But not lead…

You would be surprised at the things that can be repaired if you are smart, have some skills, and determination to do so.

Sadly, very few people are willing to learn new things or skills.

If you want a washer that will last for decades, look for an old wringer-washer. Super simple and basic. Easily repairable. They are known for lasting 30+ years.

Just be wary of the rollers in the wringer as you feed those wet heavy clothes. Many, many a housewife got their fingers broken or mangled washing underwear. And for heaven’s sake, don’t get your tit in the wringer…

Driers are simple machines. I suspect a dead heating element. It’s probably visually broken.

No, you don’t want a car like those old ones. Changing/filing points and distributor cap every 6 months, spark plugs and wires every year. All for a car that was scrap at 100,000 miles no matter what you did.

So is eating vegetables. In order for you to live, something has to die.

I’m not knocking your veganism. I fully support your choices. But I harbor no illusions that all life requires death to survive. And much of that death is actively done by all creatures.

A good magahat never lets a tragedy and grief get in the way of turning a profit. I too am impressed by the profits made…

As a forager, I live in the middle of a forest, I do hunt mushrooms for myself, I even have shaggy manes that grow wild in my yard. There are tasty and safe ones out there to find in season. It’s something even people who live in a city can do. Parks hold some very interesting free foods if you know what you’re looking at.

BUT, you better learn from a local expert who has been hunting locally for years. They know hat grows locally and how to identify them. Using your phone or a book is helpful, but never definitive. Pictures can lie. And even then, there can be a tiny risk.

I’m 7 years older than my wife. I was 27 and she was 20 when we met, both freshly divorced too. Most definitely a rebound thing, even 40 years later. I keep waiting for her to catch up to me in age, but she’s taking her sweet time about it.

The most recommended youtube FreeCAD instructor is https://www.youtube.com/@MangoJellySolutions. He has an extensive series that can take you from literally how to set things up and how to begin your first part and sketch to designing airfoils. And he stays current with the stable releases and a few peeks into the weekly releases.

I’m leaning more and more to recommending Atomic distros for newcomers now. Fedora SilverBlue or Kinonite are excellent choices. Bazzite or Aurora for gamers. It’s pretty hard for newbies to mess up their install and rolling back to a working install is easy if you do. All the while letting users install software without effort through flatpacks and appImages. Even updates can be automated easily.

If Linux becomes common, then they won’t be a ‘special haxor’ anymore. Can’t be having any of that you know.

Over the years, I have seen less and less of the ‘RTFM noob’ attitude and Linux forums becoming more welcoming and accepting of new users. But assholes still exist and won’t ever go away. But they do make a good match with the newcomers that expect to have everything work just like it did in Windows or even Mac because they’ll be damned if they are going to learn something new and different. And yes, they exist. Why those people even try Linux is beyond me, but you do run into them if you spend time hanging out in forums.

The argument about X11 and Wayland is pretty much over. All the major distros, Fedora, Open Suse, even Debian. And DEs, like Gnome and KDE, have fully committed to Wayland and the smaller DEs, like Cinnamon and Budgie, are in process to make the switch. Only a small handful smaller distros have stomped their feet and said no to the switch so far. So that’s not really an issue anymore.

And having lived through the RPM Hell, unmet dependencies, compiling drivers and custom kernels, and unsupported hardware years, if I have issues with a distro that I can’t solve in a few days of goggling and effort, then I’m either going to live with it or I’m out.

Yeah, it does take some malice aforeskin when choosing hardware. It doesn’t take much anymore. But you do need to consider what you are using and what features you expect to work.

It seems it’s always best to be just a bit behind the bleeding edge of technology when committing to a any distro. If you want to be on that edge, you should expect to bleed every now and then.

Sadly, this is the truth.

And does not run on any of my Linux computers.

With the super tack cool plate Bambu recommends removing the print while warm. Don’t wait for the bed and part to cool. And DON’T wipe with IPA. Soap and water only when needed.

I bought one when they were on sale just before Christmas. It’s not a plate I intend to use a lot. Any part that has a good flat base isn’t meant to be printed on the super tack plate. Only those designs sketchy bed adhesion at best and can’t be printed with supports.

I did use it to print a storage sheath for a fillet knife I have. I was very impressed that I was able to print a rectangular hollow tube with 2mm wide base and 165mm tall vertically with no supports or brim. It was a fine test of my skills as a designer, printer calibration, and the super tack.

And supposedly, they were denied a request for help by Minneapolis police and told to get their own help. I kind of doubt the story is true, I’m too far from the 'Cities to know. But, it would make that finger even more delicious if it was.

French cooking is cheap peasant foods with lipstick applied and loads of makeup to try and cover up that fact.

In the very early days of the colonial Americas, indentured servants along the eastern seaboard would sometimes go on strike to protest all the lobster they were fed because it was abundant and very cheap.

So yes, people get tired of the same old, same old foods every day.