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Cake day: August 17th, 2023

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  • Not sure why you’re downvoted, but I think you’re close to at least partial reason. Having one device last a few years makes it easier to replace under warranty, if what you’re truly trying to do is provide superior customer service over competition (they probably have lost of spare parts, as it makes sense to order bulk and of extras, unless you’re super greedy company who has no faith in its product).
    And as I assume you’re suggesting, they’re going to make their money on the games that people buy to play on that device, so why waste effort on making miniscule improvements that may end up hurting your brand and labelling you a money grabber.
    Don’t get me wrong, Valve know how to make lots of money, but I bet they’re smart enough to try and do it in a “sustainable” way from their perspective.




  • I don’t know whether anything changed or it’s down to brand but I have no issues baking strudels and other pastry with similar dough from soy milk, including doing some simple buns from dry yeast, but obviously that lacked the sourdough taste, which I’d like to try replicate with use of some acids next (e.g. vinegar). Don’t really do much else though, so can’t confirm for other uses.

    We specifically buy Kirkland brand (cheapest alternative) and more recently actually started grabbing the vanilla soy milk from US instead of local. I used to hate sweetened soy milk some 5+years ago, but this is somehow different. And it works great for crepes as well - actually better than regular milk IMO.




  • Hear about it more on …Clarkson’s Farm (in like 6-8 months).

    We kind of like the show and despite some exaggeration, it’s does occasionally bring up these serious issues, which IMO is sad that you have to watch someone like Clarkson, being paid by Amazon, fighting some other rich nutjobs in his area, to get a slightly more insight to things like this, because most newspapers will cover other garbage instead. Having said that, bassed on the article I do wonder whether Kaleb will botch plant winter oilseed rape again as that seems to have taken a massive hit YoY







  • More of a generic answer as I don’t know the situation there, so hopefully someone local will come around and chime in.

    Unfortunately we live in a world where it doesn’t take much money for the movie/music industry corporations to sway the politicians in any country.

    So what may be legal today, could very well not be a week, month or year from now and you’d want to stay on top of news like that.

    As a general rule of thumb, I’d suggest using a solid VPN, if you’re uncertain about the consequences. I switched Mullvad (would I recommend it? Sure, but only if you’re ready to actually pay for it) and used to use Nordvpn (it’s ok, seems to have become bloated, but sometimes with cashback deals it’s essentially free) and there are plenty more out there depending on your level of comfort in quality of service they actually provide.

    Now if someone can confirm what the situation is actually like, it could be anything from “I’m gonna need a n-th NAS with xxx TB capacity to seed all this” through “oh no, another email from my ISP, I need to setup a filter to send these to trash directly” to “who’s that knocking on my door at this time of the day”. In the end it all comes down to your appetite for risk.