laser is the way to go. inkjets are cheaply made with expensive, wasteful, and sometimes proprietary ink cartridges.
laser printers use toner, which prints way way more pages per cartridge than ink. More than 10x. Cost is about the same or sometimes less than ink
The only thing laser isn’t great for is photos. I go to a print shop when i need those, but if you print a ton of photos at home than maybe inkjet makes sense
too much to eat before it goes bad. i max out at pizza twice a day personally. if i have more than a two pies worth i need to start freezing
i find it still palateable after 24 hours out, but i never go past that, usually overnight at the most. my partner will let it sit for longer if i dont intervene
the flavor and texture degrade quite a bit even just overnight. if you put it in the fridge right away (in something airtight) flavor and texture stay much more intact. For me i will give it up to 5 days in the fridge before throwing it out.
if i have way too much pizza i freeze slices in airtight bags. a bit of a hassle to reheat, but it comes out almost as good as fresh
my wife has a Kobo reader and it’s a great alternative, from Canada. The reader works great with Calibre on desktop for books you already own, and the Kobo store is more or less equivalent to the Kindle store.
I have no suggestion for getting files off an iPhone, but presumably an app exists to arbitrarily send files to desktop, and from there Calibre works.
Kobo build quality is better than other e-readers, and it supports color and markups. Overall it’s pretty good for PDFs/textbooks and novels, but manga/comics can be a little goofy.
I cant speak on the syncing since she has only the one device.
Good luck!
Edit: seems like you edited (or i misunderstood) the OP. Kobo (the device) works great with US library lending, but ymmv if you are in another country. If you use the kobo app on your phone it will sync your position with the device, but the app is pretty flawed on mobile and doesnt have a desktop version i’m aware of.
I wouldnt mind using the app to read fiction, but it’s not great for reference material. I use a standalone pdf reader for that kind of thing on my phone, which obviously doesnt sync.
I would never consider a smartwatch that is locked to one ecosystem, so Pixel watches have no appeal
I had some friends that used to hit the albuterol after the bowl.
I do not think it had any effect on coughing during the session. Perhaps coughing afterward was reduced, but not noticeably.
I’d grow food. Good food, and way more than I or my family could possibly eat. I’d also grow beautiful, ecosystem-supporting native plants. I’d offer to do the same for my neighbors who dont enjoy such things, or who just want a beautiful and functional yard.
With my leftover time i’d go hiking a couple times a week, and I’d read scientific literature when the sun goes down.
Bamboo is monocarpic (true bamboo at least.). The huge clonal colony flowers once and dies, even below ground. The seeds that fall grow the next generation.
Bamboo species tend to all flower at the same time at the end of a years or decades long cycle. This bottlenecks how much it can spread clonally (underground roots) but gives it another method to spread.
Rats, mice, and other rodents eat the seeds, so there is some ecosystem regulation already
Places with good habitat but no native bamboos like Hawaii have really bad problems with colonies taking over huge areas
Vertical tabs really help. i average around 25, but sometimes i get well over 100. Too many tabs on the top bar and they just become icons with a few characters of text, but with vertical tabs you can actually read them.
I use the “Tree style tabs” extension (which gives you outline-style tabs and sub-tabs) and a couple lines of userChrome.css to hide the top tab bar. Very happy they added native vertical tabs, i may switch to that eventually.
I’m in an area that cools down at night so i use that as much as possible:
Once daytime temps drop below indoor temps (usually late evening) i open all windows and arrange a couple fans and run them on low all night. My goal is to move all of the hot air out of the apartment and replace it with cool outdoor air.
In the morning, ideally just before sunrise, i draw most/all curtains, shutter blinds, close windows, and turn off all excess lights. During the day i keep everything closed and the air still, and use as few lights as i can manage.
I can generally maintain about 15 degrees (f) cooler indoors with this technique. I currently live on the third floor which is working against me; this was much more effective (20-25 degrees) when i lived on the ground floor.
If i leave the windows open it or worse forget to draw the blinds it gets much warmer indoors than outside. I think my building must have pretty mediocre insulation and my windows are all single-pane.
Also remember to be nice. I see heated arguments regressing into ad hominems by the third comment pretty regularly. We can be better than Reddit
Is it? I still get regular updates. Yes there are a few, i use Morph
Thanks for the elaboration. I’m not familiar with how Signal works.
Less than some. The US gov has a history of forcing US-based corporations to disclose private data regardless of their policies or the law.
I can’t give you a good alternative though. I’m sure the same thing happens in many countries
It’s a messaging app, it’s useless if there is nobody to message. I dont have any friends using signal yet.
Also it doesnt work on my phone (Ubuntu touch). There used to be a community app but it’s not currently working.
I sincerely wish them success, but it’s hard to have faith that a US-based company will actually protect your privacy. Not that Telegram does either. I dont know what information they do even collect.
I couldnt find a working Ubuntu touch app last i tried to use it
Nothing new here. E2E is only available in one on one chats and is disabled by default. Dont use Telegram if privacy is your main concern.
At least it has an open-source client. Very few messaging platforms can say that, and fewer have a decent UX.
It’s not perfect, but it’s got a good combination of features and multi-platform availability. None of the other messaging apps support all of my devices except Matrix, and Matrix doesn’t have stickers
Edit: Signal doesn’t support all my devices but maybe someday! The network effect is also big. None of my family and friends are on Signal, but most have Telegram. A few have Matrix.
Also Signal is a US-based company.
Edit 2: Matrix does have stickers, i guess I’m switching
With mushrooms i often rely on other citizen scientists rather than the ID robot. There are some very friendly and active mycologists who can be a big help figuring out an ID or telling you what to photograph next time to get better data
Thanks! I will check this one out too
https://main.un.org/securitycouncil/en/s/res/2397-(2017)
I was curious so i looked it up. Doesn’t exactly say that