I use Newegg for most tech stuff now, besides that I try to buy direct from manufacturer websites and just use search engines to find products/brands to buy. My wife and I got away from Amazon because the subscription fees are not worth the free shipping, and basically all of the "sales" are the same cost as the manufacturer website or anywhere else
I picked Plex mainly because the lifetime sub wasn't bad, and the features and polished interface were worth it. If Plex adds too many garbage/bloat features or removes useful features then I'll jump ship to jellyfin immediately. Same boat for paying for bitwarden vs self hosting vaultwarden
Fun fact! If you have outlook on your phone with a work account added, chances are IT has admin access to your phone and can remotely wipe it at any time. Also means that your phone can be collected as evidence if you or the company is involved in a court case possibly related to emails
Fun fact! Inmates have stayed alive and conscious for over 10 seconds after being shot by the firing squad, it's an extremely painful, violent, and bloody execution method! A lot of the pain can come from shattered bones and spinal column damage which gets to your brain before shock and/or death can set in
It is - the bacteria and fungus grow extremely rapidly when it's between refrigerator and cooking temperature, hence why you usually cook meat from refrigerator temp and don't wait for it to get to room temp unless you need an excuse to get out of work for a very painful few days.
Defrosting meat in room temp or hot water gets the outer layers to room temp or warmer much faster than cold water, and the outer sections immediately begin to grow bacteria/fungus extremely fast because of it. Cold water will slow that growth down long enough for the middle to defrost, but you need to keep changing the water or the bacteria will just keep growing faster and faster.
Also, defrosting meat too fast or cooking it while frozen messes with the texture and flavor of it because the ice crystals haven't had time to reintegrate into whatever is being cooked which is why you don't cook stuff that is still frozen (not to mention it will cook extremely unevenly)
Basically yes, all the changes that have gone into the steam edition (with the exception of graphics) has been added to the free ascii classic version, which can have tilesets added to it (though the ones that come with the steam edition are better than any of the tilesets I tried imo ). Also I was wrong actually, they did release steam workshop support for mods and there are several hundred on there already, so mod away!
Dwarf Fortress. There aren't many mods in the steam version afaik (tons for the free ascii version though) but... You don't need mods for it. Want to capture invaders and host gladiator fights? Yep. Water trap to push invaders off a cliff onto some grates so you can collect their items after blocking the water trap again? Easy peasy floodgates Parcheesi. Want to gift lead mugs to the filthy elves? Strike the Earth, brother. (Doesn't poison them though, sadly). Want your dwarves to only drink alcohol? They only have to drink water when they're injured, 24/7 drinking besides that makes for happy dwarves. You're battling a bunch of invading goblins and you have some dwarves die? Better bury them or their ghost will haunt your fortress. Oh, and don't forget your necromancer will probably grab some new friends from the fight.
There's very little you can't do in Dwarf Fortress. It doesn't get very high tech since it's fantasy based, most high tech that you can get is windmill driven mills and water pumps I think, but there is so much depth to the game that honestly that's perfectly okay with me
Edit: there are mods for the steam version too, baked right into the steam workshop
Cooking kills most bacteria - but not all, that's how food poisoning still happens in cooked food (cross contamination too, but that's a separate issue). You should never defrost meat at room temp, best way is in the fridge since it still keeps it at a temp that's safe for a few days after being fully defrosted but it takes a day or two to fully defrost. To do it faster you can submerge it in cold water if you replace the water every couple of hours (or more often, depending on your room temp) until you cook it but that's a last resort if you just need it defrosted in the same day
Like the other comments, I use qbittorrent. I recommend running your VPN with gluetun and routing the traffic from your qbittorrent container through it. If the gluetun container is down, no traffic at all. If it's up, everything goes through the vpn
I both want and don't want the stormlight archives books adapted to movies. On one hand, the books are amazing. On the other hand movie/tv adaptations usually go badly and it would require a lot of special effects that I think would come out badly
Sounds better to say that you had an audit and pinky promise that you're doing better to pass it next time