HamsterRage

joined 2 years ago
[–] HamsterRage 1 points 3 weeks ago

Written by a Canadian Much Music VJ.

[–] HamsterRage 5 points 1 month ago

I totally agree on the toasting, but note that it means the oats take longer to cook in the water. Also, I use a 2:1 ratio of water:milk instead of just water.

Also, also, I add a handful of rolled oats when the steel cut oats are nearly done.

[–] HamsterRage 3 points 1 month ago

I remember that you could get close to this by running the same card into the keypunch several times, typing different things each time.

[–] HamsterRage 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know anything about journaling, but the Platinum pen in the picture is an amazing, yet inexpensive fountain pen.

[–] HamsterRage 9 points 1 month ago

It seems more rikely, if hit by an IBM truck in 1985 that he would be ebcdic'd to Seattle.

[–] HamsterRage 2 points 1 month ago

Nope. Collusion is not allowed.

[–] HamsterRage 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The PACs aren't the issue, it's that they are allowed unlimited spending. In Canada, where I live, third party spending is capped at $350K per registered partisan group.

[–] HamsterRage 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You are forgetting that other countries respond with tariffs of their own. Ultimately, the outcome balances out, just with higher prices for everyone. Local producers that rely on exports lose while those that sell locally win - as long as they don't rely on imports for raw materials.

Consumers lose, especially on stuff that will never be produced locally, or rules on raw materials that can't be sourced locally.

[–] HamsterRage 4 points 2 months ago

FWIW: It never even occured to me that they might have meant removing speed limits. I had to go back and re-read it a few times to see what the beef was.

Context is important here. Sure, "drop" could mean two things, but anything other than "lowering" in this case wouldn't make sense. IMHO, at least.

[–] HamsterRage 16 points 2 months ago (13 children)

No way. When something numerical is "dropped" it usually means lowered. Especially in the form "drop numerical value", as was this case.

[–] HamsterRage 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe...but two things:

If the number of obese people is lower, then what are the people who aren't mildly overweight? They are healthy weight. So even if the percentage of mildly overweight people stay the same, the day to day comparison is with a bigger group of healthy weight people, so they probably were more recognizably overweight.

Secondly, with less really obese people you wouldn't get desensitized to seeing fat all the time, which makes mildly overweight people seem more normal. Somebody with a BMI of 26 and about 15lbs overweight would have been more likely to be described as "plump" or "husky" back then. But when crowds are full of people that are 50+ lbs overweight, that 26 BMI seems downright healthy.

This is all speculation. I can't remember how I perceived overweight vs obese people back in the 80's.

[–] HamsterRage 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That's the thing 40 years ago you would realize that they were overweight.

 

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Group Shot (self.crochet)
submitted 2 years ago by HamsterRage to c/crochet
 

For some reason, the wife decided to pull out all of the amigurumi critters that she's made since she started doing this at the beginning of the year.

So, here you go, the group shot:

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submitted 2 years ago by HamsterRage to c/crochet
 

She said that the pattern was awful and that she had fudge all kinds of stuff to make it work. The hat needed to be completely redesigned.

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Still Not Ready? (self.fedidrama)
submitted 2 years ago by HamsterRage to c/fedidrama
 

I'm beginning to think that this sub will never be ready. What's the hold-up????

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Amigurumi! (lemmy.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by HamsterRage to c/crochet
 

The wife has started to make these amigurumi creatures. Here's her latest two.

She uses worsted weight wool (she tells me) which generally results in bigger creatures.

 

I wanted one of these back in 1980 when I was 16. I remember that they were $1,200, but they might as well have been $1,200,000 as far as I was concerned.

Many years later I had the $$$ to buy one, and this one is a beauty. Koa, with Bill Lawrence pickups.

Look at all the knobs and switches!!!

 

This is the beside the time since the post was created. I cannot figure it out.

 

I live in Canada, where we are graced with the most expensive cell phone plans in the developed world. One of the "features" of my plan is something they call "Roam Like Home". With this feature, I can use my data and time from my plan just like I haven't gone anywhere, for the low, low price of $15 a day!!!

This is activated automatically the moment that they detect that I am roaming. I cannot opt out of this "feature", and the only way to avoid it is to put the phone in airplane mode and then activate wifi. There is a cap to the number of days you can be charged, but runs on a calendar month basis, so if you are away across the end of the month, you can get charged more than that maximum.

For me, the answer came in the form of eSIMs. I ditched my old Galaxy S9, and bought a Pixel 7 in May. Then I purchased an eSIM for France for both data and talk (30GB for 30 days for around €45) and went to France for 24 days.

I was really pleased with the Pixel 7 in the week or two that I had it before we left on vacation. The battery life was way better than the S9, and 2 hours at the gym, with YouTube Music on Bluetooth and "Strong" running to track sets and timing left me with close to 90% battery left. It would be closer to 50% on the S9.

No heat issues here in Canada.

When the plane landed in France, the eSIM automatically activated, and I turned it on for both data and voice/SMS. Nothing could be easier, and it works like a charm.

At around this time, the issue with hot Pixels started, and eventually Google found the issue with their servers that was causing this. Hot Pixels with short battery life faded from the news.

But not for me.

Ok, so battery life was still better than my old S9, but not by much. And it got hot, too. It seemed to be particularly bad when I set up a hotspot for my wife - as this was the plan, she would use wifi off the Pixel hotspot since her phone doesn't support eSIMs. Out and about, I could expect to lose up to 15% in the first hour, and then it would maybe go even faster after it was down below 70%.

Taking pictures seemed to be especially hard on the battery, too. Not surprising, really, as the new camera features use a lot of computing power. We had Android Auto in our rental car, and Google Maps would drain the battery at almost the same rate that the car would charge it.

I was waiting for the new updates to drop, hoping that might have a fix, but as of June 13, we still haven't seen it. In the meantime, we've returned to Canada and I've turned off the eSIM.

And now the battery life is back to where it was before we left. I haven't once noticed the phone getting hot either.

So there you go. Has anyone else noticed this kind of issue with eSIMs?

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