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Cake day: December 11th, 2025

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  • In addition to being more cost efficient, square footage is at a premium. I bought a PC when things were going well for me, but then my living situation changed and it sat in the closet for a couple years. The old Playstation doesn’t take up any additional space because it can sit behind the TV that’s always being used anyways.

    Now that I’ve finally organized my space enough to fit a computer desk I’ve gotta deal with either using Windows or taking up Linux as a full-time hobby and learning how to make an Nvidia card work with it. It’d literally be easier to just sell it and buy a ps5 if I only cared about gaming.




  • Nice to see at least one voice of reason here. Even if OP is correct about an upcoming fertilizer shortage, how on earth would going out and starting a garden help at all?

    Commercial farms would buy up all of whatever supplies there are & home gardeners would be priced out of it. Unless you’re running a whole farm with chickens, worms, and compost you’re also going to need fertilizer on a local scale.






  • I’d need a good reason to use my PC. The one I bought a few years back has, at most, 50 hours of use since coming out the box. Based on all the Linux communities posts, I’d spend more time than that just installing distros and troubleshooting my graphics card. I suspect the main reason people haven’t switched to Linux is bc 99% of desktop computers are owned by corporations not people






  • I think this is the real answer. Individuals largely hate AI but corporations love it. It’s just a matter of time before some executive crashes a multi-billion dollar company into the ground because they trusted AI and then the rest of the chips will fall.

    Also, the OP makes what I consider a bad assumption—that the US-centric economy will continue being the primary driving force in the world. Literally anyone can develop their own AI for virtually nothing these days. If China wanted they could create their own ASML and Nvidia and drive western markets to the ground in months.


  • I learned in chapters.

    1. Teen/young adult years I just got the basics down, how to cut meat and veggies depending on their application and making meals I grew up with and knew well.
    2. Twenties, mostly cooking in restaurants learning new recipes and commiting the “correct way” to memory while learning foods from other cultures
    3. Thirties, breaking out of my comfort zone and just making food that sounds like it’d work together instead of making what middle-of-the-road restaurants taught me. Lots of YouTube videos absorbing general concepts.

    The biggest things I’ve learned is that food needs twice as much fat/oil as I think it does and three times as much salt. When I have bits of veggies I’m not gonna cook, I freeze them in a bag until I have enough to make a stock—it’s free flavor. Also, spice and season everything; I used to season my main ingredients and then just plop unseasoned ingredients on top thinking it’s fine (for example, an egg scramble needs salt and pepper added to both the eggs and the sautéed veggies)