What people don’t want to know is that you need to block as many communities and people as you possibly can in your first couple days here.

This place is jackass city, let’s get that straight.

Borax as insect repellant/ murderer.

Every apartment block has roaches, I’m not naive. But to get rid of the ones in mine I put a teaspoon of borax near the dishwasher kick plate and blew it under with compressed air. Sprinkled some around the perimeter of the cabinet beneath the kitchen sink.

Have not seen a roach in 10 months.

Edit: don’t try to bait food with borax, they won’t eat it, just get it on the walking paths. You want them tracking it into the hive where they all clean it up like cats and die because to an insect it’s like eating knives.

abstractive

These are my solution, I have bad shoulders… I get them at the dollar store.

My grandfather had this thing called the bear claw! It was basically a strip of pointy plastic tines and it fit over an out-facing wall corner.

I found myself with a back scratcher in every room as I got older until I learned that the reason my back is constantly itchy is because my fine back hair.

I bought this thing called The Man Groomer which is basically an extendable back shaver, and now I don’t use back scratchers anymore… Honestly a humongous relief from needing to scratch my back like 75 times a day. Now I need to scratch it zero times.

Bread makers & pasta makers…

There’s like three new in box every time I go thrifting

Victorinox 14 inch honing steel

I am begging you not to get 12 in or smaller - too small to use efficiently.

Honing does remove material. It shears off the ragged edge grains, and presses the other grains into alignment.

Anytime you use a hone, you can run your fingertips along the knife edge and gather the removed grains of material.

It’s a very small detail but to say that a hone does not damage a knife or remove material isn’t 100% right.

The edge is just a little rough after the removal of material with the wheel, the hone grooms the metal so the grains align roughly in the same direction. It also “peels away” ragged and folded edge grains.

The hone takes it from a sharp but rough edge, to a razor sharp edge.

The hone is also the best tool for quickly refreshing the knife edge without having to sharpen it on the wheel. Just 10 seconds before any major cutting.

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I bought a Rada Quick Edge at a thrift store for $2.

Was always taught my my metal-smith grandfather how to properly care for and sharpen knives, but when I tried it out on a knife I cared little for, I found it was such a shocking difference in efficiency I couldn’t help but notice.

It completely changed my relationship with knives and knife care, which was so helpful for me because I cook everything from scratch and whole ingredients. Everything, so having good knives is not kids-play for me.

It made me discover that for me, using a quick sharpening wheel and a hone gets my knives beard-shaving sharp in less than 30 seconds. I could never go back to the “right way” and I firmly joined the “dark side” of knife ownership.

Yes they destroy knives with some aggression, far more than traditional methods, but in the forensic audit it has saved me hundreds in a literal way, and hundreds of hours laboring over sharpening stones.

I no longer need to pamper knives, I buy cheap German steel chef knives on sale for $5-$20 and I throw them out in 3 or 4 years. I’ll never go back. All the hysterics from knife “gurus” on YT be damned - in my personal cooking world where I have 10,000 Km on my knives and cutting board, I could give two shits what they think. Nobody better ever give me a $300 knife for a present because it’s going back in the box.

Dual-wheel sharpener and 14" hone is all I’ll ever use from now on.

Making jam is trivial.

You boil the fruit, and if it’s not gummy enough, you add pectin.

Done, jam.

Blocked

Would you prefer I say I detest a person but I have no justification?

He’s an immature, unfunny, limited-talent, zero charm hack.

He does not deserve a career in film.

We’re a British colony dude.

No and you can see from my comment history that once .ee shuts down I’m gone. This place is just idiotville and I don’t consider myself one of you.

Lemmy was architected by people whose philosophical intentions are out of alignment with the software they cloned.

That system was designed to invite as many idiots as possible, to bait as much engagement as possible, with virtually no controls on quality or intelligence.

Well congratulations Lemmy, you’ve made the next Reddit. There’s no reason to be here, it’s just a pile of morons for the most part.

This old game called Squarez Deluxe.

I know it’s old, I know it has low resolution, I know it doesn’t meet the standard of modern gaming, but it’s (in my view obviously) the best shape packing game ever made.

Like destroys Tetris… Which can’t even hold a candle to this game. Not to say that Tetris is a bad game, it’s a brilliant game!

I just think Squarez Deluxe takes it to the next level and gives so much room for player creativity.

The basic just is that you have a play field, and with a short timer for each, you are given blocks which can be various 9x9 shapes that you rotate and move freely on the grid and place at will.

All of the complexity comes from the special blocks which can have positive, negative, or in between effects.

Your positive tools are scarce, but if you use them creatively and with forward probabilistic thinking, you can have amazing, hour-long sessions that you cannot look away from.

Some of the special blocks are goo traps that explode so shapes that pass by get stuck. Some are acid that let you destroy blocks at will and you can form your pieces into very unique shapes that tuck in exactly where you need them.

There are bombs, mines, missiles, playfield expanders/contractors, etc.

The first two modes get you acquainted with the mechanics, but Extreme Mode is where the game is played.

The original developer is a cool dude and he changed it to freeware so you can grab DOSBox and hit myabandonware or archive and be playing like in minutes.

This is such a small way of looking at things.

The best thing you can do is live according to your ethics and values. By setting an example.

Putting a sticker on says hey… you behave this way.

Take the plastic housing off of an upright column fan and turn it into an air blade.

I’m not joking, I have done this. It provides an amazing laminar (non turbulent) column of air that is so refreshing.