I’d rather not disclose my age on this account, but, let’s just say we’re not newly married.

I will admit my statement about location sharing only being a problem if you’ve already got problems was a bit too binary. The issue is more nuanced.

I see you’re focusing on the cheating aspect, which to your credit is what the OP is all about. But from our perspective, that’s not even an issue or a use case for the technology. We have full trust in each other. The technology is simply useful for other reasons.

Did she make it to work in the snowstorm or rainstorm?

Huh she’s usually home by now, is she unconscious in a ditch or just stopped at the store?

Dinner is almost ready, I just need to put this in the oven so it’s ready to come out the second she walks in the door, let me make sure she’s actually on her way home. Oh, she must have gotten held up at work, I’ll wait a few more minutes.

Stuff like that. Yeah there’s other ways of solving those problems, and that’s fine too, we just prefer the convenience.

We don’t share locations because we don’t trust each other, we share because it’s convenient. I guess you could say we trust each other not to go crazy with it 🤷‍♂️

We have married friends who won’t share with each other, and that’s fine too.

I’ll retract my earlier statement. Location sharing is a sensitive subject, with lots of facets. Sharing or not is a personal choice. And while there can be practical benefits, I think most people would agree that using it for cheating prevention is… Unhealthy.

Never went to work in a snowstorm? Or heavy rain?

I’m not OP, but my wife and I share locations, it’s endlessly convenient for coordinating. Never abused.

Been sharing with select friends and family for years now, zero issues. And if we did have an issue? I’m turning it off for you 🤷‍♂️ pretty simple. Frequently extremely convenient.

A friend of a friend of mine is sharing with a friend of theirs. And it’s a crap show like you said, coming over, inviting themselves to events, why were you there, etc. Everything you said. And it’s still a problem, to the point where they leave their phone at home if they are doing anything sensitive, because they are afraid of hurting the person’s feelings by turning it off 🙄

I think the key is having a backbone, and also not having crap friends 🤷‍♂️

Same. For this to be a problem, you must first have other problems.

Hijacking top comment to add this relevant information:

I like to put egg in microwave ramen sometimes. But you have to swirl it a bit first and break the yolk.

I used to just plop one or two eggs directly into the bowl with the ramen, and microwave it all at once. But this happened to me, thankfully it did it inside the microwave. But I was at work, it was very loud, and soup was dripping out of the door.

Not fun.

My search shows it’s at least as old as 2017

And a reverse image search shows the picture of at least as old as 2017

Edit: still not enough ram. 4gb, maybe, at a minimum, for this type of thing. Even Linux has it’s limits if you’re trying to get anything done in reasonable time on the modern web

Oh you’re right! I thought this was new. But, at least as old as 2017, at least from my search.

But yes, way too tech lingo.

I don’t know any of the law for sure, but isn’t that a different argument entirely?

In one case, an EU resident buys a product in the EU, decides to use it while in the US for a week/month whatever. The argument is that he’s protected.

You’re saying that’s not true, because if he buys it in the USA, then he’s not protected.

But, that wasn’t the argument, was it? It’s different?

Thanks! Though I worry this is immediately out of my wheelhouse haha. I may stick to the can, for simplicity sake. We’ll see

Nice! Care to share your biscuit recipe? I’m not sure I’m ready to give up the can, but it’s on my list of things to try

Biscuits and gravy.

My friends and I try to get together once every year in a big Airbnb, where we basically just hang out all weekend or a most of a week if we can. We all take turns cooking meals for everyone. Only breakfast and dinner, lunch is a free for all. I always get breakfast for day one. It’s always biscuits and gravy.

The biscuits come from a can, they were put there by a man, in a factory downtown.

But the gravy is homemade. Use a giant pot, put a few pounds of spicy ground sausage in the bottom and brown it up. Leave the grease in, lower the heat, add an amount of flour and stir it in for a few minutes to cook it and make a sort of roux. Then slowly add almost a gallon of whole milk, depending on how much sausage and therefore flour you used.

Stir it very often, gently scrape the bottom, but not aggressively, because you likely burned a little flour on there during the roux phase, too much meat to handle, I haven’t solved this yet. But it’ll be ok.

Once it’s good and hot, almost simmering, kill the heat, let it cool a minute or two, then serve on the biscuits. The consistency should be somewhat thick, like, well, thick gravy. Not watery. When it gets cold in the fridge, you can scoop it out and it holds its shape.

It’s so unhealthy, but people love it. It makes a great breakfast for 10-15 people. Sometimes I’ll do a big pan of eggs simultaneously to go with it. There’s always leftovers of the gravy, but it goes on anything and reheats easily, so it gets eaten over the next few days when random people are randomly hungry. It never gets thrown out.

I’ve tried offering to make other dishes, do dinner instead, or do a different breakfast food. But everyone always begs for the biscuits and gravy. So I oblige.

We do usually end up with a second meal, depending on how many people can make it, so I’ll help my wife with whatever she decides to make for dinner.

I’m constantly trying to touch the screen on my work provided laptop, and my FW13. I spent a long time with a fancy Chromebook for my couch computing needs, when away from the desktop.

Another vote here for framework 13. Love mine.

I’ve had mine about 4 months, minimal issues. I got a 7840U slightly on sale when the new AI 300 series came out.

I’m also running fedora 42, but it’s Bluefin, based on silverblue. Everything works out of the box.

My biggest complaint is the sleep battery drain, iirc it’s something like a few percent per hour, so I just get in the habit of turning it completely off if I’m not home with it plugged in. Otherwise it’s dead when I need it, which sucks.

Also the fan can be a little loud and overzealous under barely moderate load, though I’ve found keeping it in power saving mode helps keep things cooler. Though I’ve been using it for note taking during some schooling this week, and it’s been stone cold and silent, lasts all day on a single charge. So it definitely depends on your load. I appreciate having the power available when I need it, but wish it was better at keeping itself underclocked (or whatever it needs to do).

And finally the stock Wi-Fi 6 card in it gives some people problems with certain routers. Though I’ve only ever had problems with my parents starlink router 🤷‍♂️ That’s a quick $20 upgrade though, to Wi-Fi 7, I just haven’t needed to 🤷‍♂️

But still I’d buy another in a heartbeat.

Keyboard is great. Screen (2.8k) looks great to my eyes, though others say it has issues. No flex in the body. Touchpad is a little funky, but still great.

Plus when I want to upgrade the platform in a few years, or any component breaks before then, I can just fix it or upgrade it.

Highly recommend.

You’re not entirely wrong, but the ground in the panel is better for lightning strikes, and surprisingly bad at sinking actual current meant for the neutral return to the transformer.

That’s part of what makes a loose neutral such a fire hazard.

Yes, it’s likely safe, and I’d probably put my hand on it without much thought, same with working in a hot panel, the neutral/ground bus is probably fine.

But this is the Internet, if you start making blanket statements about things being safe, you’re gonna have a bad time. And some person who doesn’t know any better, might have a worse time.

Better to at least acknowledge that there are still dangers, however small.

Even though it’s neutral, and very close to ground potential… Depending on how much current is flowing through the other two wires, the voltage on the neutral will be varying amounts of non zero. Probably not enough to kill you, but maybe enough to feel bad, under the right circumstances.

That’s why, even though the neutral and the ground are bonded together in the breaker panel, you still need to run a separate wire to your outlet to ground your appliances. Electricity doesn’t take the easiest path, it takes all paths simultaneously, relative to their resistance, favoring the easiest. Don’t make yourself a path 🤷‍♂️

Still nothing to be afraid of, you shouldn’t be messing with it anyway. Just steer clear and you’ll be fine.

Note: I’m not an electrician.

I was thinking this might be the case, but didn’t want to do the math. Thank you.

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