Tippon @ Tippon @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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This is very helpful, thank you both :)

It was an air fryer for me.

I'm disabled, so I'm usually home alone, or cooking one meal for me and my kid. The oven takes about 10 minutes to preheat, and most things take 20 - 30 minutes to cook after that. The air fryer takes about half the time and doesn't need me to turn things.

On top of that, I get memory issues, probably related to ADHD, and sometimes forget that I've got something cooking. The air fryer has a timer and switches itself off. I literally can't burn the food and risk a fire. At worst it goes cold again 🤷🏻‍♂️

I've heard that it's so bad that someone has to create accounts on lots of different federated communities just to create fake engagement about it.

Not free for me in the UK either

They're handy for conversational type questions where remembering previous questions is important, but that's about it. That's not usually important though, and can easily be accessed through a website instead.

It's an Epson Stylus, 235w I think. I'm not home to check at the moment. It's not amazing, but it scans at up to either 1200 or 2400 dpi, and I usually use 600 dpi, as that's more than enough for the typically low quality photos I've got.

I'm sticking with it on Windows for now too, as the software can do some corrections with one click, like certain colour corrections. I've tried a few Linux packages, and while they're good, they're all missing something compared to the Epson Windows software.

I use Onedrive for storing files offsite, and a Synology NAS for onsite. I've got my PC as the main source of my files, and use Syncthing to sync to my laptop and NAS, and Onedrive syncing the PC and NAS to the cloud.

I know Onedrive isn't always popular here, but it does everything I need, and is cheap. It also lets me access my files from my phone

This is why I'm scanning in all my old physical photos. It's great to go through the originals, but if anything was to happen, they'd be gone forever.

I need something like a pressure only on the left side of my sternum on just two ribs.

Could you fold over some gauze and bandage it in place as a temporary fix? The bandage could be wrapped around your body to spread the pressure on the opposite side.

It wouldn't be a permanent fix, but could help you to fine tune where you need the pressure without having to design anything, and would hopefully provide some relief while you work on something better.

'It's got solid bones, but the inside's a mess'

Mine is a Stone branded Clevo, a Stonebook Pro p11b, but as you say, there are others out there. I bought mine refurbished for about £150 and upgraded the SSD and RAM.

I've got a Clevo laptop that covers most of your list. Mine's a bit older, a 7th gen i5, but was very cheap, and easy to upgrade. If the newer models are built the same way, it's what I'm going to go for when I eventually upgrade 👍

Uncle Benned, or Obi Wan Kenobi Benned? 🤔

It looks cool, but in reality the students were stuck there for hours, as he posed for photos, and sent each one off to be developed, before checking it and demanding a retake. After 17 hours, the teacher decided to go with the first shot after all

I don't know, you can get Photoshop and Lightroom for £10 a month, which is very cheap when you compare it to a night out or a takeaway, and at the moment, they're better than the equivalents.

I do need to have another look at DaVinci Resolve though. I've heard loads of good things about it, but it was overkill for what I needed when I last tried it :)

I'll keep an eye on them, thanks for the heads up 👍

I'm a big fan of just carrying around one charger

Off topic, but I bought a handful of magnetic cables and a few different ends to match our devices, and now one cable works for charging everything.

It has the downside of not letting you connect the device to a computer, but because they're magnetic, they're breakaway cables. My kid has walked away with their tablet after forgetting to unplug it, and nothing bad happens 👍

I think I sat next to him on the bus once

I can't decide if that would be too sweet with the apple sauce base. That might have to be an experiment :)

That's a good point. I haven't cooked anything with apple that could go soggy for years, so I hadn't thought of that. Pulled pork and apple pizza is sounding nice though :)