cheap/no-name ones just fail, turn into spicy pillows, flat-out lie about the capacity, and/or, in one case, actually catch on fire.

One of my Anker power banks was recalled, and they notified me as well as had the replacement to me within 2 days. And the replacement model was actually nicer than the one I had.

I guess anything, really, that is part of my everyday carry and has a potential to burst into flames is grounds for paying the “premium” price where there’s good quality control and product support.

Yes lol. The four of them each represent a phase of my mood as the delegation approaches.

Thankfully, no. Just hyper-critical of literally everything and don’t feel the need (or lack the capability) to filter themselves.

There will be more specific memes / venting as the holiday approaches. Stay tuned!

Thanks, as always!

Yeah, I needed a warp core I could tinker with for some development work so had to pull the old ship instance out of the fleet museum.

Sad that “shove it in a drawer until PostmarketOS supports it” wasn’t listed because that’s basically my method. Anything else just gets Linux installed on it and runs some random service.

I heavily embrace the “reuse” step of “reduce, reuse, recycle”

It took me a while to sit down and watch it (Season 3 was halfway through by the time I started), and very quickly fell in love with it. Sad it was canceled after the 4th season, but at least they wrapped it up pretty cleanly.

Assuming you’ve an appropriate outdoor space, stack them with some landscaping stones between them into some kind of 3-tier formation.

Possible uses:

• Water feature (in my mind, the water would sluice down through the cutouts for the pockets)
• Plant stand
• Conversation piece

[Blames me for it]

$150 is about normal these days. The pumps will usually have a little sticker somewhere that list the authorization hold amounts.

Fun fact: The auth holds used to be $1 way back in the day. But when prepaid debit cards came around, people could have a balance of $1 on them, get $50 worth of gas, and the station wouldn’t be able to charge the actual amount (it would decline for NSF with no way to recover it as with a regular debit/credit card). That’s why the hold amounts are between $75 and $150.

If you want to avoid the authorization hold, you can either pay cash or pre-pay with a cashier; the latter case will charge only what you pay.

Does digital payments made cash wallets obsolete?

Nope.

Phones crash, apps screw up, Google arbitrarily decides your phone isn’t “secure”, batteries go dead, cell networks are sometimes unavailable (wallet app requires internet), merchant payment networks occasionally go down, etc.

I don’t use digital wallets since the only options are Apple and their walled garden or Google who uses every transaction to profile you for targeted ads and deems your phone insecure should you do anything that might keep their eyes out of your life. But even using my “old school” debit card, I still feel much more secure always having some cash on hand for emergencies.